Updated: Sep 19th: There are a limited number of tickets available. Head to https://2014.europe.wordcamp.org/tickets/ to get yours.
All the tickets are gone. WordCamp Europe 2014 is sold out.
Well done, guys, you rock!
What is that now? You didn’t manage to get a ticket? Well we knew that would happen, we spent the last few weeks warning you about it on Twitter.
Ok, ok, don’t panic. There might be a chance we can still get you in.
Cheers!
We’re happy to announce our next #WCEU speaker – WordPress enthusiast Hristo Pandjarov.
Hristo’s done it all: supported WordPress clients, built websites, designed WordPress themes, wrote tutorials, dug deeper into SEO and developed his own WordPress SEO plugin. He’s been fortunate to have his passion for all things WordPress and his job overlap at SiteGround, where he develops and implements various in-house performance boost solutions to help make WordPress websites faster and more secure.
Hristo will talk about WordPress optimisation and all the things that can go wrong when trying to improve the performance of your WordPress site. He will cover each of the most popular and widely accepted performance optimisation techniques, how to implement them without breaking your site and how to fix the most common issues with different speed boosters.
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If you missed the news at the end of last week, we already have the schedule for WordCamp Europe 2014 and we’ve updated it with information about every talk. Click on the talk title to learn more about it.
Here’s a full list of all #WCEU 2014 speakers:
User Experience Designer, Writer, Speaker and Coffee Enthusiast working in the beautiful city of Zurich.
Lead developer of WordPress, squashing bugs, wrangling contributions, and spearheading new development.
Rarst is a computer techie. Born and living in Kiev, Ukraine. Sometimes WordPress developer professionally.
Senior Web Apps Engineer and Migrations Specialist at SiteGround.
In-development tester of WordPress plugins. Besides testing the plugins he also runs usability tests.
Davide is an experience director at Automattic with 11+ years of experience and a hybrid background in design, psychology and technology.
A Web Accessibility Consultant for my own company Coolfields Consulting.
Director of Platform Experience at 10up, a WordPress core committer, and the WordPress 4.0 release lead.
A WordPress enthusiast who’s done it all: supported WordPress clients, built websites, designed WordPress themes, wrote tutorials, dug deeper into SEO and developed his own WordPress SEO plugin.
Hugo is a designer that went independent 3 years ago to embrace a new journey in his life. Passionate about interactivity and the human behavior, he tries to touch people with his work and words.
Community organizer for the WordPress open source project, focused on contributor outreach, diversity, and growing local communities. Prior to this she spent four years as the UX lead and project manager of the core software team. She is from Portland, OR, USA.
Jenny Beaumont
Designer, project manager and WordPress expert from France.
Working with WordPress since 2006, Joost has a 10 year background in online marketing, more specifically SEO, and has always combined his knowledge of the two.
A freelance consultant and co-founder of WP Media. He’s been working with WordPress every day for the last four years and makes his living using the software.
Co-founder at required+, a swiss based web company with focus on Interaction Design, Mobile Web and WordPress.
Co-founder of UK-based WordPress agency Make Do. In a previous life he worked in the corporate surroundings of the NHS for over 10 years working in both IT and Marketing.
Front Ender who writes bash scripts to automate deployment. Designer who spends more time in MacVim than a drawing app.
A WordPress developer and core contributor since WordPress 3.4.
A media professional with more than a decade of technical and marketing background.
Mark Jaquith has been working with and contributing to WordPress since 2004. He is one of the lead developers of the WordPress core.
Co-founder, WordPress; founder, Automattic
Mike Schroder, known as Shredder to most of his colleagues, is a cross-cultural kid, coffee-drinking sailor, and lover of Open Source.
Noel is a Swiss nomad wandering the globe and one of the owners at Human Made, a WordPress.com VIP partner.
Rocío is a Spanish Computer Engineer in love with Free Software, technology, travelling and personal challenges. She’s the new member of Mailpoet.
Sara is VIP Global Services Manager at Automattic (WordPress.com & more), and as part of her job with the WordPress.com VIP team, she works at discovering and sharing WordPress success stories with the world.
Simon Wheatley is an enthusiast for open source software in business, not least because he runs an open source software business.
Siobhan McKeown works at Audrey Capital where she writes about WordPress, deals with documentation, and has nightmares about the Codex. She’s currently working on an open source book about the history of WordPress.
Stefan Kanev
Stefan has been a passionate programmer. In his professional life he has shipped code in PHP, JavaScript, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby and even a little bit of C.
Born in the UK, and hailing from Manchester, Tom is a developer at Code For The People, a long-time PHP developer, and an elected moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange.
Tony is one of the Co-Founder’s and CEO of the globally recognized website security company, Sucuri, Inc.
Yana is a marketing person and also an event organiser, foodie and traveler.
And that’s all of them. Just a friendly reminder, there are very few tickets left for the event, so hurry up and grab yours.
Cheers!
