Friday, August 24 – Holiday Inn [map]
| Time | All Participants | |
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| 6-9 pm | Meet and Greet Reception Holiday Inn |
WordPress Hackathon Concurrent with the reception (same place, but probably in a different room; take your beer or wine with you), designers, developers, and publishers will form teams to create awesome websites for local organizations. More info to come. Sponsored by NMTC and ABQ Sprout. |
Saturday, August 25 – Southwest University of Visual Arts [map]
| Time | Designer | Developer | Publisher/User | |
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| 8-8:45 | Checkin/Registration Pick up WordCamp ID and swag; get coffee; schmooze, etc. |
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| 8:45 | Opening Remarks Karen Arnold, Automattic |
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| 9:15 | Designing For WordPress: Throwing Out the Blank Canvas Kevin Conboy, Automattic |
Enterprise Class WordPress: Going Big with WordPress Jake Goldman, 10up |
Finding Your Sweet Spot: How to Choose The Perfect Blog Subject Melissa J White, Blogshop |
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| 10:15 | It’s a Lot Like Building a House Adam Baney, Mindshare Studios |
Core Competency: Things You Might Not Know about How WordPress Works (but should) Alex King, Crowd Favorite |
Flying high: Making a Living Blogging about Model Airplanes Carlos Reyes, RCadvisor.com |
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| 11:05 | Break | |||
| 11:30 | Building a Better CMS: Making it Beautiful for the People who Maintain the Website Ray Gulick, Evo |
Hide The Keys To The Castle: Tips and Tricks to Harden and Obfuscate Self-hosted WordPress Sites Robert De Young, CGMA, Blue Lotus Works, LLC |
WordPress is Just the Beginning Kimanzi Constable, author |
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| 12:30 | Lunch | |||
| 1:45 | The Benefits of WordPress-Specific Web Hosting Jamii Corley, Southwest Cyberport |
High-Performance Front-End Development Ben Byrne, Cornershop Creative |
A WordPress Legal Primer Sophie Martin, NM Law Review & Sophie Martin Public Relations LLC |
All Tracks |
| Happiness Bar Bring your WP website issues to the experts for a brief appointment and get free diagnosis and assistance. Happiness Engineers: Deborah Beckett, Darrell L.L. Houston, Karen Arnold (all of Automattic), and others |
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| 2:45 | WordPress goes to School: WordPress for Educational Institutions Mark Cararra, Tucumcari Public Schools |
Hooked on Actions Bryce Corkins, BC Design |
Chat me up! Using Social Media to Promote your Blog Lauren MacEwen, SM Cubed Consulting |
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| 3:35 | Break | |||
| 4:00 | Designer/Developer | Publisher/User Bonus | Using Cloud Applications to take your Site from Good to Great Sean Wells, Twilight Design Studio |
Happiness Bar Continued |
| Panel Discussion: Making a Living as a Designer or Developer with WordPress Moderator: Kevin Conboy, Automattic Panelists: Jake Goldman, 10up; Ray Gulick, Evo; Alex King, Crowd Favorite; Melissa J White, Blogshop |
Making Your WordPress Theme Your Very Own Max Bloom, Ground Floor |
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| 5:00 | Closing Remarks | |||
| 7-10 pm | After Party Holiday Inn |
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Sunday, August 26 – Southwest University of Visual Arts [map]
| Time | All Participants | Just for Kids |
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| 9-noon | WordPress Hackathon Wrapup/Presentation Hackathon projects started Friday night will be completed and presented. Hackathon includes designers, developers, and publishers. Sponsored by NMTC and ABQ Sprout. |
WordPress Kids Session Kids (w/parents, please) will set up their own wordpress.com sites, selecting and implementing themes, widgets, etc. Big success at last years WordCamp. Karen Arnold, Automattic |
