WordCamps are casual, locally-organised one-day events, that focus on everything WordPress. Each WordCamp is different, reflecting the local WordPress community it represents. These events are open to all, from casual users to core developers. The aim is to share ideas and knowledge, widen and perfect the understanding of WordPress and get to know each other.
Whether your company is built around WordPress or has a lot of customers who love WordPress, or if you use and love WordPress yourself, WordCamps are a great opportunity for you to meet the WordPress community, to show your support, and to give back to the free and open-source project that’s given you so much.
WordCamps are non-profit events organised by people from within the community on a voluntary basis. In addition to WordCamps, meetups are regularly organised in Geneva, Lausanne, Berne, Zurich and several other Swiss locations. All these events contribute to building a strong sense of community.
About Swiss WordCamps
The story of Swiss WordCamps began in 2014, when we held the first WordCamp Switzerland #WCCH in Zürich.
This was quickly followed by a second event in 2015. Those two conferences were held in English for the Swiss WordPress community as a whole, for people from all of the multilingual parts of our country. Speakers, attendees and sponsors visited from both Switzerland and abroad.
In 2016, the “country name” WordCamps changed to city-based events and WordCamp Genève 2016 #WCGVA took place, retaining the goal of providing a conference for a multilingual community.
The beautifully organised WordCamp Bern 2017 #WCBRN continued in the same vein and talks and workshops were given in both English and German.
WordCamp Lausanne 2018 #WCLSNE continued the tradition, featuring talks in several languages, and provided an amazing opportunity to learn from and meet people with different horizons, on various topics such as blogging, design, programming and business for the WordPress platform.
In 2019, the Swiss WordCamp was back in Zürich, keeping the community alive with high-quality conferences on plenty of topics.
Unfortunately, the WordCamp Geneva 2020 had to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The organisation however remained active and is now very happy to be able to organise this event in the same venue as originally planned.
Header image WordCamp Zürich 2019 – CC BYSA 4.0 Mickael Firnkes
