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Jeff Veen
Momentum
Pamela Bey
Lightning Talks: Blogger Basics
Josepha Hayden
The most important first step to writing for the web is understanding that you will forever be writing to dual audiences. Join Josepha for a look at what to do, and not do, when it comes to optimizing your content for search engines.
Aaron Hockley
Learn how to better use photography on your website in this fast-paced tour of WordPress image tips. Get the most out of the built-in features in WordPress, learn how to select and prepare images for the web, and discover how strong photography can help your website.
Pamela Bey
Is shopping on your site user friendly? Are you losing people because your checkout process is too complicated. Creating a delightful shopping experience can increase your sales by more than 50% and build customer loyalty. Whether you’re a blogger looking to generate more revenue for your writing or selling products, Pamelaexplains how to increase the income on your site by creating a great user experience.
Jen Mylo
An Interview with The Bloggess
Jenny Lawson writes the award-winning blog, http://thebloggess.com/. Her book, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened ( A Mostly True Memoir), was a #1 NYT bestseller its first week out. Pretty much every post on her blog gets hundreds of comments from real humans, despite the likelihood that you’ll snort coffee out your nose reading her stuff.
WordPress community organizer and longtime blogger Jen Mylo will interview Jenny. Nearly anything could happen.
John Eckman
Lightning Talks: WordPress in Context
John Eckman
Many of us in the WordPress community focus exclusively on the platform. But what can we learn from those who, for a variety of reasons, aren’t (or aren’t yet) using WordPress? What can those outside our community teach us about how to make WordPress better?
Rachel Baker
After building WordPress sites for many small and medium sized businesses, I thought it would be “fun” to pitch WordPress as a solution for some corporate web projects. I have since built over a dozen websites using WordPress for Corporate America. I learned that the benefits of WordPress seen by corporate clients are different than smaller business clients. Here I will share what it is about WordPress that Corporate America with the goal of growing the permeation of WordPress in the enterprise CMS market.
Jeremy Felt
Open source software is a natural fit for public institutions. Because of their open nature, universities must be leaders in fostering an open and accessible web.
The primary reason I moved to Washington State University just over a year ago was the promise that everything we created would be open source or contributed back to the community in some way. The experience I’ve had has shaped me in many ways. I have more of an appreciation of higher education than I did before and I’m now more inspired that open source projects like WordPress can have an impact on how higher education operates.
So much good work is done at universities and while that work is often done with open source software, it can also be a forgotten tool. Promoting the usefulness of open source software and the responsibility of universities to contribute back to open source projects can only help the community as a whole.
Zack Tollman
Lightning Talks: Doing it Right
Joe Dolson
Web accessibility isn’t a collection of check boxes; it’s a way of thinking about web development. This talk will outline development habits for building WordPress sites that provide a consistent and reliable experience for everyone.
Zack Tollman
While site performance is an important topic in the WordPress community, how are we really doing at maintaining fast websites in the real world? In my talk, I will attempt to answer this question by examining a large sample of performance data from actual websites. With this information, I will suggest areas of improvement for the community in an effort to improve performance for WordPress deployments.
Jenny Lawson
An Interview with The Bloggess
Jenny Lawson writes the award-winning blog, http://thebloggess.com/. Her book, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened ( A Mostly True Memoir), was a #1 NYT bestseller its first week out. Pretty much every post on her blog gets hundreds of comments from real humans, despite the likelihood that you’ll snort coffee out your nose reading her stuff.
WordPress community organizer and longtime blogger Jen Mylo will interview Jenny. Nearly anything could happen.
Josepha Haden
Lightning Talks: Blogger Basics
Josepha Hayden
The most important first step to writing for the web is understanding that you will forever be writing to dual audiences. Join Josepha for a look at what to do, and not do, when it comes to optimizing your content for search engines.
Aaron Hockley
Learn how to better use photography on your website in this fast-paced tour of WordPress image tips. Get the most out of the built-in features in WordPress, learn how to select and prepare images for the web, and discover how strong photography can help your website.
Pamela Bey
Is shopping on your site user friendly? Are you losing people because your checkout process is too complicated. Creating a delightful shopping experience can increase your sales by more than 50% and build customer loyalty. Whether you’re a blogger looking to generate more revenue for your writing or selling products, Pamelaexplains how to increase the income on your site by creating a great user experience.
Joseph O’Connor
Lightning Talks: UX/UI
Dave Martin
Explore various lo-fidelity options for rapid prototyping. No prior experience required.
