Wanna see some photos?

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Huge thanks to our photographer Alex Shiels for documenting the event and to Konstantin Obenland for tweeting photos and announcements during WordCamp. Here are the photos in case you missed them!

Photos are distributed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/  Attribution to “Alex Shiels”.

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Speaker Changes

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We’ve had a couple of speakers, Asif Rahman and Matt Knighton,  tell us they can’t make WordCamp Sydney – that’s sad.  Hopefully we can catch up with them another time.

Good news is that we have two new speakers:

Topher DeRosia is going to talk on the same subject as Asif, “Modern Local Environment for WordPress in 2018” and Ben Ramsden is replacing Matt’s slot with “The Challenges of Running a WordPress Plugin Business When You’re Not a Developer”

Topher DeRosia

I’ve been a web developer since before there were pictures on the web. I’ve been a WordPress developer since 2010, and currently work as a WordPress Developer Advocate for BigCommerce. I’m married, with two kids, two little dogs, and a little house in Grand Rapids MI.

 

Presenting: Modern Local Environment for WordPress in 2018

Topher will show you how to set up the best Local Development Environment for WordPress in 2018.

This will be a very helpful session anybody looking to drive deep into WordPress and who are already working in WordPress, they will be able to explore other better ways to improve their workflow.

 

 

 

Ben Ramsden

Ben Ramsden is a management consultant with a couple of WordPress businesses on the side. Regularly afflicted by “imposter syndrome” he hasn’t let that stop him venture into the world of WordPress plugins and now has paying customers in 40 countries. Join Ben for an engaging presentation about being an outsider on the inside of WordPress land.

 

Presenting: The Challenges of Running a WordPress Plugin Business When You’re Not a Developer

You don’t need to be a coder to run a WordPress plugin business, but it has implications (and opportunities).

Ben Ramsden shares his journey since 2014 with GFChart, a premium extension to Gravity Forms.

 

New Speaker

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Unfortunately Evan Mullins is unable to come to the conference.  Sometimes life gets in the way even for WordCamps!  We’ll try to catch-up with Evan another time.

We’d like to announce new speaker Chris Bryant!  Thanks for helping us out Chris.

Chris Bryant

Chris Bryant is Director at OPMC Group. He founded OPMC in 2003 while at University in the cold and windy capital of New Zealand, Wellington. The business is now a 15 year old multi brand web services organisation, including OPMC and Web 105 Creative.

The OPMC brand focuses on the four areas of ecommerce, web hosting, plugin development and web security.

Chris lives in Sydney with his wife and 10 month old baby.

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