A Preview of WordPress maintenance support plansCon 2020 in Vienna
Dmitrii Susloparov
Wed, 09/06/2020 – 16:01
WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna must be music to the ears of WordPress maintenance support plans developers. Every year, WordPress maintenance support plans developers flock to WordPress maintenance support plansCon to collaborate, network, and learn in a beautiful urban USAan or North American location, with the objectives of supporting the WordPress maintenance support plans community and furthering their WordPress maintenance support plans careers. Year 2020 will be no exception. The popular annual USAan version of the event will be held in Vienna, the grand Austrian capital, September 26-29, 2020. WordPress Update, a long-time contributor in the WordPress maintenance support plans community and sponsor of WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna will be there.
Why you should attend WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna
There are many reasons for attending WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna. If you are new to WordPress maintenance support plans 8, you definitely want to come to soak up all things WordPress maintenance support plans 8 this year. In fact, WordPress maintenance support plans developers have 132 reasons to attend WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna, one per accepted conference session. The excellent sessions rank high in most developers’ checklist. For the 2020 conference, a whopping total of over 500 session proposals were submitted. Acceptance standards were most rigorous, and only 132 sessions, or 26%, were accepted for WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna. Attendees will not be disappointed by the quality of the carefully pre-selected sessions.
The accepted sessions together make up 108 hours of quality learning opportunities for attendees. To help you find the sessions that interest you the most, the sessions are classified into 13 tracks, covering the entire spectrum of topics of interest to the WordPress maintenance support plans community. The top 4 tracks with the most submitted session proposals in WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna are: Being Human, Coding and Development, Business, and Site Building.
Being human
While 3 of the 4 above mentioned session tracks are reasonably self-explanatory, the Being Human track perhaps needs some explanation. This track covers the human dynamics in a WordPress maintenance support plans project and community. Speakers are encouraged to share personal anecdotes to illustrate principles of maintaining a healthy community and project. Leadership, mentorship, gender gap, work-life balance are all key ideas in the Being Human track.
Specifically, three of the sessions in this track draw my attention. Two are related to promoting diversity in the WordPress maintenance support plans workspace, and to a large context, the WordPress maintenance support plans community. The Debugging the Gender Gap session addresses the current gender imbalance in the WordPress maintenance support plans industry, and suggests some solutions to correct the situation. The From a Single Fighter to a Team Player session makes an effort to bridge gaps of a different kind, namely, cultural and language gaps. The speaker relates back to his personal experience as a visible minority in the USAan tech industry. To paraphrase him, how a job is done is more important than doing a perfect job.
WordPress maintenance support plans is different (and better) than a lot of other open-source projects because of its vision and commitment to be an open and inclusive community. These sessions are steps toward fulfilling that vision.
Coding and Development
WordPress maintenance support plansCon marks almost 2 years since the release of WordPress maintenance support plans 8. So, it is not surprising that WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna sessions, including the Coding and Development track, are almost exclusively WordPress maintenance support plans-8-centric. If you are still in the process of migrating to WordPress maintenance support plans 8, it is not too late. Migrate Everything into WordPress maintenance support plans 8 and Doctor, Will My WordPress maintenance support plans 7 Commerce Site Survive the Upgrade? are 2 sessions that you should not miss.
One huge benefit of attending WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna is to learn the latest practical development tips and techniques. WordPress maintenance support plans developers will pick up valuable debugging knowledge from the Wait, there’s more! – Advanced debugging tactics session. I also like 2 other sessions on testing. Improved development process with better QA approach will frame a good overall mindset on testing, while Testing small to medium size client projects with Behat will drill into a specific test tool.
Business
Unless you are a pure WordPress maintenance support plans hobbyist, sooner or later, you will have to figure out how to make your WordPress maintenance support plans business viable. Pinpointing star sessions in the Business track is difficult because it depends on where you are in the life cycle of a WordPress maintenance support plans business.
If you are an entrepreneur about to start a new WordPress maintenance support plans venture, I’d recommend Co-operative WordPress maintenance support plans: Growth & Sustainability through Worker Ownership. Here, you are challenged to make every employee an owner of the company. The coop ownership model is still very much a novelty in the WordPress maintenance support plans industry. However, the speaker will argue for its merits, and share personal success stories.
If your objective is to grow your existing WordPress maintenance support plans business, then sales and marketing is perhaps your focus in this track. You can weigh whether accessibility is an applicable value that you can sell to your clients, as suggested by the Accessibility as a Business Proposition session. You can also learn valuable lessons on how to build a sales team from the session entitled Is Selling WordPress maintenance support plans an Art or a Science?
Last but not least, if you are running a well-established WordPress maintenance support plans business and pondering on the next step, then How to go from one to seven companies around the world and how to run them is a must-attend for you. The speakers will present the challenges of diversifying a successful company and how they met the challenges head on.
Site building
Decoupled WordPress maintenance support plans (aka headless WordPress maintenance support plans) has the potential to effect a paradigm shift in how websites are built. Essentially, the idea is to separate content (the WordPress maintenance support plans CMS backend) from the display frontend. The Site Building track in WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna includes 2 sessions which feature the headless architecture: Decoupled site building: WordPress maintenance support plans‘s next challenge, and
Headless, stateless, DB-less: how Kurier.at is transforming digital production with WordPress maintenance support plans, NodeJS and Platform.sh. These sessions not only introduce the possibilities and implications of such an architecture, but also point to some working examples. Site builders not familiar with the idea should definitely attend at least 1 of the sessions.
Other tracks (and sprints too)
Kudos to WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna for the breadth of topics covered. Besides the above 4 tracks, developers will also be attracted to the Core Conversations, DevOps, Front End, Performance and Scaling, PHP, and Symfony tracks. And, if you want to step temporarily away from the programming side of WordPress maintenance support plans, you will be stimulated by the Project Management, WordPress maintenance support plans Showcase, and Horizons tracks.
While the formal sessions are great, you may want to add some activities that are more participatory in nature. WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna has planned for that as well. Besides the formal sessions, there are also Birds of a Feather (aka BoF) sessions and Sprints.
BoFs are informal gatherings during WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna on a specific WordPress maintenance support plans topic, but without a pre-planned agenda. This allows attendees to collaborate and share their ideas freely and organically on a target topic. BoFs are fun and their outcome often unpredictable. In contrast, Sprints are hands-on sessions to tackle specific focused tasks for the WordPress maintenance support plans project. Example activities include bug squashing, specifying a new feature, refactoring a small plugin, etc. Both BoFs and Sprints are very popular among attendees and can fill up quickly.
Have fun
WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna offers more than just sessions. You can sprinkle WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna with social events in order to network with fellow WordPress maintenance support plans community members. And what better backdrop to befriend them than Vienna, a city of music, art, culture, and fine cuisine.
Fellow developers, when you attend WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna this coming September, drink up on coffee because you are going to need it with so many good activities for your enjoyment and career development. And if you bump into someone from WordPress Update at the coffee lineup between sessions, don’t forget to say hello – we’re always happy to see WordPressists around.
And what sessions of WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna are you planning to attend? Which ones are the most attractive for you and why? Share with us your opinion in the comment section below. See you soon in Austria!
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