Media at WordCamp Wellington

We welcome interest from media, bloggers and others with a WordPress related interest for the upcoming WordCampNZ on August 8th and 9th.

Our special guest of honour is Matt Mullenweg – WordPress founder who says “I write code, prose, and music. I’ve taken a few pictures too.” (He continues below.)

“I am the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software that runs much of this site and millions of other sites around the world. The website says WordPress is “a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform” but more importantly WordPress is a part of who I am.

Like eating, breathing, music, I can’t not work on WordPress. The project touches a lot of people, something I’ve recently begun to appreciate. I consider myself very lucky to be able to work on something I love so much.”

Some Press on Matt Mullenweg

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I’ve been named one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. It’s probably all downhill from here.

If you need a press/conference headshot, try this see at right (crop at will), any of these (warning large page), or any of these.

• The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg – 2009-06-01
• Entrepreneurial Wisdom From Necker Island (video) – 2009-06-01
• Blogging guru chips away at Great Firewall of China – 2009-05-28
• A Web That Speaks Your Language – 2009-05-16
• Interview with Matt Mullenweg – 2009-05-11
• WPWeekly Episode 52: Matt Mullenweg Interview – 2009-04-27
• iV Goes WordPress on Matt (video) – 2009-03-31
• Matt Mullenweg bilan suhbat (Uzbek) – 2009-02-26
• WordPress Creator Mullenweg is Many Bloggers’ Best Friend – 2009-01-28
• Google Taken to the Matt – 2009-01-16
• WordPress Means Open Source, Cooperation and Helping Each Other: Exclusive Interview with Matt Mullenweg (Farsi) – 2009-01-10
• Interview with Matt (Farsi) – 2009-01-10

We are also pleased to announce the Media Partner for WordCampNZ is Idealog Magazine.

the website and magazine of creative 
New Zealand business, ideas and innovation