Mautic Conference Europe 2024, taking place on November 4-5 in the stunning city of Lisbon, Portugal, is set to be the premier event for Mautic enthusiasts, marketers, developers, and business leaders. As a speaker, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Share your knowledge and experiences with a passionate, global audience
• Gain recognition as a thought leader in the Mautic and marketing automation space
• Network with like-minded professionals and potential collaborators
• Contribute to the growth and evolution of the Mautic project
• Enjoy the beautiful sights and culture of Lisbon, Portugal

What We’re Looking For

We’re seeking a diverse range of topics that will inspire, educate, and empower our attendees. Some areas of interest include:

• Mautic best practices and advanced techniquesCase studies and success stories
• Integration strategies and custom development
• Marketing automation trends and innovations
• Open-source contribution and community building
• Digital marketing strategies and tactics

Whether you’re a seasoned Mautic expert or have a unique perspective to share, we want to hear from you!

How to Submit Your Proposal

To submit your speaking proposal, please follow these steps:

• Visit our speaker submission portal 
• Create an account or log in if you already have one
• Fill out the submission form, including:
• Your proposed session title
• A brief abstract (150-200 words)
• Key takeaways for attendees
• Your speaker bio and headshot
• Submit your proposal by October 1, 2024, at 23:59 PM UTC

Our program committee will review all submissions and notify selected speakers by October 15, 2024.

Important Dates

• Call for Speakers Opened: September 20, 2024
• Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024, 23:59 PM UTC
• Speaker Notification: October 15, 2024
• Mautic Conference Europe 2024: November 4-5, 2024

Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of Mautic Conference Europe 2024 and shape the future of open-source marketing automation. Submit your proposal today and join us in Lisbon for an unforgettable experience!

For any questions regarding the Call for Speakers, please contact us at speakers@mautic.org.

We can’t wait to see your brilliant ideas and proposals. Good luck!
 

GSoC is a unique opportunity for contributors worldwide to collaborate with Mautic and enhance our open-source marketing automation platform. For those unfamiliar with GSoC, it offers stipends to students and beginners in open-source software development who work on open-source projects over the summer, under the guidance of experienced mentors.

As part of our GSoC program, we are excited to open our doors to new contributors eager to join the Mautic community. This presents an exciting opportunity to enhance your technical skills and gain valuable experience in a collaborative, open-source environment.

You will have the chance to immerse yourself in the community, learning from passionate individuals dedicated to Mautic’s project. This unique experience offers contributors the chance to make a real-world impact, contribute to meaningful projects, and receive mentorship from experienced members of the community.

Important Dates for GSoC 2024:

• February 22 – March 18: Potential GSoC contributors discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.
• March 19 – April 2 18:00 UTC: Potential GSoC contributors will submit proposals through the program website.
• April 2 – April 24:  We review all submitted GSoC Contributor proposals and consider how many we want to select and how many we can handle (how many we have committed mentors for). We decide on the ranking of our GSoC Contributor slots.
• May 1: Accepted GSoC contributor projects announced.
• May 1 – 26: Community Bonding Period | GSoC contributors get to know mentors, read documentation, and get up to speed to begin working on their projects.
• May 27: Coding officially begins!
• July 8: Mentors and GSoC contributors can begin submitting midterm evaluations.
• August 19 – 26: Final week: GSoC contributors submit their final work product and their final mentor evaluation (standard coding period).
• August 26 – September 2: Mentors submit final GSoC contributor evaluations (standard coding period).
• September 3: Initial results of Google Summer of Code 2024 Announced.
• November 4: Final date for all GSoC contributors to submit their final work product and final evaluation

Refer to the GSoC Timeline for more info.

How You Can Get Involved:

If you’re over 18 years old, interested in open source, and meet the eligibility criteria, you can apply to join us as a GSoC 2024 contributor. Reach out to the Mautic community early, exploring project ideas, and join our Slack community for updates and discussions. 

Please read Mautic’s contribution guidelines for GSoC and the project ideas before engaging with the community.

The application period ends on March 18 (UTC), so prepare your project proposals and become familiar with Mautic beforehand.

We’re excited to be part of Google Summer of Code 2024 and look forward to working with contributors and mentors to make Mautic even better!

Stay tuned for more updates and announcements, and let’s make this summer memorable for Mautic and the open-source community!
 

