Meetup:

We’re hosting a virtual watch party for the 2023 State of the Word livestream on December 11th starting at 10:00AM EST, and you’re invited!

We’ll be meeting online on our WordPress Tampa Bay Slack Channel and we’ll be watching the Keynote on WordPress’s YouTube LiveStream included in the event description (as soon as they release it!). The event will be hosted in a watch party format, where we will all watch the State of the Word 2023 together in one virtual location. There will be time for everyone to connect, chat, and share their thoughts!

For those who don’t know, State of the Word is an annual keynote address delivered by the WordPress project co-founder, Matt Mullenweg. The event includes key updates about the WordPress project and community, highlights from the past year, and a look ahead at how the project will grow in the coming year.

Once the initial presentation is over, you can watch Matt answer questions from our vibrant WordPress community about our favorite open source software.

If you have a question to ask, you can either send it ahead of time to ask-matt@wordcamp.org or ask during the event in the live stream chat on YouTube. Learn more about this year’s State of the Word 2023 by visiting this link: https://wordpress.org/state-of-the-word/

And don’t forget your WordPress spirit!

Wear some of your favorite WordPress swag and be ready for lots of pictures as we celebrate another year of WordPress. Any pictures you take can be posted on social media using the #StateOfTheWord and #WordPress hashtags.