WordCamp Organizer Banned for Life After Misappropriating Funds

The WordPress Community Team has banned a WordCamp organizer for life after they used $734 USD in surplus event funds for personal expenses — a small amount by some measures, but significant enough to trigger the program’s toughest sanctions. In a post on the Make WordPress Community blog yesterday, Automattic-sponsored contributor and financial wrangler Harmony Romo said the money involved a…

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