Welcome WooCommerce as an Administrator sponsor of #WCEU

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Petya Raykovska

WooCommerce is sponsoring #WCEU 2016 at the Administrator level. Join us in saying a big thank you for their continuous support! Stop by their booth during the conference days in Vienna and say “Hello”!

Powering over 30% of online stores, WooCommerce is the world’s most popular eCommerce platform. Powered by WordPress and built by WooThemes, the goal of WooCommerce is to allow you to sell anything online – beautifully. You can integrate with payment processors, easily manage shipping methods and inventory, set up flexible tax rules, and view detailed store reports all from your WordPress dashboard.

With a free core platform and hundreds of premium add-ons available, WooCommerce allows you to set up an online shop with functionality catered to your store’s needs.

Sign up for WordCamp Europe 2016 Contributor Day!

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Rocio Valdivia

WordPress is created by thousands of people just like you. You don’t have to be a developer or a designer to start contributing.

If you answered a single question on WordPress.org forums, I have a surprise for you – you already contributed! But, you should come to WordCamp Europe Contributor Day on Sunday, June 26th, and learn new ways of giving back to the community.

Sign up for #WCEU Contributor Day on Sunday, June 26!

Did I mention that this would probably be the largest Contributor Day ever? Now’s your chance to write history.

What are contributor days?

The Design team at WCEU 2015 Contributor day. Photo by kreatidos.com

Contributor days give you a special opportunity to share a room with some of the awesomest developers, designers and community enthusiasts from all over the world. So, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered nonetheless you’re a seasoned contributor or if this will be your first Contributor day. Ever.

Every year Contributor days get bigger with more and more people involved. WordPress is now running 25% of the World Wide Web and it needs our help. And there are so may ways you could help. From helping the Theme Review team, working on Translations, Community, Docs, Support, Accessibility or WordPress.tv – to name just a few. And don’t forget – that’s not nearly all. You could also contribute to Core, Design, GlotPress, Mobile… the list goes on and on.

We encourage you to take part of Contributor Day especially if you have never contributed before and you’re looking for a way to get started.

Become a WordPress Contributor!

If you’ve never contributed to WordPress before, WordCamp Europe would be a great place to start. There are plenty of opportunities for everyone to help the projects, such as:

Core – improve the main WordPress platform
Theme Review – join the team responsible for the high quality in the Themes Directory on WordPress.org
Translations – make WordPress and its accompanying resources available in your language
Community – improve the WordCamp and meetup organization processes
Docs – improve the Codex, handbooks and other online resources for WordPress users and developers
Support – spread some happiness by helping out WordPress users in the support forums
Design – UI and UX updates
Accessibility – test and improve the accessibility of the WordPress project
WordPress.tv – reviews and approves every video submitted to WordPress.tv. They also help WordCamps with video post-production.
GlotPress – help to improve the collaborative, web-based software translation tool, which was recently converted into a WordPress plugin
Mobile – with the growing number of mobile devices on a daily basis, let’s make WordPress more mobile-friendy
Meta – help the main WordPress websites such as WordPress.org or WordPress.tv
BuddyPress & bbPress – grow the community building group by helping each of these projects
Marketing – join and contribute to WordPress with other marketers from all around the globe
Rest API – join the Rest API team and start contributing to the future of WordPress
Training – join the group of educators teaching WordPress around the globe

See? There’s plenty of room for everyone, and we’re more than happy to welcome newcomers to each of the WordPress Contributors team!

If you’re not sure which team is best for you, check out the Make WordPress website and all of the active teams.

What do I need?

Don’t forget your laptop and charger – you’ll need them during the contributing process.

a WordPress.org account
a Slack account for WordPress users

Currently, the main communication medium for contributors is Slack, so download a desktop version or use the web one with your credentials.

If you have any questions regarding the Contributors day, reach out to any organizer or use the #wceu hashtag on Twitter.

For Experienced Contributors

If you’re an experienced WordPress contributor, join the Contributor Day! We are looking for more mentors for the people starting out, and your experience would be a great asset for the day.

If you are interested in helping out and/or mentor new contributors with a specific team, let us know!

Plan For the Day

The Contributor Day will start at 11am on June 26th at the Vienna University in the city center. And we will wrap up at 6pm. Make sure that you are present at 11am when we will introduce the team leaders and the room that each team would be using for brainstorming and work.

Lunch would be available, so don’t forget to mark your dietary requirements (if any) in the form below.

In addition to the contributing teams, workshops would also be given at a separate room at the building. Nothing is set in stone yet and you will be able to switch teams or attend some of the workshops.

Sign Up Now

Fill in the form below to secure your place. The places are limited so act fast and reserve your slot!

http://wceurope.polldaddy.com/s/wordcamp-europe-2016-contributor-day

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Say hello to our next group of #WCEU speakers!

