Tag: Speakers

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.

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.

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/

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!