WordCamp New York City 2009

November 14–15, 2009
...was awesome!

Program/Speakers

The preliminary speaker lineup will be announced the evening of October 22, 2009 (NYC time, of course!). Thanks for all the speaker suggestions and program proposals. This year’s lineup is going to be amazing!

71 Responses

  1. John Bintz says:

    I’ve been doing a lot of work with unit and functional testing for WordPress plugins using PHPUnit and Selenium. I’ve written several plugins so far, one with a full PHPUnit testing suite (Plugin Wonderful) , and another that will have both a full PHPUnit test suite and a Selenium test suite (ComicPress Manager). Additionally, I’ve written a PHP static code analyzer (Harmonious Code) that ensures that the code I produce for plugins correctly targets what I consider to be the lowest common PHP denominator (Yahoo! Small Business Hosting’s 4.3.11). I would be interested in doing a talk on setting up automated testing and release systems for plugins, either using PHPUnit or Selenium (or both!).

  2. jane says:

    Update: John will be speaking in the Advanced Dev track on plugin unit testing and will demo ComicPress in the CMS track.

  3. Hi,

    I organized WordCamp Toronto, and it was very successful!

    I did a presentation on FlashPress ( http://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/flashpress/ ) and here is our case study ( http://fp.onemethod.com , still in beta ). It went over really well, and I will be presenting it again at WordCamp Montreal.

    I would love to present in this in New York??? Would this be possible??? Is there a budget for this???

    Also, as a professor at Seneca College I was the first to teach WP up here and we use it widely now in the school as tool for education. Would love to maybe talk about that, and represent the Canadian WP scene.

    Any ways,

    Let me know.

    -Brendan

  4. jane says:

    We’ve invited Brendan to present on FlashPress, and are waiting to hear if he can make it. If anyone has a couch to volunteer, that might help him make up his mind!

  5. I have been blogging for a few years now (using WordPress) and have learned a great deal. I’m not a PHP, CSS, or Javascript guru, but I have learned a lot just working with WordPress (themes, plugins, upgrades, etc.) over the years. I would love to present a session on the experience of trying to balance a full-time corporate job, maintaining a blog, and having a life. I do quite a lot of public speaking/presenting at my day job and would love to get the chance to talk about something more interesting than Enterprise Accounting Software. If you have any topics that you would like to include in the conference, but need someone to research and/or present them I would be glad to help out.
    Thanks

  6. Brad says:

    I’d love to give a presentation (or workshop) at WordCamp NYC around plugin development. I’m thinking maybe a beginners guide to plugin development where I could detail all steps involved in creating your first plugin. I think there is a huge interest in plugin development, but it can be hard (and a little intimidating) trying to figure out where to start.

    I just gave a presentation on Advanced Thesis Techniques and Tricks at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic last Saturday and had a blast!

  7. I have something to offer the attendees of this Wordcamp. I used to work as a military researcher and I was a very self conscience writer. I then discovered the Plain English writing style. I learned the things that bothered me were mechanical and fixable with the right software. So I set out to make this software.

    Today, I have a plugin for WordPress that checks spelling, style, and grammar of blog posts.

    Having the tools to write better is good, but they are more useful when you know what to expect and how to use them. I’d like to introduce you to the Plain English writing style, how software can help you, and what the limitations are. You’ll walk away less angry at the poor spellchecker and armed with tips to write clearly.

  8. jane says:

    Update: Raphael will be speaking on Saturday.

  9. Erin says:

    ShareThis CEO Tim Schigel would be a good speaker to give a presentation on how implementing social media sharing services into your blog can increase traffic. He has recently spoken at Digital Hollywood, SES, Email Insider, etc. and has great insights on the state of online sharing through email, blog posts, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.

  10. Alison Woo says:

    Hi there! My business partner and I are the co-authors of the book, “How to Say It: Marketing with New Media” (Penguin, 2008). We’re NYC girls who have both created and used several WordPress blogs to help schools communicate with their students. We’d love to talk about creating group blogs or blogs for nonprofits or educational organizations. Thanks!

  11. jane says:

    Hi Alison. We won’t be lining up speakers until we’ve confirmed the venue so we know how many slots we can plan for, but we’ll keep you in mind. Thanks!

