Hello WordPress friends and blogging neighbors! I (Morgan Senkal) am thrilled to take over the fabulous work that Aaron Hockley has done with WordCamp here in Portland. My two goals for this event are:
Make WordCamp Portland 2010 as fabulous as last year
Make it even better, if that is even possible!
I decided that the very first [...]
Many of the WordCamp Portland presenters referenced links, information, or slides which are shared online. Here’s a roundup of pointers to the presentation information, roughly in the order presented:
Betsy Richter – From Concept to Execution in Eight Days – links, slides, video, commandments.
Justin Kistner – WordPress Ecosystems – slides, notes, links
Chris O’Rourke – 10 Proven Plugins to Make Your Blog Pop – slides, links, video
Josh Bancroft – Tying Your Tubes: Integration with WordPress – slides, links
Kelly Guimont – Considerations When Choosing A Theme – video (Outline/notes to come)
Dane Hesseldahl – Extend Your Blog with Custom Plug-In Development – slides, source code
Eric Amundson – Design & Debug WordPress Themes Using Free Tools – super-detailed notes and links
Marshall Kirkpatrick – Feed Your Blog with RSS – slides of links
If there is any information which should be added to this list, leave a comment and I’ll update the post. I know that some folks were recording or streaming video, we’ll link that that if available as well.
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 less than a week away, here are some things to know about the event:
Feel free to leave a comment about any last-minute questions and we’ll respond and update this post.
Beer and Blog is a great weekly blogging gathering (a.k.a. the Portland blogger happy hour) that happens to have been started by Justin Kistner, one of our WordCamp presenters. This Friday September 26th, WordCamp Portland invades Beer and Blog as an unofficial pre-conference gathering. Join Beer and Blog at the Green Dragon (928 SE 9th Avenue – just south of Belmont) and hang out with a bunch of Portland bloggers and other WordCamp attendees.
I mentioned how unconference sessions are a great way to talk about things that didn’t make it onto the main agenda, right?
Will Norris, author of the popular wp-openid plugin which enables OpenID support for WordPress, will be at WordCamp Portland and will be talking about what’s coming up in a soon-to-be-released version of the plugin. With OpenID becoming more prevalent across the ‘net, this is a great opportunity to learn about WordPress and OpenID integration.
Strange Love Live is a local (Portland) podcast that often features guests from the Portland tech/twitter/blogging scene. Tomorrow night I (Aaron Hockley) will be the featured guest, with WordCamp as the topic. I’m not sure exactly what we’ll chat about but I’ll do my best to make it entertaining and hopefully educational. You can tune in live at 10:00 PM PDT on Ustream or catch the episode once it is posted on iTunes.
I’m excited to announce we have a great addition to our lineup of speakers for WordCamp Portland. Jane Wells from Automattic will be offering a look at some of the new features and changes that will be coming in WordPress 2.7. In her words:
Get an official guided tour of the new features coming up in WordPress 2.7. Automattic will provide an insider’s view of the revamped navigation, screen layouts and new functionality that will have you counting the days until the November release date.
We’ve made some minor schedule adjustments which are reflected on the agenda page; one important note is that we will now begin at 8:30am instead of 8:45.
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.
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