May 13-14, 2016
We are excited to announce Mel Choyce as this year’s keynote speaker!
Mel Choyce is a Design Engineer at Automattic, WordPress core committer, and co-organizer for the Boston WordPress community. She loves big typography, cold brew coffee, and craft beer. You can find her on twitter @melchoyce.
That’s wapuu, plural!
So what’s a wapuu?
It all started when Matt Mullenweg (the co-founder of WordPress) went to Japan in 2009. While there the Japanese WordPress community asked him if they could create a mascot. Matt said yes as long as it was GPL licensed and designed by an illustrator who understands the open source community. The community asked Kazuko Kaneuchi, who had experience in creating the Japanese NetBeans mascot, Neko-bean.
–wapuu fan club
Since then, wapuu has spread outside of Japan – WordCamp US, Australia, Prague, and others have all released versions of the character. And don’t forget our very own lumberjack wapuu from last year. There are even paper dolls, a card game, plugins, a VR experience, and more!
Stephen Quirk, an Automattician and WordCamp Maine organizer, made the fisherman-and-prey-inspired version for this year’s event.
You can “catch” this wapuu in sticker form at WordCamp Maine 2016!
Thank you for your interest in speaking at WordCamp Maine. We have now closed speaker submissions and will be announcing our speakers shortly.
We’re happy to announce that WordCamp Maine is officially on the calendar!
WordCamp Maine will be May 13 – 14 at Maine College of Art (MECA).
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