Former MousePlanet MouseStation Podcast co-host Mike “Demo” Demopoulos is a lover of open source first, specific tools later. Because of this, he speaks at Ignite! Conferences, Meetups, WordCamps, Joomla! Events, and more. Mike volunteers with The Joomla! Project as the former treasurer of Open Source Matters (the not for profit organization for Joomla!) as well as serving on the Joomla! board.
Mike Demopoulos has spoken on various open source topics including WordPress and Joomla! in addition to marketing related talks which include A/B testing content.
Before coming to BoldGrid as a community evangelist, Mike spent years building a strong client base in the financial and insurance industries. He believes in sharing his business acumen and marketing insight as it fits within his main goal of building a community.
When he’s not spending time with his wife Kayla, you may find Demo at a Disney Theme park, collecting artwork, or hanging out with his dog B’Elanna.
Be sure to say hi to Mike Demopoulos on Twitter at @MPMike.
Mike will be speaking at 3:30pm on Saturday, July 13th in the Rideau room. His talk is entitled, How to Monetize Your Passion Project.
One of the qualities of a good developer is the ability to find and solve a problem. We create plugins for client projects and then realize it has a wider use case. So, we submit it to the plugin directory or open our GitHub. Pretty soon, you have adoption and support requests. So, how can your plugin support itself?
After all, you can’t eat good reviews and the hard-to-find donation button only gets you so far. What are your options for monetization without taking out core features or annoying your loyal users? In this talk, we will explore effective options and ideas to financially support your product so you can continue to develop and build.