Hey all,
Yes, this is a call for papers, but it's also an
interesting read on open so don't go straight for the delete
button.
Quick read
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https://2020.pressedconf.org/ is the
pressED website. PressED is a conference about WordPress which
happens solely on twitter. So there are no fees to attend and
anyone in the world can attend (hopefully, and with caveats on
internet access). Last year, many tweets got over 5000
impressions, and every tweet was seen by at least 500 people.
Long read
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PressED is a conference (
https://2020.pressedconf.org/) about
WordPress / ClassicPress which happens solely on twitter. So there
are no fees to attend and anyone in the world can attend
(hopefully, and with caveats on internet access). Last year, many
tweets got over 10000 impressions, and every tweet was seen by at
least 500 people.
The call for submissions is available in the 10 most
spoken languages in the world (plus one for both forms of
Chinese). If you go to the call for papers page -
https://2019.pressedconf.org/call-for-papers/ -
you can see the call in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Mainland),
Chinese (Simplified), Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Punjabi,
Russian, Spanish and English. In doing this, that means 42% of the
world is covered (in terms of first language, caveats on
literacy). In terms of second languages, it covers 4.6 billion
people, so around 70%of the world's population. People are
welcome to tweet their presentation in the language of their
choice as well (they always would have been, but we've said it
explicitly this year). The translation work was done by
professional translators.
Thirdly, we're aiming to favour new voices in the peer
review process, and when submitting we ask if you've presented a
conference before and if you've presented at pressED before.
People submitting who've presented before still have a chance to
get through, it's just people who haven't get a boost during peer
review. Last year we had two students present on their work, and
our gender balance was 50/50. We were still very global north, so
we've tried with a lot of the above to open up to more areas.
Anyways, stories over
Thanks for reading
Natalie and Pat