Speaker: Charlie Carter – Make WordPress Accessible

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Charlie Carter

We’re excited to announce another speaker for WordCamp Brisbane 2015! Charlie Carter will be talking about how to make WordPress accessible.

Following on from Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Charlies’ talk will discuss the many options that developers can do to improve accessibility within the WordPress platform. His presentation aims to offer practical insight and advice into making your WordPress more inclusive without the bloat.

Charlies’ talk will include the following topics:

  • WordPress intro
  • Making WordPress Accessible Initiative
  • WordPress Accessibility plugins
  • Tenon.io and Access Checker
  • CAPTCHAs
  • Colour contrast
  • Captioning

Charlie is the Founder / Director at Webbism. A web accessibility consulting business that aims to make the web a more inclusive place. Charlie is the founder of the Brisbane Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup in Brisbane, Team Lead for Accessibility at the Emergency Wiki 2.0 and member of Universal Tux, a group that aims to enhance accessibility within Linus and FOSS (free and open source software). Charlie is a founding member at The Loft Project and lives on the Sunshine Coast.

You can follow Charlie Carter on Twitter.

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After Party Sponsor: WooThemes – WooCommerce

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We’re glad to announce that WooThemes have been generous enough to be the After Party Sponsor for WordCamp Brisbane 2015!

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.

Speaker: Dee Teal – How to Freelance like a BOSS

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Dee Teal

Freelancing, on the face of it is an exciting idea. Being your own boss, being the manager of your own time, working from home and basically working for yourself can be incredibly rewarding.

It can also, however be terrifying. Instead of just being a writer, or a designer, or a developer you now also have to be a bookkeeper, accountant and all round office dogsbody/tea-maker.

In attending this talk, audience members who are already freelancing will be able to check off whether they’re making the most of their time and resources, beginners will learn how to set themselves up for success.

Dee’s talk will cover the following:

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Platinum Sponsor: Braintree_dev

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We’re very happy to announce our first Platinum Sponsor: Braintree!

As the Braintree_PayPal developer and startup relations team, Braintree_dev works directly in the field to educate and support the community about the Braintree and PayPal APIs and SDKs. With unique programs including BattleHack, Startup Blueprint and Start Tank, Braintree_dev engages with the community to mentor, support and enable seamless commerce experiences through easy integrations around the globe.

Tickets are now on sale!

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We’re excited to announce that WordCamp Brisbane tickets are now on sale! Woohoo! Get in quick, you don’t want to miss out.

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And don’t forget to give us your thoughts on what topics or speakers you’d like to hear about / from so that we can make this the best WordCamp for everyone! You can do that when you buy a ticket or by filling in the contact form.

Hope to see you there!

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Speaker: Japh Thomson – Build on Chassis: Introduction to a Solid Development Workflow

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Japh Thomson

Knowing what tools and processes to use when starting out is difficult for a newcomer to WordPress-based development. Japh will share his preferred setup after years of building on WordPress. The basis for his development workflow is a project called Chassis. He’ll cover the general workflow, and an intro to Chassis.

Japh has been building websites since the late 1990s, and specialising in WordPress since ~2008. As a senior developer he’s helped a number of web agencies switch to WordPress as their CMS of choice. He worked as the WordPress Evangelist for WordPress at Envato from ~2011, and now works at Human Made, a WordPress.com VIP partner agency.

Japh is also interested in a variety of things, including fermentation and the intersection between beverages and botany. He also has a passion for seeing WordPress taken into the countries, languages, and cultures where it isn’t already dominant.

You can follow Japh on Twitter.

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Call for Speakers

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To have a wonderful WordCamp we need two important things, wonderful attendees (that’s the easy part) and fabulous speakers (the hard part)! Why not jump up on stage and teach a room full of people something new?
Apply to Speak

To help you prepare your submission, here are some example topics that we believe are interesting to our audience.

Please note that these are only for inspiration – we encourage you to submit any idea based on your expertise. If you have several ideas, submit them all! We’ll be happy to give you feedback and help you prepare your application.

Need some ideas for a topic?

We’d love talks or workshops on any of the following topics:

WordPress 101

  1. Choosing a host for your WordPress site.
  2. How to choose and tweak and WordPress theme.
  3. Planning your first WordPress website.

Design

  1. Design processes and approaches (mobile-first, data-driven design, designing in the browser).
  2. Choosing the correct typography for your site.
  3. Colour psychology
  4. Designing effective landing pages

Development

  1. Development workflows and automation
  2. Testing tools and techniques
  3. Using modern JavaScript front-end tools with WordPress.
  4. Using the WP-API for faster WordPress sites and mobile apps
  5. Creating your own plugin
  6. Creating your own theme from scratch or using Underscores.
  7. Developing larger projects with WordPress – both team and technical challenges, e-commerce solutions, complex web applications.
  8. Learning – approaches for staying up-to-date with WordPress and the web development worlds.

Business

  1. Scaling up. How to go from freelancing to running an agency
  2. Why passive income is important for your business
  3. How to hire the right people for your business
  4. Content / Marketing / Community
  5. Contributing back to WordPress – Why it’s important for your business
  6. Pricing & product strategies

SEO

  1. Email marketing/Building a subscription
  2. Social Media Management
  3. Staying ahead and on top of Google updates

Full-length sessions will be 20-25 minutes long with 5-10 additional minutes for questions from audience.
Apply to Speak

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Welcome to WordCamp Brisbane!

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WordCamp Brisbane 2015

We’re happy to announce that WordCamp Brisbane is officially on the calendar!

WordCamp Brisbane will be held on May 30th & 31st at The Cube, QUT Gardens Point in the heart of the city.

Subscribe using the form in the footer to stay up to date on the most recent news. We’ll be keeping you posted on all the details over the coming weeks, including speaker submissions and sponsorship opportunities!

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