WordCamp Seattle

WordCamp Seattle 2012

Calvin Freitas — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:43:41 +0000

We can now proudly announce that we’ve scheduled WordCamp Seattle 2012 for May 19, 2012, at the Seattle Art Museum.

Please head to the WordCamp Seattle 2012 website for more information about this year’s event.

Watch WordCamp Seattle Videos

Calvin Freitas — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:24:13 +0000

We’ve posted videos of WordCamp Seattle 2011 for your viewing pleasure. The full list of videos is here including our keynote speaker Scott Berkun, an interview of Alex King, and every session from our blogger track, developer track, and ignite sessions. (We’re still waiting on video for the design track.)

Thanks to Blaze Streaming Media for livestreaming our event and for getting us these videos so quickly to share with the community.

Scott Berkun – How is WordPress.com Made?

A WordCamp for Developers in Vancouver, BC

Calvin Freitas — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:22:07 +0000

If you came out of WordCamp Seattle and are looking for even more developer focused topics, our neighbors to the north have an event you may be interested in.

WordCamp: Developers is an one-day non-profit conference by developers for developers. Held in Vancouver, BC, WordCamp: Developers is slated to take place on May 5, 2011. Tickets are $40.

The conference will feature 2 tracks, one targeting WordPress UX topics and issues, and the other targeting strictly development issues. The day will also be host to a WordPress Un-Conference where participants are encouraged to pitch talks and join in discussion. Learn more…

Ultra Sponsor: ThemeForest

Calvin Freitas — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:27:16 +0000

Envato Marketplace, ThemeForest, is happy to sponsor WordCamp Seattle. ThemeForest is the largest premium WordPress theme marketplace in the world and is proud to provide ongoing support for the WordPress community.

We appreciate ThemeForest’s sponsorship of the event. They added their strong support to the event and helped cover unexpected last minute costs by signing up as an Ultra Sponsor the day before the event. They were also the largest provider of swag at the event and gave away over a couple hundred shirts!

Speaker Profile: Alex King

Nick Ohrn — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:22:19 +0000

The end of day key note for WordCamp Seattle is an interview with web developer and businessman Alex King. Alex currently resides in Denver, Colorado, having moved from the Bay Area in 2004. He is the founder of Crowd Favorite, a web development company that specializes in WordPress development (including themes and implementation) and web-based applications.

Alex will be answering questions about running a business around open source software, his experiences with the WordPress community and where he sees WordPress going in the future. He’ll also touch on his WP Help Center experience and some issues regarding how best to serve WordPress users going forward from this point. It will be a great interview.

When not wrangling code or people, Alex keeps busy with a variety of sports and activities. His sporting time is primarily spent on the golf course or playing volleyball and he also dabbles in guitar and photography. You can find him at alexking.org or Crowd Favorite.

Premium Sponsor: IvyCat Website Services

Calvin Freitas — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:02:36 +0000

IvyCat Web Services, based in Gig Harbor, WA, is proud to participate and sponsor
WordCamp Seattle 2011 and the Seattle WordPress Meetup.

We focus on:

rock-solid web hosting,
professional WordPress web development,
extraordinary customer support.

Stay tuned: we’ll be giving away hosting accounts and t-shirts at WordCamp.

Hosting Special for all WordCampers:

Save 30% on web hosting when you use coupon code: wcsea11 at checkout.

Speaker Profile: Toby McKes

Josh Harrison — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:57:46 +0000

Toby McKes will be speaking in the Theming Track at 11:05am in the Olympic Room. His topic is Cool as a LOLCat: Making Custom Theme Options Easy.

Toby is the lead WordPress developer for Cheezburger Networks, creators of the humor sites icanhascheezburger.com and failblog.org. They have many sites and most of them are run on top of WordPress. Toby will also be speaking at WordCamp Developers in Vancouver next month.

Since they have so many sites using WordPress, Cheezburger has made part of their libraries publicly available. Toby will be sharing with us a library they created to make managing theme options super simple.

Speaker Profile: Justin Briggs

Josh Harrison — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:14:18 +0000

Justin Briggs will be covering the all important topic of SEO as part of the user/blogger track. He will be speaking on WordPress SEO in the S. Cascade room.

Justin will cover actionable information on SEO for WordPress including plugins, tweaks, speed, themes, security and other considerations.

After hearing Justin speak at a Seattle WordPress Meetup, we were excited to get him to speak at WordCamp Seattle. He is an SEO Consultant at Distilled in the US and an SEOmoz Associate.

Ultra Sponsor: Microsoft

Calvin Freitas — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:06:01 +0000

Thanks to Microsoft for being an Ultra Sponsor for WordCamp Seattle 2011.

Mithun Dhar, Microsoft Evangelist, will be available at the event in the morning. He’ll have trial passes available for Microsoft Windows Azure and can answer your questions regarding that or anything else related to Microsoft.

Microsoft & WordPress
WordPress is one of the most popular open-source blogging, publishing and content management systems, with a deep plugin and theme architecture that allows for limitless possibilities. WordPress also runs great on the Microsoft Web Platform. Microsoft is teaming up with the WordPress Community to make using WordPress on Windows even easier and Microsoft along with its hosting partners is working to make hosting WordPress on Windows a great choice for everyone.

Learn how to install WordPress on Windows.

Microsoft creates the Windows Live Writer blogging software. Writer works with many blogging services including WordPress.

Speaker Profile: Divya Manian

Josh Harrison — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:37:04 +0000

Divya Manian will be speaking as part of the developer track. Her presentation will take place in the N. Cascade room at 11:05am. The title of her presentation is Writing better plugins for a better web.

A lot of plugins are written in a tagsoup of HTML and CSS which makes them harder to maintain or extend. In the name of giving users maximum choice, plugins are littered with inline styles and markup soup which makes them harder to understand or even efficient in performance. Users can be given a lot of choice with less code! Divya will show how to use your HTML, CSS wisely while also being exposed to writing templates in JavaScript.

Divya currently works as a web opener for Opera in Seattle. She takes her duties as an Open Web vigilante seriously which has resulted in collaborative projects such as HTML5 Readiness, W3Fools, and HTML5 Boilerplate.