Two of our speakers, Reed Gustow and Joe Casabona, took the time to capture some excellent photos of WordCamp Lancaster.
Update: An additional speaker, Anthony D. Paul, has a great set of photos as well (added below).
They’re all available on Flickr (click on each image to be taken to the album):
Here are some of the photos from WordCamp Lancaster 2016! Thank you to Jonathan Smith, our talented event photographer, for volunteering.
Thank you to Solomon Scott for an excellent set of additional photos!
In the run up to WordCamp Lancaster, we will be featuring some of our speakers here on the website.
When I first started building websites I used Flash (don’t tell anyone). It took a couple of years after that for me to start using WordPress, probably around version 3.0. The reason was actually incredibly simple. I needed a blog for a digital lab I was working with, and WordPress came up again and again. Having a site up in 5 minutes might seem kind of slow these days, but it was fascinating when a decade ago. Since then, I’ve kind of come in and out of the WordPress community, always astonished to find what’s been added in my absence. WordPress was my introduction to proper web development, web standards, and open source technology. I suspect I’m not alone.
WordCamps are a chance to put real faces and personalities behind people you probably interact with all the time online. In the tech world it can be easy to squirrel away in a corner, peeking your head up for a question every now and again. I think what I like about WordCamps is that they force people from across the community to just be in one place together. The kinds of conversations and development that can come out of a single day of this is incredible.
I’ll be talking about Javascript, which I think is a language facing down a lot of WordPress developers right now. With all the hype, it’s easy to get the impression that by this time next year, PHP will be gone, and Javascript will have taken its place. That’s not the case. But Javascript will be an important part of WordPress’ future, and has been a major part of the web’s history. It can be a tough language to wrap your head around, and can be all at once forgiving and extremely complicated. My hope is to give people a few different entry points into Javascript so they can walk away feeling like they have a real starting point. And as Javascript becomes more and more important in WordPress, I hope developers can feel comfortable evolving alongside it.
I’ve been paying very close attention to the new developments in Javascript lately, and trying to get at the fundamentals behind the libraries, frameworks and silver bullets out there. Angular vs React vs Backbone vs Why Do We Need A Framework? started to make my head spin. So I’m going back to basics and learning what Javascript is and what it can do. I’ll go from there. I will say, though, that VueJS has really caught my interest. I think it’s going to be big in 2016.
Nope. If I had to guess, I’d say a big fan of strudels (as in strudel + groupie).
My wife and I spent the entire weekend inside. There was much television and snacks.
I’m on Twitter @jay_hoffmann, and on GitHub as JasonHoffmann. One thing I’m trying to do is blog more. Force me to at jayhoffmann.com.
Jay Hoffmann‘s session is titled First Steps with JavaScript and WordPress. View the full schedule.
WordCamp Lancaster will be held on March 5th with Contributor Day on March 6th. Get your ticket today.
In the run up to WordCamp Lancaster, we will be featuring some of our speakers here on the website.
WordPress was my first baby step towards building complete websites after learning cursory HTML and CSS, back in 2008 or 2009. I remember thinking “surely people don’t just copy their header and footer to every page, right?” WordPress blew my mind!
I have never had the pleasure of attending one but look forward to meeting folks who are using WordPress in new and interesting ways that we can use at Cantilever
The REST API is nothing short of revolutionary for the role of WordPress in the broader internet. I hope people will be inspired to embrace the API project and take full advantage of it for their own projects. I also hope some people will be inspired to create outside platforms that leverage what will be a massive install-base of API-enabled WP sites. The first wave of platforms of this nature is just hitting the market, and it’s truly impressive to see what people can do.
At Cantilever our big focus right now is deployment and testing. We have never implemented a unified, effective methodology for reliable deployment of WP sites nor have we implemented a strong automated testing layer. We are leaving no stone unturned and look forward to publishing our eventual methodology with the community when we feel satisfied.
No clue, but it sounds painful.
I shoveled the snow into a big pile. My kids claimed the pile as “snowball mountain,” so we all had fun.
Cantilever is at http://cantilever.co and you can follow us @cantileverco!
Ty Fujimura‘s session is titled Let’s Learn About the WordPress REST API. View the full schedule.
WordCamp Lancaster will be held on March 5th with Contributor Day on March 6th. Get your ticket today.
In the run up to WordCamp Lancaster, we will be featuring some of our speakers here on the website.
I got started with WordPress with version 1.5. Blogging was cutting edge back then and I wanted in on it!
That facility was A M A Z I N G! All WordCamps should be held there.
I want beginners to come away thinking.. I can do that! I can figure that out! It really isn’t so scary after all
I WISH I could say I’m learning javascript, but I’m not. Currently I’m working on learning how to juggle a whole bunch of new clients at one time and not lose my mind or let details drop thru the cracks.
Na.. but I snuck and looked it up!
My husband bought a snow plow for our truck this year. I figured that meant it WOULD NOT SNOW! HA! So while he practiced plowing our very long and hilly drive way, I sat inside in the warm and read a book!
WeFixBrokenWebsites.com Twitter: @kerchmcc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kerch https://www.facebook.com/WeFixBrokenWebsites/ And other places that I hardly ever look at.
Kerch McConlogue‘s session is titled Next Steps for WordPress Users. View the full schedule.
WordCamp Lancaster will be held on March 5th with Contributor Day on March 6th. Get your ticket today.
As WordCamp Lancaster rapidly approaches this wekeend, we want to tell you about our Slack channel. Like many organizations and teams, the WordCamp Lancaster organizing team has been using it to communicate and coordinate with each other internally.
We’ve also got a room for speakers, volunteers, and attendees!
It’s there to help people plan, find cool stuff to do, connect with others, and easily find out information with our sweet Wapuu bot.
