Free Admission for Students!

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WordCamp RI is offering free admission to ALL students with a valid student ID to this year’s sessions, due to the generosity of our sponsors. WordCamp RI takes place over two days: Friday September 25 and Saturday September 26 at New England Tech’s East Greenwich campus. Students not only get free admission by pre-registering, lunch is also included both days.  (Yes, that’s students from any educational institution: free admission!)

WordCamp RI is a two-day conference focusing on WordPress, an open-source online publishing tool.  WordPress currently powers more than 20% of the world’s websites and blogs.

There are two main attractions for students at WordCamp RI.

  1. Computer studies students can spend two days enhancing their coding knowledge.
  2. Students from many academic fields can learn how to use WordPress and then make it an online portfolio of their work and studies.

Friday there are three intensive tracks running from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a break for lunch.  (Lunch is included with admission.)

Saturday, attendees can choose from among 15 different sessions.  Each session runs about 45-minutes.  Once again lunch is included.

In addition, WordCamp RI will feature the famous Happiness Bar, also known as the Help Desk.  Attendees can get one-on-one WordPress help from the volunteers at the Happiness Bar.  Bring your laptop and questions!

Non-students are welcome also!  Admission, including two days of sessions, access to the Happiness Bar (Help Desk) and lunch, is only $20 per person for both days.

This once-a-year event is not to be missed.  See you at WordCamp RI!

And The Winners Are…..

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You can be the first to know!  Later today WordCamp RI will have the complete list of speakers and their session topics.   Get ready to start planning which seminars you want to attend on Friday and Saturday September 25 and 26 at New England Tech in East Greenwich.

As Dr. Seuss might have said (well he MIGHT have)…

Up your skills you will ramp,

When  you go to RI’s WordCamp.

Never again be under duress

After learning all things WordPress.

If you need more, don’t go far

There’s all the help you need at the Happiness Bar.

 

Last Call for Speakers at WordCamp RI

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WordCamp RI is putting out the last call for speakers for our WordCamp to be held September 25 and 26, 2015 at the New England Institute of Technology in East Greenwich, RI.

The deadline for submitting your speaker application is August 31, 2015.

We are interested in speakers for all aspects of WordPress.
Your topic can include sessions for:
• Coders
• Beginners
• Educators
• Business
• Personal use
• Those who want to tweak how their site looks
• Those who want to do backend coding
• Those who want help putting the best content possible on their website/blog
• Etc. etc.

Here’s the link to apply:
https://2015.rhodeisland.wordcamp.org/call-for-speakers/

If you’d like to propose multiple topics, please submit the form multiple times, once for each topic.

We encourage you to submit talks that we haven’t even thought of!

With that in mind, it might still be helpful for you to know what attendees have told us they would like to have as some of the session topics:

  • Theme development
    • Custom themes
    • Commercial themes
    • Child themes
  • Plugin development
  • Getting the most out of Yoast SEO Plug-In
  • WordPress SEO
  • Using WordPress in Education
  • Putting an academic or business portfolio on WordPress
  • Creating quality content for the website
  • Finding the time to have a good online strategy/ Online Time Management
  • Project Management
  • Mobile delivery
  • Working locally
  • Installing and managing multisites
  • eCommerce
  • WP Automatic Upgrades
    • Via wp-config file or filters? Does that change depending on the client?
    • Which combination works best? Core only? Core + plugins? Core + plugins + themes? Core + plugins + themes + translation files?
    • Which type is best? Minor only? Minor + development? Minor + development + Major?

Tickets are now on sale at: https://2015.rhodeisland.wordcamp.org/tickets/

And stay-tuned to this website for the latest developments!

Follow us at:

https://twitter.com/wordcampri

https://www.facebook.com/wordcampri

http://www.meetup.com/WordPressRI/

 

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The One Thing I Need to Know

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You will learn lots of things at WordCamp RI (Sep. 25 and 26 – just $20 for two days!), but perhaps you would like to learn one thing before WordCamp (which will be held at New England Tech in East Greenwich).  Your wish is granted!  Several times.

Here are lots of One Things to know about WordPress.

  1. Want to modify your theme?  Here’s a first look at how you could do it, courtesy Berkeley University in California.
  2. Want a bootcamp-like approach to help you write or blog better?  WordPress to the rescue.  Here’s the September program.
  3. What is the difference between a blog and CMS (content management system)?  WordPress gets down to the basics here.
  4. In fact I’m going to list that link again because it is loaded with good information for people justing starting out blogging, on WordPress or anywhere else.
  5. The most important functions of WordPress SEO by Yoast? Read here and learn.
  6. You’re fine with the coding!  You can blog with the best of them!  But understanding color themes totally throws you for a loop? No problem!

AND…. last, but not least ……

  1. You don’t have to wait for just one time a year at WordCamp RI to learn more about WordPress.  There’s a WordPress RI Meetup with meetings in both the Providence and Narragansett areas every month.

Hope to see you at WordCamp RI and at WordPress RI Meetups!  (Did I mention WordCamp RI is just $20 for both days of Sept. 25 and 26 at New England Tech in East Greenwich?  I did?  Oh good!)

Let  your friends know:

https://www.facebook.com/wordcampri
https://twitter.com/wordcampri

http://www.meetup.com/WordPressRI/