The Lithuania-based contributor to the Product team joined Mautic after she started working at Aivie, and shares in this article how she became more and more involved with the community.

Full-cycle, team work and Mautic

Pivavarchyk has over 15 years of experience in full-cycle software development, and has worked in different positions during this time. “I have created many small service-oriented applications that have been deployed and run successfully. I have also designed architecture, produced and deployed large automation solutions for the entire company.” Additionally, she has taught at the university. 

“I had been working as a leader of a development team managing several projects in the Education domain for some years before joining the Aivie team about a year ago”, she recalls. It was in her new job that she got to know about Mautic. “I was aware of this project, but I had never worked on it before”, details the software engineer. 

All the different opportunities Pivavarchyk has had through her life come together in her role at her work, and her profile at the company’s website also summarizes her contributions to the Mautic Community: “My goal is to have good ideas into great technological solutions”.

Always a learning opportunity

Despite her extensive experience, the Lithuania-based software engineer enjoys to keep on learning. And that is one of the reasons why she likes being a part of the Mautic Community. “Contributing to Mautic allows me to communicate with professionals who are part of the community and give me an amazing learning experience.”

Pivavarchyk joined the community in the early winter of 2021, “thanks to Adrian Schimpf”. Her first contribution was a pull request. “I was very excited about the result. When it was approved, I was so happy. Then I read more and more articles and kept exploring the project. And the more I learned, the more I wanted to be part of it.”

The Product Team contributor highlights that she is lucky her company allocates working hours for employers to contribute to the Mautic Community. More than that, she says it is “a great pleasure” to participate: “Now I make pull requests, participate in the testing days and I can say I love this time”.

Enhancing the email builder

Beyond giving her “fun and personal satisfaction”, Pivavarchyk rejoices in the fact that being a contributor means making Mautic better for its users. “Contributing enables me to improve the software that is used by a lot of companies, and that we rely on daily.”

Her primary focus is on features that enhance the user experience with the application. Along with other contributors, the software engineer has been working hard on enhancing Mautic’s email builder. 

“The email builder makes it easier to create well-designed email templates. We are improving the builder, trying to make it better and expanding its capabilities”, she sums up. One of the feature’s highlights, in her opinion, is “the possibility to easily make responsive emails with personalized content”.

Pivavarchyk, who also helps a lot with testing code – she was key in the Mautic 4.3.0 release –, says that the builder ranks second in the Mautic features she likes best. What is the first, you might ask?

“Without any doubt, Campaign Builder is at the top of my list of favorite things. It allows the creation of effective, multichannel marketing campaigns or workflows based on several decisions, conditions, and actions. It can be used as a whiteboard to map out and visualize a marketing automation plan.”

Present and future of Mautic

Speaking of multichannel, that is yet another key aspect of Mautic’s present and future success, in Pivavarchyk’s opinion. “Mautic enables managing campaigns to deliver personalized messages through various digital channels, such as web, email, messaging, push notifications, and social networks.”

And giving its central role, the software engineer envisions a future for Mauitc in which “it would be good to add up any other channels, including emerging new ones, by enhancing the integration capabilities.” Her view goes beyond the technology development to encompass the different, global use of Mautic: by having more options, Mautic “makes it possible to use the most popular channels in a particular country.”

When it comes to connecting technical and cultural aspects into software, the Mautic contributor is consistent. She says she doesn’t have a big, audacious goal in life: “I just want to make the world around me better”. 

Contributing and sharing ideas

Being a part of the Mautic community, Volha Pivavarchyk highlights how contributors “help with working on the project and extending our Mautic platform”. More than the result of their hard work, she rejoices in the shared experience.

“I’m really glad to be part of the team. I like the high-quality people who work on the project. I like the way they are motivated”, continues the software engineer. As the name suggests, the community is a place where everyone gets to participate. “I am pleased to share my ideas and my personality”, she sums up.

For those considering becoming a contributor to Mautic or other open source projects, Pivavarchyk says, go for it! “First, you can get a deeper knowledge of the software you use. Second, it allows you to learn new technologies, improve your skills, and keep up with other cool community members!”

If you want to know more about what Volha Pivavarchyk is working on, you can check out her GitHub repos at @volha-pivavarchyk.

Want to join the Mautic community? Check out our Community and Get Involved sections.