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Petya Raykovska

Hello, everyone and we hope you’re having an awesome Tuesday! Please join us in welcoming the next group of WordCamp Europe speakers: Siobhan McKeown, Tomaz Zaman, K.Adam White, Peter Wilson, Erica Varlese, Pam Kocke and Eric Lewis!

Siobhan McKeown

Siobhan is a writer, editor, event organiser, WordPress contributor, public speaker, and free software advocate. She recently completed a book about the history of the WordPress project, which is available on the WordPress github account.

Siobhan is a WordPress contributor, having contributed to nearly every release since 3.0 and was previously active in the documentation project. She’s organised numerous WordCamps, including #WCEU twice so she knows how hard the team is working right now!

She’s worked remotely for more than five years now and her current project is a book about remote work, which she’s writing for Repeater Books.

Tomaz Zaman

Born and raised in central Slovenia. After having moved to the most remote part of the country with his family, he had to look online for work and found a couple of issues that online outsourcing services have and decided to build my own. Having 0 experience with WordPress at the time was quite a challenge, but luckily the community was warm and welcoming and the business is growing ever since because there’s a need for a matchmaking service like ours.

When he’s not managing the team of currently 12 people, he likes to write JavaScript. Off work, he’s a husband, a father of 4 kids and a passionate Skydiver.

Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson is a web-developer with twenty years experience, a CSS junkie, a developer at Human Made Australia and a regular contributor to WordPress core.

Peter has worked in both client services and on enterprise applications. Peter’s portfolio includes working on sites for some of Australia’s largest listed companies and highest profile performers.

Peter writes at peterwilson.cc and tweets as @pwcc.

Pam Kocke & Erica Varlese

Erica Varlese & Pam Kocke

New Orleans resident Pam Kocke works for Automattic, spending her days engineering happiness for WordPress.com users and hiring more Happiness Engineers. She started blogging over a dozen years ago while training for her first marathon.

In her free time, she enjoys photographing and blogging about her identical triplet sons Linus, Oliver, and Miles. She is the organizer of the New Orleans WordPress Meetup, and enjoys traveling to other places to speak about WordPress. Pam blogs at pyjammy.com.

Erica Varlese works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, where she divides up her days between helping WordPress.com users and hiring new folks into the Automattic family.

When she’s not glued to her laptop, she likes to practice photography, fawn over her dog, and espouse the various wonders of New Jersey. Erica blogs at ericavarlese.com

K.Adam White

K. Adam White is a JavaScript engineer at Bocoup, an Open Web technology company in Boston, Massachusetts, where he writes web applications, contributes to open-source projects, and evangelizes for the web as an open platform for technology and collaboration.

A traveler, artist and enthusiast photographer, K. Adam is the author of a JavaScript client for the WordPress REST API.

Eric Lewis

Eric is a web developer at The New York Times, and lives in Manhattan. He believes in and support open source communities. He was a guest committer to WordPress for the 4.5 release cycle. He makes neon signs in his spare time.

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Thank you to FlexiDB for supporting #WCEU as an Administrator sponsor

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Petya Raykovska

Welcome to FlexiDB who are joining the WordCamp Europe Administrator sponsors! We really appreciate your support and couldn’t have done this without you! Stop by the FlexiDB booth at WCEU to express your gratitude for helping bring us all together.

FlexiDB is a FREE tool for creating databases graphically, then deploying to websites and apps. It’s been designed with WordPress in mind. Our aim is to make creating a database as easy as adding post or page. There is a plugin for WordPress that lets users drag and drop data widgets on to the page. WordPress was originally a blogging tool, before evolving into a CMS. With FlexiDB, you can use WordPress to build custom database sites, or DaaS’s to give them their trendy name. FlexiDB also has an app editor that produces PhoneGap code, so users can create an app that interacts with the same FlexiDB database.

Thank you to our #WCEU Administrator Sponsor SiteLock!

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Petya Raykovska

Say hello to our next Administrator sponsor SiteLock! SiteLock provides top-notch WordPress security. Make sure you stop by their booth at #WCEU and thank them for their first year as WordCamp Europe sponsors. Thank you!

Currently protecting more than one million WordPress sites, SiteLock delivers a patented 360-degree website security solution to find, fix and prevent malware and other threats from affecting websites and their visitors. Services include malware scanning and vulnerability detection, automatic malware removal, an advanced web application firewall (WAF), PCI compliance and website acceleration powered by a global CDN. SiteLock provides phone support, available 24/7/365.

Welcome to our first group of #WCEU speakers

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Petya Raykovska

Good morning Europe, hello world!

There will be an exciting line-up in Vienna on June 24-25! We’re happy to announce our first group of speakers coming from different parts of the world to share their design, development, business and community knowledge with you. Please meet John Blackbourn, Sonja Leix, Marko Dugonjić, Francesca Marano, Caspar Hübinger and Naoko Takano!

