February 24, 2014 — Have you every wondered how you can be part of WordPress? Do you want to contribute to the project but can’t quite find where to start? Don’t worry. Even if you don’t write code there’s a place for you. Everyone has their own niche: there are hundreds of community members doing support, writing documentation, translating WordPress, and organising events. If you’re intrigued come along to learn how to be part of one of the most diverse open source communities around.

February 24, 2014 — Social media attorney Ruth Carter shares real-life stories of people who have faced devastating consequences because of their behavior on their blogs & social media & how to avoid the same mistakes.

February 23, 2014 — For an hour, Matt will be answering your questions. Want to know about the future of WordPress? Want to know what why a specific decision was made? Interested in what people are doing with WordPress worldwide?

February 20, 2014 — Whether you’re a novice WordPress user or an experienced web developer you can leverage WordPress in many non-traditional ways. This presentation goes over how to rapidly build scalable and secure applications and how to save time and money doing so. It also showcases some really cool applications and examples of building things with WordPress while thinking out of the box.

February 19, 2014 — In this presentation Ryan Markel talks about how to contribute to WordPress without code. He gives many examples of different ways for contribution and he shows his first contribution to WordPress.

February 17, 2014 — How to prepare a large project using WordPress. The tools and skills.

February 15, 2014 — This talk demonstrates the most interesting features of the free WooCommerce plugin and discusses why its open source foundation combined with a marketplace for extensions is helping foster a great community. It shares the stories of real people making a living thanks to WordPress and WooCommerce with hopes to inspire you to believe you can do the same.

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February 15, 2014 — Learn best practices and see practical examples for using email marketing services and e-commerce closely with WordPress.

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February 15, 2014 — Think differently about diverse funding and revenue generation opportunities for online entrepreneurs. Go beyond advertising and affiliates and think of your blog as a business.

February 14, 2014 — The Hieroglyph Project is a collaboration between science fiction author Neal Stephenson and the Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU. The goal was to build and maintain a community for virtual collaboration to inspire innovation and creativity. Buddypress gave me the toolkit to build a site that allowed conversation and collaboration, and I learned some valuable lessons along the way.