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 [...]
Do you have a WordPress topic on your mind? Have you looked at our list of speakers and sessions and thought “that’s great, but what about ________?” You’re the perfect person to suggest a topic for an unconference session!
The evening at WordCamp will be unconference-style, meaning that it won’t be planned until that day. We’ll offer a bunch of rooms (of varying sizes) and folks can suggest session topics. Maybe it’s something you know about and want to share. Perhaps it’s a blogging topic on your mind and you’d like to chat about it with other folks. A session leader doesn’t need to be an expert, just someone who’s willing to help kick things off and keep things moving in a productive fashion.
I’ve heard rumors that folks are thinking about unconference sessions on things such as moving to WordPress from another platform, neighborhood blogging, and how to develop plugins for the admin interface. Bring your ideas to WordCamp for potential unconference sessions; it’ll be interesting to see which WordPress topics are on everyone’s mind.
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This sounds great… will put some ideas together!!! Thanks for making the event so open.
[...] WordCamp Portland: How About a Session On (insert topic here)? Via the WordCamp Portland blog “Do you have a WordPress topic on your mind? Have you looked at our list of speakers and sessions and thought ‘that’s great, but what about ________?’ You’re the perfect person to suggest a topic for an unconference session!” [...]
I’m all over the moving over topic… give me info, I’m a sponge!
I’d love to see a session on statistics programs for WordPress. yes, I know that Woopra will be giving a talk, but I’d love an overview of all the different statistics programs — both WordPress specific and general — and how they differ, who uses which ones, and how they compare. We did some talking about this at a session at “side project to startup” and lots of people seemed interested.