Joseph O’Connor
Disabled users help uncover interesting behaviors when Accessible User Experience (UX) research methods are applied to WordPress. Results are very instructive and apply to many use cases.
Erick Hitter
Lightning Talks: New to WordPress Development
Mickey Kay
New to the world of WordPress? Wondering how best to jump in? Intimidated by all the stuff you “don’t know”? Come join the party for an action-packed flash talk covering LOADS of goodies including: simple steps to getting involved, experience-based insights for developing your skills, plenty of useful resources for your bookmarks tab, and lots more. The talk will also cover some of my own adventures in WordPress land, including some of the projects, plugins, and people I’ve been involved with. So if you’re newer to the WordPress community and want to up your game (build a plugin, code a theme, get involved, etc), come join us!
Jenny Wong
As any web developer will know, love it or hate it, we all need to debug at some point. When your role involves working with multiple languages and development environments, it can be very hard to know where to begin.
During this talk, Jenny will be running though some basic debugging rules which will make debugging that little bit easier. The talk is aimed toward beginners, and intends to convey basic debugging skills for HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.
Erick Hitter
Ever wonder what process WordPress undertakes when someone visits your site? Or how it translates that nice permalink to the database query that ultimately delivers the content your visitors requested? Or what it takes to load the appropriate template from your site’s theme?
I’ll highlight the major steps in WordPress’ loading process and shed some light on the various APIs used. You’ll leave with enough understanding to dig into WordPress Core for greater detail and a better comprehension of how its many APIs work together.
Davide Casali
Design with Personas: A Lean Approach
Personas at a first sight seem just a simple deliverable, but in reality whey are a tool that can be easily misunderstood, leading to the usual “I’ve tried using personas but it didn’t work”.
Personas are a form of synthesis and as such they lead as much value as much we can embed them in the existing discussions, design and development. In this talk we are going to see how personas can be built in a lean approach, how to make them visible, and how they can be used in various stages of a product evolution.
We are also going to see a real case scenario: the WordPress.com personas work, currently in progress.
Sam Hotchkiss
Data First: How APIs are Changing the Internet
This talk is an exploration of the importance of APIs both within WordPress and the web as a whole. We’ll look at the history of the technology and the opportunities that are afforded to us by the upcoming JSON REST API, and the importance of standardized meta data as we create “Web 3.0”.
WordPress as an API: the Power of Semantic Data
Andrea Rennick
Lightning Talks: Unscary Tech
Andrea Rennick
How to find a theme for your blog, where to look, what to look for and what kinds of themes are out there.
Brennen Byrne
The security of WordPress has become a vital topic for the entire Internet. Our platform has reached an unprecedented scale, powering more than 22% of the Internet, and has found a unique and powerful way to protect all of our sites. Heartbleed and other vulnerabilities have dominated the Internet news cycle for much of this year, but WordPress has emerged as a leader in security for one reason: the community.
The WordPress community has always been one of our largest assets, but the changing dynamics of security online have also made it our best defense. This talk will cover the threats facing the WordPress ecosystem and the Internet today, how the WordPress community is combatting them, and what you can do to help keep us all safe.
Aaron Hockley
Lightning Talks: Blogger Basics
Josepha Hayden
The most important first step to writing for the web is understanding that you will forever be writing to dual audiences. Join Josepha for a look at what to do, and not do, when it comes to optimizing your content for search engines.
Aaron Hockley
Learn how to better use photography on your website in this fast-paced tour of WordPress image tips. Get the most out of the built-in features in WordPress, learn how to select and prepare images for the web, and discover how strong photography can help your website.
Pamela Bey
Is shopping on your site user friendly? Are you losing people because your checkout process is too complicated. Creating a delightful shopping experience can increase your sales by more than 50% and build customer loyalty. Whether you’re a blogger looking to generate more revenue for your writing or selling products, Pamelaexplains how to increase the income on your site by creating a great user experience.
Lyza Danger Gardner
Saving The Web By Doing As Little As Possible
Dave Martin
Lightning Talks: UX/UI
Dave Martin
Explore various lo-fidelity options for rapid prototyping. No prior experience required.
Joseph O’Connor
Disabled users help uncover interesting behaviors when Accessible User Experience (UX) research methods are applied to WordPress. Results are very instructive and apply to many use cases.
