May 14, 2016 — WordPress community – open-source development, ongoing discussion, meetings online and IRL make us perhaps the most cross-disciplined professionals in the field of web development. This talk is a look into cross-disciplinary habits and possibilities, it gives ideas how to better utilise them in business and personal professional development. This is definitely one of the huge advantages of WordPress community – discussion and conscious development of this trait is one of our success factors.

May 12, 2016 — The talk discusses the aspects of WordPress being GPL, and why it’s important for WordPress users, developers and businesses alike.

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April 5, 2016 — MariaDB è un fork di MySQL il database relazionale, sviluppato da una community sotto licenza GNU GPL che intende mantenerlo come software libero.
Con ottimizzatore avanzato delle performance di MariaDB e le sue specifiche caratteristiche si possono facilmente migliorare le performance della tua applicazione.

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April 5, 2016 — Lors du podcast Very French Trip du 30 octobre avec Aurélien Denis, à l’invitation de Grégoire Noyelle, Thierry Pigot et Mathieu Viet, nous avons discuté des différents sujets concernant l’organisation et le fonctionnement de communautés open source WordPress et Drupal. Il semble même que la discussion aurait pu durer toute la nuit, … Il est apparu que nos projets et communautés ont des points communs et des différences qui sont intéressantes à connaître et peuvent être des sources d’inspiration et améliorations croisées.

Cette conférence vous propose d’expliquer comment ça se passe côté Drupal :

modèle économique
passage projets
revue de projets
approche entreprises et gestion des clients
environnemental du software

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February 15, 2016 — The open source community works because of the amount of knowledge that is shared between people. Although everyone has knowledge and experiences to share, many do not feel they have anything worthy of saying.
In this talk, you will learn that everyone has something to share, how to generate talk topics based on conversations you have every day with your peers, and discuss the different methods of sharing – not all of it is on a stage.
We will also review the impact of the share mentality and how it is helpful even for your business.

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February 3, 2016 — What would happen if schools were powered by free and open source software? What if students were trusted and given the freedom to explore and experiment with their school-issued devices?
The results may surprise you.
Free and open source software has fueled Penn Manor School District’s classrooms for over a decade. The strategy culminated in a high school 1:1 learning program, where students received 1700 school-supplied laptops exclusively loaded with Linux and open source software.
Charlie will tell the unusual story of how Penn Manor applied open source principles to better prepare students for college, careers and beyond.
Central to the program is a student apprenticeship, where high school students form the core of a sophisticated help desk team, and write code used by their peers everyday.

January 7, 2016 — The story begins with a simple, but valuable, warning from experience: that even the best developers can fall victim to the pressures of routine. This talk discusses how results can quickly be replaced by burnout and imposter syndrome.

The cure for Jason was a WordPress plugin framework, purpose-built to rediscover his confidence and fall in love with coding all over again. We follow his journey back to development bliss through the challenges of creating space for experimentation without the usual client pressures, transitioning from pet project to collaborative product, and learning to accept that it’s okay not to know everything.

The success (and failures) of the experiment soon fed into the philosophy of Big Bite and began to influence everything from how they worked to the environment they created for their staff, as well as how they communicated with clients and gave back to the digital community.

Learn the ways in which open source can be embraced, from the smallest acts of personal knowledge sharing to the broadest business practices.

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December 13, 2015 — The plugin ecosystem and REST API push our creative limits for what we can imagine building with WordPress – and it’s time we looked at powering physical devices using open source platforms like LittleBits and Arduino. This talk will examine use cases and methods for building real-time physical displays powered by WordPress.

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December 12, 2015 — WordPress and open source software have powered Penn Manor School District’s websites for 7 years. But can WordPress, and open source principles, help teachers transform classrooms and inspire kids to build remarkable learning communities? The answer may surprise you. Discover how our schools use WordPress, open source software, and a unique student technology apprenticeship program to prepare the next generation of writers and hackers for careers, college, and beyond.

December 7, 2015 — The story of Open Media Foundation or how a small group of geeks is trying to improve the media scene in Bulgaria using Open Source Tools.

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