  12. Dan Milward says:

    The WP e-Commerce Plugin is the grandfather of e-Commerce Plugins for WordPress. It was built many moons ago with one idea in mind “to help you sell your digital and tangible goods online”.

    Recently the WP e-Commerce Plugin has gone through a total rewrite – one of the many new benefits is seemless compatibility with WordPress MU.

    We would like to send Shayne Sanderson (who is our main support person), who has presented at WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Raleigh and WordCamp Portland this year. Shayne is a fun and engaging speaker and he will demonstrate how to install and setup WP e-Commerce and how it integrates with WordPress MU seemlessly to provide a MU (or any WordPress) installation with the ability to add an Ecommerce solution in a matter of minutes.

    We will also provide a number of fun give aways.

  13. jane says:

    Dan will give a presentation on the new ticketing module that the WP e-Commerce guys built to power tickets sales for WordCamp NYC. Soon you, too, can sell event tickets on your own WordPress site and say goodbye to eventbrite and the like. Yay!

  14. Richard says:

    Any idea when the venue will be decided?

    (I’m planning to come as part of my ‘research’ into educational applications for WP, and my university (in Tokyo) won’t agree to pay for my trip until I can furnish them with all the details!)

  15. jane says:

    Hi Richard. The venue has been confirmed, and the date is solid. We’ll be working on putting together the speakers list over the next couple of weeks, and will open registration shortly thereafter.

  16. Daisy Olsen says:

    I’m very excited about the next NYC WordCamp! I was able to attend last year and I look forward to being there again in November. I’d love to have the opportunity to speak on the subject of using theme frameworks to the child theme capabilities of WordPress. I’m a listed developer with Justin Tadlock’s Hybird theme but would cover all of the major frameworks as well as using the child theme structure when customizing existing themes.

  17. jane says:

    Update: Daisy will be presenting on developing themes on Saturday.

  18. I use WordPress as a knowledge exchange portal for my team. It’s the ultimate product developer’s tool when you have very little technical resources to support any other tool. I would like to give a presentation at the NYC WordCamp on how small agile development team can greatly benefit from using WP and how it can be the knowledge portal for their internal development process.

    I also have been installing and customizing WordPress for many artist and musicians. My wife and her family have all WordPress sites and I have been working with well known musicians, producers, community organizers, kids sports team, etc. to use WordPress.

    I am very proactive in using WordPress in every aspect of life: business, personal, and community and would like to share to an audience how WordPress has been the ultimate swiss knife web tool for my team, my clients and my personal life.

  19. Get Chris Brogan. http://www.chrisbrogan.com
    He is a great presenter.

  20. Just finishing a book on WordPress basics due out in November – I’m planning to attend WordCamp New York and would love to give a presentation. My focus is on using WordPress as a content management system and I could talk to a beginner or intermediate audience.

    Cheers!

    GP

  21. Ernie Smith says:

    I would be interested in giving a presentation about thinking outside of the WordPress box, using my blog (http://shortformblog.com/) and suggesting how thinking non-traditionally about posting and blog design can help keep your content fresh.

    Would love to, in fact. πŸ™‚

  22. Slow says:

    Hi I’d like to do a presentation about WP security from a hacker’s perspective. Talk about the root causes that create the security vulnerablities and what people are doing to fix them. I’d also like to dig into the reasons why WP remains the #1 blogging platform despite a history of security vulnerablities. I’m in NYC and would not require any travel expenses or honorarium. Thanks for your consideration!

  23. Zac says:

    Hi,

    I am a web design educator at the high school and college level. For the past few years I have been teaching WordPress to my web design and development students. I would be interested in giving a presentation about how to build a simple wordpress theme for a site that requires CMS type pages as well as a blog.

    I could prepare a unique tutorial and set of resources for it, and cover the basic points and things to look out for while developing. The target audience would be people familiar with WordPress who like to tweak themes, don’t necessarily have a strong programming background (if any), and want to take their WP dev skills to the next level.

    Thanks!
    Zac

  24. Gerard says:

    I’d be interested in discussion of Security (I’m a CISSP and have done several WP sites.) Also interested in Plugin development (I’ve done a little but I’m sure I could learn more).

    We’re in New Hampshire but will make it down to NYC if we can.

