It’s been almost 10 years since WordCamp last took place in Houston. The organizing team is extremely excited to announce that we are now accepting speaker applications for the big return.
We are looking for speakers from lots of different backgrounds, on a wide variety of topics.
Each talk should be approximately 45 minutes long with time included for questions from the audience. It can be any format: how-to, panel discussion, case study, and more. Topics should appeal to developers, designers, bloggers, business owners, community organizers, newbies, oldies, or anyone in between.
Prior experience is not necessary! If you’ve got WordPress related information to share, but you’ve never spoken at a WordCamp before, that’s ok. We’re looking for speakers from all backgrounds and all experience levels.
Need some inspiration to get those topic ideas flowing? This list is not comprehensive. If it relates to WordPress, we’re interested!
Categories to Speak About
- Security
- Development
- Design/UX
- Business development
- Content
Specific Ideas
- Scaling & performance
- Front-end technologies including JavaScript
- Working with the Customizer
- Working with taxonomies & terms
- Automated testing
- The WordPress REST API
- Turning your plugin into a business
- Development tools, including dev environments, dependencies, and deployment
- Specific plugins (like BuddyPress, WooCommerce)
- DevOps
- Best practices when building WordPress websites
- How to choose themes/plugins
- Backing up and restoring WordPress sites
- Security 101
- Theme design
- UX trends for 2020
- Going from freelancing to building a team
- Dealing with clients
- Pricing
- Customer support
- Business models
- Contributing as a non-coder
- Personal stories
- How to start a meetup
- Content strategy
- Blogging/writing
- Multilingual content
- Mental health & well-being
- Working remotely
- Workflow and optimization of personal/team productivity
- Open-source & licensing
- Accessibility
Whew! Hopefully, your creative juices are flowing now. Put your pen to paper (or keyboard to digital paper) and write down all of those brilliant ideas you’re having. Narrow it down to a few and start planning your submission.
You can submit more than one talk. You’ll just need a title and description (write these to entice the audience to attend), plus your own bio, and you’ll be ready to submit.
Once you’ve got this information ready, hop on over to https://2020.houston.wordcamp.org/call-for-speakers/ to complete the form (one time for each talk).
That’s it!
Call for speakers closes on February 29th, so get your talk submitted before Leap Day. The committee will evaluate the submissions, choose the ones that best fit the needs of the event and notify you mid to late March if you’ve been accepted.
We can’t wait to see what you’re going to talk about at WordCamp Houston 2020!
Got questions? Contact our speaker wrangler, Heather Baker at wchouspeaker@gmail.com.
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