It’s our pleasure to announce WordCamp New Zealand. WordCamp New Zealand was held in the amazing city of Wellington, New Zealand on the 8th and 9th of August 2009. (Getting to Wellington)
WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.
Amazing line up of speakers
The two-day conference was held at the Mt. Victoria Bowling Club (125 Pirie St) and featured Matt Mullenweg as a keynote speaker along with hands-on sessions focused on the WordPress platform and the community around it. For recent video of Matt view here.
WordCampNZÂ Ticket sales closed now. 
If you have any questions, or general enquiries, feel free to get in touch with us via the contact form.
New Zealand: Finally here is one of the videos fromWordcamp. This is Matt in free flow showing why he is such as hit at wordcamps around the world. Special thanks to SpringTV.
There is other video and we wil track it down and get it up here or on WordcampTV for you at some stage.
WordcampNZ featured in the NZ herald Technology section today in a piece called
WordCampers keep up to date. Go there to read the full piece or here is a snip.
Kemp says getting 100 people to give up a fine weekend to discuss a piece of software shows New Zealanders have taken WordPress to heart.
The organisers identified [...]
Thanks for the stream of blog posts about WordCampNZ . We ‘ll compile some quotes from the ones we know about as soon as we catch our collective breath.
Organising activities for 100+ people is a lot of work, so thanks again to all the helpers and volunteers who made it all flow just that much [...]
Thanks to everyone who came to Wordcamp NZ. Â A great time was had by all . We will be in touch soon with an update on prizes and other details including contact and other ID’s. Thanks again.
Sunny Wellington
Wordcamp at a bowling club
Beyond a platform.
Kim Hill will be interviewing Matt Mullenweg for the Saturday morning show. They will be on from 8:30 – 9am tomorrow morning.
Podcasts from Saturday Morning show are here.
Update: Matts podcast is here .mp3 file
8:35 Matt Mullenweg Photographer, jazz musician and entrepreneur Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of the popular open-source blogging software and hosting service [...]
Hi everyone,
We’ve had to close off tickets tonight midnight NZ time. We reached our limit of 100 today
Thanks for the huge interest. We’re all looking forward to meeting you in person.
P.S If you missed on getting a ticket you can still come to the Saturday night
Wordcampers we will have a list of names [...]
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