  25. I would like to do a presentation or be on a panel about using wordpress as a magazine and/or high powered CMS.

    How to evolve to try and compete with the big boys in your niche.
    Danger of using just any plugin.
    Why scheduling is so important.
    Writer Management and Strategies
    Design vs. Functionaity

    We are in NNJ right outside of NYC πŸ˜‰

  26. Gerard says:

    I’ve been reading about BuddyPress in the past few days and it sounds interesting… could be very useful for an upcoming project. Look forward to learning more.

  27. Ron Suarez says:

    We are developing a WordPress MU BuddyPress site for the American Association of Independent Music – http://a2im.org (this is the old site in C# and .NET). Here at Loud Feed – http://loudfeed.com – we are also writing a WP Plugin to accept music label, artist and album feeds from our digital music content management system (a Ruby on Rails app). Loud Feed gives artists and labels a single back end to organize music, video, tour info and related metadata. Then, we make it go wherever it needs to be with RSS feeds.

    Instead of using Ruby on Rails and Liquid Templates for the front end as we did here: http://toolshed.biz/promovuz/projects – we want the content to come into a WordPress MU site with BuddyPress. Individual rights holders can manage their own free promotional accounts from Loud Feed. Then, an aggregator can accept feeds from many labels and or artists into a single BuddyPress site. We’re particularly interested in how flexible we can make the combination of the two publishing systems, where individual Loud Feed account holders can control the availability of their content, while aggregators decide how to combine feeds from those individuals.

  28. I’d like to contribute a seminar on going beyond simple web design and or blogging with wordpress. I have some great ideas that are both theoretical and being used currently for simple ways you can implement dynamic and complex web sites all powered by wordpress.

    The content of the lecture would be about harnessing the power of wordpress and taking advantage of all of it’s current tools, in ways that most people haven’t considered before.

    Often applications of wordpress seem limited because it appears to only be a powerful blogging cms. However the possibilities are limitless and with a move in the right direction, refuting of some myths and a little imagination anyone can achieve these results.

    I’m currently the Chief Systems Architect at Advertising firm outside of Boston, a Professor at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI and avid wordpress user.

    I am in the process of developing a conference called Blogsville http://blogsville.us where I’ll be speaking about good Blogging Design and Strategies for Effective Usability.

    I would be happy to send a formal resume and portfolio.

  29. Frank says:

    Hi,

    Looking forward to it. Will it be a free event or will tickets have to be purchased?

    thanks

  30. Steve Bruner says:

    Hi Frank,

    Tickets will be made available at an affordable price. We’re still working at the logistics, but our main goal is to keep this affordable to the community.

    Steve

  31. Frank says:

    Great! Any chance we can get an email notification of when this will happen?

    I dont always check my RSS feeds πŸ™‚

    Thanks

  32. Frank says:

    Nevermind, I missed the email link on home page. πŸ™‚

  33. Hi,

    If you are interested, I would be happy to present on WordPress customization. I have presented at WordCamp Vancouver in 2009 (http://blog.tazzu.com/2008/04/21/meet-the-tazzu-wordpress-camp-presenters/) and WordCamp Fraser Valley in 2008 and 2009 (http://wordcampfraservalley.com) in British Columbia. My first presentation was entitled “Using WordPress to create a custom library, catalog, or other mashup-type site.” My second presentation was called “Safety First! WordPress Security” (http://kulpreetsingh.com/wordpress-security-presentation). My most recent presentation was called “Mastering the Admin Interface” and it was about how to make the WordPress dashboard more customized to the goals and purposes of your blog or website.

    Thank you,

    -k.s.

  34. Ted Mann says:

    If you’d be interested in doing a session on using WPMU and BuddyPress for hyperlocal journalism, I’d be happy to volunteer to lead that. As part of my work in Gannett’s five NJ newspaper sites, I launched an offshoot set of hyperlocal blogs, dubbed http://injersey.com. The sites are town-specific news sites (e.g. http://freehold.injersey.com ), edited and led by a full-time reporter, but open to public registration. I’m thrilled with the results we’ve had with BuddyPress, which have far exceeded my expectations. And I plenty to speak about using various plugins and other tools to aggregate community contributions. Here’s a short demo of how the site works: http://injersey.com/about

    Give me a holler if you’re interested.

