Archive for September, 2008

We’re wrapping things up here at WordCamp Portland, but I wanted to post a quick thank you to everyone. Thanks to our sponsors for providing cash and services that helped make this possible. A big thank you to all of our speakers, some of whom traveled quite a distance, for sharing their expertise and helping to facilitate a ton of great discussion.

Thanks to all of our attendees – hopefully you learned something, and we appreciate all of your knowledge that you’ve shared.

A special thanks to the all-volunteer staff including Betsy, Kelly, Chris, Reid, Paul, Cami, Bryan, and the others I forgot to name that helped out with registration, shirts, food, the website, a/v equipment, and numerous other tasks.

CubeSpace has been a great host; Eva and David and their staff have gone above and beyond to help with all sorts of logistics and details.

Posting content? Be sure to tag it wordcampdx. Look for a followup post (or few) pointing to photos/links from WordCamp.

Again, thanks to everyone for making this an awesome event for Portland and for WordPress.

If you are planning to be at WordCamp, and you want to talk about the (undoubtedly) awesome time you are having, and you want to show off to everyone who is NOT there that you ARE there, here’s how you do it:

You need one word. That word is: wordcampdx. Make note that it only has the ONE p in it. Think of it like the secret word, remember it and use it EVERYwhere. As a #hashtag, on Twitter if you are rocking the 140, on Flickr if you are taking photos of all the blogger type folks who are there, on Technorati if you are liveblogging things, and if you have anyplace else you are slapping a label on your content, please make sure that label is “wordcampdx” so we can find all the photos and blog posts and tweets and everything else our campers create.

And while we’re on the subject, here’s the official stance on media capturing: BRING IT. No really. Bring your camera and your other camera. Video camera, webcam, digital audio recorder, microphone for your iPod, mic for your laptop, we welcome them all. As of now we only have confirmed audio recordings for the big sessions, so if you have a video camera and you’re willing to record or loan it out for the day, let us know in the comments.

TIP: When you get your laptop and your charger or your iPhone or your EEEpc or whatever else you’re packing up to bring to WordCamp, make SURE you have a camera. And when you get there and we’re ready for Lorelle’s keynote address to start, make sure you have that camera handy. Why? Wait and see.

With WordCamp rapidly approaching, we’re still in search of help in a couple areas:

Digital projectors: our goal is to have digital projectors available for all of the sessions. We have secured a couple but are still looking for a couple more. If you have access to a digital projector and we could borrow it for the day, please let us know.

Day-of-event volunteers: we could use a couple folks who are willing to help out with some random tasks on the day of the conference. Handing out T-shirts, setting up or cleaning up from the meals, etc.

If you can help out either with projectors or as a volunteer, please send an e-mail to Aaron.