Taylor Aldridge
Lightning Talks: Design & Business
Three lightning talks focused on design and business, and the business of design.
Tracy Levesque
WordPress is popular which means many people want to learn how to use it via a classroom setting or one-on-one instruction. Having been a teacher of WordPress for several years, I have experienced the ups and downs of teaching WordPress and have developed techniques that work well for students. In my presentation I will share tips, tricks and things to avoid when teaching folks to use WordPress.
Jennifer Bourn
In a world where web design can quickly turn to web decoration, designers are problem solvers who must not only lead clients through the creative process, but protect the integrity of the solutions they deliver. With an abundance of options readily available to add to a site at any time, it is imperative that designers step up and become the voices of, and champions for purpose driven design, where each element has a specific purpose and only the elements needed to compel action are included. No more, no less.
Taylor Aldridge
We’ll look at what designers (website creators) really do on the job.
The task is to first: discover the problem; second: solve the problem, and finally: produce the solution. We’ll delve into why “producing the solution” is the only portion of the job, creators time track and how to champion and add value to all three areas of this work
M. Asif Rahman
Lightning Talks: Inspiring Stories
Two lightning talks set to inspire you!
M. Asif Rahman
I was a simple boy from Bangladesh. Back in 2004, when I just started University in Electrical & Telecommunication Engineering. I tried to make a site, as part of assignment, did not liked Blogger, that time I got introduced to WordPress. It changed my life, I find WordPress very easy. Started to make websites. Soon Became hard to manage, started hiring University friend, that also became unmanageable, took an office, started my company. Some of our web property worked super well, like The Tech Journal, it reached alexa rank 3000 within 1 year of inception. We kept working only in WordPress, built tons of plugins and theme, become attached with more important figure inside WordPress. Got my first invite from WordCamp Melbourne, spoke their during 2011. Since then I have attended over 10 WordCamp worldwide. I attended all last 3 WordCamp SF. Now I have a registered company in US, working to help young entrepreneur in US & Bangladesh too, managed and helped multiple WordPress MeetUp and WordCamp. I want to share my story.
Cory Miller
In 2006, I clicked the Publish button on my blog … and it has led to a core philosophy of shipping my work, regardless of my fear or need for perfectionism. The Click Publish philosophy that I’ve continued to do over the last 8 years has changed my life and led me on an incredible adventure of sharing my time and talents with the world.
Over the years of working closely with people often associated with WP — from budding bloggers, talented designers and developers, I’ve realized that being able to release your work to the world is loaded with fear and anxiety and perfectionism and want to share my story to inspire others to click Publish and ship their work — whatever that may be.
I’ll share the stories of success (and failure) that living this philosophy has produced in my life.
The State of the Word 2014
Matt Mullenweg takes a look at the past year in WordPress and lays out a vision for its future.
Mickey Kay
Lightning Talks: New to WordPress Development
Mickey Kay
New to the world of WordPress? Wondering how best to jump in? Intimidated by all the stuff you “don’t know”? Come join the party for an action-packed flash talk covering LOADS of goodies including: simple steps to getting involved, experience-based insights for developing your skills, plenty of useful resources for your bookmarks tab, and lots more. The talk will also cover some of my own adventures in WordPress land, including some of the projects, plugins, and people I’ve been involved with. So if you’re newer to the WordPress community and want to up your game (build a plugin, code a theme, get involved, etc), come join us!
Jenny Wong
As any web developer will know, love it or hate it, we all need to debug at some point. When your role involves working with multiple languages and development environments, it can be very hard to know where to begin.
During this talk, Jenny will be running though some basic debugging rules which will make debugging that little bit easier. The talk is aimed toward beginners, and intends to convey basic debugging skills for HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.
Erick Hitter
Ever wonder what process WordPress undertakes when someone visits your site? Or how it translates that nice permalink to the database query that ultimately delivers the content your visitors requested? Or what it takes to load the appropriate template from your site’s theme?
I’ll highlight the major steps in WordPress’ loading process and shed some light on the various APIs used. You’ll leave with enough understanding to dig into WordPress Core for greater detail and a better comprehension of how its many APIs work together.
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Lightning Talks: Unscary Tech
Andrea Rennick
How to find a theme for your blog, where to look, what to look for and what kinds of themes are out there.
Brennen Byrne
The security of WordPress has become a vital topic for the entire Internet. Our platform has reached an unprecedented scale, powering more than 22% of the Internet, and has found a unique and powerful way to protect all of our sites. Heartbleed and other vulnerabilities have dominated the Internet news cycle for much of this year, but WordPress has emerged as a leader in security for one reason: the community.