We’re happy to greet out next speaker – one of the guys behind default themes Twenty Thirteen and Twenty Fourteen, Konstantin Obenland.
Konstantin is a Code Wrangler at Automattic, where he’s working on WordPress Core full-time. He has a long history of contributing to WordPress, starting out with releasing plugins and reviewing themes as part of the WordPress Theme Review Team, before he focused on bundled themes, co-leading the development of Twenty Thirteen and Twenty Fourteen. At Automattic, Konstantin is also a leading contributor to Underscores, a WordPress starter theme that is featured in the WordPress Theme Development Handbook and recommended by the Theme Review Team.
Born and raised in Germany, he moved to the United States two years ago where he now lives in Ventura, a small coastal city in Southern California. There he enjoys the great weather and sandy beaches, tasty Mexican food, diverse craft beer, and the year-around strawberry season.
Hey wonderful people,
Just a quick notice for those of you who are still dragging their feet:
We have less than 70 tickets to WordCamp Europe 2014 left.
They live right here.
Go get them and see you in two weeks!
Love,
The Org Team
Meet our next speaker – SiteGround’s Senior Web Apps Engineer and Migrations Specialist Daniel Kanchev.
Daniel joined SiteGround 5 years ago as a junior support team member but thanks to his advanced knowledge about server technologies, geek spirit, professional skills and passion for Open Source apps, he quickly became a senior Web Apps engineer and works on all-things Open Source at SiteGround today.
With passion for WordPress and more than 7+ years of experience with it, he has successfully performed hundreds of complicated WordPress migrations, integrated different WordPress features for geeks for SiteGround clients, worked on the development of a WordPress caching plugin, written many tutorials and helped thousands of SiteGround customers with their WordPress sites.
When he’s not working you can find him practicing extreme and not so safe sports or traveling the world.
Welcome Spanish Computer Engineer Rocío Valdivia to WordCamp Europe 2014 Speakers table.
Rocío is in love with Free Software, technology, travelling and personal challenges.
She specializes in BuddyPress, a tool to develop social networks. She has experience as WordPress consultant and freelance developer. Part of the Spanish translation team at GlotPress, organises the WordPress Sevilla meetups and WordCamps. She has extensive experience with WordPress and BuddyPress plugins, themes development and improvement, and is one of the authors of “WordPress para Dummies”, the Spanish version of “WordPress for Dummies”, published November 2012.
She’s currently the new board member of Mailpoet and a lecturer at conferences and seminars on WordPress and BuddyPress.
We’re delighted to announce our next speaker – open source enthusiast and co-founder of British WordPress agency Code For The People Simon Wheatley.
Simon Wheatley is an enthusiast for open source software in business, not least because he runs an open source software business. As co-founder of Code For The People, Simon and his team have developed websites for the Rolling Stones, the UK and Scottish Governments, Stephen Fry, and Oxford University, amongst others. At all times, with all clients, Simon and Code For The People press their clients to work with open source software and to release projects as open source. He has been named as a contributor to every WordPress release (bar one) since 2008.
Simon will talk from experience to show how the more your business gives away, the more opportunities you get back.
We’re happy to announce that WordPress core contributor Mike Schroder is joining us in Sofia as a speaker at WordCamp Europe 2014.
Mike Schroder, known as Shredder to most of his colleagues, is a cross-cultural kid, coffee-drinking sailor, and lover of Open Source. He currently works at DreamHost, contributing to the WordPress core and community projects including WP-CLI. You can find him blogging on various geeky things at http://www.getsource.net
In 2011, I sent my very first email to the wp-hackers mailing list. I wasn’t sure if it was the right place to introduce myself, but I had to start somewhere. In the years since, I’ve gone from being a tentative new contributor to being one of the release leads for WordPress 3.9. In this presentation, I’ll talk about my journey through the WordPress project. I’ll focus on some of the problems I encountered as a contributor and how I dealt with them. I’ll also look at how, more recently, the project has removed some of those barriers, making it simpler than ever for newcomers to get involved.
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Next speaker at WordCamp Europe 2014 – programming polyglot Stefan Kanev.
Stefan has been a passionate programmer since forever. He easily gets enthusiastic about all things related to software development. In his professional life he has shipped code in PHP, JavaScript, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby and even a little bit of C. This makes him rarely qualified to appreciate all the nuances in this chart.
When not working for money, Stefan enjoys dabbling into fancy programming languages, tweaking his development environment and reading software books on assorted subjects. His latest favourite is Clojure, he’s an avid Vim user, he loves his Mac and his hidden weapon is a medium-sized collection of ZSH scripts. He occasionally blogs about programming (sadly, in Bulgarian), he occasionally teaches programming in the University of Sofia and helps with the organisation on a few small Bulgarian conferences.
Stefan will be talking about functional programming and what all the fuzz in recent years has been about. He’ll talk about all the fancy ideas in strange languages like Haskell and LISP and how they can help us in our more “mainstream” environments.
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