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:<\/p>\n
Tammie Lister<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Kathryn Presner<\/a><\/strong>, both of Automattic, will host an in-depth workshop<\/a> on how to become a WordCamp speaker. Meta!<\/p>\n For serious geeks,\u00a0Daniel Bachhuber<\/strong><\/a>, who maintains the WordPress Command Line Interface (WP-CLI) plugin, will do a deep dive on its functionality.\u00a0Helen Hou-Sand\u00ed<\/strong><\/a>, a Contributing Developer of WordPress and the Project Lead for WP 4.0, will present “So You Know WP_Query. Now What?<\/a>”<\/p>\n For working devs,\u00a0Jenn Schiffer<\/strong><\/a>, an\u00a0open web engineer at Bocoup, will lead us through “A Career of Being Lazy Using WordPress<\/a>“, and Boone Gorges<\/strong><\/a> will talk on “Free Software, Free Labor, and the Freelancer: The Economics of Contributing<\/a>.”<\/p>\n For writers and content managers,\u00a0Mary Beth Coudal<\/strong><\/a>, a blogger whose work has been\u00a0published in\u00a0The New York Times, will lead a creative session on “Dangerous Writing<\/a>” – with improv exercises!\u00a0Stephen C. Miller<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>a media technologist from Brooklyn, will help us make our writing stronger<\/a>, and\u00a0Jay Hoffman<\/a>, <\/strong>WordPress dev for the Sesame Workshop, will teach us how to find the best plugins<\/a> for the job.<\/p>\n And for all of us:\u00a0Sveta Kouznetsova<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>a local UX and accessibility professional, will guide us on how to make websites that are more usable<\/a> for everyone.<\/p>\n PLUS MANY MORE SPEAKERS!<\/strong><\/p>\n 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<\/a>!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u00a0and\u00a0Kathryn Presner, both of Automattic, will host an in-depth workshop on how to become a WordCamp speaker. Meta! For … Continue reading Announcing (Some) Speakers!<\/span>