The WordPress community has always been one of our largest assets, but the changing dynamics of security online have also made it our best defense. This talk will cover the threats facing the WordPress ecosystem and the Internet today, how the WordPress community is combatting them, and what you can do to help keep us all safe.
K. Adam White
WordPress in Weird Places: Content management for Node using REST
In January my team was looking for the best available Node.js content management system… and we picked WordPress! Our clients got all the benefits of WP’s content editing interface, and with the in-development REST API plugin we were able to use that content without limiting any of our other technology choices. This talk will use our project as a case study to share lessons we learned while building a Node client for the API, and why we’re so excited about what the next year holds for the evolution of WordPress as a content platform.
Jenny Wong
Lightning Talks: New to WordPress Development
Mickey Kay
New to the world of WordPress? Wondering how best to jump in? Intimidated by all the stuff you “don’t know”? Come join the party for an action-packed flash talk covering LOADS of goodies including: simple steps to getting involved, experience-based insights for developing your skills, plenty of useful resources for your bookmarks tab, and lots more. The talk will also cover some of my own adventures in WordPress land, including some of the projects, plugins, and people I’ve been involved with. So if you’re newer to the WordPress community and want to up your game (build a plugin, code a theme, get involved, etc), come join us!
Jenny Wong
As any web developer will know, love it or hate it, we all need to debug at some point. When your role involves working with multiple languages and development environments, it can be very hard to know where to begin.
During this talk, Jenny will be running though some basic debugging rules which will make debugging that little bit easier. The talk is aimed toward beginners, and intends to convey basic debugging skills for HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.
Erick Hitter
Ever wonder what process WordPress undertakes when someone visits your site? Or how it translates that nice permalink to the database query that ultimately delivers the content your visitors requested? Or what it takes to load the appropriate template from your site’s theme?
I’ll highlight the major steps in WordPress’ loading process and shed some light on the various APIs used. You’ll leave with enough understanding to dig into WordPress Core for greater detail and a better comprehension of how its many APIs work together.
Lightning Talks: Designing with WordPress
Mel Choyce
Last year, I co-released my first free WordPress theme, Flounder. The theme was well received, but we we weren’t prepared for supporting it after launch. I’ll talk about what I wish we had known prior to launching Flounder.
Ben Dunkle
Dashicons, the icon font custom made for the WordPress admin, could use some new icons. Vote for the next one here: https://bendunkle.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/vote-for-the-next-dashicon/ . In 5 minutes, I’ll crank out a design of the winner, an demonstrate my process and stylistic approach.
Michael Arestad
Visual Hierarchy. Wacky gifs. 300 seconds.
We’ve all started with a super-cool ultra-clean site design that somehow ends up looking like this (still awesome, but hard to follow). I’m going to present an ultra-speedy introduction to visual hierarchy followed by some tips and tricks to direct your readers to the most important information.
Jennifer Bourn
Lightning Talks: Design & Business
Three lightning talks focused on design and business, and the business of design.
Tracy Levesque
WordPress is popular which means many people want to learn how to use it via a classroom setting or one-on-one instruction. Having been a teacher of WordPress for several years, I have experienced the ups and downs of teaching WordPress and have developed techniques that work well for students. In my presentation I will share tips, tricks and things to avoid when teaching folks to use WordPress.
Jennifer Bourn
In a world where web design can quickly turn to web decoration, designers are problem solvers who must not only lead clients through the creative process, but protect the integrity of the solutions they deliver. With an abundance of options readily available to add to a site at any time, it is imperative that designers step up and become the voices of, and champions for purpose driven design, where each element has a specific purpose and only the elements needed to compel action are included. No more, no less.
Taylor Aldridge
We’ll look at what designers (website creators) really do on the job.
The task is to first: discover the problem; second: solve the problem, and finally: produce the solution. We’ll delve into why “producing the solution” is the only portion of the job, creators time track and how to champion and add value to all three areas of this work
Mel Choyce
Lightning Talks: Designing with WordPress
Mel Choyce
Last year, I co-released my first free WordPress theme, Flounder. The theme was well received, but we we weren’t prepared for supporting it after launch. I’ll talk about what I wish we had known prior to launching Flounder.
