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WordCamp Boston This Weekend

Posted by on July 18, 2011 with Comments are off for this post

WordCamp Boston celebrates its second year this weekend with a two-day three-track (how-to, development, education) main event as well as a new user workshop. Advance ticket sales are closed, but they will be selling walk-in tickets at the door for last minute Happy Campers. If you’re in the northeast, this is sure to be a great event, and probably just a train ride away!

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WordCamp Toronto Cancelled

Posted by on April 28, 2011 with Comments are off for this post

WordCamp Toronto, which had originally been planned for May 14, 2011, has been cancelled/postponed. The people behind the plans for that event have moved on, and now the Toronto WordPress meetup group, 200 strong and active since 2009, is putting together a new plan. With all the talent and savvy in the Toronto WordPress community, their next WordCamp is sure to be truly inspirational. If you want to get involved (and why wouldn’t you?), the best way is to join the meetup group and attend the monthly meetups. As soon as a date is confirmed for WordCamp Toronto as organized by the local meetup, we will post it here.

The organizers of the May 14 event in Toronto have offered refunds to anyone who had already bought tickets.

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Vancouver Dev-specific WordCamp Lowers Prices

Posted by on April 26, 2011 with Comments are off for this post

WordCamp Vancouver is coming up on May 5. The organizers call it a developer focus, though I would probably amend that to be “professional” as there are also sessions about design, information architecture and content strategy, etc.

They recently lowered the ticket price to $40. They’ll be selling tickets for another 5 days, so if you’re a developer or WordPress professional in the Pacific Northwest (or would like to become one!), I highly recommend attending.

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WordCamp Atlanta 2011 Postponed until Fall

Posted by on April 13, 2011 with 2 replies

You may have noticed that WordCamp Atlanta 2011 is no longer listed on the schedule for May. The event has been postponed until Fall 2011, so that the Atlanta meetup group (one of the most vital and active in the US) can assume a more active role in organizing their community’s WordCamp alongside last year’s organizers.

The organizing team will be updating the site with more information as decisions get made. In the meantime, they are still evaluating venues (donated venues in downtown Atlanta welcome!), and accepting applications for speakers and sponsors. The very best way to get involved is to join the meetup group and attend the monthly meetups. Once a new date is finalized, we will list it on our schedule here. I, for one, am looking forward to seeing what they come up with for their program. There are so many talented WordPress users, developers, and designers in the greater Atlanta area that it just has to be amazing, right?

 

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WordCamp Paris – May 14, 2011

Posted by on March 29, 2011 with Comments are off for this post

WordCamp Paris will be held May 14, 2011 at La Cantine in Paris. There will not be pre-planned speakers and sessions, but will be organized unconference/BarCamp-style at the event. Registration is free, thanks to the efforts of the organizers and sponsors.

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WordPress for Kids

Posted by on February 10, 2011 with 18 replies

A couple of months ago, I was contacted by a WordCamp Phoenix organizer about teaching a WordPress for Kids class. It was to be the first time that any WordCamp had created a class targeted specifically toward children, so I was in unmapped territory as I considered the different approaches I could take in presenting this information to a group of kids of varying ages and experience. I ran through different scenarios in my head and decided on the very simplified approach of baby-stepping them through setting up an account on WordPress.com and then proceeding to walk tab-by-tab down the dashboard.

There ended up being just over 20 kids in my class. They ranged in age from 7 to 15 and their experience with blogging and WordPress varied greatly.  Most had never set up a site, but a handful showed up with sites already set up and underway.  I saw a LEGO blog, a science blog and a cooking blog already full of content upon arrival and the kids were eager to show me what they already knew.  That was really exciting and helped ease the others into the class.  Continue reading →

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WordCamp Phoenix

Posted by on January 28, 2011 with Comments are off for this post

This weekend there will be two WordCamps: WordCamp Phoenix and WordCamp Indonesia.

WordCamp Phoenix has already started, spread out over five days with workshops all over the city, a GPL debate, an all-star cast of speakers, and a core contributor workshop on Sunday to help potential volunteer developers to the WordPress open source project ramp up and get involved. Keep your eyes on WordPress.tv after the event is over, as all the session videos will be posted there.

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WordCamp SF Announced (not WordCon)

Posted by on January 24, 2011 with 10 replies

First things first: WordCamp San Francisco 2011, the official annual conference of the WordPress open source project, will be the weekend of August 12-14, with three days of sessions for publishers, bloggers, and developers at the Mission Bay Conference Center and another day or two of related events around town, including a core contributors summit and various mini-meetups. Save the date! We’ll be posting calls for speakers, sponsors, and volunteers on the WordCamp SF 2011 site over the coming weeks.

Second things second: Why am I announcing WordCamp SF as the official annual conference for the WordPress project instead of a WordCon — a la DrupalCon — like I proposed at last year’s WordCamp SF?

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