Some of the slides are up already – just need to get updated versions so we can load the others very soon. Thanks to speakers, sponsors and coffee baristas and especially all of you for coming along.

Some early posts from Ellen Bauer, Carol Green, Simone McCallum, Nathaniel Flick, me and Rahul Singh – others to come.

• Zu Gast beim WordCamp NZ 2012 in Auckland
• Flickr stream by Elmastudio
• Word Up! by Carol Green (Word Up! Cameo, 1986)
• Best Tweets from #WordCampNZ (Day 1) Simone McCallum
• WordcampNZ 2012- that’s a wrap Jason
• WordCampNZ – Bringing us WordPress crazies together – Nathaniel Flick
• Excited About WordcampNZ Rahul Singh (Go Unitec) on storify for Day 1
• Vaughn Davis gets top prize for funniest tweets.  (more bananas)

Vaughan Rowsell won Top Moustache award to go alongside his Innovator of the year award.  Wanted to call day 1 Poetry Day & day 2 Code day – we got plenty of both.

Zarek Jenkinson won the Microsoft Award for services to the Pirate party and also because at 15 he was the only person to fess up to running a triple booting machine on a flavour of Linux called Arch?. Forget Centos, Fedora and Ubuntu Zarek is obviously destined for greatness.  At least one developer tried to hire him on the spot but he still has school work to do.

Glenn Williams won a community service award for Radio Wammo

A great time was had by all. Extra special thanks to all the Aussies who flew in & to Gary who came from Japan, @manuelesposito and @ellenbauer all the way from Berlin and Amanda from (Oregon, NY, AZ ) U.S.

Last word goes to Vaughn Davis ( for now)

“Finally in the room at @wordcampnz, bombarded by welcoming smiles and reminded why this is always one of the year’s best events.”

Living the Dream - Vaughn Davis messing around with Justin Flitters name tag

Some quick snaps.  Special hello & Thanks Wordcamp Nashville also on right now

Owen Harris -NZ / US

Owen has recently moved back to NZ after 12 years in the U.S – most recently Chicago. A veteran with content management systems Owen will be talking about tools for developers especially CS from Adobe. Most of us work with CSS on a daily basis and so design tools and related content asset managements systems are part of the same territory.

Owen will be speaking on Sunday morning at our Tech & Devs sessions down in Britomart at Young & Shand. Owen is also a DJ and enthusiastic music fan and while in Chicago was active in radio at CHIRP Radio which is a music- and culture-focused community radio station.

“Owen ‘The Jackal’ Harris; a dedicated musical omnivore who would go hungry rather than pass up on buying records. Buying LOTS of records. Owen also was partly responsible for the world’s first-ever documentary series on Split Enz, as well as frequently hosting The “surprise” and “special” parts of 95bFM programming, focussing on one artist, label, or era.”

Currently he is PMP | Senior WEM Consultant, Adobe Consulting Services JAPAC which sees him working in Australia and New Zealand with web developers and designers.

What is different about Radio Wammo is that Glenn live mixes the video on air. The various shows are on each weekday between 7am & 10am (UTC 1900-2200) and on demand 24/7 at other times.

This morning I was delighted to be on the show to talk about #Wordcampnz which is now only 5 days away. The show is largely completely unscripted and completely live with no edits – enjoy. Questions and comments as always are very welcome.

P.S – For wordcampers – Glenn will be doing a lightning talk on Saturday afternoon about Radio Wammo see our latest speaker announcement.

I forgot to mention we will filming all speakers on Saturday and making a mixtape DVD of the results for #wordcampnz attendees. BTW – we won’t be live streaming since there are some bandwidth challenges with our particular location although we may try to do some of that if we can.

Sites mentioned in the show:

• TangataWhenua.com    speakers Nik & Potaua see speakers
• Paleo Zone Nutrition speaker Julianne Taylor
• Crown Fibre Holdings speaker (the writer – Jason Kemp)
• NZ Womans Weekly

Glenn Williams - Radio Wammo - NZ

@radiowammo on What does the future of media look like? Video on the radio all mixed live and it is amazing… lightning showcase talk.

Glenn is a radio & internet broadcaster. Host of the Radio Wammo Breakfast Show on the Kiwi FM Network & The Climate Show in New Zealand  -the Radio Wammo Show is much, much more than just a quality Kiwi jukebox to start the day.

It provides plenty of food for thought – with a range of regular correspondents and special guests from the cutting edge of the arts, music, science, media, new technology and new media providing informed (but never dull) comment.

Sam Hunt, Vaughn Davis, Jayson Bryant, Russell Brown and many others make sure of that.

Dan Milward- Gamefroot - NZ

Dan Milward is an entrepreneur based in Wellington. His company Instinct contributes to a number of non-profit and Open Source projects, most notably the world famous WordPress e-Commerce Plugin and Gamefroot a WordPress powered social network for people to create online and mobile games.

Instinct have been contributing to the greater WordPress community for more than 9 years. Other examples of their work include, a Campaign Monitor Plugin, Facebook Connect Plugin, a WordPress Wiki Plugin, TikiPress for selling Tickets online, a reservations Plugin, a Group Deals Plugin (like groupon), and they have funded numerous theme development competitions to help foster the WordPress eco system.  Dan says

“My presentation will take people through the back end of the the Gamefroot website. I will show people how we are using the WordPress database to run an entire gaming website. My presentation will focus on the following points;”

1) game creation
2) game play
3) corresponding custom post types
4) the social side of gaming
5) the future of browser based gaming in WP

Dan’s aim is to show people to what extreme WordPress can be pushed. Gamefroot is being launched on April 24th in Wellington just after this event so we all get a preview. Dan is also a co-organiser for WordCamps in NZ and he represents his business and NZ at many wordcamps each year around the world.

Websites: Gamefroot , Getshopped  Twitter: @DanMilward