  35. Jessica says:

    Hi Steve,

    As we’d talked about in August, I’d love to do a session on how designers can attract higher-paying WordPress projects. With so many designers specializing in the program these days, it can seem like clients want to pay as little as possible, but that’s definitely not the case.

    My proposed session would focus on how to add value to a project, how to present a proposal so that clients are willing to pay more, and where to find great clients with big budgets (instead of difficult-to-work-with clients with tiny budgets). I can provide examples of exactly what I’ve done to land lucrative projects and will be happy to reveal how I price my projects–and how I demonstrate to clients that I’m worth every penny.

    Thanks,

    Jessica

  36. John Eckman says:

    I’d love to give a talk about WPBook – a WordPress plugin I develop that lets you expose your self-hosted WordPress blog as a Facebook application.

    Ends up being a bit of a talk about the Facebook API, a bit about WordPress Hooks and how to use them, as well as a demo of how folks can use the plugin to promote their blogs.

  37. Kevin Palmer says:

    Hi,

    I recently spoke at WordPress Chicago about how to use WordPress as your social media hub. The focus of the presentation is on the strategy and technology behind using the WordPress platform to do this with the goal of bringing in new readers.

    Thanks
    Kevin

  38. Val Nelson says:

    Hi, I’m looking forward to attending. Can anyone tell me the hours of the event each day? I can’t find it anywhere on the site.
    Thanks!

    I agree about Chris Brogan as a speaker, and I also recommend John Haydon who is a dynamic and thoughtful consultant on blogging and social media for small biz and non-profits:
    http://johnhaydon.com/

  39. jane says:

    @Val: The hours will be 9-6 each day, with registration on Saturday opening at 8am.

    Thanks for the speaker suggestion. I checked out John Haydon’s site, and it looks like he uses and evangelizes themes that are in violation of the GPL. While it’s up to every WordPress user to decide for themselves if they want to support GPL themes that are following the rules or support non-GPL themes that are in violation of the WordPress license, we’re going to keep the topics and speakers GPL-friendly in the spirit of promoting open source contributions and compliance with the license. His WordPress-specific experience might have made a nice talk, but the non-GPL stance is a blocker (and odd, given his support of social responsibility in other areas), and we will have 40-50 speakers plus unconference sessions, so there will be plenty to choose from.

  40. Jeff Marx says:

    Is Matt going to be speaking on saturday or sunday?

    Is there any schedule formulated yet?

  41. jane says:

    @Jeff Marx: Matt will be speaking at the end of the day on Sunday, closing the event. The speakers list will go up by 10/23, and the schedule will go up the following week.

  42. Amanda says:

    My partners and I teach non profits and small businesses how to employ WP as all around site solutions. In particular, I’d like to address WordPress as the only realistic and recommended solution for non profits today. Specifically, how to address internal as well as external organizational issues through WP and additional SaaS, how to train orgs with high turnover, and how to deal with updates, depreciating sites, etc.

    We’ve seen exceptional success with schools, religious organizations and community organizations but are now addressing top 50 NPOs with the same treatment. Lastly, since WP is the ideal solution to help non profits maintain communications without expense, I’d like to talk about the projects that exist to help NPOs get wordpress for free or at low cost. The end goal is that attendees would be able to help NPOs move towards a goal of self sufficiency.

  43. I’d be happy to be part of a panel on what makes for compelling content and building your audience. Or maybe something on working with the media to get your site noticed since my site gets regular media attention, which is important to building the brand. I’ve been running my site since 2003 and switched to WP around 2005. I was on a panel at Word Camp 2007 in SF on a related topic.

  44. jane says:

    Update: Michelle will be talking on Saturday the 14th about how to draw media attention to your blog.

  45. smcnally says:

    I’d like to present True/Slant from a technical, editorial or business model point of view.

    TrueSlant.com is built atop WordPress Mu. We’re a ~year old startup launched to the public in mid-April of this year. We’ve grown to 200+ hand-selected bloggers (primarily professionals, academics, and journalists from “traditional media”). Traffic has grown to ~700k unique visitors and ~1.5MM page views per month since public launch.

