Announcements, Speakers

Rounding Out the Speaker List

Before reading this new post on speakers, why not take the opportunity to get your tickets?

Alexis Bellido of Alley Interactive gives advice to non-WordPress developers in “Hit the Ground Running.”

Kevin Miller and Steve Bruner go through the awesome Piklist framework in “Customize the WordPress admin with the Piklist framework“.

Lara Schenck, freelance instructor, designer and front-end developer, leads a panel entitled “Freelancing: Real Talk“.

John Eckman, CEO of 10up, gets philosophical in “Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Responsive Web Design“.

Prodigious plugin author Pippin Williamson talks best practices for plugin developers in “Sane Plugin Updates“.

Courtney O’Callaghan of Freer and Sackler Galleries and Beth Soderberg of APCO Worldwide present “Leveling Up: From Bashful Beginner to WordPress Warrior“.

Ben Dunkle of the WordPress.org core design team presents “Designing Dashicons“, a discussion of iconography in WordPress.

Craig Ralston of Web Solutions leads “Introduction to Plugin Development” for beginner and intermediate devs.

Konstantin Obenland, a core contributor since 3.4, talks about Underscores, the  “1000 hour head start” for theme developers.

Richard Dinh of NorthPoint Digital presents “WordPress Examples Toolkit“, showcasing the power of learning by example.

Daniel Convissor, a contributor to the PEAR and PHP projects, offers “Unit Testing WordPress Plugins with PHPUnit“.

Kathryn Presner of the Automattic theme team expounds on “Supporting Your Themes While Staying Sane“.

Andrea Rennick of Copyblogger Media presents “From housewife to hero: giving back and moving up“, a discussion on giving back to the WP community.

You still don’t have tickets? Come on, now.

Announcements, Speakers

Still More Speakers!

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Yet more amazing speakers and sessions planned for WordCamp NYC! Have you got your tickets yet?

Renowned designer Sara Cannon, Creative Director at Range, will expound on modern techniques in her talk, “Smart Design“.

Drew Jaynes of 10up will take us on a tour through WordPress documentation efforts beyond the Codex.

Security expert and author of Professional WordPress Brad Williams will present “Writing Secure WordPress Code“.

Suzette Franck, a WordPress Evangelist at Media Temple, will lead a beginner session on “Understanding WordPress Core Functionality“.

Adam Silverstein, also of 10up, will show us how to incorporate Backbone.js into our projects with “Put a little Backbone in your WordPress!”

Philadelphia WordPress designer, developer, and instructor Tracy Levesque will offer techniques for leveling up with “6 Ways to Up Your Theme Game“.

WordCamp Europe organizer and Chief Product Officer at Human Noel Tock will present “Beyond the Code,” helping us to develop ourselves and get “in the habit of shipping”.

Senior WP dev at Reader’s Digest and fellow WCNYC organizer Mikel King will go through the finer points of caching, clustering and tuning in “High Performance WordPress“.

Syed Balkhi, an expert in building popular websites (WPBeginner, List25) will present “Tools to Better Manage and Grow Your Blog“.

Cal Evans, Developer Advocate for Pantheon and PHP-FIG member, will cover the concept of Numbers Used Once in “NONCE Upon a Time in WordPress“.

Core WordPress contributor and Automattician Mel Choyce will lead us through the current WP design landscape in “WordPress Design Trends“.

We are still not through! Look for more speaker announcements Monday. But before you jet off to the beach this weekend: get your tickets.

Speakers

More Speaker Announcements

Here are some more of the fantastic speakers that are confirmed for WordCamp NYC this year!

Nicole Arnold, a developer with WordPress VIP partner Alley Interactive, will take us on a trip through “Core Functions You (Maybe) Don’t Know Exist“.

WP core committer and New York Times dev Scott Taylor will explain “How to Read and Write WordPress Media Code“.

M. Shannon Hernandez, a Brooklyn-based writing coach, will present “Your Business Blog Matters“.

From Ipstenu, the Half-Elf Support Rogue (aka Mika Epstein): “Dude, You’ve Been Font-i-con’d!” – a session on font icons.

Jared  Novack, a WP developer from Boston, will lead a plugin deep-dive with “Advanced Advanced Custom Fields“.

Maryland-based WP core contributor Tracy Rotton will present “Getting Sassy With WordPress” for you CSS heads.

Mike Schroder (Shredder), leader of the WP 3.9 release, will bring us “HeartBeat API: Your Data Simply in Realtime“.

Cory Miller, founder of a WordPress-based business, will speak on “Entrepreneurship for Developers: Keys to Success“.

WP dev and local meetup presenter Gabriela Levit will go through theme-building best practices in “Child Play: Creating and Using WordPress Child Themes“.

More speakers to be published soon. Get your tickets today!

Announcements

Save the date and RSVP for Contributor Day

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UPDATE: RSVPs for Contributor Day are sold out.

Contributor Day will be held on the Friday before WordCamp NYC (August 1st, 2014) from 12 to 6PM at the Kimmer Center at NYU, 60 Washington Square South.

We’re looking forward to having tons of great WordPress users in town for WordCamp New York. While we have such a large part of the WordPress community together in one place, let’s take advantage of it! Contributor Day is your opportunity to, well, contribute to the WordPress project.

Whether you are a user, designer, support specialist, developer, or writer, there’s a way for you to contribute:

  • Test out new features and check for bugs in WordPress 4.0, which will be coming out at the end of August
  • Write or update WordPress documentation
  • Answer a support question in the forums and help other users who are new to WordPress
  • If you’re a programmer, contribute to core*

* If you’re planning on helping out with WordPress core code (writing patches, testing bugs on trunk, etc), then you’ll need to get set up with a few things. To save time on the day, we strongly recommend that you set up WordPress locally on your laptop (and bring it!).