John Blackbourn

Sonja Leix

Marko Dugonjić

Francesca Marano

Caspar Hübinger

Naoko Takano

John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn is a senior WordPress developer at Human Made in the UK. He’s a WordPress Core Developer, a member of the WordPress security team, and he was the release lead for WordPress 4.1.

Sonja Leix

Sonja is a location-independent WordPress front-end designer. She’s an active member of the WordPress community, co-organized WordCamp New York 2014 and WordCamp Europe 2015. She has a strong design background and is passionate about UX, the WordPress community, and traveling.

Marko Dugonjić

Marko Dugonjić is a designer, speaker and author based in Velika Gorica, Croatia. As the creative and user experience director at Creative Nights, he improves customers’ digital experiences for international clients. He is an editor at Smashing Magazine, the author of the Smashing Book 4, chapter “The Next Steps For Web Typography”, and the founder of Typetester, an online tool for designing with web fonts.

Francesca Marano

WordPress professional, community junkie, business explorer. She makes WordPress things happen in Torino, Italy: WordCamp organizer, Polyglot PTE, Meetup co-founder.

Caspar Hübinger

As a self-taught post-dotcom web developer, he got introduced to WordPress “Billy Strayhorn” and has stayed ever since. Caspar Hübinger has a fundamental interest in people and how they interact.

Naoko Takano

Naoko Takano is a Globalizer at Automattic. She is a part of Team Global, which facilitates internationalization and localization of WordPress.com and other products.

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We’d like to welcome Pantheon as Administrator sponsor of #WCEU

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Petya Raykovska

We’d like to invite you to join us in saying a big thank you to our Administrator sponsor Pantheon! Thank you for supporting the European WordPress community!

Pantheon is the website management platform top developers, marketers, and IT use to build, launch and run all their Drupal & WordPress websites.
Pantheon includes all of the tools professional developers need to build best-practice sites—like staging environments, version control, backups and workflow. Powering 100,000+ sites with hundreds of millions of page views, Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security or performance. It’s free in development. You can scale in software on the same infrastructure from day one, and never touch a server again.

Don’t forget to stop by the Pantheon booth at #WCEU and show your appreciation of their support!

New tickets go on sale – grab yours today

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Petya Raykovska

The last batch of WordCamp Europe 2016 tickets is now available to everyone. These will be the last tickets that will go on sale for this event. After these are gone, we won’t be able to release any more, so if don’t have a ticket yet, we highly recommend you get one now.

MuseumsQuartier Wien (c) Ali Schafler

The price is only EUR40 and you get a chance to be a part of history:

WordCamp Europe 2016 will be the largest WordPress event to this day

What To Expect

two days of the best WordPress content from all over the world
a contributor day to learn how to give back to WordPress
an opportunity to meet the WordPress community leaders
networking activities allowing you to meet and create contacts with likeminded people
warm up events and activities to explore the city and make friends
a place to be inspired
a space to share ideas
a job board & a hiring board
an epic after-party
coffee, tea, healthy lunch (no matter your dietary preferences)
swag!
more than 2000 amazing people, great mood, adventures and fun

Grab a ticket

We have released a limited number of tickets for WordCamp Europe

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Petya Raykovska

Hello everyone,

At 10 am today, a limited number of tickets for WordCamp Europe 2016 will be released. A reservation link will be sent to everyone who signed up for the waiting list so that you can secure your ticket for the event in Vienna.

The reservation link will be available to people who signed up for 24 hours. After that period, at 10 am tomorrow morning, the remaining tickets will become available to purchase from the tickets page on the site.

If you signed up for the waiting list, please check your email and claim your ticket as fast as possible, the number of tickets and the number of people on the list is almost the same and we can’t stop people from purchasing multiple tickets.

Note: If you sign up after 10 am CET today, January 20th, you won’t receive the reservation link for this batch.

Good luck! We hope to see you in Vienna.

Love,

The WordCamp Europe org team

Call for speakers for #WCEU 2016 closes in 2 weeks

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Emanuel Blagonic

So, you didn’t apply to speak at WordCamp Europe 2016 just yet? Well, don’t wait the last moment because the speaker applications close in less than 2 weeks – on Sunday, January 31st.

We would like to have you on stage at this year’s WordCamp Europe in Vienna, Austria.

Why apply to speak?

Well, because it’s the largest WordCamp in Europe and more than 1500 people already bought a ticket to attend it. If you use WordPress or open source software, chances are you have a story to tell.

Karin Christen gave her first WordCamp Europe talk in 2014

No matter if you are an experienced speaker or just starting out – WordCamp Europe is the perfect stage to share your experiences on topics like development, design, business, content, marketing or community.

Ready to start? Apply now!