Two lightning talks set to inspire you!
How WordPress Helped Me To See The World From Dhaka, Bangladesh
M. Asif Rahman
I was a simple boy from Bangladesh. Back in 2004, when I just started University in Electrical & Telecommunication Engineering. I tried to make a site, as part of assignment, did not liked Blogger, that time I got introduced to WordPress. It changed my life, I find WordPress very easy. Started to make websites. Soon Became hard to manage, started hiring University friend, that also became unmanageable, took an office, started my company. Some of our web property worked super well, like The Tech Journal, it reached alexa rank 3000 within 1 year of inception. We kept working only in WordPress, built tons of plugins and theme, become attached with more important figure inside WordPress. Got my first invite from WordCamp Melbourne, spoke their during 2011. Since then I have attended over 10 WordCamp worldwide. I attended all last 3 WordCamp SF. Now I have a registered company in US, working to help young entrepreneur in US & Bangladesh too, managed and helped multiple WordPress MeetUp and WordCamp. I want to share my story.
How Simply Clicking Publish Changed My Life
Cory Miller
In 2006, I clicked the Publish button on my blog … and it has led to a core philosophy of shipping my work, regardless of my fear or need for perfectionism. The Click Publish philosophy that I’ve continued to do over the last 8 years has changed my life and led me on an incredible adventure of sharing my time and talents with the world.
Over the years of working closely with people often associated with WP — from budding bloggers, talented designers and developers, I’ve realized that being able to release your work to the world is loaded with fear and anxiety and perfectionism and want to share my story to inspire others to click Publish and ship their work — whatever that may be.
I’ll share the stories of success (and failure) that living this philosophy has produced in my life.