At any time, you can ask Wapuu Lancaster, one of several WordCamp Lancaster Wapuus, any of the following (or similar phrases):
…and much more that you’ll have to find out for yourself 🙂
1. Nothing! We’ll be inviting all attendees in batches, once per day. We’re close to selling out of tickets, so will be running this once per day until Saturday morning. You’ll receive an invite to the public Slack channel, which will be sent to the email address you used when purchasing your WordCamp Lancaster ticket!
In the run up to WordCamp Lancaster, we will be featuring some of our speakers here on the website.
I got started with WordPress in 2009 when my employer started planning to move their websites to WordPress. I was a non-technical content writer and editor at the time and was sent to WordCamp Boston 2010 to explore the blogger/content track. I went to a few developer oriented sessions at that conference because I was curious to see what they were like and those sessions piqued my interest in learning to build websites. When I went home, I started to tinker with WordPress and learn HTML and CSS. By the time my second WordCamp (it was Philly!) came around later that year I had become determined to learn to code and had just accepted a slightly more technical online communications management role at my job. I thought that this position had the potential to be a role where I could obtain the skills to become a developer, which ultimately proved to be true!
I attended WordCamp Lancaster for the first time last year and had an amazing time. My fondest memory of it was the after party. I had lots of really great conversations with people that I already knew and also met a few new people who have become friends since then. I also really loved the hat swag attendees received last year!
I hope attendees will take away a few actionable tips that will help them work more collaboratively and happily with their designer/developer colleagues to build websites that have true design integrity and polish.
I am currently working on truly learning JavaScript. I’ve always found JavaScript to be super hard and intimidating to learn and have therefore avoided it a bit. In 2016 I’m trying to learn how it works from the ground up, “deeply”, as some might say.
I haven’t the faintest idea what a “stroopie” is. It might be some sort of pie, but I have no idea what a “stroo” would be. Or perhaps a “stroopie” is something that is droopy?
I watched an unreasonable number of episodes of “Murder, She Wrote” while working on a website and refusing to leave my apartment.
You can find me on Twitter @bethsoderberg and at my website: bethsoderberg.com.
Beth Soderberg‘s session is titled Bridging the Gap Between Design and Development. View the full schedule.
WordCamp Lancaster will be held on March 5th with Contributor Day on March 6th. Get your ticket today.
In the run up to WordCamp Lancaster, we will be featuring some of our speakers here on the website.
At the tender age of 19, I started a blog about Japanese music (something I was a bit of a know-it-all on at the time). Six months into using another platform, I took the leap to self-hosted WordPress and never looked back. Four years of fiddling with themes, PHP, and content followed, and prepared me in a ton of ways for the career I have now.
I’ve never attended WordCamp Lancaster (shame!), but what I love most about WordCamps in general is the opportunity to chat and connect with people who have different levels of knowledge about WordPress. It’s so fun to both teach and be taught in the same space.
Content marketing isn’t easy, it isn’t a fast track to success or profit, and it isn’t guaranteed. But if it’s done well, and (sometimes even more importantly!) done with heart, it can have enormous benefits for your visitors/customers, and for you in turn.
Public speaking skills! And I’m continuing to learn Japanese, which has been an ongoing hobby of mine for 10+ years.
Nope. Can I eat it?
Shoveled ’till my arms nearly fell off, wrote blog posts, and wished I’d bought more snacks.
On Twitter, @nicoleckohler
On Instagram, @freequiet
My rarely updated blog: littleyellowpenguin.com
My day job, writing for Woo: woothemes.com/blog
Nicole Kohler‘s session is titled Common Misconceptions About Content Marketing. View the full schedule.
WordCamp Lancaster will be held on March 5th with Contributor Day on March 6th. Get your ticket today.
In the run up to WordCamp Lancaster, we will be featuring some of our speakers here on the website.
2009 while rebuilding college newspaper site.
Keynotes have been great. Also breakfast with @salcode, he’s a nice guy.
A new perspective, a can-do attitude, and the tools to get started.
React.js, D3.js, Drupal, MS SQL
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A Link Between Worlds on 3DS
https://twitter.com/caseydriscoll
https://caseypatrickdriscoll.com
https://github.com/caseypatrickdriscoll
https://www.youtube.com/user/caseypatrickdriscoll
Casey Driscoll‘s session is titled Unicode. View the full schedule.
WordCamp Lancaster will be held on March 5th with Contributor Day on March 6th. Get your ticket today.
In the run up to WordCamp Lancaster, we will be featuring some of our speakers here on the website.
I started with WordPress by figuring out how to build a blog for my website in my spare time. I never had an intention to blog, I was just tinkering. So way back in 2007 (http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/the-first-one/) after I had a blog up and running I decided I should start blogging. From there I was hired at the Pew Research Center in 2009 and was tasked with figuring out which CMS the company should move to. I had this crazy idea of building the sites using WordPress and in 2014 we finished our goal with all of the Pew Research Center websites on WordPress and using responsive themes. https://twitter.com/kingkool68/statuses/433672978870853632
I love talking with other attendees at WordCamp Lancaster. The people are down to earth and friendly.
I hope attendees will understand that their site search can be a lot better for their visitors. There are lots of different ways of varying difficulties to make search better.
I’m focused on performance and caching by running all of my personal sites through a CDN. Serving sites using HTTP/2 is resulting in a huge performance boost in download times thanks to streaming the requests through one connection to the server. It’s a lot of geeky fun.
A Starship Trooper themed whoopie pie. Duh.
Shoveled snow. Played outside. Napped. Repeat.
Russell Heimlich‘s session is titled Searching for a Better Search. View the full schedule.
WordCamp Lancaster will be held on March 5th with Contributor Day on March 6th. Get your ticket today.
WordCamp Lancaster is over. Check out the next edition!