Going WordCamping This Weekend
Tomorrow is the first WordCampRVA and it’s gonna be great. What is WordCamp?
WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people.
A look at the schedule can give you a good look at what types of topics are going to be covered and it really is a bit of something for everyone. Of note, not a whole lot of WordPress specific stuff. I don’t know if that’s usual for WordCamps, but I like that: WordPress is what brings us together but does not define us.
I will be heading up a Journalism Blogging Panel that will discuss the use of WordPress and blogging by citizen journalists to cover news and happenings from neighborhoods to nationally. The panel will include:
John Murden – godfather of community blogging (see Church Hill People’s News)
Ross Catrow
– one of the hydra heads behind RVANews and RVABlogs
Jim Hoeft – EiC/Publisher/Head guy of perhaps the best political blog in Virginia, Bearing Drift
I’ll try and have a wrap-up not only of the panel but the day’s events after the weekend. If you’re heading out, see you there. If you’re intersted, there are a handful of ticket still available as of 10am so get them while the getting is good
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And kudos and thanks to Matt Walters for making this happen. He put a lot of work into this and I’m sure he’ll be glad when it goes off awesomely.
