Dan Milward - photo by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Thanks everyone for coming along. We had a wonderful time with speakers, the panel fired up, some podcasting fun and even an impromptu ukelele song.

As promised here is a list of presentation slides from talks. The list will be updated as we we hear back from 2011 speakers and more speakers here.

Kristina D.C. Hoeppner took photos here is her Flickr stream for WordCamp 2011 follow her @anitsirk

Sam Parkin @booleanvalue – WordCampNZ 2011 photo stream

Paul Gibbs – BuddyPress on slideshare

SearchMasters SEO #wordcampnz presentation ppt is on http://tiny.cc/ez5z2

Ryan Allen from Envato announcing http://scalingwordpress.com, a resource for managing your wordpress blog http://is.gd/7V63WE

Vaughn Davis -Why and how I created Tweet this Book!

Miraz Jordan Slides for my 3 WordPress Tips are over on iWork

John Ford on WordPress Security this link is to an earlier version – updated by John on March 3rd and now updated here as well.

Other sessions will cover off Themes & Design with Stacey Roche, Advanced Plugins with Dan Milward and Paul Gibbs. Ryan Hellyer will be showing us “Easier WordPress”.

Update: As a special treat Mike Dickerson, Sam Cooke and Liz Quilty did an impromtu Uke song called the Curly Bracket Blues about CSS. (Our impromptu ukulele band, the Shortcode Thesis Hooks or whatever, survived closing Wordcamp 2011) The #wordcampnz ukulele song about CSS can be downloaded from http://www.kiwiukulele.co.nz/songs as a pdf

Keep and eye on the main 2011 schedule to view times and more details

Know - IT

Co-Organiser - Jason

Co-Organiser - Dan

Design- Stacey

WP - Orientation - Jo

Easier WordPress

Ryan Hellyer is a WordPress plugin and theme developer with specific interest in making WordPress easier for noob users. Owner of http://pixopoint.com/.

Noobs to WordPress, or web development in general, have to contend with many annoying facets of development including FTP, MySQL, cPanel, PHP and all sorts of other mumbo-jumbo they don’t really care about but need to know.

With that in mind, I’ll present a way to create your own WordPress powered site without having to dive into the nitty gritty technical stuff.

We are really pleased to announce them as speakers on the Saturday afternoon for a short talk.

We all know there is a lot of comedy in technology (not all of it is intentional)  Morgan and Ben manage to walk that tightrope in their weekly podcast show.

“The Discourse Weekly Show is New Zealand’s best podcast. It’s also New Zealand’s favourite podcast.”

“Ben Gracewood, you’ve heard the name, and you’ve probably heard the voice too, but have you heard him constantly interrupted and talked over?

If not, and if you like that sort of thing, then The Weekly Show is definitely the place for you.

Morgan Nichol, a face that launched a thousand ships (and a thousand websites, and a thousand bad ideas), a singing voice that makes angels cry (and dogs whimper).

He brings it, and he brings it hard, every single time. Whatever that’s supposed to mean.”

So expect the un-expected and don’t miss these guys. Depending on timetable we should be able to fit in 2 or more lightening sessions before adjourning across the square to Macs Brew Bar.

We reckon it will be a brilliant end to the afternoon.

In the lead up there are volunteers on social media and promoting the event at various other groups and events. Ticket sales are essential and we rely on you guys to promote us to your friends, family and colleagues. On the day more volunteers help with their time.

You will see logo’s and links to sponsors in the sidebar and on our emails. We we really greatful to them all for help to cover costs and keep ticket prices down.

Just this last week we have had 2 more sponsors confirm their support.

WiFi is a major cost and so we are delighted that CaféNET (CityLink) have kindly agreed to sponsor WiFi at WordCampNZ.

When you check in there will be some tokens / codes available for free WiFi.

WordCamps are a great way to give back to the WordPress community which is international. EventEspresso, VaultPress and Envato all take a bow.

We are not forgetting local sponsors like DPS, RadioActive, Openhost, Getshopped, who all provide services and cash to make the show happen.

There are other behind the scenes sponsors like, Idealog, FishHead magazine, RadioWammo, DialogCRM and groups like TCANZ, Wellingtonista, Webstock, SummerofTech and IgniteWelli who all spread the word for us.

We’d also like to recognise speakers time which is freely given. Many of our speakers are in high demand and command large fees so we are delighted with their generosity.

This year we have speakers from the UK and US who have all been funded by sponsors. We’d love look after them more by buying a few coffees or better.

A few of you have become micro-sponsors which is fantastic – that is an option on the ticket page for $150.

We have just now have just over a week to go. Looking forward to seeing you all there.

That means he has 12 minutes including questions to show why “Tweeting this Book” has moved 13,500 copies in about 8 weeks.

“I’m a consultant creative director in Auckland, New Zealand, currently having no end of fun with social media.

When not doing this I raise goats and sons, and daydream about the brief and now distant period in my youth when I filled my days flying the C130 Hercules wherever in the world the Royal New Zealand Air Force needed it flown.

“Tweet this book!” is my first book.”

Vaughns website is The Goat Farm and on twitter @vaughndavis Vaughn posted this morning on What he is talking about at WordCampNZ and on the  Why He is coming to WordCampNZ & Why You Should Too

* Unfortunately Melissa Clark-Reynolds has a surprise family event that means she has had to cancel. We are still hoping that another Minimonos staff member can talk about that project and we will keep you posted.