Schedule

Saturday, June 28

Time Ballroom Lyceum Room 250 Workshop
8:00 am
Registration Opens
Favorite session: Registration Opens
9:00 am
Zero Hour Networking
Favorite session: Zero Hour Networking
Create your first WordPress website – an introduction to WordPress Nancy West Johnson
Favorite session: Create your first WordPress website – an introduction to WordPress
Zero Hour Networking
Favorite session: Zero Hour Networking
10:00 am
Opening Remarks and Keynote – Designing WordPress: A Drama in Four Parts Siobhan McKeown
Favorite session: Opening Remarks and Keynote – Designing WordPress: A Drama in Four Parts
10:45 am
Developer Lightning Talks Kailey Lampert, Mike Schroder, Elisha Terada, Adam Silverstein
Favorite session: Developer Lightning Talks
How to Pick a Theme That Doesn’t Suck Stacey Lane
Favorite session: How to Pick a Theme That Doesn’t Suck
Business Lighting Talks Claudia Smith, Alex Bean, Kronda Adair, Julie Kuehl
Favorite session: Business Lighting Talks
Creating a Plugin from Scratch Tanner Moushey
Favorite session: Creating a Plugin from Scratch
11:20 am
I Started A Blog! Now What? Kimberly Gauthier
Favorite session: I Started A Blog! Now What?
11:55 am
Lunch
12:45 pm
Making Sense of SEO for WordPress Joyce Grace, Jennifer Bourn, Scott Eklund, Michelle Castillo, Heather Johnson
Favorite session: Making Sense of SEO for WordPress
Panel: How to Become a Better WordPress Developer Kailey Lampert, Kronda Adair, Jeremy Felt, Zack Tollman, Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Favorite session: Panel: How to Become a Better WordPress Developer
Passwords: The Weakest Link in WordPress Security Brennen Byrne
Favorite session: Passwords: The Weakest Link in WordPress Security
Branding the WordPress Twenty Fourteen Theme: An Overview for the Non-Technical Naci Seyhanli, Todd Miller
Favorite session: Branding the WordPress Twenty Fourteen Theme: An Overview for the Non-Technical
1:20 pm
UX – A Checklist for Real Websites Sonja Leix
Favorite session: UX – A Checklist for Real Websites
1:55 pm
Free And Low Cost Ways To Grow An Amazing Blog Kate Stull
Favorite session: Free And Low Cost Ways To Grow An Amazing Blog
Web Design Is A Process Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Favorite session: Web Design Is A Process
Performance, Scale, and WordPress Paul Clark
Favorite session: Performance, Scale, and WordPress
SASS — It’s more than just variables in your CSS Taylor Dewey
Favorite session: SASS — It’s more than just variables in your CSS
2:30 pm
The WordPress Community + Relationships = A Booming Business Alex McClafferty
Favorite session: The WordPress Community + Relationships = A Booming Business
Responsive Agile WordPress Workflow (RAWW) Erik Fadiman
Favorite session: Responsive Agile WordPress Workflow (RAWW)
Small Changes toward Big Things Jeremy Felt
Favorite session: Small Changes toward Big Things
3:05 pm
Speed as a Feature: Getting a Handle on Page Load Time Zack Tollman
Favorite session: Speed as a Feature: Getting a Handle on Page Load Time
What you don’t know can hurt you: Legal considerations for bloggers Erica Jorgensen
Favorite session: What you don’t know can hurt you: Legal considerations for bloggers
Themer Lightning Talks Nancy Thanki, Jordan Quintal, Taylor Dewey, Merrill Mayer
Favorite session: Themer Lightning Talks
Migrating WordPress Sites Eric Amundson
Favorite session: Migrating WordPress Sites
3:40 pm
What Vladimir Putin Can Teach Us About Responding to Trolling Steve Roy
Favorite session: What Vladimir Putin Can Teach Us About Responding to Trolling
Translate the Geek: Teaching Clients How To Use WordPress Heather Johnson
Favorite session: Translate the Geek: Teaching Clients How To Use WordPress
4:15 pm
Keynote Andrew Nacin
Favorite session: Keynote

 

Sunday, June 29

Contributor Day! Important note: This is at a different venue than Saturday.

Time Ballroom Impact HUB Seattle Lyceum Room 250 Workshop
5:30 pm
Media Temple After-Party!
Favorite session: Media Temple After-Party!
Media Temple After-Party!
Favorite session: Media Temple After-Party!
Media Temple After-Party!
Favorite session: Media Temple After-Party!
9:30 am
Gather, register, coffee, welcome
10:00 am
Introduction: Contributing to WordPress
10:15 am
Hear quick pitches from various teams. Then divide into groups for further orientation.
11:00 am
Contribute, work, hack, learn, hang out etc. in team groups.
12:30 pm
FREE LUNCH!
1:30 pm
Contribute, work, hack, learn, hang out etc. in team groups.
4:00 pm
Close. Go get a beverage with your new friends.