June 3, 2017 — How open source contribution benefits businesses and practical help on getting management and technical teams on the same page and contributing on a regular basis.

Chris “legolasbo” Jansen and Jeffrey A. “jam” McGuire present practical, actionable ways to better unify our beliefs and our actions regarding open source contribution based on an extensive academic study Chris carried out in 2015. Our goal is to get management and developers on the same page about open source contribution and help you make it happen.

June 3, 2017 — Ronald Ashri is Deeson’s Technical Strategy Director. Analysing emerging enabling technologies and market trends he identifies new opportunities and improved methods for solving problems.
He is an active member of the Drupal community for the past 9 years, Ron’s first WordCamp was last year in Vienna and it was a great experience.

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June 3, 2017 — Nevena originally trained as a simultaneous interpreter, but now she is responsible for two way “interpreting” at GoDaddy. She translates the team’s geek talk and product features into a language that normal people can understand, and customer wishes and needs to requirements for engineers.
Her talk she addressed how to empathize with the customer, it touches on how UX research, journalism, and psychology form the basis of Customer Marketing. You can expect concrete product examples, but also get ready to participate in the discussion.

June 2, 2017

June 2, 2017 — Ilia is a content marketer who has helped organisations of all sizes and industries – from SaaS to government – to succeed with growing their audience and their business with content. His guilty pleasure is that he tries to use every trip to the UK to watch his beloved Southampton FC.

In his talk, he discusses how you should be measuring the performance of your content. Which tool should follow, the tools (WP and beyond) that can help track them, and how to set them up. By the end of the talk, he clears the understanding of what takes to create a content report.

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June 2, 2017 — Jim Bowes is a Scrum coach, regular speaker at Agile events and CEO of Manifesto Digital. Manifesto uses Agile methods to deliver bespoke digital solutions to organisations such as Cancer Research UK, Unicef UK and the National Trust. He’s used WordPress for over 8 years and loves converting people to its simplicity and the speed at which great sites can be created.
Jim Bowes introduced the Agile project management – covering both KanBan and Scrum. He Covered a little around history, Agile vs Waterfall and examples from real projects.

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June 2, 2017 — John is one of the WordPress core developers, a member of the WordPress security team, and was the release lead for WordPress 4.1. He works as a senior developer at Human Made, and has over ten years experience developing with WordPress.
In his presentation, he goes through the basics and goes on to explain some of the more interesting and advanced use cases of working with roles and capabilities.

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June 2, 2017 — Panne discussion is on ‘How do you Build a Custom Theme?’
It was short (2-3 minute) talk from each panel member on their chosen preferred development model, followed by an open discussion with the audience of QandA’s on building custom themes.

June 2, 2017 — Website design and UX principles applied to WordPress websites – from a designer’s perspective. The process starts with discovering client objectives and the website audience. This informs decisions on colors, fonts, and layout. A mood board helps to communicate the design direction for the website and user research informs decisions on website navigation and content hierarchy. Tools of the trade include color, stock photo and icon resources. Implementing these design discoveries into your WordPress website is not as hard as you think.

June 2, 2017 — 1. Matt Radford
Single Purpose Plugins

Have you seen onethingwell.org? It’s a weblog of simple, useful software. I’m going to show you a selection of similar software for WordPress – simple, useful plugins that you may not have heard of. There won’t be any bulky plugins with a hundred options and vast ecosystems, just small, focussed plugins that perform one thing well.

2. Pascal Birchler
Recent I18N Improvements in WordPress Core

Caching, timezones and internationalisation are just a few things that make developers cringe. In this short talk I will highlight some recent enhancement in the field of i18n in WordPress to show how we’ve got you covered. I will also give a glimpse at what’s coming in the future.

3. Sami Keijonen
SVG icon system in WordPress

I this talk we cover:
Why use SVG icons instead of icon fonts.
How to create SVG icons.
How to use SVG icons.
Practical example of Twenty Seventeen SVG icon system.