    Our platform is a highly-customized WordPress experience, and our editorial tools and workflows are novel (and very cool). We’re a living example of “new business models for news” in action.

    Walt Mossberg covered our April launch. Howard Kurtz (Washington Post), The Financial Times and others have looked in on what we’ve been doing since then.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123922742849502695.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060800941.html
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/492ca544-5390-11de-be08-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

    Many thanks for your time and consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you.

  46. I’d like to recommend speaker Jessica Valenzuela for upcoming WordCamp 2009 Conference… Here’s a little info on the digital entrepreneur!

    Jessica Valenzuela
    Founder & Principal, Mavin Digital, Inc
    New York City, NY

    Jessica Valenzuela is a digital advertising visionary with a flair for creating and marketing global brands. She founded, and now serves as chief principal of Mavin Digital, Inc., a fun, nimble NYC boutique specializing in inspirational digital branding. Built on a 12-year career with well-known agency powerhouses like Y&R Wunderman, Tribal DDB and OgilvyAction, Jessica understands how to deliver meaningful brands from creative concept to execution and measurement.

    More importantly, Jessica brings industry know-how and virtual tenacity together to lead brands successfully into the digital world including online go-to-market strategies, digital advertising and marketing communications, as well as overall brand messaging.

    She offers a mobile β€œspitfire” team customized to fit each client program; and has worked on a variety of creative projects and ongoing branding campaigns ranging in size and scale for Kaplan Inc., Schering-Plough Inc., Novartis, Pfizer, Chevron, Philips, Hewlett Packard, Forbes.com, Cantor Fitzgerald and Accenture. Personalities have also turned to her insightful digital approach including well-known pop star Gwen Stefani.

    Jessica takes brands beyond traditional marketing boundaries with ease, and strategically maps brand approach to audience and successful outcome. The result is digital branding on a dime. Mavin Digital.

    delivering here: http://mavindigital.com
    mashup: http://blog.mavindigital.com
    food: http://blog.cheapeatsinc.com/
    portfolio: http://jessicavalenzuela.com

  47. Jeremy Zilar says:

    I would be happy to speak about how we run the blogs at the New York Times.
    I can cover everything from designing/building effective features for blogs to educating hundreds of bloggers to use WP and defining what makes a blog successful.

  48. WNET/Thirteen (PBS in NY – WNET.org) and Tierra Innovation (www.tierra-innovation.com) would like to propose a joint panel to present a case study of the WordPress project we collaborated on this past year. Using WPMU, WNET partnered with Tierra to launch 50+ non-blog sites supporting WNET television programming in in less than 12 months, reducing costs, improving traffic and streamlined their production across multiple Thirteen and PBS teams.

    The panel would cover the business objectives for the project, why WNET selected WP, technical challenges in re-launching dozens of sites using one common platform , custom plugins and templates, and other issues. Both WNET and Tierra team members would present and discuss the project.

  49. Bob Schiers says:

    I think Candace Karu, Cabot Creamery Cooperative’s Consumer Lifestyle Commentator would make an ideal guest speaker at WordCamp 2009. As the Consumer Lifestyle Commentator for Cabot, Candace writes, blogs, and speaks about fitness, lifestyle, and wellness issues pertinent to Boomer-aged audiences.

    An award-winning writer, Candace is the former Editor At Large for Running Times magazine, where she worked for 10 years and wrote about running and racing, as well as yoga, stretching, cross-training, physical conditioning and nutrition. Candace has also written extensively about art, architecture, design, and restaurants, most recently in her position as the Editor At Large for Maine Home + Design magazine. She serves on the advisory board of the Z.A.P. Fitness Foundation and is Chair of The Board of Trustees at Maine College of Art.

    Candace writes, blogs and Podcasts on a host of subjects that are relevant to boomers and “Zoomers” – her affectionate name for really active boomers. Candace is an avid fan (and user) of WordPress and she’s not shy about sharing her views on topics ranging from fitness to love to aging to food and beyond.

  50. I can provide a blueprint for small business owners who need to get a WordPress website off the ground.

    Everything from domain name selection, hosting, design, content creation, SEO, usability, plugins and upgrades plus helping people new to website development understand all the roles like the difference between developers and designers.

    People always have questions about themes and whether they should buy one, modify a free one or hire someone to create one from scratch.

