The countdown is on – one month left until WordCamp Norrköping

We’re counting down the days until WordCamp Norrköping, and the planning is intensifying as the event draws closer. A few small announcements:

Call for Speakers is still open!
We are still accepting speakers, especially for the Entrepreneurs & Designers track. We also welcome international speakers, so if you’re feeling up to the challenge, there’s no better time to apply to speak!

Be a Volunteer Photographer at WordCamp Norrköping
We’d love to get some beautiful photos of WordCamp Norrköping that we can share on our blog and use in posts and articles about the event afterwards. We’re looking for some volunteer photographers to document the event over the two days. We’ll make these available on the blog after the event, including image credits back to the photographers. If you’re interested, drop us an email using the contact form!

Hashtag and social media
If you’re sharing photos on social media, don’t forget to use the official #wcnkpg hashtag!

We will be sharing more about WordCamp Norrköping in the coming week, feel free to subscribe to our email list or RSS feed!

We’re looking forward to meet everyone in beautiful Norrköping on August 28-29!

Image credit
Ulf Liljankoski

Presenting Silver sponsor: Skill

We have the pleasure of having Skill being a Silver sponsor to WordCamp Norrköping. We’ve talked with Anna Broeders at Skill a bit about their participation and their love for WordPress.

Hey Anna, Could you introduce yourself in a few words?

Anna Broeders

My name is Anna Broeders, I work as a recruitment consultant and talent scout at Skill. My main focus is recruitment in the area of IT. I’ve been working at Skill for about 3 years. As a part of my job I recruit participants to East Sweden Hack, a hackathon in Linköping. The theme for this year is open data and Internet of Things.

Could you tell us more what Skill does?

Skill is a recruitment company with offices on several locations in Sweden. We are specialized in IT recruitment and are continuously helping our customers in the IT industry to find qualified staff. We are your career partner from the first job after your studies to a position as a specialist and have a wide range of interesting job opportunities.

How does WordPress contribute to what you do?

WordPress is easy to use, even for us who do not have deep experience in development. This gives us an opportunity to update our webpages in a regular basis. It is easy to get out a message or change a text.

How will WordPress fit in your future business?

For the future we are curious about the flexibility that WordPress gives and how this will increase. We see that the use of mobile devices increase dramatically, a challenge for us as a recruitment company is to give our candidates the possibility to apply for a job through their mobile device.

What are your hopes for the WordPress community?

We hope to share our experience with WordPress with other participants. We also look forward to hear more about how WordPress will develop in the future and what the community think will be cool in the future.

What opportunities are you hoping for at this WordCamp?

We hope to meet lots of enthusiastic and open minded people. We like to discuss what the participants of WordCamp appreciate in a company. Of course will we also get in touch with talents in IT and development.

Presenting Gold Sponsor: WP Engine

We have the pleasure of having WP Engine being a Gold sponsor to WordCamp Norrköping. We’ve talked with Imran Pervez at WP Engine a bit about their participation and their love for WordPress.

Could you introduce yourself in a few words?

Imran Pervez

I’m a marketing manager at WP Engine and joined as the London office launched to better serve our EMEA customers. I’m a Londoner, an active and energetic guy who is learning lots about all things WordPress.

Could you tell us more what WP Engine does?

WP Engine provides managed WordPress hosting for mission critical sites around the world. Amazing support, enterprise class, & optimized for WordPress.

How does WordPress contribute to what you do?

Our whole business is based around supporting WordPress, so I help to market our service offerings to those clients that run on WordPress

How will WordPress fit in your future business?

WordPress hosting is all we do, we continiously aim to better ourselves and improve our knowledge on WordPress.

What are your hopes for the WordPress community?

Since launching the London office officially earlier this year, we’re looking to build our relationships with local communities within EMEA.

What opportunities are you hoping for at this WordCamp?

Build relationships, get a feel for what the WordPress community is like, learn from like-minded people, help promote the WP Engine brand in Sweden with key developers and influencers.

Presenting Gold Sponsor: Oderland

We have the pleasure of having Oderland being a Gold sponsor to WordCamp Norrköping. We’ve talked with Jack Oderland at Oderland a bit about their participation and their love for WordPress.

Hey Jack, Could you introduce yourself in a few words?

Jack Oderland

Founder and CEO of ODERLAND Hosting Services, tech geek and father of four.

Could you tell us more what Oderland does?

ODERLANDs core business is hosting and consulting. We’re enabling site owners by offering the latest and greatest in web hosting software with a strong mix of security, performance and awesome in-house support.
We’ve been around since 1998 helping, teaching and supporting individuals and organisations about web applications, email usage and general internet security.

How does WordPress contribute to what you do?

WordPress powers about 24% of the websites out there today. It’s the most used CMS system in the world today. We’ve been advocating the use of WordPress for ages now and we’ve got a one-click installer/updater/backup in our customer’s control panel for it.

We’ve also developed a WordPress Migration tool, which helps customers to switch from another web host to us.

How will WordPress fit in your future business?

WordPress is constantly evolving, growing in feature sets and plugins which might slow down your page speed. In our shared hosting environments we’re adding components like WP-CLI, Redis Cache, Memcache and the latest in PHP versions with opcache support (even the latest Alpha release of PHP 7) to give our customers WordPress applications the best performance they can get. Our customers are asking for WordPress, we deliver and we’ll continue doing so in the future.

