This group will join our other speakers for 2 days of sessions on November 3rd and 4th. We hope you’ll join us for their sessions. View the Full Schedule Here & Get your ticket today!
Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada.
Okay now that I’ve got your attention with an needlessly obscure and campy 80’s sci-fi reference here’s round three of our WordCamp Riverside 2018 speakers.
Chris Aldrich
With the increasing toxicity on Twitter, Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, algorithmic feeds, and a myriad of other problems. Walled gardens have trapped us with the promise of a “free” while addicting us to their products at the cost of our happiness, sense of self, sanity, and privacy.
Chris uses IndieWeb technologies in conjunction with WordPress as a replacement for his social presence while still allowing easy interaction with friends, family, and colleagues online. Allowing him to democratize social media.
Chris is a a biomedical engineer and strong advocate of the IndieWeb movement.
Session: The web is my social network: How I use WordPress to create the social platform I want (and you can too!)
Amber Hewitt
There are thousands of WordPress themes out there and finding the right one for your website can be difficult. Is a free theme any good? Is it worth buying a premium theme? Will it work?
Amber talks about what to look for and what to avoid in your search for a good quality theme. The right one will display your content beautifully, be responsive, load quickly, and have the features you need for your site.
Amber is a graphic designer, web developer and photographer with over 15 years of entrepreneurship experience with her company Graphicgoo.
Session: Perfect Match: Choosing a Theme for your WordPress Website
Alicia St Rose
We’ve all been there. Maybe it was a live group setting or a video conference. Someone drops a term, everyone else nods knowingly, your anxiety rises as you realize you’ve NEVER heard of this thing, that you SHOULD have heard of before! Everyone keeps nodding as the speaker rambles on about this term. You nod, too. You feel like a fraud, an imposter.
Alicia will deconstruct Imposters Syndrome and give you a new mindset to try out, The Dunno Doctrine.
Alicia is passionate about WordPress and inspiring those who use it. You’ll find her attending or speaking at many Southern California WordCamps and co-organizing the South Central Coast WordPress Adventure Group.
Session: Assassinate the Imposter: Eliminating Imposters Syndrome once and for all!
Leo Postovoit with David Nuon
On the quest to share content creation’s history, we also decided to make something. Something that was extremely accessible for both people and machines. Here’s our weird, wild journey of our attempt to create the “Most Compatible Thing ,” built for legacy support by design. Yes, there will be GIFs.
Powered by the magic of WordPress and Gutenberg, Leo and David used lots of pixelcraft and a custom web server to create paired experiences for each media. From modern headless future-facing web technologies to the GOPHER protocol, from Twitter bots to TTYs, from phone calls to a snail mail service, we’ve got a story to share that we hope will last and be preserved. All you gotta do is look for it.
Session: Rendering Gutenberg Content in Native Experiences, from Faxes to Virtual Reality
Check back soon for the next round of speaker announcements! While you’re at it, purchase a ticket to WordCamp Riverside 2018 if you haven’t already.
Our WordCamp 2018 theme is Looking Back to Move Forward, highlighting the 80s. We invite everyone to dress up on Saturday as your favorite character of the 80s or 80 style of clothing. There are many ways to go, be creative and fun because the best costume will win a prize during our 80’s Theme After Party.
