Do you have something you’d like to share at WordCamp Columbus 2012? Great! We’d love to hear about it! We will have four tracks this year. A full-day beginners workshop, a Marketing Track, a Power User’s Track, and a Developer’s Track. Please think carefully about which audience would best receive your topic. Also, please note that the Beginner’s workshop will have a pre-planned curriculum so we will not be accepting submissions for that track. If you are interested in joining the team presenting that curriculum, please make a note of it below.
A few things to keep in mind about presenting at WordCamp Columbus:
- You must know what you are talking about, and you must be talking about WordPress. This means that we’re not looking for talks about Social Media or Server Maintenance or Podcasting… unless you’re presenting those talks in light of how they relate to WordPress.
- You must embrace the WordPress license. This means that if you are distributing WordPress-derivative works (themes, plugins, WP distros), any person (or your business) should give your users the same freedoms that WordPress itself provides. Note: this is one step above simple compliance, which requires PHP code to be GPL/compatible but allows proprietary licenses for JavaScript, CSS, and images. 100% GPL or compatible is required for promotion at WordCamps when WordPress-derivative works are involved, the same guidelines we follow on WordPress.org.
- You must respect the WordPress trademarks. This means you do not operate websites with the word “WordPress” in a top-level domain, you do not use the logo without permission from the WordPress Foundation, you do not use the trademark in AdSense/AdWords, and you do not promote people/businesses/entities that do.
- Your session is not primarily to pimp your own theme, plugin or business. If your session is to detail how you used WordPress code to build some really great aspect of your theme, plugin or business, and you’d like to present that as a sort of case study, go ahead and submit your session, but know that we’re not going to allow for a sales pitch at any point.
- You have to know which of these spellings is correct: wordpress, WordPress, or WordPress.
