🇺🇬 WordCamp Entebbe 2023

This topic presentation will explore the different roles available in WordPress for both full-time positions and freelancing. It will cover the skills and qualifications required for various positions such as WordPress developers, designers, and administrators. The presentation will provide insights on how to find and land these opportunities, whether you are a beginner or an experienced professional. It will be a great resource for anyone interested in pursuing a career or freelancing opportunities in WordPress.

How are the different content creators using to monetise? Case study – Muwado, a content platform built on WordPress with a mission to help African creators earn from their content

The talk will focus on my personal, and professional work with WordPress, since 2013. It will concentrate mostly on how I use WordPress to support my activism causes (blogging), teaching, and mentoring youth in Lira, and Northern Uganda as a whole. I will also share about how my non-profit supports digitization, including use of open-source tech (like WordPress) to deepen digital inclusion in Lango sub region.

Insight into the WordPress ecosystem and how to leverage the diverse opportunities in WordPress to build a global career and change your life and community!

Work-life balance refers to the balance between the time and energy a person devotes to their work and their personal life. It is about finding a balance between the demands of work and the needs of personal life, so that neither one suffers. Achieving work-life balance is considered important for overall health, happiness, and productivity.

Welcome to my talk on “Mastering the Art of Developer Collaboration: Harnessing the Power of Git and Github”! In this presentation, I will be discussing how Git and Github can enhance team collaboration and streamline workflows. I’ll cover the basics, best practices and troubleshooting tips. By the end of this talk, attendees will have a deeper understanding of how to use these tools to improve their development work. Whether they’re a beginner or experienced, this talk will provide valuable insights and tips for them.

Let’s know why we need to prepare, reposition and promote ourselves.

How important designs in your agency? Do your website and product builds start from putting users at the center? Your agency can be more profitable with an approach that follows the basic principles of human-centered design. We’ll see how you can increase sales and conversions by building sites that are focused, first and foremost, on helping out the human beings that use them. Making sure that we include all of those beings: creating products that are accessible and inclusive.

Setting up WordPress offline involves installing the software on a local computer or server for testing and development purposes, rather than on a live web server. This allows you to make changes and test the site without affecting the live site or slowing down your computer. To set up WordPress offline, you need the following:

1. A web server software: such as XAMPP, WAMP, or MAMP to run the WordPress software on your local machine.
2. A database management system: such as MySQL, which is required by WordPress to store content and information.
3. The latest version of WordPress software: which can be downloaded from the WordPress.org website.

The Covid-19 pandemic showed us that learning can take place outside the 4 walls of the classroom. As eLearning becomes more and more appreciated, a teacher is now given more options to teach. While they will traditionally teach inside a classroom, the opportunity to create self-paced lessons and access a wider audience cannot be ignored. This is where WordPress can help. With a variety of easy-to-deploy and use Learning Management System plugins, creating an online class is now easier. This session will take teachers through the steps of creating an eLearning Platform from start to finish.

WordPress security is a topic of huge importance for every website owner. Google blacklists around 10,000+ websites every day for malware and around 50,000 for phishing every week. If you are serious about your website, then you need to pay attention to the WordPress security best practices.

Creative design and branding refer to the visual and strategic elements used to represent a brand or company. The goal is to create a consistent and recognizable image that effectively conveys the brand’s unique identity and message.

Creative design and branding play a crucial role in the success of a business or organization, as they communicate the company’s values and messages and create an emotional connection with consumers. Effective branding can also differentiate a company from competitors and increase customer loyalty.

During our session, we will be providing an introduction to the WordPress translation process and how you can get involved. We will also suggest specific translation projects for attendees to work on and provide resources and guidance to help you get started. There will also be time for Q&A, where attendees can ask questions and discuss their experiences
with translation.

The translation is an integral part of the WordPress community. In fact, over half of all WordPress installs are in languages other than American English, meaning that translated versions of WordPress run over a quarter of the web! By participating in translation events and projects, community members like you can help to ensure that WordPress truly speaks your language.

The Softaculous Apps Installer is a tool that allows you to install applications, including WordPress, on your website with just a few clicks this method is considered one of the fastest ways to install WordPress because it automates the process, eliminating the need for manual configuration.

Can you imagine that ChatGPT can instantly create a WordPress Plugin or Write a spot-on article on a subject you choose? The tool, from a power player in artificial intelligence called OpenAI, lets you type questions using natural language, to which the chatbot gives conversational, responses instantly. The bot remembers the thread of your dialogue, using previous questions and answers to inform its next responses. Its answers are derived from huge volumes of information on the internet. ChatGPT brought conversational AI to the mainstream late last year, letting users create poems, compose college essays, write code, and even shave hours off their work. During this session, we shall discuss some use cases of ChatGPT and other AI tools in our world of developers and creatives.

The New Lower Secondary Curriculum in Uganda requires learners of ICT to design websites, undertake projects and also undergo assessment for the World of Work by the Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT). During this session, we look at how to prepare learners to achieve the intended competences and excel in their website design projects and assessment.

Freelancing is doing specific work for clients without committing to full-time employment. A Freelancer is an independent contractor who earns money on per task basis. This topic introduces Freelancing to Beginners to help them understand what Freelancing is and how to get started.

Cerinah Nalwoga is a CFO Award winner in 2018 for the SME category an award that recognized a finance person a small and medium firm whose work has led to the growth of their firm, courtesy of Deloitte, Stanbic Bank, and ACCA, Winner of Total Startupper Challenge as Best Woman Entrepreneur 2022 and alumni of Academy of Women Entrepreneurs as well as the founder of Trillion Looks Store a handicraft Social enterprise with a mission to improve lives and communities of marginalized artisans in Uganda through helping them mass produce, market and sell their products to a global market place. We have built this Ecommerce platform to reach buyers across the globe.

Frontend development in WordPress refers to the process of designing and implementing the user interface of a WordPress website. This includes the layout, visual design, and functionality of the website as it is presented to users in their web browsers. Frontend development in WordPress typically involves the use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create dynamic, interactive, and visually appealing websites.

“Solid” and “Programming Principles” are terms that refer to guidelines for writing high-quality, maintainable software.

1. SOLID: SOLID is an acronym that stands for five principles of object-oriented programming and design. They are:

• Single Responsibility Principle: A class should have only one reason to change
• Open/Closed Principle: Software entities should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
• Liskov Substitution Principle: Subtypes must be substitutable for their base types.
• Interface Segregation Principle: Clients should not be forced to depend on interfaces they do not use.
• Dependency Inversion Principle: High-level modules should not depend on low-level modules. Both should depend on abstractions.

2. Programming Principles: Programming principles are a set of guidelines and best practices that help to ensure that software is maintainable, readable, and efficient. Examples include:

• Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)
• Keep it Simple, Stupid (KISS)
• YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It)
• Boy Scout Rule
• Separation of Concerns (SoC)

Adhering to these principles leads to better code quality, reduced technical debt, and easier collaboration among teams.

We address different types of audiences every day and delivering the same message gets daunting. However, a story will not only ease the air in the room, and help you build rapport with your audience, it makes your message memorable. How then can we use stories to share our messages for a lasting impact?