wordcamp – Jonathan Bossenger

WordCamp Cape Town 2018 is over, now what?

Last weekend marked the beginning of the end of my journey as lead organiser of WordCamp Cape Town. Over the course of the past two years I’ve worked with an amazing team of local volunteer organisers plan and execute our yearly WordPress conference. The question on my mind as I wind down from the joyride… Continue reading WordCamp Cape Town 2018 is over, now what?

Slides from my talk at @wordcampjoburg #WCJHB

The slides from my freelancing talk at WordCamp Johannesburg

WordCamp Johannesburg 2018 – Workshop prep

On Thursday the 25th of October 2018 I will be presenting a workshop titled “Turning your WordPress plugin into a SaaS”, where I will be sharing some insight into connecting a WordPress plugin to a Laravel App through HTTP requests. As with most workshops, there is some preparation work required to attend. However because we… Continue reading WordCamp Johannesburg 2018 – Workshop prep

WordCamp Cape Town 2017

So last year I blogged about my list of resolutions for the new year. As with most resolutions it was a long list of the things I want to do differently in the new year, with very little grounding in reality. Reading that post now I can’t help wonder how I thought I was going… Continue reading WordCamp Cape Town 2017

4 WordCamps in 4 Months

Last year at WordCamp I decided I would speak at the next one, this year I did just that. So when I heard that there would be 3 new WordCamps happening in Africa this year (one in Johannesburg, one in Nairobi and one in Harare) I decided on the spot I want to attend all… Continue reading 4 WordCamps in 4 Months

A friendly challenge to all WordCamp Cape Town 2016 Workshop Speakers

It’s Sunday morning 11 September and I am still coming off of the high that is WordCamp. However, one thing makes me sad. Due to constraints the day 1 workshops were not filmed. While I do understand the logistics of this and why it was not possible, I gets me thinking that it would be… Continue reading A friendly challenge to all WordCamp Cape Town 2016 Workshop Speakers

WCCT

UPDATE 2 : Here is the recording of my talk from the day UPDATE 1: Just for fun I’ve uploaded a preparation recording of my talk, recorded in my car during the drive to day 2 of WordCamp. There are some minor errors in the recording as well as some background noises. Also some parts… Continue reading WCCT

WordCamp Cape Town – Day 1

So day one of Word Camp Cape Town is over. It was quite a whirlwind of a day, but I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. My WordCamp experience actually started on Wednesday night, at the VIP dinner. Here I got to meet and chat with a bunch of folk from the local WordPress community… Continue reading WordCamp Cape Town – Day 1