{"id":1313,"date":"2025-01-13T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/2025\/01\/13\/lena-stergatou-wins-wp-tavern-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:28:35","slug":"lena-stergatou-wins-wp-tavern-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/lena-stergatou-wins-wp-tavern-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Stergatou Wins WP Tavern Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lena Stergatou Awarded First-Ever WordCamp Europe Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lena (Eleni) Stergatou has been awarded the first-ever WordCamp Europe Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, previously exclusive to WordCamp US, was recently extended to include WordCamp Asia and Europe following the latest meeting of the WordPress Foundation Board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honoring Kim Parsell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The scholarship honors Kim Parsell, a beloved member of the WordPress community and regarded as one of the first \u201cwomen of WordPress.\u201d Affectionately referred to as #wpmom, Kim was a passionate WordPress contributor and advocate for women in technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Recipient<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In their announcement, the WordPress Foundation stated, \u201cLena\u2019s dedication to WordPress translations, core, plugins, and more truly embodies the values that Kim held dear.\u201d Lena is a devoted WordPress and BuddyPress enthusiast from Greece. She has been working as a \u201cCode wrangler\u201d, \u201cHappiness Engineer\u201d and translator (in Greek) with WordPress multisite since 2008 and since 2010 with BuddyPress. She currently develops web services for the Greek educational community at the Computer Technology Institute (CTI Diophantus).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lena&#8217;s WordPress Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her WordPress profile reads, \u201cI\u2019m familiar with WordPress core and ways to extend it, have an eye for problems on large-scale multisite installation, have fixed numerous outdated themes and edited plugins in order to make them work as they should in multisite WordPress.\u201d Lena is used to answer questions about WordPress usage, write manuals and FAQs (in Greek language). She loves to debug, fix broken things, extend functionalities and share them with others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributions to the WordPress Community<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This love led her to participate in the WordPress and BuddyPress community, by contributing with new plugins, \u201cresurrect\u201d broken plugins, bug fixes and contribute to Greek translations as Locale manager in WordPress Greek team.\u201d Lena is an active contributor to the WordPress Community, Core, and Polyglots teams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scholarship Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The scholarship covers travel to the host city, hotel accommodation for the event duration, and a WordCamp ticket. It does not include airport transfers, meals, or other incidental expenses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WordCamp Europe 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Europe 2025 will be held from June 5\u20137 in Basel, Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wptavern.com\/lena-eleni-stergatou-receives-inaugural-wordcamp-europe-kim-parsell-memorial-scholarship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lena Stergatou Awarded First-Ever WordCamp Europe Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Lena (Eleni) Stergatou has been awarded the first-ever WordCamp Europe Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship. 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