Author: Bradford Campeau-Laurion

Managing Partner, Alley
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Help us host WordCamp for Publishers 2019!

We’re already starting to plan WordCamp for Publishers 2019, which means we have one very important thing to do first – pick a new city!

Unlike most WordCamps, our organizing team is distributed across the US, so it’s important for us to have a local organizer to help facilitate venue coordination, event logistics, swag delivery, and much more.

If you (as an individual, or a group of individuals) are interested in helping with this and have a great suggestion for a city, please fill out our application form. We have a preference for cities that are underrepresented media markets so we can bring them an amazing event they might not normally experience.

We’ve left most fields optional, but please fill out as much information as you have. If you have any questions or other supporting materials that don’t fit here, don’t hesitate to contact us here: https://2018-chicago.publishers.wordcamp.org/contact/.

Apply to Host WordCamp for Publishers 2019
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WordCamp for Publishers 2018 is kicking off now!

Registration is open, so if you’re attending, please join us in the Arthur Rubloff Building at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Just look for the blue and orange signs with our logo! If you can’t make it, there’s a free livestream available.

You can follow our online schedule to find the sessions and workshops you want to attend.

More announcements coming soon and we can’t wait to see our first sessions kick off shortly!

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WordCamp for Publishers starts tomorrow!

The 2nd annual WordCamp for Publishers starts tomorrow morning! Registration opens at 8:30AM CT and opening remarks start promptly at 9AM CT. The full schedule is available on the website and please check our Slack and Twitter for updates throughout the conference, and don’t forget to use our hashtag #wcpub.

If you have any questions while you’re at the event – where to find something, WiFi, or anything else – don’t hesitate to ask one of our volunteers in the brown t-shirts.

See you all tomorrow in Chicago at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Arthur Rubloff Building. And if you can’t make it, we’ll be livestreaming all of our sessions on the main track starting at 9AM CT.  Stay tuned for the link!

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Thanks to our scholarship sponsor, Pantheon!

We want to give a big thanks to our Scholarship Sponsor, Pantheon. Their generous donation allowed seven people to attend this year’s WordCamp for Publishers who otherwise couldn’t make it.

Pantheon is the website operations platform top developers, marketers, and IT use to build, launch and run all their Drupal and WordPress websites.

Pantheon includes all of the tools professional developers need to build best-practice sites—like staging environments, version control, backups, and workflows. Powering over 200,000 sites and billions of pageviews a month, Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security, or performance. It’s free to develop your site on Pantheon, you only pay once your site goes live. You can scale your site on the same infrastructure from day one, and never touch a server again. Create your free account now!

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The full schedule is now available!

The schedule for WordCamp for Publishers is now final and we’re very excited about the program we’ve put together for you. Oh yeah, and if you haven’t gotten a ticket it, do it today! We’re almost sold out!

We have a few additional sessions and workshops to announce:

Sessions

Lessons Learned from Managing Large Site Networks
David Parsons, Senior Software Engineer, USA Today Sports Media Group

Meta and Schema: Defining the Content about your Content
Jim Birch, Senior Digital Engineer

Workshops

Silos are for wheat: facilitating communication between the tech and editorial teams
Ernie Hsiung, CTO, WhereBy.Us

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Ticket update and more sessions

We’re just about a month away from WordCamp for Publishers 2018, which means we’re finalizing logistics for events and swag. If you want to guarantee yourself a spot at our evening events and swag, please sign up by Friday 7/13! 

We’ll still have some extras after that date, but we’ll need to start finalizing details to ensure things go smoothly. Get your tickets today!

We also have a few more sessions and workshops to announce:

Sessions

Panel: Experiments That Local Newsrooms Can Learn and Profit From
Sarah Schmalbach, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Lenfest Institute

Workshops

Security for Newsrooms
Paul Schreiber, Staff Web Developer, ESPN

Lightning Talks

Is WordPress a Product or a Community?
Boone Gorges, WordPress core contributor and consultant

AMP+ or How Forbes combined AMP and Mobile Templates
Vadim Supitskiy, VP of Software Engineering, Forbes

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Announcing more sessions!