  51. Jim Doran says:

    I host blogs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and I make themes for blogs and CMSWP. I’d like to either be on an EDU panel, or discuss theme development, integrating jQuery, etc.

  52. Available to give a presentation title, “Achieving WordPress Success: How to break wordpress?”

  53. Mushon says:

    Hi, I am a designer and the coordinator of the web and interactive classes in the Graphic Design program at Parsons, The New School of Design. I would like to propose a talk titled: “Making Design By Committee Work – the case for open source design”. Slides can be found here: http://www.shual.com/making-design-by-committee-work-the-case-for-open-source-design/

    This talk opened our Networked Design talk series at Parsons this week. Here’s the discription:
    β€œDesign by committee”, β€œtoo many cooks in the kitchen” and other terms have been used derogatively to imply that the creative process breaks when it involves too many individuals. At the same time, the software world has been completely revolutionized by the open source, networked collaborative process. The one field in which the open source process lags behind the more conventional models involves graphic and interaction designs – two fields critical to software development that have not nourished similar collaboration models. What are the challenges of networked collaboration in the creative process? Can and how might they be solved? Or is it just that designers don’t like to work together? Mushon will be tackling these questions in the light of his creative work and along with the research done in his Open Source Design class taught in Parsons’ AAS Program in Graphic Design.

    I am actually using WordPress and my students’ involvement in the WordPress 2.7 icon design challenge as one of my examples for open source design. If the community would be interested in thoughts about opening the development to more designers and the challenges, and possible solutions to doing that, I would love to propose these ideas for discussion.

    thanks,

    Mushon

  54. Corey says:

    New York City local here interested in hosting a class regarding SEO/SEM, Usability & WordPress.

    Search Engine Optimization Specialist experienced in building SEO friendly websites for not only clients but internet marketing agencies. Fortune-500 company web development/internet marketing experience with a passion and love for wordpress. Experienced in tweaking and modifying wordpress for monetization + SEO purposes.

    Currently Senior SEO Specialist for LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell small-law clients and Partner at Ninety Seven Media (a small SEO/Web company involved in developing wordpress sites for small companies).

  55. Greetings,

    I am Jayson Phillips, web developer with the Enterprise Applications Team at iCrossing. We’re a digital agency that delivers integrated solutions with Search as the core. What we would be interested in presenting on WordPress/Wordpress MU in the Enterprise, illustrating the technological & communicative benefits of using the WordPress platform for both our internal corporate blog system as well as our main Thought Leadership blog, GreatFinds (http://greatfinds.icrossing.com).

    We would want to point out the challenges and achievements we’ve made with WordPress at the core as well as our current/planned contributions to the WordPress community and present the case to enthusiasts, companies, and individuals alike about the ways WordPress can help and some of the possibilities it presents.

  56. Robbin says:

    I’d like to see a workshop on WordPress as CMS. I think I’ve broken my site. πŸ™‚

  57. jane says:

    @Robbin: We’ll have an entire track dedicated to using WordPress as a CMS. Plus a genius bar, so maybe they can help you fix your broken site! πŸ™‚

  58. Kenn Bell says:

    I have a wordpress site called The Dog Files. We go around the country shooting videos about the dog world. This might be a bit off the beaten path but I’d love to talk about how people can make better videos for their site. Thanks!

  59. Pete Mall says:

    I’m a WordPress and WordPress MU consultant and I’ve been using WordPress since early 2005. I recently spoke about WordPress MU at WordCamp in Blog World Expo Las Vegas. I would love to talk about WordPress MU at WordCamp NY.

  60. Robbin says:

    Genius bar! I love that idea! This will be the best $40 ever spent!

  61. John Ford says:

    I’ve had great response from other developers when viewing “live coding”. It can be risky but there’s nothing like watching someone program to learn new ideas. Here’s an option that I would be happy to present as a live coding session / presentation. It would be a full working example based on a site I built:

    Customizing the admin with post meta boxes like a CMS
    * Create a new link to add “Projects” to a website
    * Projects are Pages with extra post meta boxes for additional details that only show up when you’re adding a Project
    * Photos that are uploaded are automatically inserted into the page
    * PDFs that are uploaded are automatically inserted into the page
    * Updating the theme to show how to take advantage of this extra information

    Adding post meta boxes and automatically inserting content can make it super easy for clients to update their site. I think it’s something everyone should be taking advantage of.

