October 24, 2016 — This is the story of my journey from WordCamp attendee to contributor. I was inspired to volunteer with subtitles after attending a WordCamp in 2014 and have increased my involvement with the project since that time. I’ve been able to subtitle several videos, attend our local Meetup, and most recently volunteer with the team organizing OKC’s first WordCamp. There really is a place for everyone in the WordPress community and this session will highlight my journey and hopefully encourage you to get involved as well.

October 24, 2016 — Dmitry resides in Moscow, Russia and is a WordPress developer. He is part of the Moscow Meetup group and was the lead organizer of WordCamp Moscow.

October 22, 2016 — Find out how much you should be charging for your talents and experience as a WordPress freelancer.

October 19, 2016

October 18, 2016 — WordPress powers more than every fourth of all websites in the world, in one or more of the 6,500+ world languages. WordPress itself does not allow for multilingual content, though, so that’s where plugins come in handy. One of these is MultilingualPress: THE multisite-based free open source plugin for multilingual websites.
In this talk, Thorsten provides a short introduction to both MultilingualPress and WordPress multisite. By means of several user stories, he then explains how to set up your multilingual WordPress website with MultilingualPress.

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October 18, 2016 — How to optimize your stack for better scalability?
WordPress isn’t just used for your average blog that has 10 visitors per day. The tech industry has realized that the WordPress platform can be leveraged as the foundation for all kinds of content-driven websites. But when your website gets increasingly popular and your WordPress installation is under heavy load, that’s when things get more complicated.
WordPress is built on top of PHP & MySQL and in this presentations I will show you how to optimize your stack for better scalability. We’ll be talking about software like Varnish, Nginx, Redis & PHP-FPM. We will also cover topics like loadbalancing, session distribution, static file hosting, SSL termination & aggressive page caching.
Just enough infrastructure talk to make your WordPress bullet proof. But don’t worry, we’ll start from the beginning.
WordPress isn’t just used for your average blog that has 10 visitors per day. The tech industry has realized that the WordPress platform can be leveraged as the foundation for all kinds of content-driven websites. But when your website gets increasingly popular and your WordPress installation is under heavy load, that’s when things get more complicated.

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October 18, 2016 — What is REST, what is an API, what the hell does this have to do with WordPress, how can we use it, and what are the benefits.
Expect a lot of acronyms like MVC, SPA, API, REST, JSON etc.. and what that mumbo jumbo actually means for a webdeveloper. Introductory session but still very dev-oriented.
Might contain traces of nuts the Star Wars universe 😉

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October 18, 2016 — How-to make sites fast.

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October 17, 2016 — This presentation covers what HTTPS does and does not protect against, reviews some of the more egregious misuses of HTTP, rebuts the commons objections to implementing HTTPS, and then advances numerous compelling reasons to use HTTPS that should convince anyone still on the fence. An abundance of links to technical resources, client-side tools, and relevant influential writings is also provided.

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October 17, 2016 — A story about punk, passion and pirates, musings of a two decades building free software.

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