Category: Digital Citizenship

Lightning Talk: How popup libraries emerged with WordPress

Popup Libraries is an artist-led social initiative to create small pop-up libraries in arts organisations, community centres and other non-commercial spaces that are open to the public.

Each small library is built from books donated by the local community and other elements of the libraries are made from recycled materials. In addition to the books, the libraries also have notebooks, pencils, paper and pens to encourage visitors to engage with creating ideas or images inspired by the books.

It started out as a WordPress website featuring news about found popup libraries and featuring a resource section to encourage visitors to start their own library with downloadable pdfs of posters and labels.

The project’s first Popup Library was opened recently at Rua Red Arts Centre in Tallaght, Dublin.

The project was established to inspire creativity, encourage recycling and enhance community spaces.

Graphic designer and photographer Doreen Kennedy will tell the story of how it evolved from a WordPress website, its site structure and how both parts of the project are open source.

Deploying and using WordPress in a learning environment

WordPress is used as the primary CMS for web development modules in Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) throughout the various business and computing departments as well in at least two evening classes. It is also used for several public facing systems including the ITLC Tutorials website and internal systems such as inventory control and room booking.

In this session, Paul will discuss the mass deployment of WordPress in environments like this as well as how to easily provide students with professional documentation and support. He will touch on Active Directory integration, security and other issues to be considered when deploying WordPress in a learning environment.

There will be practical demonstrations of how WordPress is now being deployed inside the DkIT Virtualisation Sandbox (powered by XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra) and their new web-based Containerisation Environment (powered by Docker and Portainer).

Bringing 2FA with the Web Authentication API to WordPress

Making authentication as safe yet frictionless as possible is a delicate challenge. Existing solutions like backup codes, email login links, SMS codes or security keys haven’t always worked across devices or browsers or use cases.

Luckily, the Web Authentication API aims to provide developers with a unified way to work with fingerprint sensors, security keys and the like on the basis of a standardised web API.

In this talk we will explore this new API, look at a few use cases like 2FA and password-less authentication and close with a look at how this API could benefit WordPress developers and users as well through the 2FA feature project.

How to secure your WordPress website

If you use a security plugin to make your site secure, you’re in the good path. However, there is more than the plugin installation to truly secure your site. From the beginner user to the expert one, this session has you covered on some of the ways to avoid being hacked and compromising your online presence.

Contributor session: Livestreaming practical workshop

A hands on practical session on tips and equipment you can use to livestream Meetups, WordCamps and other events in your business.

If you have an attendee ticket for the conference and would like to book for this session, email dublin@wordcamp.org by 10 October 2019 including ‘livestream booking’ in the subject. There will be some opportunities to observe or volunteer for a practice session on the Saturday for those booking for the Sunday workshop.

Contributor Session: Participate in the teams

We will have tasks where you can join in on community, marketing, WordPress.tv and more. There will be help for those starting out on their contributing journey and those wanting to explore new teams, such as, theme review.

If you can help or are new to contributing, please team as soon as possible on dublin@wordcamp.org – please put ‘Contributor session’ in the subject.

What is contributing about? Find out more on our Contributor Session page.

Teams you can discover at WordCamp Dublin 2019

  • Accessibility – Maja Benke
  • Community – Marcin Kilarski
  • Marketing – Abha Thakor and Scott Jones
  • Support – Kayleigh Thorpe
  • Theme Review – Colm Troy
  • WordPress.tv – Mark Smallman and Leo Mindel
  • Site Health Check – Jenny Wong

The Marketing team

Some of the tasks already identified are:

  • Facebook Live
  • podcasting setup and tips document
  • identifying videos on WordPress.tv suitable for marketing WordPress (bring headphones)
  • subtitling videos on WordPress.tv
  • more to follow.

Contributor session: Using block content editor in WordPress

This is a practical session on using the new block editor in the content management system with tips for finding your way around it. There will be some examples from WordCamp websites to help those who might be thinking of volunteering for a future event or want more experience of how to use it.

We are inviting advance requests for areas to work on, common issues faced on WordCamp sites, and questions to help you use blocks in content. These can be emailed to dublin@wordcamp.org – please use the word ‘block editor’ in the subject.

This session is part of our programme to coincide with Digital Citizenship Week.

Convincing the world to care about their website health

Explaining to clients that website maintenance is important is often met with resistance. Although maintenance is important, it often is confusing.

Jenny will be sharing with us her experience of changing the conversation to be more accessible to everyone.

She will share her experience of demysifying why site health checks are important, how to empower users to want to upgrade and what the WordPress community and developers can to make health checks more accessible for all.

This talk is part of our focus for Digital Citizenship Week, which coincides with WordCamp Dublin.

How to build a successful and meaningful partnership

The WordPress community is built on human relationships. In the context of business, nothing that lasts was ever built by a single person.

In the same way people connect with other people and develop networks, small companies can interact with larger organisations in a strategic way to build strong mutually beneficial partnerships.

Creating these relations requires time, effort and understanding. However, a lot of people struggle when it comes to contacting, developing and creating a connection with other entrepreneurs or large companies.

Thankfully, there are steps you can follow to approach a potential partner and write enticing emails and proposals that will immediately get their attention and bring you the desired results.

As a Partnerships Manager at SiteGround, our speaker develops relations like these. She will share practical tips and guidelines to help you express the benefits of a mutual partnership and expand them into a successful collaboration.

Why subtitles are a must for online video

This session will reveal why subtitling needs to be budgeted and resourced as part of your website scope and video content planning. From SEO and e-learning to accessibility and usability, thinking about subtitling is a must for your marketing, behaviour change and customer engagement.

Abha will also share the progress on the Make WordPress subtitling campaign aimed at encouraging a change in how the need and benefit of subtitles is viewed. There will also be tips on using online software Amara for subtitling videos on WordPress.tv, and a great way of practising skills which can then transfer to your work.

The session will feature research with users on their experience of how subtitles allow them and others to access content rich materials. We hope at the end of this session, attendees and speakers will join the list of campaign champions.