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

The 3 songs – Mechanical, Only Love and Make Room
so you can have a listen

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.

We are nearly there on all the background arrangements which is very exciting so on to the really important stuff now which would be the WordCampNZ after party sponsors assistance by Openhost.

Cassette 9 is a a local legend and we are very happy to be hosting there.

To get the party started we’ve ordered some items off the menu. Bring your WordCampNZ id and you’re are good to try some platters and other items on us. After that drinks & food will be a cash bar and here is the menu below to get you thinking.

Craig Deveson - Cloudsafe365

Ever wanted to make a WordPress plugin and wanted to take it a bit further as a business? Craig Deveson is doing just that with the “cloudsafe365_for_WP“. Cloudsafe 365 is a plugin that provides online backup, security and content protection for WordPress websites.

For over two decades Brisbane based – Craig has led the IT community as an evangelist in IT and Internet development and consulting.

More recently as a Cloud Expert with Google & Amazon Craig built the first Google Apps Enterprise business then sold it to Cloud Sherpa’s last year.

He went on co-found cloudsafe365 as a simple to use WordPress plugin that provides back-up, security and content protection services as a cloud based service partnered with Amazon.

So full title “Making a plugin that makes Backup & Security easy for WP Users” Craig will talk about what is involved, why they developed another plugin for managing backup, security and content protection using their plugin as a case study. More background from AFR

Website: Cloudsafe365   Craig on Twitter :@craigdeveson