WordCamp Montréal

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).

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).

Bonne chance à tous et à l’année prochaine!

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.

Good luck!

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 the attendee 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.

See everyone there!

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.

Information sur Wordpress:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress
http://wordpress.org/about/

Information sur Matt Mullenweg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Mullenweg
http://ma.tt/about/

Information sur le WordCamp Montréal:
http://wordcampmontreal.org/

Pour assister au WordCamp Montréal, contacter Jeremy Clarke:
http://wordcampmontreal.org/contact/

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.

1680 rue St-Denis, Montreal, QC
(514) 844-9458 lesaintsulpice.ca
Google Maps Link

[Photo from St-Sulpice website. NOTE: Holy broken flash hell Batman!]

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!

We’ve updated our schedule page with presention and bio details for all the speakers we’ve confirmed so far, including

• Matt Mullenweg (BBQ)
• Jane Wells (Future of WP)
• Andy Peatling (BuddyPress)
• Brendan Sera-Sriar (FlashPress)
• CT Moore (WPMU)
• Brad Williams (security)
• Mario Asselin (Using BuddyPress).
• Jeremy Clarke [me] will also be presenting on something that isn’t covered by another speaker (WP optimisation or Apache/MySQL tuning probably).

We need more! Help us fill the schedule with useful talks!

We’re freaking thrilled with the speakers so far and IMHO they’d be a great lineup by themselves, but we have two days to fill and we know there are more great minds who know how to make WP sing coming to the event. We want to learn from you and hear what you’ve learned through your experience with WP. Having as many topics as possible ensures that attendees have lots of selection and can choose what they don’t already know. Even if you think your area of expertise isn’t interesting or that its too ‘easy’ or ‘obvious’ don’t worry. There are people who don’t know anything, and we need to help them get started, just as there are those who know the basics but need help getting off the ground.

If you think you can help your WP neighboors please use the Become A Sponsor application form to propose a presentation and we’ll get back to you ASAP.

For those who are 1337 at WordPress but can’t think of what they can present on please consider picking up one of these topics and just presenting and explanation of how people can do it with WP. Everyone loves an educational seminar and its usually the most valuable kind of talk to attend (also makes you look smart!)

We need presenters for:

• Running a bilingual site with wordpress/Translation (plugins, translation strategies)
• Intro to PHP basics for templating (template tags, arguments, using Codex as reference)
• Advanced templating and design (custom fields, loops, template hierarchy hacks, functions.php)
• JQuery for design/WP (theme animations/interactivity)
• Speed/Optimisation seminar (Caching, assessing plugins, optimization plugins, optimizing themes)
• Intro to Apache/MySQL config (understanding servers, editing config files, using terminal/top/ssh, examples of server tuning)
• Intro to plugin creation (using custom plugins to clean up themes, releasing plugins)

Thanks to everyone who has applied already and to those will will Apply Now! If you can’t do a talk then we can’t wait for your participation in the presentations and discussions that will be happening at #wcmtl!

Timed perfectly (i.e. accidentally) with today’s release of WordPress 2.8 tickets for WordCamp Montreal are now available.

Register now!   Inscrivez-vous!

To keep things simple we are using EventBrite, a site that organizes the process of registering people for your event. Just head over there and the sign up process should be simple. If you have any problems please contact us, we want to see you at WordCamp!

Note for speakers: If you have confirmed that you will be speaking or plan to speak please wait to buy your ticket. Obviously speakers will get free registration and we will give you a discount code for that.