Only two more weeks until WordCamp San Francisco 2009. I can’t wait!
This is the original WordCamp. Every year1 has been fantastic! There is no other event that brings so many of WordPress’s elite together.
They’re friendly people to boot! Thankfully, the elite are welcoming and generous with their time, knowledge, talent and bad jokes (puns). It’s a great learning environment.
The best kept secret about WordCamp is that the speaker line up includes many technology and web luminaries – Matt Cutts, Philip Greenspun, Tim Ferriss, Tara Hunt2 to name a few of the incredible speakers.
Can you believe it is near free — the $25 cost doesn’t even cover the cost of the food. Thank you sponsors!
Even if WordPress wasn’t your thing (shame!), if you’re in the web, it should be a must attend event. It’s a great event for all bloggers and anyone publishing online.
There is also an after party celebrating the sixth anniversary of WordPress!
And Sunday, we’re hosting a barcamp-esque WordPress developer day:
…expect more hardcore geek content like heavy WordPress performance optimization, BuddyPress internals, an intro to Erlang, a guide to secure coding, WordPress-as-CMS discussions, and more. If there’s a topic you’d like to lead start thinking about it now…
There are only 64 spaces left for WordCamp, so sign up now! (Already 536 people have registered.)
I hope to meet you there.
Budd Family helping at Genius Bar WordCamp SF 2008, as seen at http://central.wordcamp.org/
- I just started “talks” with Automattic before WordCamp 2006, and soon after that I joined the Automattic team. The energy of WordCamp was a motivating factor, and was a wonderful introduction to the team for my wife. [↩]
- Bring your copies of The 4-Hour Workweek
and The Whuffie Factor
to get them signed by their authors. [↩]
really looking forward to the event.
should i bring my copy of *high performance websites* for souders to sign?
Matt, how could I forget “high performance websites”! Prolly forgot it because I have not had a chance to read it yet.
I’ll see you there! Looking forward to seeing you again.
It’s gonna be awesome. I think six or seven of us are going down this year. Most of us get in on Thurs, so drop me a line when you’re there and we’ll all hook up for beers.
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