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.

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.

@simantics is Saquib Ahmed but my friends (and some of my more well acquainted foes) just call me Sim. I am a 20 year old student at the University of Auckland.

Saquibs website is Saquib.me and he used a live stream style tool called Coveritlive (thanks SocialMediaNZ) so that external people could ask questions and follow in the presentations in more detail. We said Status

“The live blog stream is very good if you were taking notes & wanted to check something Good work @simantics #wordcampnz http://ow.ly/2noMr”

There were many tweets from both rooms and much of that was also captured over at Be in the Room thanks to fine support by Lucy  @estateofflux and Be in the Room @eventsonfire.

• Rachel Cunliffe linked here saying, “Last weekend I had the pleasure of being the secon …”
• Jason Kemp linked here saying Thinking is What I Do and included some more photos by Kristina
• Kristina DC Hoeppner linked here saying, “WordCampNZ (Part 2). Aug 9th, 2010. by Kristina D. …”
• Kristina DC Hoeppner linked here saying, “(with apologies to Bill Bennett for writing 5 time …”
• Kristina D.C. Hoeppner. WordCampNZ (Part 3) My summaries of the presentations I listened to at WordCampNZ 2010 continues.
• Michael Brandon (Searchmasters) linked here saying, “Live Blog of WordCamp Auckland This page will be u …”
• Simon Young linked here saying, “WordCamp NZ, 7 August 2010 Unfortunately, I won’t …”

Here is another shot of Bill Bennett (by Kristina) whose presentation on Writing for the web in 300 words was a huge hit. (33,721 35,003 impressions on Twitter so far with clicks and FB actions not far behind)

From Be In the Room

Here are some of the speakers presentations & slideshow  – we will update this list as more links come in

1. Jo Couchman on A plugin for every occasion
2. @cjlambert: My #wordcamp preso on slideshare http://goo.gl/B9cy @wordcampnz (Courtney Lambert)
3. @Jghazally: Just added a quick post on my experience of #WordCampUK and #WordCampNZ http://bit.ly/dh4ADY (Jeff Ghazally)
4. @billbennettnz: My #WordCampNZ preso: “Writing for the web in 300 words” http://bit.ly/900iMi (Bill Bennett)
5. @darren: my slides from my Wordcamp presentation—HTML5 & CSS3 http://tinyurl.com/345d8sd (Darren Wood)
6. dialogCRM Thanks to all the wordcampers I wrote up some personal thoughts on the experience & the future http://ow.ly/2muYT presentation version is here- shorter and has the plugin links. (Jason Kemp)
7. @kaupapa PDF slides who-are-your-audience_sacha-dylan_wordcampnz2010_lo.pdf (Sacha Dylan)
   Senior Consultant/Disability Strategist Connectos Consulting Ltd
8. @anthonycole Just uploaded my slides from @wordcampnz to slideshare. http://bit.ly/cydLi9
9. My WordCamp NZ talk notes: Creating Custom Themes http://bit.ly/d8U3WO #wordcampnz #wordcamp (Rachel Cunliffe)
10. Part 2 from Rachel on Aquabumps is over here (awesome)

We have some interest in “User Experience re-write of the WordPress for iPhone app” which is being organised by some developers in Melbourne.

We also have some Community Building expertise from Miraz Jordan plus insights from her other projects.

Here are two other examples of two more topic ideas from content wiki page

Keep those ideas flowing thanks.

Title: Code without Coding
Name: Ryan Helyer

Many website owners find the coding side of web development to be too complex. They should be able to modify their own site designs easily, without ever having to type a single line of code. The intial automated coding systems produced by PixoPoint web development will be shown, including the development behind the PixoPoint menu plugins. The capabilities built into the current PixoPoint template generator and reasons for open-sourcing the latest developmental system will be outlined. The server-side CSS coding engine which is crucial for the development of these systems will be discussed.

Title: Blogging in Education & Gov
Name: Sarah Jones

Blogging and social media – as more personal and casual forms of communication – are changing the dynamics of the interface between civil servants and the public. The Public Service Code of Conduct states that civil servants must be fair, impartial, responsible and trustworthy. What civil servants say publicly is typically subjected to internal discussion and checked and verified before publication. Protocols specify who can and who can’t speak to the media. Social media presents new challenges to these processes. Lively and Lunchbox blogs, established by the presenter, will be used as examples of how blogging is changing the way government communicates with the public.

1. Wellington is home base for the world famous WordPress Ecommerce plugin. That is co-organiser Dan Milward’s company. Instinct also famous for games.
2. Wellington is the capital city of new Zealand which means museums and cultural organisations like the film archive are well supported. The main Drama School is there.
3. Peter Jackson and Weta Film Studios are based in Wellington sometimes called Wellywood as a result. There was a joke that the entire population of NZ was in LOTR but really it was only Wellington people.
4. Silicon Welly. An old statistic says that NZ has the highest percentage of programmers in the world per head of population (after Iceland.) Not sure about that but mention Ruby on Rails or Webstock or gaming and it is clear that much of the top IT talent has a presence in Wellington.
5. Last but not least – Wellington is hosting the first WordCamp in New Zealand on August 8th & 9th 2009.

What would you add to the list?

We have noticed at previous wordcamps that certain venues get nominated as the wp venue.

Do you have a cafe / restaurant/ bar/ hotel in wellington that you think might be particularly useful for wordcamp visitors? Follow us on Twitter @wordcampnz