 Good afternoon. My name is Brenda and I'm going to be the interviewer. So first I want to know from you, what was you? Who was your best speaker during the White Cup? What did you like most? And who was that speaker who spoke really into you? That there are certain things that you have seen that you want after what you say? Thank you very much for this opportunity. My name is Paul De Bruyne, and I run SEOC with Southern Surveillance. I also design lipsticks. Today's White Cup has been one of the greatest of hearts, so far I think this is the last. I attended the first one in one decade, so this one is showing that I'm not alone because sometimes we think we are alone in the field, but then when I see so many people here, I feel fine. And my greatest kind of the best speaker, I may not remember the name, but it was more about affiliate marketing because to me it means a lot to be able to make someone from using White Press. Wow, that's amazing. So there's something else I want to ask. What did you love most? What did you like most? That there is something you want, you're going to share with another person out there. What I learned most from today's session, the three-day session we have in here, I think the best thing was about a community coming up together. And Uganda is one of those places where you always struggle to get some information. There are certain topics, but when I see this community coming together, it shows that it's fast and people wanting to publish our information and to me that's already satisfied. Wow, I like the background you talk about community. So I would want to know that you have a plan to make for this White Cup. What I'd want to do out there for the other community because there are people out there who need the information that you have. How are you going to be able to share it with them so that it can benefit them? Thank you very much. I think the major ingredient in the white community here is sharing because I think there is a lot of information that has been shared today which could be so much expensive for us to get it. But I'm seeing a community whereby everyone is sharing irrespective of where they come from. So I really think coming up together is one of the things that I really like and I've always been here as long as it will be here. And I also will carry the spirit of sharing so that that has benefited from the same. What you meant is how are you going to do that with them? How are you going to share it with them? Because people need to know. How I'm going to share this information is I have sessions actually where I take through a few youth from Kawa Laguna where I can transform some information that I've learned from here so I continually would want to share this information by teaching them to do the same like publishing their information. I hope I've answered you. Thank you so much. I think I'll get the next one. Well, I'm Hannah Speich and I'm a developer. I have my own digital agency. It's called People Technology. I'm living in Kigali, Rwanda and when I saw this conference in the WordPress Dashboard I decided to come out to Kampala for the weekend. Wow, that's really amazing. So I would want to find out what you love most about WordPress. Yeah, about everything that you learned here. What was your best thing? Well, it was really interesting to see the strength of the WordPress community in Kampala so I was not expecting there to be this many people. It's a very large meetup and so that was exciting to see and then I just love WordPress because I think it's very empowering. It's a tool that helps people spread their ideas tell their stories and then get out there about their businesses in a fun way that's accessible to people. So I love being part of it and seeing how people in Kampala are coming together to empower other people with WordPress. Okay, that's interesting. Now I have something personal to ask you. Did you like the food? Did I like the food? Yeah. So I really like Ugandan food. I know it's kind of simple but it's salt of the earth and it's very hearty and it's very satisfying. That's brilliant. Who was your best speaker? Just for the short time you've seen all of these. Who was your best and what did you say that you loved most? Let's see. So I was really impressed with the collaboration session that we had for the advanced users this afternoon because I studied computer science in university and when you would go over how to use GitHub it was so inscrutable. You could not figure out how it was supposed to work. And so I was really impressed by that. Instructors, his ability to break down the subject and make it accessible and teach you how to use it. So it wasn't just a theory, but it was something you felt that you could go out and do. And then also from what you learned and from what you saw when you were able to come, what was your best session during what you want to come? It was just as we started to talk. The instructor, he walked us through his GitHub and so we got to see the basics of building the theme from the back end and how to get started with plugins. And again, just going through how the arrays worked and what different types of variables were in them. It was really accessible and it made it seem like it was something that it could go do. That's great. Now, I believe you have really enjoyed this. But then I would want to know, will you be able to come back next year? Or would you really want to? Because if you say this is amazing, you want to be a better boss of the next event. So I'm only in Kigali until February and after that I have no idea where I'm going to spend it. I will be. But I really like Kampala. This is my second time here. I was here two years ago. So absolutely if I get a chance to be here, I'll be. This is really good. Hi, my name is Charlotte Beauboisin and I'm a blogger. My blog is called Diary of Muzulu and it's all about travel in Uganda, particularly but also in East Africa. And of course, it's a WordPress blog. Oh, that's great. Are you part of the WordPress community? Yes. I'm part of the community. I like to say yes because this is the second event and I was here for the whole of the last one as well. And I was on the panel and I'm not very good with the technology side of it but WordPress has really made a huge difference to my work life. I've been using it for eight years now and I also recommend it to other people a lot. So it's really nice to be accepted amongst this group of people who are much more technical than me generally but they just tell me a little bit about the capabilities of WordPress even if I don't understand them. I know all that functionality is there. So yeah, I feel like I'm part of the WordPress community. In so many contributions to community, I would love to know what was that and how are you going to use this information that you have picked from here to help them more because I'm familiar with Diary of Muzulu. So I believe there is more that you have been sharing out there. Would you just share just a glimpse of just one thing that you can't share even what you have learned from here if there is to the community? The focus of my talk was about social media, email marketing all the different tools that you can have to promote a blog or a WordPress website and I had a very short period of time but I do actually do that training for companies and particularly for the tourism industry in Uganda so I'm always available to do that and to do one-to-one marketing as well and if anybody wants to contact me on Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook I'm always available if anybody has questions. I would also want to know the story about how you started with WordPress what is that thing that impacted that you kept going higher just as a short story. Well, I wrote my blog. My first blog article was 10 years ago in December December 2008 and it was on blogger and it was only on blogger because I didn't know anything about blogging so I just had to start somewhere and I had a Google account already and then after two years a friend of mine who was more advanced than me said what are you doing you've got to use WordPress it's like the number one recommendation he had and I'd already found that blogging was really restricting I couldn't really do very much with it and then as soon as he introduced me to WordPress I'm like this is whole world out there it's so accessible, it's so easy, it's free and so that really just gave me ambition I think by motivation because I realised I could become a professional blogger without investing a lot of money in the technology without needing the spoke development and so on so it was a real entry point into professional blogging so it's been a huge advantage for me I have a last question for you you seem to know a lot about this and I believe there's a speaker as well a trainer and a chair right here what was your best... why did you love most and who was your best speaker that truly impacted something I think there have been a lot of really great speakers and some of them I've seen for last year I think the one that, the person that really stood out to me was Arthur Casirier, I've seen him speak before but SEO is what I'm doing at the moment I've got an SEO expert looking at every aspect of my site and so everything that Arthur said I'm thinking I'm doing that or no, oh gosh I'm not doing that I've got to make sure I do that as well next so for me it was really timey to have this presentation today and I'm going to really try and implement everything he suggested