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Organizing a WordCamp is a volunteer labor (a lot of labor!) of love for WordPress and your local community, and earns you untold karma points on the path to WordPress nirvana. No specific skills or backgrounds are required to become an organizer, though events tend to be most successful when responsibility is shared among several co-organizers. </p> <p>So much goes into planning a WordCamp that we now have an entire site dedicated to planning WordCamps. 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