All the sessions at BuddyCamp were recorded, and you can now watch them all on WordPress.TV: BuddyCamp Brighton 2015 conference videos.
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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
BuddyCamp sponsored by: Connected
We’re very pleased to announce our final sponsor for BuddyCamp Brighton:
Connected
Connected — 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.
BuddyCamp sponsored by: DataFlexor, Make Do.
We’re very pleased to announce BuddyCamp Brighton is being made possible by the following great sponsors:
DataFlexor
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!
Make Do
Make Do is a design and development agency that have been building for the web since the 90’s. Specialising in WordPress development, we’re certainly not shy about sharing our love for the world’s best CMS.
WordPress makes, Make Do, along with our two Yorkshire-based founders and a virtual team of Make Do-ers based around the UK.
Learn more at makedo.in.
BuddyCamp sponsored by: WooCommerce, WebDevStudios.
We’re very pleased to announce BuddyCamp Brighton is being made possible by the following great sponsors:
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the world’s most popular eCommerce platform. Powered by WordPress and built by WooThemes, the goal of WooCommerce is to allow you to sell anything online – beautifully. You can integrate with payment processors, easily manage shipping methods and inventory, set up flexible tax rules, and view detailed store reports all from your WordPress dashboard.
With a free core platform and hundreds of premium add-ons available, WooCommerce allows you to set up an online shop with functionality catered to your store’s needs.
WebDevStudios
WebDevStudios is a website development company that focuses on custom WordPress website and plugin development, providing custom solutions for clients like Microsoft, US National Parks, WEtv, Discovery Channel, University of Pennsylvania, Kaspersky Antivirus and more.
The WDS team has contributed to the core development of BuddyPress since its original release. Our team has a deep understanding of how BuddyPress works and the proper ways to customize BuddyPress to meet your needs. We love to create new and innovative features that change the way websites are designed and developed. Our team is passionate about the work they do and work extremely hard to ensure that our clients are happy.
WDS is a 100% distributed company, with headquarters in Philadelphia, PA, New Jersey, and Milwaukee, WI.
BuddyCamp Brighton Schedule announced!
We’ve published our schedule for BuddyCamp Brighton; check it out on our new schedule page. We’re very excited at the range of speakers and talks, and it should make for a really great day.
Third Round of Speaker Announcements
In the final round of speaker announcements, we’re very happy to announce that Hugo Ashmore and Paul Gibbs are speaking at BuddyCamp Brighton 2015! Both are long term contributors to BuddyPress, and have a wealth of knowledge and experience to share.
See the schedule and buy your ticket today!
Hugo Ashmore
Hugo Ashmore is a veteran front-end developer having a particular focus on Standards and CSS, latterly specialising in developing client sites using WordPress. A long term contributor to the BuddyPress project, providing patches through the years and recently responsible for managing and committing the Companion styles tasks for BuddyPress 2.3.
Hugo can be found slacking on the WordPress #buddypress channel and on Twitter as @hnla. nettropia.co.uk is his home on the web.
Paul Gibbs
BuddyPress Lead Developer. WordPress Engineer at Human Made.
Brought up on a diet of digestive biscuits, crumpets, and tea, Paul likes spending his spare time building WordPress plugins, including BuddyPress (on which he is a lead developer). Away from the screen, he enjoys reading, photography, and loves travel.
You can always find him in the #BuddyPress channel on wordpress.slack.com, where he’s always happy to talk BuddyPress and help get new contributors involved!
You can also say hello at paul@byotos.com, or on Twitter as @pgibbs.
BuddyCamp sponsored by: Human Made, BuddyBoss, BuddyForms
We’re very pleased to announce BuddyCamp Brighton is being made possible by the following great sponsors:
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. Oh, and we’re hiring!
BuddyBoss
BuddyBoss helps entrepreneurs to create successful BuddyPress communities. We build and sell a suite of products for building social networks, including themes, plugins and packaged solutions.
BuddyForms
BuddyForms is a collaborative front-end content solution for the WordPress platform. With our extensive plugin, you can allow your community to become a part of the content creation process without making any swift changes to your code base.
Create custom forms that will enable your users to submit their own content from within their members dashboard. We focus on giving your users the freedom to share content, while giving you access to tools such as revisions, moderation and mail notification to help you keep track of your users activity.
Find out more about all of our sponsors on our sponsor page, and look out for their representatives in-person at BuddyCamp! You have got your ticket, right? 🙂
Second Group of Speaker Announcements
In the second wave of confirmed speakers, we’re extremely thrilled to welcome Sven, Tammie, and Michael to BuddyCamp Brighton 2015! All three have been involved in BuddyPress since the early days of the project, and their expertise, passion, and knowledge are unparalleled. It’s going to be a real treat to learn from them at BuddyCamp!
See the schedule and buy your ticket today!
Sven Lehnert
Sven Lehnert is the CEO of ThemeKraft and BuddyForms, and likes building stuff around WordPress, BuddyPress and WooCommerce.
Sven started in 2007 with the idea to create a local community for subculture. At this time, BuddyPress popped up and inspired him. Step by step, he saw himself developing themes and plugins. Things continued and he decided to concentrate 100% on developing themes and plugins with a deep focus on BuddyPress.
Tammie Lister
Tammie Lister is a theme wrangler at Automattic. She’s lucky enough to spend her days in the world of themes. This means, she gets to not only work on WordPress.com with themes, but also as part of the theme review team for WordPress.org. Before Automattic she focused on creating BuddyPress themes and wrote a book on BuddyPress theme development. When not themeing, she likes to spend time with her husband and two dogs around the beach they live by. She likes to balance the time spent online with offline crafts, yoga and photography.
Michael Eisenwasser
Michael Eisenwasser is a BuddyPress enthusiast, with experience designing and building themes and plugins.
He is co-founder of BuddyBoss. He previously managed the development and growth of SongLyrics.com, one of the most highly-trafficked websites in the world with over 100 million annual visitors. He has spoken at WordCamp Miami, WordCamp Columbus, and several universities about BuddyPress and web design.