2 July 2010 7 Comments

Call for Speakers

Written by Drew in Announcements.

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The Wordcamp 2010 team is currently looking for people who are interested in speaking during the event on October 2, 2010.

Keeping in mind the suggestions that we received, we have come up with a list of topics categorized in 3 track levels: Basic, Advanced and Developer.

Please see the list below for a topic that you wish to tackle.

Basic

  • Difference between WordPress .com and .org
  • Anatomy of a WordPress blog (post, page, plugins, tags, categories, RSS, theme)
  • WordPress in the Wild (examples / showcase of WordPress sites)
  • Setting up a WordPress.com blog

Advanced

  • WordPress Installation and Setup
  • Customizing a WordPress blog (themes, plugins)
  • WordPress Security
  • WordPress Troubleshooting
  • Video Blogging
  • Podcasting
  • Integrating Social Media
  • Search Engine Optimization and Optimizing Ads
  • WordPress as CMS
  • WordPress as Jobsite
  • WordPress as E-commerce site
  • API’s and gravatars
  • Plugin must-haves

Developer

  • Customizing existing themes and plugins
  • Creating your first plugin
  • Introduction to theme creation

To be considered as a speaker, please sign up using this form. If you feel that a topic you’d like to talk about is missing, please use the same form and pick “Other” and explain the topic in detail inside the following field.

We look forward to seeing you speak in Wordcamp. Thank you for helping us make this successful!

Note: The topics listed are proposed talks only. Topics may be merged or changed.

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7 Responses to “Call for Speakers”

  1. Jojo V. Gabuya 19 July 2010 at 11:25 PM #

    Hi, I’m interested in joining this camp; but, I’m just concerned with lunch and snacks, since I’m a full vegetarian.

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    • Brendel 22 July 2010 at 9:29 PM #

      Hi. We are still making arrangements with our official caterer. I’ll update you in a couple of weeks if we can make special arrangements for you.

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      • Jojo V. Gabuya 22 July 2010 at 10:35 PM #

        Hi, thanks. will be waiting for updates from u.

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  2. Mark Palma 26 July 2010 at 10:56 AM #

    this is a nice event and i would love to be a speaker on the basic topics, haha, just joking

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  3. Melvin 26 July 2010 at 4:06 PM #

    Hi Wordcamp team,

    I submitted my interest on speaking in this event through the speakers sign up form including the topic that I’d like to speak.

    Let me know. ;-)

    Reply

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