Since founded in 2003, WordPress has touched millions of lives and businesses. Young and old people have learned skills that have connected them to jobs and opportunities they never thought they could have.
Businesses have been created, innovations of plugins and apps have also been birthed. Telling our WordPress stories will inspire the next generation of developers, programmers, bloggers, web managers etc to take up skills they never thought they could venture in.
A great example is that of 12-year-old Nigerian Programmer, Obaloluwa Odelana, who told his story here in this interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2EtY6HkWoQ) at the WordCamp in Lagos, Nigeria and inspired kids his age to embrace technology.
The impact of his interview contributed to the increased participation of children at the 2019 WordCamp in Lagos. This proposed storytelling session seeks to evoke and help participants who have ever used WordPress or making a living through the platform to share their stories in their own words and ways so that others can draw strength from them and take up required skills of interest