Each year WordCamp Montreal strives to offer a wide variety of talks and discussions about WordPress. We are looking for people who are excited about WordPress to entertain our attendees and teach them new things.<\/p>\n
Our call for speakers has now closed. Thank you for your submissions.<\/strong><\/p>\n Submission Deadline: April 29, 2013<\/strong> Presenting at WordCamp takes some work but is very rewarding. You get to show off how smart you are, convince people you\u2019re worth hiring and help everyone learn about WordPress, all at the same time. Speakers also receive free admission to WordCamp.<\/p>\n The ideal speaker has a WordPress-related topic<\/strong> they are passionate about and that they can present in 45 minutes<\/strong> with attractive PowerPoint\/Keynote slides<\/strong> and detailed, coherent explanations<\/strong>. Designers, bloggers, businesses and developers are all welcome to apply! Talks can be in English or French. Your topic should be specific to WordPress.<\/p>\n Show us what you\u2019ve made with WordPress and explain how you did it, or what you learned in the process. Give us concrete examples: code snippets, 10 important lessons you learned, specific advice on how to avoid problems, etc. Nothing is too hardcore, advanced, simple or beginner-level. We\u2019re looking for diversity.<\/p>\n We reserve the right to refuse any submission.<\/p>\n The general fields we are hoping to cover include:<\/p>\n Using WordPress to blog and write. Please view last year\u2019s schedule<\/a> for example topics.<\/p>\n Topic ideas<\/strong> User\/Blogger Track<\/strong><\/p>\n Finding the perfect themes\/plugins Designer\/Developer Track<\/strong><\/p>\n Creating Bilingual sites Each year WordCamp Montreal strives to offer a wide variety of talks and discussions about WordPress. We are looking for people who are excited about WordPress to entertain our attendees and teach them new things. Our call for speakers has … Continue reading Be A Speaker<\/span>
\nWe expect to send out acceptance emails the week of May 13-18.<\/p>\nWhy speak?<\/h3>\n
What we\u2019re looking for<\/h3>\n
General Areas<\/h3>\n
\nUsing WordPress to design and build websites.
\nWordPress plugin and core development and systems administration.
\nPrimers on underlying web technologies (html, css, php, js) that are needed for WordPress development.<\/p>\n
\nHere\u2019s a list of topics we\u2019d love to see at WordCamp. These are just examples!<\/p>\n
\nHTML for bloggers
\nUsing child themes
\nMonetizing your website
\nAttracting readers
\nWriting for the web
\nCase studies of large projects<\/p>\n
\nDesign advice for WordPress
\nCSS tips for WordPress
\nEditing themes and using template tags
\nCreating plugins (intro or in-depth)
\nReleasing and\/or selling themes
\nGPL\/Free Software and what it means for WP Plugins and themes.
\nIntro to apache\/mysql optimization<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"