Sharing your knowledge translates into building the community – Apply now!
A new edition of our WordPress event is coming soon to Aragon and, for that reason, we are excited and motivated to announce this call for speakers for the second WordCamp Zaragoza. This year we will have a new track, for a total of three, and we are looking for local, national, and If you have a story that needs to be told and which any WordPress user would fall in love with, you can apply as a speaker.why not, also international speakers.
We aim to organize a congress that may lead the way with ideas and trends for all the other events that will be held all throughout the upcoming year.
The event will take place in ETOPIA Center for Art & Technology, on January 26 and 27, 2019, and it will gather tens of users, designers, developers, entrepreneurs, bloggers, and trainers whose passion for WordPress will bring them to Zaragoza.
If you have a story that needs to be told and which any WordPress user would fall in love with, you can apply as a speaker.
Format for the talks and workshops
We estimate that each talk should have a duration between 30 and 45 minutes, including some time for questions and answers at the end, so the people attending can put their queries.
The workshops will be a different kind of format that will offer the participants at the WordCamp the opportunity to go deep into WordPress in a direct and practical way. They will have a duration between 70 and 90 minutes.
If you have more than one idea or topic you would like to talk about, you can send us all of them. We will select the one that better fits the program. Please, use the form once for each of your proposals.
Of course, we are also considering talks in English, so please, feel free to send your proposals in that language, and come visit us in Spain.
What we are looking for
We are looking for original talks and workshops that can tell us about the present and future of WordPress.
We would like to have well-presented topics that go deep into specific areas at the same time they inspire the audience.
Your objective: motivating your audience.
Besides, this year, we intend to get to the most expert attendees by having a third room with talks aimed at our most demanding participants. With that in mind, we challenge you to submit the most advanced talk you have ever delivered. Will you dare?
You already have something in mind? Then, send us your proposal!
NOTE: Remember that all speakers in all the WordCamps around the globe are volunteers. No speaker, organizer, or volunteer is paid in any way. We all do our bit to help so these events can come through. This way, we can share knowledge everywhere where there is a community.
In order to help you prepare your proposal, we have divided the talks into two categories: Editor & Tech; each one with four levels of expertise:
Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced & Expert.
Category: Editor
This category focuses on those topics that are more easily accessible to all kinds of users: copywriting, content management, blogging, design, business, marketing, and community.
- Business strategy (business growth, real stories and case studies, competitor analysis, differentiation, etc.).
- Brand management, corporate branding, and online reputation.
- Legal counseling, regulation applied to websites.
- Content strategy and marketing actions.
- SEO & SEM.
- Data analytics and CRO.
- Email Marketing and subscriber management.
- Social media management and their integration on a website.
- Practical guidance on how to get involved in the community.
- Copywriting, storytelling, etc.
- Color, composition and typography.
- Gutenberg.
Category: Tech
This category will be reserved to those topics that require previous knowledge —about programming in HTML, CSS, PHP or jQuery; about servers; or about other highly-technical topics— But they do not need to be exclusively oriented to expert programmers; they can also be for beginners who want to learn the basics.
- Effective design techniques (mobile-first, data-driven design, etc.).
- Design of user experience on multiple devices/platforms.
- New trends on web standards and how to make a good use of them (HTML5, CSS, SVG).
- SEO & SEM —advanced techniques.
- Web analytics and CRO — advanced techniques.
- New languages, frameworks, tools, or utilities that can help us become better WordPress developers.
- WordPress REST API.
- Use of modern JavaScript tools to develop the front end with WordPress.
- Managing huge WordPress projects: team and technological challenges, complex web applications.
- Real stories about test automation (end-to-end, continuous integration, navigator, unit).
- Optimization and setting for servers (HHVM, for instance).
- React for Gutenberg.
- CI / CD.
NOTE: This topics are just to serve as inspiration, they are not comprehensive. We want your proposal to be based on your experience, not on what you think we want to see. If you want to discuss your idea before sending your proposal, you can contact us and we will be happy to help you.
Deadline for proposals
We will be getting proposals until November 30, 2018, at 23:59. After that, we need to define our schedule in order to make it public as soon as possible. The sooner you send your proposal, the biggest your chance to be selected.
And that is all, we are awaiting your proposal!
Send your proposals
If you want to send us several different proposals, please, use a different form for each one of them.
I want to be a speaker!
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NOTICE:
Thank you very much! The deadline for submitting proposals has ended.
We are pleasantly surprised by the overwhelming number of proposals for papers and workshops received.
We are going to have a great selection task and we can only feel grateful for your participation.
Soon we will announce the speakers selected for WordCamp!