We’re excited to announce more sessions and lightning talks. Read more about them at the links below and of course, get your tickets today!

Sessions

Dual Session
Reader revenue and the (less) open web: What happens when we all have paywalls
Why Paywalls Are Good for the Open Web
Eric Ulken, Digital Strategy Consultant
Nick Johnson, Founder and Engineer, Sabramedia

“Decisions, not Options” in the Age of Gutenberg
Chris Van Patten, Founder and Creative Director, Tomodomo

Lightning Talks

Wednesday Talks

#CodeDys
Jeannette Washington, M.Ed., Founder, Bearly Articulating

Solving Content Reuse and Syndication
Jake Goldman, Founder and President, 10up

Making Images Smarter
Russell Heimlich, Lead WordPress Developer, Billy Penn

Thursday Talks

Trust Project: News with Integrity
Sally Lehrman, Director, Trust Project

The Easy (and Sane) Way to Create Responsive HTML Emails
Mike Auteri, Senior Software Engineer, PMC

How to Increase Your Email List Without Selling Your Soul
Angie Meeker, Founder, Three Cans

Using Amazon Translate to Turn Posts into Audio
Susan Price, WordPress theme designer and developer

 

Excited about the event after seeing these amazing sessions? Get a ticket today!

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Announcing our second batch of sessions!

We’re excited to announce the second batch of speakers for WordCamp for Publishers 2018. More will be coming soon along with a complete schedule. Check out the links below for more information on each session.

If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, register today!

Presentations

Up to 85% faster with minimal code changes
Leo Postovoit, WordPress consultant and Ryan Kienstra, WordPress Engineer, XWP

You, yes you, need to sketch!
Joshua Wold, Designer | Product Owner, XWP

Don’t be “blocked” by Gutenberg
Jason Bahl, Senior WordPress Engineer, 10up

Why we ditched AMP, and other UX choices we made for launching membership
Brian Boyer, VP of Product and People, Spirited Media

A faster open web: Why speed matters and how to get there
Barb Palser, Global Product Partnerships, Google

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Applications are open for travel scholarships!

In-person events like WordCamp for Publishers are a great way to build skills and connect with people who truly understand the projects and problems you’re working on every day. But we know that conference travel costs can be a burden, particularly for people just starting out in publishing or working for an organization where training dollars are scarce. So we’re excited to announce our 2018 scholarship program, designed to help you join us in Chicago this August.

WordCamp for Publishers is a community-organized event, and it works best when our entire community is represented. If travel support would help you attend, we hope you’ll apply for a scholarship — and we hope everyone will help us spread the word to colleagues and friends who should be there. Here’s what you need to know:

What we’re offering

We have a small number of scholarships that provide $500 toward the costs of attending WordCamp for Publishers, this Aug. 8-10 in Chicago. You can use these funds in whatever way best fits your needs: ticket and registration, lodging, meals, airfare or transit, or any other travel costs. 

When applications are open

Our applications are open now through 5pm Eastern on Monday, June 18. We’ll notify all applicants by Wednesday, June 20.

How you can describe this event to your organization

WordCamp for Publishers is a community-organized event that brings together people who use WordPress to manage publications, big or small. It coaches participants on best practices, and encourages collaboration in building open-source tools for publishers. Here are some of the sessions we’ll have this year.

Who should apply

  • Anyone who is part of the publishing & technology community, whether your work is primarily technical, editorial, or somewhere in between.
  • People working at smaller or regional publishers, who are looking to build skills and bring new resources back to their organizations.
  • Students working in college publishing, or preparing for a career in digital publishing.
  • Developers and allies interested in open-source software and protecting the open web.
  • People of color, women, and other underrepresented groups in publishing and technology are strongly encouraged to apply.

What happens after you apply

WordCamp for Publishers will review all applications, and all applicants will hear back from us by June 20.

 

WordCamp for Publishers - Chicago is over. Check out the next edition!