Author: Paul Wong-Gibbs

Engineering Director at Indigo Tree. Previous: Daily Telegraph (UK), Automattic, Human Made, Pragmatic. Created: BuddyPress, Achievements, WordHat (Behat). Brought up on a diet of digestive biscuits, crumpets, and tea, Paul likes spending his spare time exploring side project ideas that don't end up going anywhere, playing video and board games, and eating ramen. Away from the screen, he enjoys reading, gardening, and dreams fondly of luxury travel. You can also say hello at paul.wong-gibbs@indigotree.co.uk, on Twitter as @pgibbs, or on Github at https://github.com/paulgibbs.

BuddyCamp Brighton Videos

All the sessions at BuddyCamp were recorded, and you can now watch them all on WordPress.TV: BuddyCamp Brighton 2015 conference videos.

BuddyCamp Brighton Photos

We’re happy to share photos from BuddyCamp! The pictures in this first gallery were taken by our official event photographer, Chris Sanderson. Thank you Chris for your professionalism and for being on hand to help capture these moments.

You can find more of Chris’ work on Flickr and get in contact with him on Twitter @HiSanderson.

The pictures in this second gallery were taken by attendees and have been plucked from the #buddycamp hashtag on Twitter. Thank you to everyone for sharing on social media during the event:

BuddyCamp Recap

On August 8th 2015, the first European BuddyPress conference was held in Brighton, UK. BuddyCamp had 13 sponsors, 8 sessions, 7 volunteers, 6 speakers (plus another 4 via video message), and 33 wonderful attendees — a 100% turnout!

The organisers sincerely thank everyone for attending and for contributing to the success of the event. We have wonderful memories, and hope you do, too. 💖 🙂

Thanks again to our sponsors: Bluehost, BuddyBoss, BuddyForms, Connected, DataFlexor, GoDaddy, Human Made, Jetpack, Make Do, PlanetHoster, WebDevStudios, WooCommerce, and WPML.

Without the support of our sponsors, we would not have been able to run BuddyCamp, so we owe them a lot. For those sponsors who sent representatives to the event, it was great to meet you in person. We hope you found sponsoring BuddyCamp was worthwhile. 🙂

The organisers would also like to extend a special thanks to Alex and Maddie at the Earth & Stars pub (where we held our speaker/sponsor dinner), and Tessa at Clearleft for 68 Middle Street (the conference venue). These people were fabulous to work with, and helped make a lot of things “just work”. 😍 😍

Last but not least, we’d like to thank everyone who attended. You were the reason we decided to run the conference, and for us, it was great to spend a day sharing something we love with so many people.

Until next time… 😉

Tammie Lister & Paul Gibbs
BuddyCamp Brighton 2015 Organisers

Human Made

BuddyCamp Brighton is very lucky to be supported by great sponsors, like Human Made. Without their support, we wouldn’t be able to run the event. Please join us in appreciating their support by taking a moment to learn more about Human Made:

Human Made is a distributed WordPress agency, we build products like Happytables & WP Remote and provide consulting and development services to some of the world’s largest brands.

We specialise in high-end WordPress development & consultancy for Enterprise & Big Media. Typically involving a high degree of custom development with a focus on performance & security at scale. Each project provides a different challenge. A WordPress.com VIP partner since 2012, we’ve a proven track record in dealing with big clients.

Oh, and we’re hiring 🚀🚀

BuddyCamp is now just two days away, but some tickets are still available! Please check out our amazing schedule and tell your friends today. We’ll see you at BuddyCamp!

DataFlexor

BuddyCamp Brighton has great sponsors, and today we’re really happy to highlight DataFlexor. The team behind DataFlexor will be at BuddyCamp, so on the day, be sure to say hi to them and ask about DataFlexor. Please join us in appreciating their support by taking a moment to learn more:

DataFlexor is a new WordPress and BuddyPress application development plugin that helps you build applications in days not weeks. It lets you to develop smarter applications with a powerful document database providing robust applications with a simple and flexible framework.

You can get DataFlexor for FREE from the plugin directory. Documentation and an example are proudly hosted at dataflexor.plugin.city. Try DataFlexor today!

Only a few days left! Check out our schedule and get your tickets today! We’ll see you at BuddyCamp this weekend!

Connected

BuddyCamp Brighton has great sponsors, and Connected are no exception. They’re a UK-based WordPress agency who build great WordPress sites for the SME marketplace, and without their help, we wouldn’t be able to put on BuddyCamp. Please join us in appreciating their support by taking a moment to learn more about Connected:

Connected is the UK’s first 100% WordPress Agency in London, South-East & Leeds.

Founded in 1996, Connected design, develop & support innovative WordPress web-sites for the SME marketplace.

In 2008 they were the first UK national agency to move exclusively to WordPress, and bring nearly two decades of digital agency experience to your WordPress development project.

Connected use their experience, skills and an agile approach to deliver world-class digital services in a cost effective manner – focussing on building long-term, trust-based relationships with a select client base.

Please check out our amazing schedule and get your tickets today. We’ll see you at BuddyCamp this weekend!

WooCommerce

BuddyCamp Brighton is very lucky to be supported by great sponsors, like WooCommerce. Without their help, we wouldn’t be able to put on the event. Please join us in appreciating their support by taking a moment to learn more about WooCommerce:

WooThemes, now part of Automatic, offers a catalog of feature rich themes and plugins to help people do greater things with WordPress. Their flagship product, WooCommerce, now powers nearly 30% of all online stores. Built for WordPress, with WooCommerce people all over the world can ship their ideas beautifully, integrate with payment processors, easily manage shipping methods and inventory, set up flexible tax rules, and view detailed store reports all from within the dashboard. With a free core platform and hundreds of extensions and integrations, including for bbPress and BuddyPress, it is the world’s most popular eCommerce platform.

Tickets for BuddyCamp are still available!

Please check out our amazing schedule and tell your friends today. We’ll see you at BuddyCamp!