Had a great time at this year’s Wordcamp in San Francisco. I met a lot of great people and had a lot of great conversations and I think, got some pretty decent photographs of the event.
I did have some mixed feelings about the event, but I recognize that creating a low cost, high quality confernce a is a series of trade-offs and I think the Wordcamp organizers made a lot of good decisions.
- Two tracks, one for users and one for devs.
This was smart as it got everyone together in the same facility on the same day, and I’m not a dev, so there were no decisions to make :-). - The UCSF facility is awesome.
Plenty of space to run the two track event and let people spread out, take notes, Twitter, blog, process photos etc. The only problem with this place is, it’s out in the middle of nowhere. I suspect those that drove were pretty happy with parking. - The WiFi was great!
(But I still used my EVDO card to let other folks use the bandwidth). This is a pretty common complaint at events and the UCSF folks clearly had some bandwidth and a well managed network. - It felt big.
This is both a point for and against the conference. I miss the intimacy of the Swedish American Hall, but I’m excited for Wordpress’ explosive growth. I didn’t get to talk to everyone I wanted to, but there is always the Internets.
I didn’t take many notes, but I did take a lot of pictures. Here are some links to folks who did blog.
- Top 10 Wordpress plugins
- All day coverage – The Web Life
- All Things D
- Lorelle on Wordpress
- Ma.tt’s list of photographs
Finally, a huge thanks to Matt and all the folks who helped with the conference.
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