Rough Drafts By Cory Miller

My friend Andrea Middleton has an incredibly complex job leading a diverse organization of volunteer event organizers located around the globe in her role as Dot Organizer for the WordPress community.  A job she does with grace, thoughtfulness and caring since 2011.  The events are called WordCamps and there is typically 1-2 going on every weekend throughout the year around the world.  In fact there have been over 1,000 WordCamps, in 75 cities, 65 countries and 6 continents since they started in 2006.  We talk about a number of topics like: * Leading volunteers  * Managing conflict * Keys of effective conference organizers ("hosts") * and more You can learn more about WordCamps here: https://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/ You can learn more about Andrea here: https://twitter.com/andmiddleton https://profiles.wordpress.org/andreamiddleton/