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I’m excited to be able to forward the announcement of WordCamp Chicago – 2009 coming to the Chicagoland area soon! I am co-organizing the event with my friends, Brian Gardner (of Revolution Theme), Cory Miller (of iThemes) and Wendy Piersall of Sparkplugging.com…
If you don’t already know what a WordCamp is – here is the description from the official WordCamp site:
WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people.
WordCamps appear all over the world and bring together passionate WordPress lovers from all over. From San Fransisco to Bangkok and the Philippines to the UK – they are just popping up all over the place!
WordCamps are (obviously) geared toward WordPress users and the aim is to provide a low cost event with high educational and information benefits. For WordCamp Chicago we are currently organizing some excellent speakers of authority on WordPress and expect a pretty high turn out that represents all levels of experience with the WordPress platform, from novice level to advanced/guru level – and all points in between!
I’m very excited to be co-organizing this event with such a talented pool of people and am really looking forward to meeting everyone who attends! I’m also expecting there to be some fun WordPress For Dummies goodies there, as well. We are still in the very preliminary planning stages, and as soon as we get an idea as to the numbers of people interested in attending, we’ll be announcing the date, time and location of the event. That announcement is coming very soon so just hang tight!
Would you be interested in attending a WordCamp in Chicago? We are currently trying to get a feel for how many attendees we should expect – so if you are interested – check out the WordCamp Chicago post here, and leave your comment : Want to attend WordCamp-Chicago? Let us know!
I really hope to see you there!
Lisa Sabin-Wilson is a creative designer and founder of E.Webscapes. She is the author of WordPress For Dummies and BuddyPress For Dummies, and is a regular speaker at national conferences on the topics of WordPress, blogging and design. Blog | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
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Bruce Montgomery
02. Nov, 2008
I would like to help organize, promote and support WordCamp Chicago 2009. Please let me know how I can best be of any assistance. Thanks, Bruce.
Robert "butch" Greenawalt
09. Nov, 2008
Depends on two factors (attending wordcamp I mean) when and weather. Keep me posted if you could. Please note sparkplugging.com returns “ADDRESS NOT FOUND” thought you may want to know. Please give my regards to Brian if you speak with him I’m pretending to work on one of his
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