{"id":149,"date":"2016-06-03T10:36:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T08:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2016.split.wordcamp.org\/?p=149"},"modified":"2016-06-03T10:36:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T08:36:02","slug":"tomaz-zaman-to-open-wordcamp-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/tomaz-zaman-to-open-wordcamp-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Toma\u017e Zaman to open WordCamp Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year we are starting a tradition\u00a0of last year&#8217;s favorite speaker opening the next year event. Last year we asked all attendees to pick 3 favorite talks and 70% of attendees selected talk &#8220;You are too cheap&#8221; from Toma\u017e Zaman as the best.<\/p>\n<p>We are extremely happy to announce our first speaker for this year&#8217;s WordCamp Split and a good friend of Croatian WordPress community. Please welcome Toma\u017e Zaman from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/codeable.io\/\">Codeable<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Codeable is a Slovenian-Danish (or Danish-Slovenian, whatever\u00a0you love more :)) startup or even better \u2013 a platform. It\u00a0connects WordPress professionals with clients. Codeable is definitely a #1 outsourcing service for WordPress working with clients such as\u00a0Chris Lema, Yoast, WPEngine, WooCommerce and WerkPress and additionally for many of the Elite authors on ThemeForest.<\/p>\n<p>You maybe don&#8217;t know that, but <a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/\">Automattic<\/a> too has a small share in Codeable. Couple of years ago WooThemes bought a small share and as they were acquired by Automattic now Automattic holds that share.<\/p>\n<h2>How to start a business in WordPress; a Codeable story<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When Toma\u017e started Codeable, he has been a complete newbie to the WordPress ecosystem, not knowing anything about the community or the platform itself. In his talk, he\u2019ll describe the good, the bad and the ugly of his journey of building a web-based, WordPress-centric, and profitable business from the idea onward.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Toma\u017e Zaman<\/h2>\n<p>Toma\u017e spent years as a freelancer, building websites and applications for clients all over the world. He\u2019s a completely self-taught developer who also likes to fiddle with servers.\u00a0At Codeable, he\u2019s responsible for product development and promotion, so you might find him at a WP conference or UX workshop, where he\u2019s trying to learn about users\u2019 habits as much as possible.\u00a0In his free time, he spends time with his wife and four children, jumps out of perfectly working airplanes and enjoys a good movie.<\/p>\n<h2>Be active<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning more of Toma\u017e Zaman story don&#8217;t wait.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2016.split.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">Grab your tickets today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Want to share your story with our attendees? <a href=\"http:\/\/2016.split.wordcamp.org\/call-for-speakers\/\">Apply to speak<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Have some spare time, love for WordPress and want to help us make WordCamp Split happen? <a href=\"http:\/\/2016.split.wordcamp.org\/call-for-volunteers\/\">Volunteer<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Your company is working with WordPress and you want to help us by giving us money so we can organize an awesome event with a small ticket price? <a href=\"http:\/\/2016.split.wordcamp.org\/call-for-sponsors\/\">Sponsor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year we are starting a tradition\u00a0of last year&#8217;s favorite speaker opening the next year event. Last year we asked all attendees to pick 3 favorite talks and 70% of attendees selected talk &#8220;You are too cheap&#8221; from Toma\u017e Zaman as the best. We are extremely happy to announce our first speaker for this year&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/tomaz-zaman-to-open-wordcamp-split\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toma\u017e Zaman to open WordCamp Split<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12019359,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29],"tags":[512610,512130],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-speakers","tag-experiences","tag-tomaz-zaman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/06\/featured-tomaz-zaman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7sGwI-2p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12019359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/split.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}