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2009 Schedule Archive

Jason — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:23:40 +0000

This schedule is just for archive purposes now.

Update: 1 August 2009 – there will be a optional dinner on Saturday night fine tuning but we expect it to be in $20 price range + drinks. Vote over on that post to help us with numbers planning thanks.

Saturday Speakers

Saturday	Title
9:00 – 9:10	Welcome to WordCamp	Dan Milward
9:10 – 9:40	6 ways for bloggers to stay out of legal trouble Some general guidance to bloggers about how to minimise risks of defamation, invasion of privacy, contempt of court, and other legal trouble.	Steven Price Media Law Journal
9:40 – 10:10	E-Commerce in under 5 Dan will show you how to easily setup an e-Commerce website using WordPress.	Dan Milward – Instinct
10:10 – 10:40	Coding Without Coding Web site owners should be able to modify their own site designs easily, without ever having to type a single line of code. Ryan will show us how its done.	Ryan Hellyer
10:40 – 11:20	Building Communities with WordPress The recent innovative and successful online virtual Zen retreats used WordPress and BBPress as the basis for creating a community. There were issues of privacy to consider, as well as helping those in the retreat to feel comfortable using the software. This session looks at what we did, and how, and what the challenges and solutions were.	Miraz Jordan
11:20 – 11:50	Xero News is Good News A big part of the Xero success story can be attributed to our blog. I’ll provide insights into our strategy on writing and managing a business blog as a team.	Philip Fierlinger – Xero
11:50 – 1:00	Lunch
1:00 – 1:50	WordPress Town Hall Matt Mullenweg the co-founder of WordPress will be running a general Q & A session on WordPress	Matt Mullenweg – Automattic
1:50 – 2:10	Re-defining mobile blogging: WordPress & the iPhone Gareth will discuss re-designing the user interface for the WordPress iPhone application	Gareth Townsend
2:10 – 2:30	Have WordPress, Will Travel	Craig and Linda Martin, Dan Roberts
2:30 – 3:00	Afternoon Tea/Coffee & Networking
3:00 – 3:30	How to be a Media Darling Building relationships and pitching for coverage with mainstream media	Doug Casement – Renaissance
3:30 – 4:00	Dragging government into the twenty-first century	Matt Lane – SSC
4:00 – 5:00	WorkShop: BBPress & WordPress Forums in WordPress	Sam Bauers – Automattic

Sunday Speakers

Sunday
10:00- 10:30	Befriending BuddyPress	Anthony Cole
10:30 – 11:00	The Business Side Business Fundamentals: Getting it right in order to make it big	Chris Lipscombe
11:00 – 11:30	Theme Development In this tutorial-orientated presentation, I will be running through the basic build of theme options, giving code examples and showing you a few creative ways that theme options can be used.	Harley Alexander – Baffle Inc
11:30-12:00	Educationally Speaking	Nicki Gemmell
12:00 – 12:45	Lunch	Lunch
12:45 – 1:30		Bernard Hickey
1:30 – 2:00	Turbocharge your WordPress	Jeff Waugh
2:00 – 3:30	Sam on bbPress Unconference/Workshops/Genius Bar

Saturday Dinner 09

Jason — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:11:41 +0000

We have been looking at the best way to arrange an optional dinner on the Saturday night of #wordcampnz .

For most conferences it is the informal hanging out before and after official events that is often the most fun.

The idea is to pick a venue that is not too formal, has a price range that is easy on the pocket and close enough to the venue so that transport is not an issue.

Update: The venue is http://www.thetemperance.co.nz

Located 8 Cambridge Terrace And 17-19 Blair Street, Wellington and about 10 mins walk from the Bowling Club venue.

A bonus would be if they have function rooms that can be private if needed and can accommodate anything from 40 to 100 people.( Note: We have a whole floor booked for wordcamp.)

If it has everyone’s favourite drink and some different menus that is also a double bonus.

Non-conference partners and friends are welcome.

The plan would be to wander down by 6 pm ish (or earlier) for a few drinks and stay longer to have some bar food or a meal. Kitchens usually like to plan ahead a bit so we will ask you to give us an idea of menu items and rough numbers.

Do you like this idea? Vote below.

Are you keen on an optional wordcamp dinner on Sat evening?

Tentative Schedule Published

Anthony Cole — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:29:23 +0000

Hi All,

We have published a tentative schedule. There are still a few matters being organised right now, however, this is the planned schedule for the time being. There will only be a few modifications and the final schedule will be posted within the next week.

Without further ado, check it out.

BTW the speakers are all volunteers and typically charge largish fees for similar material at other conferences so we are very lucky to have these insights available for a very nominal rate.

We’d love you to join us. Tickets are still available but we are filling up so don’t delay too long.