On May 18th and 19th, Samsys was once again present at an event for the Portuguese WordPress community , this time at WordCamp Lisboa 2019 , which took place at ISCTE.
This year our participation has risen to a higher level and included the presentation of a lecture entitled " Sport as a Plugin ? ", jointly given by Natanael Vieira from the Communication Team and Vitor Rodrigues from the Development Team.
This is a partnership that repeats something that is very common in the projects we carry out both for Samsys and for our customers, linking design and technology.
Samsys and the community Wordpress Portugal
Over the years, Samsys has supported the Portuguese WordPress Community , both institutionally through sponsorships of various WordCamps held in Portugal, and individually through some of its members.
Previously preparing presentations for meetups , running a WooCommerce workshop , or helping with event organization… this time jumping into track 2 of the big National WordPress event.
We say jumping because our presentation, entitled “Sports as a Plugin”, was precisely about the importance of sport in the day-to-day of everyone who builds web solutions on WordPress or simply who belong to the large slice of the population that has jobs that require sitting for hours on end typing on a keyboard and looking at a screen.
sport like Plugin
"Sport as a Plugin " was a lecture that primarily sought to highlight the importance of managing our most precious asset: our bodies . This lecture did not have the technical content typical of lectures at these types of events, such as those covering topics like remote work, diversity in the community, etc.
With advances in technology and research, the body is increasingly likely to reach 80 or 90 years of age, and this "management" involves maintaining our physical condition , as this has a significant impact on our quality of life.
More than telling the audience about what they already know (benefits of sport) we seek to bring ideas, using our reality (Natanael and Vitor), integrated into a greater reality that is the Samsys Team, where with motivation, inspiration and perspiration from Ruben Soares and Samuel Soares, we managed to have more than 40% of the company practicing sports on a regular basis, including sports such as crossfit, swimming, mountain biking and running.
At Samsys, there are those who enjoy lunchtime for swimming, crossfit or running, and there are also those who get up at dawn to run and who travel the country on weekends to cycle in the most remote places in Portugal.
This massive team participation helps us all with the motivation factor, which is sometimes forgotten in our daily lives, but when we have someone by our side encouraging us, everything becomes easier.
In addition, we share the different strategies that each of us followed to be able to include more of this activity in our calendar, in addition to all professional and personal responsibilities and we feel that, in the end, we manage to inspire other people to do something that we truly believe that has a positive impact on our lives.
If we have achieved it, it will already be a first victory... but the real victory will only occur when someone we can inspire has really changed something in their life... and that depends on each one of us.
