Author: Daniel Koskinen

Timo-Jaakko Rautavuori has been working in online journalism since 2006 at Aamulehti (second-largest newspaper in Finland in terms of circulation) and its parent company, Alma Media. His background is in journalism but the past few years his title has been Development Manager. In his current job he has managed multiple news site renewal projects. Some of these projects involved a closed CMS, but increasingly often the platform of choice has been WordPress. At WordCamp Finland Rautavuori will share his experiences of implementing WordPress from a media company perspective, and how well WP has suited their needs. His talk will be in Finnish.

You can find Timo-Jaakko on Twitter: @timojr

Timo-Jaakko Rautavuori on työskennellyt verkkojournalismin parissa Aamulehdessä ja Alma Mediassa vuodesta 2006.  Rautavuori on taustaltaan toimittaja, mutta hän on työskennellyt viime vuodet kehityspäällikkönä. Tänä aikana hän on toiminut projektipäällikkönä useissa uutiverkkopalveluiden uudistusprojekteissa. Osa näistä sivustoista hyödyntää lisensoitua CMS:ää, mutta yhä useampi avoimen lähdekoodin WordPressiä. WordCamp Finlandissa Rautavuori kertoo asiakkaan näkökulmasta, miten WP:n käyttöönotto mediayhtiössä on onnistunut ja miten WP on vastannut mediayhtiön tarpeita.

WordCamp Finland is now only 7 weeks away! Ticket sales have got a good start, you can get yours here. The ticket (10 euros) covers one conference day (Friday), lunch and coffee, workshops on Saturday (more on those later in this post), a t-shirt and entrance to the after-party on Friday evening.

So get your ticket now and don’t forget to tell your friends about it.

Speakers

Speaker applications have closed (actually a while ago). We got lots of good speaker requests and will be contacting each applicant individually. Follow this blog to receive news on our speakers. The first two (Mikko Virenius and Yana Petrova) are already up on the Speakers page.

Workshop Day

We’re really excited to announce that WordCamp Finland will in fact be a two-day event! On Saturday 9th May we will have workshops on publishing your own plugin, creating child themes, professional WordPress development using git and composer, and translating WordPress. If you think you might be interested in attending a workshop, please check the box on the ticket form so we have an idea of how many will be coming.

For the first WordCamp Finland, we’re excited to get brilliant speakers on board to make it happen. The event will be held May 8, 2015 in Tampere. Would you like to be one of the speakers? The deadline for speaker applications is March the 6th.

Talk Format & Submission Guidelines

Full-length sessions will be 30 minutes long with 15 additional minutes for questions from the audience. We might also include a few 10-15 minute lightning talks. We have a one track schedule so we’d like to have lots of different topics covered. Apply now and let us know your story.

Suggestions for topics

• WordPress security
• Speed optimisation
• Server setups
• Theme development
• Theme and plugin development frameworks
• Typography
• Doing business with WordPress
• eCommerce
• Working with plugin X
• Internationalization and localisation
• Developer tools
• REST API
• Modern JavaScript and WordPress
• Designing with WordPress

Submit a form to apply

Submit form and apply for speaking in WordCamp Finland. We hope that you will speak in english but you can also speak in finnish.

We’re happy to announce that our first WordCamp Finland will be in May 8th, 2015 in Tampere. We’ll hope you can join us, see you there.

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