My roomate Arthur (who does amazing work for the under-appreciated TV McGill) is going through the process of digitizing and uploading all of the video he shot at WordCamp. Eventually everything from Room 1 should be available (if you filmed room2 please get in touch with me, I’ll give you the login for the blip.tv account so you can upload the video!)
You can see all our videos on the Blip.tv Archive page. You can also find the player below in our video page, which is in the top navigation
Videos we’ve uploaded so far (jul29-09): Q&A with ma.tt, Future of WP with Jane Wells, Theming for Noobs with Jeremy Clarke, WP Security with Brad Williams, Flashpress by Brendan Sera-Sriar.
This player should have all the videos so far. There will be more soon so subscribe to rss updates if you’re interested.
As it often happens after organizing an event like WordCamp, I am now getting emails from people looking for good WordPress ressources, namely developers, theme designers and project managers.
I wanted to share that opportunity with everybody, if you are available these days (let’s say for some work in august or september), post your availability here and I will put you in touch with the people that sent me requests (and will redirect others here too).
Lots of attendees were hoping to get access to the slides from the presentations they saw so they could better understand their notes and remember what they’ve learned.
I tried to corral all the speakers and get them to upload their slides to Slideshare so that people could easily look through them. Most of the speakers put them up or sent them to me. Here’s the list:
You can also find their slides on the schedule page by clicking the ‘view presentation slides’ link below the talk name.
Hopefully the other speakers will send their slides soon. We should have videos of most of the talks up on WordPress.tv soon, but it might take a while as its a slow process to prepare them.
[Guest post by CT Moore to elaborate on his talk, Thanks!]
Photo of CT giving his talk by eva blue
My presentation at this past weekend’s Wordcamp was called WP-MU 101: How to Install & Avoid Common Mistakes. One of the things I made clear at the outset was that I am NOT a developer or web designer, so the session was going to be very much of a beginner’s level one.
Being a very beginner’s level affair, the Q&A part brought up some some questions that I just wasn’t equipped to answer. After all, I’m a newbie to WP-MU, and was really just intending to share my experience with other newbies so that they don’t make the same silly mistakes that I did.
So what I started doing was crowd-sourcing the Q&A session. The crowd seemed pretty receptive; quite a few attendees stepped in to answer questions, and even I learned quite a few things.
Insofar as WP-MU is ideal for running multiple blogs through one platform, some of the things that more advanced WP-MU users in the audience shared with everyone were:
WP-MU will support blogs in different languages; all you need to do is install the qTranslate plugin.
Multiple domains can be managed through a single installation of WP-MU: first, you create a new blog through WP-MU (such as blog.domain.com); second, your point your new domain (example.com) at the same server root where WP-MU is installed; then, you go to the general blog setting for the blog you created (blog.domain.com) and change the URL in the general settings to the additional domain (example.com) you want to manage through WP-MU.
Admin users can force plugins on blogs.
And some of the features of WP-MU that I was already aware of, but are worth recapping for anyone trying to determine whether the platform is right for them:
WP-MU can support blogs in either sub-domains (blog.example.com) or sub-directories (example.com/blog), but not both; and you make the choice during installation.
if you choose to have blogs in a sub-domain, you will need a Wildcard DNS Entry.
your database must be MySQL 5.0.
a single database is used for all the blogs under WP-MU.
single users can contribute to several blogs.
single users can be assigned different permissions on different blogs.
each blog can have its own theme / blogs can share themes.
there is no WYSIWYG for editing the home.php file (which is responsible for the content of the index page for the domain WP-MU is installed on); if you want to edit this file, you will need some coding skills and FTP access to the file itself.
In a nutshell, my presentation was intended to help others learn from my mistakes (i.e. not reading the installation instruction) and give the audience an understanding of (1) when to use WPMU, (2) common installation mistakes, (3) choosing between a directory vs subdomain, and (4) basic WP-MU configuration after you install it.
In any case, here’s the PowerPoint from my session. It’s not nearly as rich as the discussion that ensued (the audience was so awesome), so if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment and I’ll try to help you out as best I can.
Nous avons pour vous 2 serveurs dédiés gratuits pendant 12 mois (valeur de 1629$US chacun), des jeux de Xbox 360, des t-shirts geek et plusieurs autres prix très intéressants!
Veuillez simplement répondre à ce billet avec votre nom et courriel et peut-être aurez-vous la chance de gagner un des merveilleux prix (ouvert seulement aux participants de WordCamp Montréal 2009, nous allons vérifier avec la liste des inscriptions lors du tirage au sort).
I got a really sensible request for a place to list job offers for WCMTL participants. While we’re all here it’s a great opportunity for business owners to get together with developers and plan some contracts.
Instead of a giant pad I thought it would be cool to just use the comments on this post to list job offers. So if you’re looking to hire a WP developer, designer, writer or anything else please leave a comment here so those looking for work can get back to you.
