WordCamps are famous for their excellent coverage of WordPress and related ideas and technologies. But sometimes it’s very useful for the growing WordPress community in any area (but particularly in South Florida) to get some outside perspective. You won’t want to be in an echo chamber as they say – there is a time and place to hear certain viewpoints from OTHER communities.
These are we call “outside the bubble” talks.
Speakers
In the past couple of years WordCamp Miami has made an effort to reach out to those outside of the WordPress “bubble”. One of our first “non-WP CMS” speakers: Jason Nickerson give a talk on How Joomla and WordPress Influence Each Other. We had additional speakers come in 2016 and 2017. For our 10th event we would love to see speaker submissions from other non-WP communities that our attendees would appreciate and relate to.
Since WordCamps do not usually compensate speakers for travel, we would expect possible speakers to be from the South or Central Florida area, but location really is not a factor. If you’ve never been to a WordCamp before, you might have questions which we are happy to answer.
Click here to read more about speaker submissions and how to submit.
Attendees
We are extending an official invite to any dedicated Drupal and/or Joomla developers to come to WordCamp Miami and be a part of South Florida’s open source community. Not only are we making an official invite, but we have several (read: very limited quantity) of discounted tickets to any established contributors of the Drupal or Joomla project.
So if you are not a WordPress developer, but work with another open-source solution like Drupal or Joomla, please submit a speaker application. If you have questions, contact miami@wordcamp.org.
But no matter what you develop in – then we would love to have you at one of the biggest local web conferences in Miami and one of the largest WordCamps in the United States.