Ben Dunkle
Dashicons, the icon font custom made for the WordPress admin, could use some new icons. Vote for the next one here: https://bendunkle.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/vote-for-the-next-dashicon/ . In 5 minutes, I’ll crank out a design of the winner, an demonstrate my process and stylistic approach.
Michael Arestad
Visual Hierarchy. Wacky gifs. 300 seconds.
We’ve all started with a super-cool ultra-clean site design that somehow ends up looking like this (still awesome, but hard to follow). I’m going to present an ultra-speedy introduction to visual hierarchy followed by some tips and tricks to direct your readers to the most important information.
Luke Wroblewski
From the Front Lines of Multi-Device Web Design
It’s hard enough to design a great mobile or Web site but what about experiences that span these devices and more? Join Luke for a set of lessons learned designing Web products that attempt to embrace simultaneous and sequential multi-device use. What worked and, more importantly, what didn’t?
Michael Arestad
Lightning Talks: Designing with WordPress
Mel Choyce
Last year, I co-released my first free WordPress theme, Flounder. The theme was well received, but we we weren’t prepared for supporting it after launch. I’ll talk about what I wish we had known prior to launching Flounder.
Ben Dunkle
Dashicons, the icon font custom made for the WordPress admin, could use some new icons. Vote for the next one here: https://bendunkle.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/vote-for-the-next-dashicon/ . In 5 minutes, I’ll crank out a design of the winner, an demonstrate my process and stylistic approach.
Michael Arestad
Visual Hierarchy. Wacky gifs. 300 seconds.
We’ve all started with a super-cool ultra-clean site design that somehow ends up looking like this (still awesome, but hard to follow). I’m going to present an ultra-speedy introduction to visual hierarchy followed by some tips and tricks to direct your readers to the most important information.
Paul Clark
How WordPress Saves Lives & Moves Governments
Discover how WordPress empowers relief teams working in war zones in Southeast Asia. Explore the challenges behind creating an application that tracks medical care and human rights abuses in the jungles of Burma. See real-world results that can be achieved with WordPress by putting the needs of people before the needs of computers.
With Custom Post Types and the Pods Framework, doctors and relief workers are able to make data-driven decisions when treating 15,000 patients each year, and governments were moved to take a stand on issues brought to light by our favorite publishing platform. Learn how you can use these same tools and WordPress to power maps, charts, and interactive timelines.
Jenn Schiffer
Growing Up WordPress
Much like how the sounds of my favorite emo bands of the 2000s have changed, so has the capability of our favorite blogging platform to solve problems and even generate art. This talk is a 10-year retrospective and love letter to a platform I’ve used from the time I was just a cool teen blogging about college in 2004, to a decade later where I am using WordPress to do even more.
Joe Dolson
Lightning Talks: Doing it Right
Joe Dolson
Web accessibility isn’t a collection of check boxes; it’s a way of thinking about web development. This talk will outline development habits for building WordPress sites that provide a consistent and reliable experience for everyone.
Zack Tollman
While site performance is an important topic in the WordPress community, how are we really doing at maintaining fast websites in the real world? In my talk, I will attempt to answer this question by examining a large sample of performance data from actual websites. With this information, I will suggest areas of improvement for the community in an effort to improve performance for WordPress deployments.
Rachel Baker
Lightning Talks: WordPress in Context
John Eckman
Many of us in the WordPress community focus exclusively on the platform. But what can we learn from those who, for a variety of reasons, aren’t (or aren’t yet) using WordPress? What can those outside our community teach us about how to make WordPress better?
Rachel Baker
After building WordPress sites for many small and medium sized businesses, I thought it would be “fun” to pitch WordPress as a solution for some corporate web projects. I have since built over a dozen websites using WordPress for Corporate America. I learned that the benefits of WordPress seen by corporate clients are different than smaller business clients. Here I will share what it is about WordPress that Corporate America with the goal of growing the permeation of WordPress in the enterprise CMS market.
Jeremy Felt
Open source software is a natural fit for public institutions. Because of their open nature, universities must be leaders in fostering an open and accessible web.
The primary reason I moved to Washington State University just over a year ago was the promise that everything we created would be open source or contributed back to the community in some way. The experience I’ve had has shaped me in many ways. I have more of an appreciation of higher education than I did before and I’m now more inspired that open source projects like WordPress can have an impact on how higher education operates.
So much good work is done at universities and while that work is often done with open source software, it can also be a forgotten tool. Promoting the usefulness of open source software and the responsibility of universities to contribute back to open source projects can only help the community as a whole.
