Llamada a ponentes

Llamada a ponentes: Spanish version

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 third WordCamp Zaragoza. This year we have two days, three traks and 30 hours of training that will complete the WordCamp Zaragoza 2020 schedule.

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.

Sharing your knowledge translates into building the community – Apply now!

The event will take place in ETOPIA Center for Art & Technology, on January 17 and 18, 2020, and it will gather tens of users, designers, developers, entrepreneurs, bloggers, and trainers whose passion for WordPress will bring them to Zaragoza.

Go to form.

Format for talks and workshops

For the talks and workshops we estimate the following times:

• 10 minuts Speedtalks, to develop an idea in a concentrated way. In addition, this talks are ideal for people who want to start. This format will not support questions from attendees.
• 40 minuts Talks, plus 5 minuts for questions and answers at the end, so the people attending can put their queries.
• Workshops, 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 50 minuts, plus 5 minuts for questions and answers at the end, so the people attending can put their queries. We are also open to receive proposals for longer workshops. What are you thinking about?

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.

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.

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, no travel or accomodation expenses. 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 & Admin; each one with three levels of expertise:
Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced. In addition, this year we add a new category: Collaborator, which will be developed on Friday 17.

Category: Editor

This category focuses on those topics that are more easily accessible to all kinds of users: copywriting, content management, blogging, design, business and marketing.

• 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.
• Copywriting, storytelling, etc.
• Color, composition and typography.
• Gutenberg, Elementor and other page builders.

Category: Admin

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, CSS3, 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.

Category: Collaborator

• Practical guides how to get involved with the community.
• The importance of networking in an event and in our professional career.
• Open source / GPL.
• Support forums at WordPress.org
• Keep learning thanks to WordPress.tv
• Local community, a tool to build a network of professionals who can improve the economy of our region.

We want your proposal to be based on your experience, not on what you think we want to see

NOTE: This topics are just to serve as inspiration, they are not comprehensive. 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, 2019, 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!