    Thanks!

  62. John Ford says:

    I also wanted to mention that I’m happy helping out wherever it’s needed (genius bar, beginner track, developer track, errand monkey, etc.).

    I get a lot of questions about how I implemented the swissmiss grid view and category filtering (http://www.swiss-miss.com/) which I’m happy to walk through as a topic.

    If there’s interest in a joint developer+designer WP talk I can probably wrangle swissmiss into presenting with me. She and I do a lot of blog and non-blog sites using WP.

  63. Jen Simmons says:

    I would love to present at WordCamp, and have several ideas of what to do for a session. I’m open to doing any one of these three sessions about theming β€” they differ mostly by the skill level of the participants.

    a) how to change the look of your blog β€” tips and tricks for total beginners

    b) beginning theming β€” how to make your own theme for people who know web design, HTML and CSS already, but are new to WordPress

    c) advanced theming β€” now that you’ve made themes writing css-only, how can you change things up by hacking the PHP?

    I presented at last year’s WordCamp, and have designed and built dozens of custom WordPress installations for clients. I’ve also taught a lot β€”Β both on the highschool and university levels. Currently, I run Milkweed Media Design, designing and developing sites for clients in WordPress and Drupal.

    I look forward to hearing from you!

  64. Val Nelson says:

    The essence of blogs is their written content, yet I don’t see any sessions about good blog writing yet. As a specialist in writing for the web, I’d like to facilitate a session about that. I think I would call it:

    “Writing Blog Posts That Keep People and Search Engines Happy”

    I have a checklist to hand out that people can use to “grade” and improve their blog posts.

    In the session, we’ll grade actual blog posts together, in a participatory “unconference,” non-power-point style.

    How does that sound?

    Thanks

  65. Andrew. CPhT says:

    @Val I’d like to second that. I could definitely use some help in that arena. I tend to just ramble on. lol πŸ™‚

  66. I’m interested in speaking on plugins. I spoke at Izeafest in 2008 about plugins and extending WordPress. Plugins is one of my passions with WordPress.

  67. I’m interested in speaking on the BLOGGER TRACK with Analytics, WordPress.com stats, etc.
    I’ve been working with WP for over 3 years and I have over 7 years exp with Web Traffic and Analysis.

  68. Just saw the email that you are looking for more speakers to cover a few topics. I would be interested in doing the BUDDYPRESS/MU track. I could do a BuddyPress Setup Workshop on installing BP/MU.
    I have been doing technical training for over 10 years. I also did a series on Setting Up and Configuring WordPress with video tutorials. You can go there to see my teaching style. I’m already volunteering on the conference, so I’ll be there any way.

  69. Andrew. CPhT says:

    Ok, so I know I’m already doing a lot with volunteering and all, but I just had a great idea for the WPMU track:

    Anatomy of a WPMU Home Theme: A beginner’s guide

    I could go over the basic elements that are needed (or suggested), such as site-wide aggregation, features and support pages, etc.

    but I am a museum tour guide (constantly giving out information and being asked questions) and I’m also the team trainer for my department at work, so I’m used to talking to large groups of people I don’t know. πŸ™‚

    Besides, I don’t have enough to do already. πŸ™‚

  70. Jaki Levy says:

    What a great list so far! I’ve been working with many non profits and arts organizations, helping them run their own wordpress installs. I regularly teach classes, and recently did a workshop in Brooklyn.

    I’d be happy to take a focused look at marketing your blog + deepening your visitors epxerience. This would include doing a review of feedburner, mailchimp (as an alternative to feedburner), and a suite of plugins and features to encourage visitors to subscribe to your blog + leave comments.

    I also know there is still a need for people to do overviews of plugins, galleries, and stats. I can easily cover any one of these areas.

  71. jane says:

    Hi Jaki. We are all set on speakers now, so I’d suggest you sign up to do an unconference session at the event if you’re interested in presenting something or doing a workshop. We’ll post more details on the unconference portion the week before the event, and the sessions themselves will be organized on site the first day of WordCamp NYC.

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