Brennen Byrne
Lightning Talks: Unscary Tech
Andrea Rennick
How to find a theme for your blog, where to look, what to look for and what kinds of themes are out there.
Brennen Byrne
The security of WordPress has become a vital topic for the entire Internet. Our platform has reached an unprecedented scale, powering more than 22% of the Internet, and has found a unique and powerful way to protect all of our sites. Heartbleed and other vulnerabilities have dominated the Internet news cycle for much of this year, but WordPress has emerged as a leader in security for one reason: the community.
The WordPress community has always been one of our largest assets, but the changing dynamics of security online have also made it our best defense. This talk will cover the threats facing the WordPress ecosystem and the Internet today, how the WordPress community is combatting them, and what you can do to help keep us all safe.
Kathy Cano-Murillo
Artful Blogging
Cody Brown
Christine Harkin
Finding and Maintaining Your Blog’s Voice
Finding your blog’s voice isn’t as simple being honest, honoring the audience’s interests, and crafting the best tone and structure for a story; except that maybe it is. Trace the evolution of my blogging voice through personal and professional blogs, group blogs, corporate blog ghostwriting, and blog awards. Hear stories of how writing and design choices, gaffes, and observations become blog voice. Because, in the end, finding your blog’s voice is about both a journey and a destination.
Cory Miller
Lightning Talks: Inspiring Stories
Two lightning talks set to inspire you!
M. Asif Rahman
I was a simple boy from Bangladesh. Back in 2004, when I just started University in Electrical & Telecommunication Engineering. I tried to make a site, as part of assignment, did not liked Blogger, that time I got introduced to WordPress. It changed my life, I find WordPress very easy. Started to make websites. Soon Became hard to manage, started hiring University friend, that also became unmanageable, took an office, started my company. Some of our web property worked super well, like The Tech Journal, it reached alexa rank 3000 within 1 year of inception. We kept working only in WordPress, built tons of plugins and theme, become attached with more important figure inside WordPress. Got my first invite from WordCamp Melbourne, spoke their during 2011. Since then I have attended over 10 WordCamp worldwide. I attended all last 3 WordCamp SF. Now I have a registered company in US, working to help young entrepreneur in US & Bangladesh too, managed and helped multiple WordPress MeetUp and WordCamp. I want to share my story.
Cory Miller
In 2006, I clicked the Publish button on my blog … and it has led to a core philosophy of shipping my work, regardless of my fear or need for perfectionism. The Click Publish philosophy that I’ve continued to do over the last 8 years has changed my life and led me on an incredible adventure of sharing my time and talents with the world.
Over the years of working closely with people often associated with WP — from budding bloggers, talented designers and developers, I’ve realized that being able to release your work to the world is loaded with fear and anxiety and perfectionism and want to share my story to inspire others to click Publish and ship their work — whatever that may be.
I’ll share the stories of success (and failure) that living this philosophy has produced in my life.
Jeremy Felt
Lightning Talks: WordPress in Context
John Eckman
Many of us in the WordPress community focus exclusively on the platform. But what can we learn from those who, for a variety of reasons, aren’t (or aren’t yet) using WordPress? What can those outside our community teach us about how to make WordPress better?
Rachel Baker
After building WordPress sites for many small and medium sized businesses, I thought it would be “fun” to pitch WordPress as a solution for some corporate web projects. I have since built over a dozen websites using WordPress for Corporate America. I learned that the benefits of WordPress seen by corporate clients are different than smaller business clients. Here I will share what it is about WordPress that Corporate America with the goal of growing the permeation of WordPress in the enterprise CMS market.
Jeremy Felt
Open source software is a natural fit for public institutions. Because of their open nature, universities must be leaders in fostering an open and accessible web.
The primary reason I moved to Washington State University just over a year ago was the promise that everything we created would be open source or contributed back to the community in some way. The experience I’ve had has shaped me in many ways. I have more of an appreciation of higher education than I did before and I’m now more inspired that open source projects like WordPress can have an impact on how higher education operates.
So much good work is done at universities and while that work is often done with open source software, it can also be a forgotten tool. Promoting the usefulness of open source software and the responsibility of universities to contribute back to open source projects can only help the community as a whole.
