10 year anniversary post

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+title: "Celebrating 10+ Years of TestingConferences.org"
+date: 2025-12-18 09:00:00
+categories: news
+author: Chris Kenst
+permalink: /celebrating-10-years/
+twitter:
+  username: testconferences
+  card: summary
+social:
+  links:
+    - https://twitter.com/testconferences
+    - https://github.com/testingconferences
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+## A Decade of Sharing Testing Conferences
+
+On October 30, 2015 I published a LinkedIn article titled **"A simple list of software testing conferences"** that officially invited the community to explore and help build this site. Ten-plus years later the idea is still alive because the testing world keeps iterating—and so do I.
+
+### Highlights from 2015 to Today
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+- 182 contributors have shared updates, suggestions, fixes, and inspiration.
+- Nearly 1,600 deploys have kept the listings current for conference organizers and attendees alike.
+- Countless testers discovered new events, new peers, and new ideas because someone took the time to send a pull request.
+
+### Still Going Strong
+
+I pushed the (first commit)[https://github.com/TestingConferences/testingconferences.github.io/commit/1b028cfba42af75900682818914203c2f87532a4] for this project On April 16, 2015. By October I was ready for others to use it. Since then, TestingConferences.org remains a community driven, open source list of testing conferences and workshops from around the world. Whether you submitted a single typo fix or continually add new events, thank you. Your contributions help testers everywhere find spaces to learn, teach, and connect.
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+Here's to the next decade of software testing conferences and workshops. If you see something missing—or want to celebrate a milestone of your own—[let us know how to contribute](/how-to-contribute/).
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+Thanks again to everyone for a decade of support!