June 24, 2016 — Mental disorders are the largest contributor to disease burden in North America, but the developer community and those who employ us are afraid to face the problem head-on. In this talk, we’ll examine the state of mental health awareness in the developer workplace, why most developers feel it isn’t safe to talk about mental health, and what we can do to change the culture and save lives. Attendees will leave with 5 things they can do to make their workplace safer for those dealing with mental health disorders.

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June 24, 2016 — When in the early stages of offering WordPress related services for clients there are a lot of unknowns. Questions like: – How do I price a project? – Where do I host the client’s site? – What do I do when the scope begins to creep? – Where do I go when I get in over my head? – How do I find clients? These and many more are difficult questions to answer for those who are new to client work but they are incredibly important. This session will be a Q&A and will focus on everything one needs to know and do to make their first projects successful.

June 24, 2016 — The best and worst part about our chosen vocation is that there’s an endless amount of stuff to see, learn, and try and nowhere near enough time in which to do it. In an industry where “the new hotness” changes every week, what hope does a developer have of keeping up?

This talk focuses on the professional development of a professional developer. How do we continue to grow as professionals without getting totally overwhelmed with information? We’ll touch on the topics of stress, education, humility, and more.

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June 24, 2016 — Blogging is relatively easy – write some stuff, add some pictures, and click “Publish”. Getting people to actually read your blog and be part of your tribe is harder. Join the Snarky Gardener (a vegetable gardening blogger) and follow his 3 year blogging journey from WordPress.com site to where he is today. He doesn’t have all the answers but hopefully he can inspire you to take your blog to the next level.

June 24, 2016 — Does the thought of creating video content scare the crap out of you? Have you wanted to begin creating video content but don’t know where to start? In this session you will learn the basics of video production from the equipment to use and what makes great video content as well as resources to help you become better educated in editing and producing your video content.

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June 22, 2016 — ¿Necesita el mundo una nueva red social? ¿Necesita tu web ser o parecer una red social? ¿Necesita tu comunidad de usuarios poder interactuar entre ellos en tu web como lo hacen en una red social?
En esta conferencia, Andy García, profesional de WordPress desde hace una década, no va a responder a ninguna de estas preguntas, en su lugar demostrará las claves para instalar BuddyPress y algunos plugins relacionados para que puedas crear tu propia red social desde cero.

June 22, 2016 — Proposta de uma provocação aos desenvolvedores de WordPress na área de UX/Design: como tratar esse tão estimado CMS frente a evolução das interfaces?

Esse tema visa expandir a mente dos desenvolvedores no que diz respeito aos futuros dispositivos de acesso a internet.

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June 22, 2016 — Como contribuir com o desenvolvimento do core do WordPress

O objetivo dessa palestra foi apresentar a organização do desenvolvimento do core do WordPress visando estimular a participação de novos desenvolvedores brasileiros nesse processo.

Rodrigo Primo discutiu as ferramentas básicas que alguém que está começando precisa conhecer para enviar seu primeiro patch. Em especial o Trac, o Slack, o repositório wordpress-develop, o grunt patch e o make.wordpress.org.

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June 22, 2016 — Hacer un buen trabajo de email marketing es un reto para todos los profesionales y empresas. En esta ponencia veremos como conseguirlo: como incorporar la política de protección de datos, que plugins podemos usar, como podemos hacer crecer nuestra lista de suscriptores, como crear boletines de noticias y como analizar los resultados de los envíos. Así mismo veremos los diferentes servicios que nos ofrecen estas funcionalidades desde dentro y fuera de WordPress.

June 21, 2016 — This talk will help you discover how to Automate UI testing with the Selenium WebDriver using PHP. An in depth discussion of the Page-Object model for creating clean, reusable code for tests. Discussion of services available for automated testing on any Browser in any Operating System.

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