Boone Gorges
Be a Volunteer, not a Martyr: a Practical Guide to Contributing
Many people volunteer their time to free software projects like WordPress for moral or philosophical reasons. They feel like they “owe it” to the community, or perhaps they think free software is important from a political point of view. For these people, the sacrifice of time and effort is repaid by the feeling of having done something good. For these folks, contribution is its own reward.
But what about the WordPress professional who is not given to this kind of philosophizing? The freelancer or small business owner who works with WordPress all day long is, in one sense, extremely well positioned to contribute to the project. But the financial sacrifices of this volunteer labor – time spent contributing is, after all, time not spent on client projects – can be difficult to justify.
This talk will present a number of arguments for why WordPress professionals ought to volunteer time to the project, arguments that will focus on practical and financial considerations rather than on moral ones. I’ll argue that the WordPress contributor pool is too concentrated, in a way that has the potential to do disservice to people who specialize in WordPress at the freelance and small-business level. And I’ll outline several concrete strategies for organizing one’s contributions in such a way as to minimize financial sacrifices.
Kathleen Vignos
Migrating 17 WP blogs on WIRED.com into one WordPress Install
WIRED.com had 36 separate WP installs which grew into a maintenance headache. We’ll share lessons learned from migrating over 100,000 posts from 17 blogs into one install – and how we lived to tell the tale.
Mark Jaquith
Backbone Views in WordPress
Backbone is the foundation of several recent user-facing features in WordPress. This talk will explore how to leverage WordPress’ powerful Backbone view management tools to craft maintainable, modular UI for your plugin or theme
Strengthening your Brand with a Blog
Contrary to popular beliefs, blogging is neither dead, nor difficult. But it does require a few strategies to help you know what to write about – as a blank screen can be intimidating. The takeaway from my own story, and the stories of others, will help you feel much more confident about starting or refreshing your blog to drive results.
Helen Hou-Sandí
Code is Poetry: A Musician’s Tale
During a decade spent as a professional musician, I discovered web development and then WordPress, and made a primary career switch. While on the surface they sound incongruous, I believe that skills I learned and honed as a classical pianist have translated directly to becoming a leader in open source software development. Join me as I take a look at those skills and celebrate alternative paths into WordPress.
Andrew Nacin
The Future of WordPress is Global
Only 10 percent of the world’s population speaks English, and it’s the native language for only half of those. But English represents more than two-thirds of all WordPress installs.
WordPress has undergone major code, infrastructure, and community efforts to improve its global reach in the last few years, culminating in a major shift in WordPress 4.0. This talk looks to tell the story of how the WordPress contributors, making decisions in line with our unique philosophies, were able to implement these new features, in terms of both technical and community challenges. We’re not done yet, and there’s more for the community to strive for, which will involve translators, plugin and theme developers, and core contributors.
Working toward a globally diverse userbase is not only key to growing the ecosystem and community, but to further advance our mission of democratizing publishing.
Tracy Levesque
Lightning Talks: Design & Business
Three lightning talks focused on design and business, and the business of design.
Tracy Levesque
WordPress is popular which means many people want to learn how to use it via a classroom setting or one-on-one instruction. Having been a teacher of WordPress for several years, I have experienced the ups and downs of teaching WordPress and have developed techniques that work well for students. In my presentation I will share tips, tricks and things to avoid when teaching folks to use WordPress.
Jennifer Bourn
In a world where web design can quickly turn to web decoration, designers are problem solvers who must not only lead clients through the creative process, but protect the integrity of the solutions they deliver. With an abundance of options readily available to add to a site at any time, it is imperative that designers step up and become the voices of, and champions for purpose driven design, where each element has a specific purpose and only the elements needed to compel action are included. No more, no less.
Taylor Aldridge
We’ll look at what designers (website creators) really do on the job.
The task is to first: discover the problem; second: solve the problem, and finally: produce the solution. We’ll delve into why “producing the solution” is the only portion of the job, creators time track and how to champion and add value to all three areas of this work
Sara Cannon
Typography and User Experience
Type on the web has many roles: it is an interface, a brand, sets tone, and directs the user. Typography has many roles and can either add or take away from User Experience. In this beautiful and exciting talk we’re going to look at various ways type is used, implemented, and dissect the role that it plays in user experience on the web.
Guillermo Rauch
Realtime communication with Socket.IO and WordPress
I’ll go over the fundamentals of what constitutes a realtime web application or website, and then explain how we can apply those concepts to WordPress sites and applications.
Organizers for this event are unavailable or have not been announced.
Details TBD.
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