WordCamp

Word­Press is a kick-arse con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem. It’s what we use to power the Wel­ling­tonista, and many of us also use it on our per­son­al blogs.

Word­Press is open source and has a lively com­munity of users, developers and gen­er­al fans, and it’s these sorts of people who will be com­ing togeth­er for the second Word­Camp Wel­ling­ton un-con­fer­ence, on the week­end of 19–20 Feb­ru­ary at the Ocean­ia Room at Te Papa.

With Word­Camp dir­ectly fol­low­ing Web­stock and run­ning adja­cent to Word­Camp Mel­bourne, organ­isers have been able to score a top-notch selec­tion of loc­al and inter­na­tion­al speak­ers.

The line-up so far includes:

• BuddyPress developer Paul Gibbs
• Plu­gin developer Justin Stain­ton
• Auto­mat­tic staffer John Ford
• Polit­ic­al blog­ger and New Zea­l­and inter­net stal­wart Dav­id Far­rar
• SEO expert Michael Brandon
• Journ­al­ism and media ace Julie Starr
• Serv­er per­form­ance guy Ryan Allen
• A dis­cus­sion pan­el includ­ing Richard Mac­Manus of Read Write Web and dude-who-makes-things-hap­pen Lance Wiggs.

And that’s not to men­tion all the smart webtast­ic people who’ll be attend­ing.

I went to the first Word­Camp Wel­ling­ton last year, and had a cool time, met lots of inter­est­ing people and learned heaps of use­ful tips at tricks for mak­ing Word­Press purr like a kit­ten. I highly recom­mend it if you’re into Word­Press (or just WP-curi­ous).

And If you’re think­ing of going, Word­Camp have giv­en us a spe­cial coupon code to share with you. If you use the code WELLINGTONISTA you’ll get a hearty 20% off the tick­et price. But there are a lim­ited num­ber of coupons avail­able, so get in quick!

See you there!