WordCamp UK

Rich — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:56:37 +0000

This weekend is the first ever WordCamp UK event. Jeff Van Campen and I are luck y enough to be heading up to Birmingham this afternoon, ready for a 09:30 kick off tomorrow morning. The weekend will see various Wordpress enthusiasts give talks and Q&A sessions on the open source application.

Here is the latest running order:

Saturday 19 July 2008

0930-0950: Registration/coffee

0950-1000: Introduction; Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/

1000-1100: Essential plugins; Richard Williams http://www.rkwinternet.com/

1100-1200: SEO for wordpress; Nick Garner http://wiki.wordcampuk.tonyscott.org.uk/User:Nickg

1200-1300: WordPress Question Time; Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/; Gurbir Singh http://astrotalkuk.org/; Rich Boakes http://boakes.org/; Sam Bauers http://unlettered.org/; Mike Little http://zed1.com/; Benjamin Ellis http://redcatco.com/

1300-1430: Lunch

1430-1530: Plugin Development; Simon Wheatly http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/

1530-1630: Blogging and journalism; Benjamin Ellis http://redcatco.com/; A N Other TBA

1630-1730: Managing blog upgrades using Subversion; Sam Bauers http://unlettered.org/

1730-1800: WordPress is not a blog; Jonnya http://wp-cms.com/

2000-2300: Saturday WordCamp UK social; The Old Royal, Church St, Birmingham.

Sunday 20 July 2008

0950-1000: Introduction; Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/

1000-1100: Walking with WordPress; Richard Williams http://www.rkwinternet.com/

1100-1200: Large companies; Simon Dickson http://puffbox.com/

1200-1300: bbPress/WordPress integration and the future of bbPress; Sam Bauers http://unlettered.org/

1300-1430: Lunch

1430-1530

Code surgery session

Submit your questions to the surgeons: http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/code-surgery-questions/

Your Code Surgeons are:

Simon Wheatley http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/

Peter Westwood http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/

Rich Boakes http://boakes.org/hello

Mike Little http://zed1.com/

1530-1630: Living from your blog; Chris Garrett http://www.chrisg.com/

1630-1730: Getting involved with WordPress; Peter Westwood http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/

1730-1800: The Humphrey Awards 2008; Ian Covey http://tvs-worst-adverts.co.uk/; Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/

I am hoping to hear some business cases for adopting Wordpress as a content management system. I believe it is a great solution for the average size company that needs a robust, managable solution.

Rich Johnson » wordcamp uk

WordCamp UK

Saturday 19 July 2008

Sunday 20 July 2008