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.
Big thanks to our global community sponsors!
The WordPress community is fortunate that some sponsors support all WordCamps across the globe, not just ones in their local area. These are the Global Community sponsors, and they provide funding for every WordCamp in Europe — and BuddyCamp Brighton! Big thanks to them for helping us put on BuddyCamp.
See the conference schedule and buy your ticket today!
Jetpack
Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites by connecting to WordPress.com. This connection enables Photon (global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look-and-feel of your site without needing extra plugins.
Bluehost
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.
PlanetHoster
PlanetHoster offers premium hosting solutions to WordPress users worldwide. Whether it’s shared hosting, managed VPS, dedicated servers and much more, PlanetHoster’s customers report that these affordable, feature-packed hosting solutions exceed their expectations. Their certified engineers are very experienced with WordPress. They work hard to assure that your WordPress site will run very fast and will be hosted in a secure, 24/7 monitored environment. If you want to offer the best latency to your visitors by being hosted whether in Europe or in North America, PlanetHoster might be right for you.
GoDaddy
GoDaddy‘s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 12 million customers worldwide and 57 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business.
WPML
WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.
WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 400,000 commercial websites from all over the world.
More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org.
First Round of Speakers Announced
We’re super happy to announce the first wave of confirmed speakers for BuddyCamp Brighton 2015. Rocío and Mathieu are both recognised as BuddyPress experts in their local communities, and we’re looking forward to seeing them at BuddyCamp.
See the schedule and buy your ticket today!
Rocío Valdivia
Rocío Valdivia is a Spanish Computer Engineer in love with Open Source, technology, travelling and personal challenges. She enjoys working every day for MailPoet. Rocío has experience as a WordPress & BuddyPress consultant and specialist developer since 2008.
Part of the Spanish translation team at GlotPress, and Spanish WordPress and BuddyPress forums administrator. Co-organiser of WordCamp Sevilla and WordCamp Europe 2015, and co-author of “WordPress para Dummies” (2012). Lecturer at conferences and seminars.
Find Rocío on Twitter: @rociovaldi
Mathieu Viet
Mathieu “imath” Viet is a BuddyPress core developer and a WordPress / BuddyPress / bbPress plugin author.
With two of his friends, he also produces a monthly podcast over at Very French Trip and is one of the founding members of the “WP Paris” association, a non-profit organisation to federate WordPress enthusiasts living in & around the city of Paris.
Mathieu blogs at http://imathi.eu/
Speaker Applications Deadline
BuddyCamp planning is going well, and we’ll have more details to share soon (including first speaker announcements and hotel information). We’re still very interested in receiving more presentation proposals, so please look at our call for speakers information.
Deadline for speaker applications is July 8th 2015.
BuddyCamp Brighton tickets
Buy your ticket now
Tickets are on sale for BuddyCamp Brighton. This event has a small maximum capacity so be sure to get your ticket quickly (the event capacity is 60 people).
We look forward to seeing everyone on August 8th 2015! See the schedule and buy your ticket today!
Call for Speakers
BuddyCamp Brighton is looking for speakers to educate, inspire, and engage the BuddyPress community. We’re looking for people who are excited about BuddyPress and who would like to teach new things to our community.
Maybe you are a member or owner of a BuddyPress site. Perhaps you manage or run a site, or have built BuddyPress sites for clients. You could be a BuddyPress plugin or theme developer, even a contributor to the project. Whoever you are and whatever your relationship is to BuddyPress, you will have a great story to tell others. If that’s you, then we would love to have you speak at BuddyCamp Brighton.
Deadline for speaker applications is 8th July 2015 — don’t wait until it’s too late!
If you’d like to propose multiple topics, please submit the form multiple times, once for each topic. Thanks!
Call for Sponsors
BuddyCamp Brighton is the first BuddyPress conference outside of North America and Canada, and the sixth worldwide. We are seeking sponsors to help make this a lively, enjoyable, and memorable event!
Please download the BuddyCamp Brighton Sponsor Pack here, and use the form below if you have questions or if you are interested in sponsoring the event — or just email us at brighton@wordcamp.org. Thank you!