People who come to contributor day will be 100% focused on contributing or learning to contribute to core – although we have fun this is a working event. We will have sessions introducing the various contributor groups for absolute newcomers. If you have been looking for an opening to add your contribution to WordPress, this is a great opportunity!

Photo: Helen Hou-Sandí and Hugo Baeta at WordCamp San Francisco’s contributor day. Photo credit: Sheri Bigelow.

Announcements, Speakers

Announcing (Some) Speakers!

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As we finalize the schedule, we’re working on getting information out to you as quickly as possible. To that effect, here is a (limited) group of confirmed speakers with brief descriptions of their presentation topics:

Tammie Lister and Kathryn Presner, both of Automattic, will host an in-depth workshop on how to become a WordCamp speaker. Meta!

For serious geeks, Daniel Bachhuber, who maintains the WordPress Command Line Interface (WP-CLI) plugin, will do a deep dive on its functionality. Helen Hou-Sandí, a Contributing Developer of WordPress and the Project Lead for WP 4.0, will present “So You Know WP_Query. Now What?”

For working devs, Jenn Schiffer, an open web engineer at Bocoup, will lead us through “A Career of Being Lazy Using WordPress“, and Boone Gorges will talk on “Free Software, Free Labor, and the Freelancer: The Economics of Contributing.”

For writers and content managers, Mary Beth Coudal, a blogger whose work has been published in The New York Times, will lead a creative session on “Dangerous Writing” – with improv exercises! Stephen C. Miller, a media technologist from Brooklyn, will help us make our writing stronger, and Jay Hoffman, WordPress dev for the Sesame Workshop, will teach us how to find the best plugins for the job.

And for all of us: Sveta Kouznetsova, a local UX and accessibility professional, will guide us on how to make websites that are more usable for everyone.

PLUS MANY MORE SPEAKERS!

We’ll be publishing more on speakers the rest of this week, with the full schedule soon to follow. Be sure to get your tickets today!

 

Announcements

Updates and a few reminders

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Hey, folks. We want to give you an update on what’s been going on behind the scenes at WordCamp NYC. The blog’s been a little slow lately, but we’ve been working furiously behind the scenes to bring you the best WordCamp NYC ever.

Sessions/Schedule

As you may have seen on Twitter, we’ve been hard at work confirming speakers, and we will start announcing them VERY soon. We hope to have the final schedule posted soon, but we’re going to start announcing speakers and sessions next week!

Volunteer!

We’re still looking for a number of volunteers, if you’d like to help make WordCamp NYC an awesome event, please sign up to volunteer!

T-shirt deadline

To be sure to get a t-shirt in your size, buy your ticket before July 1st, 2014. We’ll be ordering some extras, but can’t guarantee you’ll have a shirt if you buy your ticket after that date.

Marriott Room Rate Deadline

There is a group rate available to book a stay at the Marriott where we’ll be holding the event. The deadline to book at the reduced rate is Friday, July 11th, 2014.

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Volunteer

Volunteers are the backbone of any great WordCamp. You’ll be helping to make our event run as smoothly as possible, ensuring a fun time is had by all. Plus, it’s a great way to get more involved in the WordPress community! If you’re interested in volunteering, please read the information below, and let us know how you’d like to help out in the contact form at the bottom of this page.

Volunteer Roles

Volunteers will be asked to work the event for at least four hours, which entitles them to a free event ticket for the whole weekend (subject to volunteer needs and availability). You are, of course, welcome to volunteer for more than four hours, but please be sure to take some time to enjoy the event! Here are the roles we’re looking to fill:

PRE-EVENT SETUP (FRIDAY AFTERNOON)

We’ll need help getting everything set up the night before everything begins. From folding t-shirts to alphabetizing name tags, it’s all in the details. This will be limited to 5-6 people, so if please choose another volunteer role as well to make sure you get to volunteer.

SETUP/REGISTRATION DESK (7AM SATURDAY)

The Registration Desk will serve as our home base throughout the event, but the main need here is early morning set up and registration. We’ll need help setting up signs, and the registration area. Once registration begins in the morning, we’ll need well-organized volunteers to ensure smooth check-ins and keep lines and waiting times short.

SESSION ROOM EMCEE (MORNING OR AFTERNOON)

Do you love talking or want experience talking to groups of people? For this position we want people who want the microphone in their hand. Our emcees will introduce speakers, keep speakers aware of the time, and help attendees with general event questions.

ROOM RUNNER (MORNING OR AFTERNOON)

Questions always come up, or maybe something is needed and someone needs to run and get it. This person will be the one who can deliver!

HAPPINESS BAR (TWO HOUR SHIFTS)

Do you like helping others to learn how to use WordPress? We need WordPress experts to help man the Happiness Bar. Users of all levels will come to you for help with their websites. It’s a great way to give back to the community and see what people are doing with WordPress as the same time!

PHOTOGRAPHY

A photography maestro will capture all the people, sights, and happenings of WordCamp NYC 2014. We need a volunteer willing to use their own camera and contribute the photos to the WordCamp NYC community to use.

ALL PURPOSE

Our all-purpose all-stars will be filling in where they are needed most. We need people to willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done.

CLEAN UP

We need a handful of our volunteers to stay a bit late to help clean up and pack stuff up.

HOW TO VOLUNTEER

Thanks, but Volunteer Signup is now closed.

August 2-3, 2014 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge

WordCamp NYC 2014 is over. Check out the next edition!