Please leave your name, website and if possible a photo of you so people can recognize you at the event. The attendee list has photos of a lot of people based on their Gravatars, and those will also show up next to your comments, so if you don’t have a link to a photo of you make sure you have signed up for a Gravatar so people can find you to talk about the project.
We’re getting really close! Are you ready for WordCamp? Here’s some help just in case.
Schedule
The full daily and hourly schedule of talks and breaks is now available on our site. It’s pretty final at this point but might be changed slightly leading up to the event. Note that there will be coffee and snacks both mornings and lunch the first day but not the second day.
List of registered attendees
Want to learn about your fellow WordPress fans before the event? Figure out who you want to meet and talk to (and maybe who to avoid :P )? Check out theattendee list. It’s got pictures of most people and links to everyones blogs. Might also be a good place to look after the event to get in touch with that person you met who’s name you forgot.
BYOL: Bring Your Own Lanyard
Okay, so I priced different namebadge solutions and it turned out the nice fancy clippy ones are like 4$ each which would mean over 500$ for everyone at WordCamp. That seemed like a bad way to spend money (compared to, say, coffee) so we went for some pretty cheap ones and kept the money for something else. I was thinking, don’t you already have a ton of fancy old lanyards at home from other conferences? If you do bring them in and you can put your WordCamp namebadge in it for the weekend. It saves the conference money and we’ll have way more diversity, so everyone wins. (Of course this is optional, the ones we have are fine).
Ticket sales will close thursday night – Registration available at the venue
We’ll be closing the online registration tonight so that we have time to print out a list of registrants, but the SAT is big and we’ll still have space for walk-ins. You’ll be able to register at the door with cash only. We also can’t guarantee t-shirts and swag bags for walk-ins but hopefully there will be enough to go around.
Aux participants du WebCamp Montréal: merci de transmettre ce communiqué à tous les journalistes que ça pourrait intéresser.
Le créateur de WordPress à Montréal
Matt Mullenweg, co-fondateur et créateur de WordPress est en visite à Montréal avec quelques membres de son équipe pour le WordCamp Montréal 2009.
Les 11 et 12 juillet prochains a lieu à la SAT, à Montréal, une petite conférence sur WordPress, la célèbre plate forme de publication sur Internet en code-source libre (Open source). WordPress a d’abord permis à des millions d’usagers à travers le monde de se créer gratuitement leur propre blog. Aujourd’hui cette même plate-forme permet de développer des projets collectifs avec WordPress MU (Multi User) et des réseaux sociaux avec BuddyPress. Comme WordPress est résolument en code-source libre, toute une communauté de développeurs à travers le monde y crée des applications, y compris à Montréal.
Mattt Mullenweg, une des personnalités les plus appréciées et les plus connues du Web, sera disponible pour des entrevues.
Since we announced #wcmtl a few months ago tons of people have asked how they can help or lend a hand. To all those people here’s your chance!
There’s just under a week until WordCamp. We’ve got almost everything worked out to make sure its a smooth ride, but me (Jeremy) and Sylvain are only two people, and we’ll need a lot of help on the actual days.
Volunteer positions we need!
Greeters and Helpers: We’re going to need at least two people managing the registration table at all times to make sure people coming in are registered, have their badges and shirts etc. We’ll also be calling on you to help get thigns set up and taken apart as necessary (so hopefully some people will be willing to come in early). Ideally enough people will offer to help with this that we have too many in case someone needs a break or doesn’t make it. Hopefully everyone at WordCamp will be helpful, but please sign up if you’re interested so I know who you are and that you want to help :)
Driver: Unfortunately I don’t even have a drivers license, so if someone has a car and is willing to help us move big things around it would be incredibly helpful. We specifically need someone who can pick up the shirts with me from the printer’s on Friday afternoon (1oth) and drop some big stuff off at the venue. It would also be great if anyone can have their car at the event, in case we need to run out and buy something heavy.
Videographers: It would be amazing if we had most of the talks from #wcmtl available on WordPress.tv, we don’t have the money to pay a professional so we’re depending on friendly attendees to film things. My roomate is going to be there but the more people the better. If you can bring your camera and tape even a couple of presentations (and put them up on blip.tv after) it would be a huge help. (Photographers: We want you too! We’ll be publicizing our Flickr pool you can add your shots to!)
Sound fun? Most people who are interested will probably fall into the Greeters and Helpers category, you’ll be our ambassadors (great way to make new friends!).
If you’re interested please fill out the form below (it will save the data to a google spreadsheet used only by the event organzers).
Details still to be confirmed, but there will be a WordCamp alcohol-drinking evening after the first day of the conference. Our intended venue is St-Sulpice, a huge bar within easy walking distance of the SAT with an even huger outdoor patio that should be able to fit as many of us as we can wrangle. They also have adequate bar food so people can eat there if they want.
WordCamp talks will probably end around 4:30-5pm, we’ll be meeting at St-Sulpice around 6. Please confirm all details at WordCamp as they may change. Hope to see you there!