What are your hopes for the WordPress community?

“With great power comes great responsibility” 🙂 We’re hoping there will be a way to tag plugins as “code reviewed” to help people chose plugins where the source has been checked for vulnerabilities at least by another party.

What opportunities are you hoping for at this WordCamp?

We’re hoping to meet many interesting people at WordCamp, attend presentations and discuss both WordPress and hosting issues, limitations and how to overcome them.

Meet the first group of #WCNKPG speakers

The Call for Speakers is still open but we want to give you a sneak peak before the summer holidays. Today we’re really excited to present the first group of WordCamp Norrköping speakers.

Christoffer Larsson

Building great stuff with the WP-API!
Swedish web developer – in love with the Internet. Hacking the web since 1999. Bachelor of science in Media technology and a Master of science in Electronics with focus on web development. Christoffer is the lead developer of kit.se, a media startup owned by Peder Bonnier, Fredrik Strömberg, Robert Brännström and Bonnier Growth.

Franz Vitulli

Table tennis and meeting rooms: how to get things done in a co-working space
Franz works as Product Marketing Specialist for Human Made, the WordPress agency – and WordPress.com VIP partner – behind Happytables, WP Remote and BackUpWordPress. He’s responsible for Happytables user support and training, documentation, social updates and other marketing activities.

Jimmy Rosén

Open Source Entrepreneurship
Jimmy is a long-time WordPress and Open Source enthusiast with a love for business models. Jimmy runs the WordPress-centric bureau Angry Creative where he acts as a product owner.

If you’re interested in speaking yourself – head over to the speaker application page for more information.

Happy summer!

Presenting Gold Sponsor: FS Data

We have the pleasure of having FS Data being a Gold sponsor to WordCamp Norrköping. We’ve talked with Jonathan Sulo at FS Data a bit about their participation and their love for WordPress.

– Hey Jonathan, Could you introduce yourself in a few words?

Jonathan Sulo

My name is Jonathan Sulo and I’m the Marketing Manager at FS Data. I’ve been in the webhosting business since -99 and I’ve been using WordPress since -05. I both write and speak a lot about WordPress, with main focus on administration, security, integrity, performance and such.

I also volunteer work as webmaster of the largest Saab car club in the world, Svenska Saabklubben, with a large WordPress Multisite network running BuddyPress, bbPress, WooCommerce etc.

– Could you tell us more what FS Data does?

FS Data was one of the first web hosting companies in Sweden, back in -97. We offer a wide range of services, from domain names and email to webhosting, advanced servers and more. And we love WordPress.

We use WordPress ourselves and we promote it actively to our customers by providing an easy installer of WordPress (and WooCommerce), with automated updates and an optimized server environment. FS Data is a frequent supporter of different WordPress meetups and WordCamps.

– How does WordPress contribute to what you do?

WordPress enables our customers to easily set up and maintain their own websites, blogs and e-commerce sites. We support a lot of different content management systems, but WordPress is clearly the main choice with our customers.

– How will WordPress fit in your future business?

We intend to keep supporting WordPress for the foreseeable future. We’ve been translating WooCommerce to Swedish for two years and we’re actively looking for new and interesting WordPress projects to support in similar ways.

– What are your hopes for the WordPress community?

We hope to be able to continue supporting the Swedish WordPress community. The official Swedish WordPress community site, WordPress Sverige, are already hosted with us. We’re looking forward to supporting both them and other WordPress initiatives in Sweden.

– What opportunities are you hoping for at this WordCamp?

We mainly intend to listen to our customers and other participants at this WordCamp. We wan’t to hear what their needs and wishes are, to further improve our services. And we hope to have a great time with all awesome people at WordCamp Norrköping.

Thank you for the support!

Call for Sponsors

Why should you sponsor a WordCamp?

WordPress is free and Open Source. There’s no central organizations where users can learn or where developers can get certificates – there is only the community and your stance within it, and WordCamps are the main meeting place for the community. At WordCamps we get awed and inspired by each other and together we set the path for WordPress.

Check out our Be a sponsor?

for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!

Call for Speakers

A WordCamp is a social event with and by the community. Do you have something you would like to talk about?

This year we will have two main session tracks

One track is intended for Developers (Could be sessions about Best practice, optimization,look-at-my-awesome-tools-im-so-awesome etc).
The other track is intended for Entrepreneurs & Designers (Could be sessions about Client cases, Good ways to do e-commerce/marketing pages/blogs/other with WordPress, Have-you-seen-this-amazing-opensource-plugin etc).

Note: WordPress foundation requires a certain amount of cool and open source love from all speakers. Check out the speaker / volunteer guidelines

Welcome to WordCamp Norrköping

We’re happy to announce that our second WordCamp Norrköping will be in August 28-29, 2015 in Visualiseringscenter C, Norrköping. We’ll hope you can join us, see you there.

Visualiseringscenter C is one of the coolest venues around and we are very proud to be able to host the event and talk about the future of the Swedish WordPress community in a location that provides both beauty and awe.

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