2008 content ideas

If you're interested in speaking on any of these subjects:

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Getting involved with WordPress

Development, themes, plugins, codex, testing

WordPress is not a blog

Alternative uses - podcasting, vlogging, galleries, CMS

Writing for blogs

Content, style, attracting and connecting with readers

Blogging and journalism

Differences, similarities, citizen journalism, bloggers learning from journalism and vice versa

WordPress wishlist

Future features, changes

Living from your blog

Advertising, professional blogging, offering WP support and services, platform for job

Blog design

Usability, web standards, microformats, SEO, themes

Possible Speaker: Michael Martin - I write solely about blog design on my blog (Click the name to visit), and I would talk about things like what makes a design good, how to create a design from scratch, and common pitfalls for blog designs.

Open Source

WordPress and the Open Source movement, future of Wordpress and Open Source, Open Source software counterparts, proprietary vs GPL themes and plugins

Choosing web hosting

UK based or cheap US hosting, Fantastico, 'unlimited' bandwidth caps, best hosting deals.

Walking with WordPress

WordPress & mobile technology, adapting to a mobile audience, microblogging, mobile phone integration, live video

Possible speaker: Richard Williams - I'm doing the Wainwright inspired Coast-to-Coast Walk (192 miles in 12 days) mid-June this year with two friends. We'll be using mobile technology and WordPress to keep family, friends and colleagues up to date with our progress.

WordPress in education

Blogging SE and HE, Wordpress as a VLE or or platform for informal learning, Worpress and outreach

Wordpress MU

Blog networks, development, as a community building platform, future

Brenda Burrell - currently teaching a network of artists WP/blogging as an aid to collaboration, scaling and resource development.

Spam

Defeating spam, spam prevention, new spam cultures, spam tasting

Theme and plugin security

Why it matters where you get your themes & plugins from, and what you can do about it if you're not code savvy.

Bifurcation

What sort of bifurcation is going to take place between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org and how it could impact businesses who use WordPress as a platform.

Scaling WordPress

Ways to deal with high traffic websites, how to scale a WordPress implementation.

Large companies

How developers should deal with approaches from large companies who are taking an interest in WP, having previously mostly dealt with SMEs and similar.

Hiring a WordPress professional

How to hire a WordPress professional, what to avoid, and what to look for.

Plugins

Dealing with pluginitus (the syndrome of attaching every damn plugin available to a WP site!)

Code Surgery Session

A WP Code Surgery session might be good. It should feature people with experience and informed opinion on how to write good PHP/XML/XHTML/CSS _and_ knowledge of the WP API. The aim should be to do what the forum/codex does, but face to face, for all those problems that don't get sorted because (often) the user doesn't know how to ask the question until they know the answer.

bbPress/WordPress integration and the future of bbPress

I hope to talk about or demonstrate bbPress/WordPress integration, and talk a little about it's future directions etc.

Sambauers 16:04, 25 April 2008 (UTC)