WordCamp New York City 2009

WordCamps take a lot of effort to produce, and NYC was no exception. With 8 content tracks, around 60 speakers and over 700 attendees, I think everyone who came was aware of how big an effort it was to produce WordCamp NYC. We were pretty happy with the event, though there are always things you [...]

Hey everyone. Sorry this took so long, I got sidetracked by a car wreck and the flu. Shirts! While most people got their WordCampNYC shirts at the event, there were a few people who did not because we ran out of their size. If you were one of these people, please email me today so [...]

A few people have asked that I publish the names of the lightning round speakers from Sunday afternoon at mason Hall. I guess they were a little too lightning fast when they introduced themselves! Here’s the list:
Round 1
Andy Peatling: Intro to BuddyPress
John Hawkins: Canonical Plugins
Lin Chen: Harvard Gazette (CMS Use)
Jeremy Clarke: Using IDE
Scott Kingsley Clark: [...]

Want to find out how to take WordPress beyond blogging and use it to publish a full-fledged, media-rich website?
Dan Goldman and Jamie Trowbridge discussed how WNET.ORG (Channel Thirteen in NYC) and Tierra Innovation, a leading strategy, design and technology firm based in NYC, collaborated to customize WordPress Multi-User as a CMS [...]

These teams will be on stage at Mason Hall today to get their entries judged:
Themes
1. A fork of the Thematic Framework (by Ian Stewart) and an original child theme.
- Daisy Olsen http://wpmama.com/ (Metro NYC)
- Ron Rennick http://ronandandrea.com/ (New Brunswick, Canada)
2. Italic Smile. This theme helps travelers or photographers easily create a site to share their [...]