Angry Creative organised this year’s official conference on web publishing with WordPress, in collaboration with Linköping University, Campus Norrköping.
Between the dates 25 -27 April 2014, Campus Norrköping was filled with entrepreneurs, programmers and communicators for a packed schedule around WordPress, open source and strategies for a better internet in general. Among the sponsors were Aftonbladet, Knowit AB and Linköping University.
The WordCamp 2014 conference is the first official gathering of its kind to be held outside Stockholm and includes two parallel tracks, Development & Design and Users & Entrepreneurship. Among the scheduled speakers are: Thord Daniel Hedengren (author, internet entrepreneur and founder of Odd Alice), Christina Wallnér (founder of No WaIT AB and expert in accessibility strategies and standards) and Christoffer Larsson (Lead Developer for the WordPress team at Aftonbladet). In addition to lectures and panel discussions, there will also be a full day of Contribution Competition, where participants will form teams and compete in creating public good applications in WordPress and/or open source under time pressure.
Speakers’ presentations
Christoffer Larsson: Vagrant and you
Niklas Högefjord: E-commerce with WordPress
Peter Elmered: WooCommerce advanced performance optimisations
Magnus Nystedt: WordPress and the future of print media
Mario Peshev: Debugging WordPress
Kristina Alexandersson: WordPress in schools – when, where and how?
Mansoor Munib: Theme and Plugin dev – Norrkoping
Joakim Hedström: Write so someone cares
Stanislav Khromov: Building excellent web experiences with Advanced Custom Fields and Visual Composer(Google Docs Version)
Erik Bernskiöld: Translation and Localisations in WordPress: Best Practices & Lessons
Jesper Bylund: WordPress & BackBone – The Dawn of Web Apps
Mattias Grönborg: Ten Keys to Successful Packaging of WordPress Products
Robert Lidberg: Deployment, Performance, Scaling
Christina Wallnér: Web Acessability in mind
Andreas Ek: Web Production Automation
Elia Mörling: Growth hacking with WordPress
Johan Hermansson: Campaign sites ? WordPress
Watch the video
Video is available at http://wordpress.tv/event/wordcamp-norrkoping-2014/
Hack winners
We had a hack too, where the best contribution that added the most to the community was rewarded with nice prizes.
The winners of the competition were Christoffer Rydberg, Hans Järvman & Peter Elmered for their plugin to share products & shopping lists for WooCommerce. The judges’ motivation was that they added high value to the community and e-retailers and were a new and exciting idea. They were each awarded an iPad mini.
Repo link: http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-embed/
Robin Björklund, Oscar Johnson & Joel Pesada came in an honourable second place for their plugin to record audio directly into the WordPress administration interface. The judges’ motivation was that they added an exciting and well-executed feature that could help podcasters and others. They were rewarded with a free one-year Spotify subscription each.
Repo link: TBA
Briefly about WordPress
WordPress is a world-leading online information publishing tool built with Open Source code, it is both free and invaluable, and is developed by a global network of creative individuals for the public good. Initially popularised as an easy-to-use way to create personal blogs, the platform has evolved in recent years into a world-leading end-to-end solution that underpins everything from digital campaigns and e-commerce platforms to complex intranet solutions.
About Angry Creative
Angry Creative is a Norrköping-based web agency that works to spread WordPress and open source. The agency was founded in 2007 by Jimmy Rosén, former student at Campus Norrköping and in 2012 awarded the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in Norrköping. The agency currently consists of five employees with expansion plans.
Read more on the campaign website: http://2014.norrkoping.wordcamp.org/
