Details for the WordCamp Utah Schedule are now up:
Saturday 27 September 2008 9:25 AM Registration 10 AM WordPress 2.7 and Beyond - Matt Mullenweg 11 AM WordPress As A CMS - Richard Miller 12 AM Lunch 1 PM Good vs. Great Design - Cameron Moll 2 PM Podcasting - Thom Allen 3 PM SEO Tips For Your Blog - Ash Buckles 4 PM Writing WordPress Plugins - Alex King
I’m also happy to announce a new sponsor, Alex King’s Crowd Favorite. Thanks Alex!
Registration for WordCamp Utah is now open! The cost is $20 and includes the lunch and the uber official WordCamp Utah 2008 t-shirt.
Final schedule for the speakers is nearly complete, they include: Matt Mullenweg, Richard Miller, Cameron Moll, Thom Allen, Ash Buckles and Alex King.
Space is limited so the time to sign-up is now.
I’ll be speaking at the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference on WordPress Performance and Scalability. UTOSC is at the Salt Lake Community College this year, August 28-30.
Quick reminder that we’ll be meeting Thursday (tomorrow) night to start plans for a WordCamp in Utah. If you are interested in helping out and making this happen then now is the time to step up. Details for Thursday night’s meeting are on the Upcoming event page.
Recently I’ve been talking with a few people about the idea of a WordCamp ( WordPress conference ) in the Salt Lake City, Utah area. This isn’t something that one person can do alone though, so I’m putting out the call for help and feed back. If you are interested in helping make this happen we’ll be getting together for a planning meeting:
Applebee's in Draper 105 E 12300 S Draper, Utah 84020 Thursday 10 April 2008 @ 6:30pm Upcoming Event Page
One of the reasons we chose that Applebee’s location is because they have free WiFi, so feel free to bring your laptops.
In addition to people helping, I want to hear from Utah WordPress users about what they’d like to see in a WordCamp. Any thoughts on potential locations (in the greater SLC area), sponsors, topics and speakers? If you are interested in presenting let me know. And if you are interested in sponsoring WordCamp Utah, then I really, really want you to contact me :-)
First order of business is to lock in a date and location, so that everyone can make plans.
Also, a big thanks to Thom Allen for being willing to get involved and push me to get moving on this.
There’s a Geek Lunch planned for Friday (14 March 2008) 12:30pm at the Bombay House Brick Oven Pizza in Provo, Utah (near the BYU campus). Come sit around and talk about tech, or anything else. I’ll be making the drive down to Provo for this.
Then on Saturday is PodCampSLC (Pod Camp Salt Lake City) from 10am – 4pm at Neumont University in South Jordan, Utah. A new media (blogging, podcasting, videocasting) BarCamp style event. If you plan on attending you can RSVP at the PodCampSLC Upcoming event page. I’m planning to be there for at least part of the day.
I grew up and spent most of my life in one area of California. As a result it was pretty easy for me to have at least a general idea of how local and state government worked. This was something I hadn’t really thought about until we moved to Utah and I realized that I really didn’t know much about how the city, county and state governments worked and how they might differ from what I was used to in California.
So my first, admittedly small, step in learning about the government in my new home was to add links and names for my representatives at various levels to my about page. Over time I hope to familiarize myself more with how things work here. I wonder if there are any good books on the topic.
Not sure what happened, but the State street address for Taj India might be an old one, the other address I’m seeing is:
4515 South 900 East Salt Lake City, UT 84117
So if you are coming the WordPress meetup be aware that I may have originally posted the wrong address.
On Saturday February 2nd we are having a Utah WordPress meetup lunch (noon) at Taj India Restaurant with Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress. Please RSVP at the Upcoming event for the meetup, this will help us ensure that we have reserved enough room.
Date: Saturday, February 2, 2008 Time: 12:00 PM (noon) RSVP: at Upcoming Event Page Place: Taj India Restaurant 3540 South State St Salt Lake City, Utah 84115
Everyone is invited, so come on out and enjoy. I believe they even have free WiFi at the restaurant.
UPDATE 2 Feb 2008 @ 10:10am : Looks like I might have put down the wrong address. Not sure if the State street address is an old one or what, but the new address I’m seeing for Taj India is:
4515 South 900 East Salt Lake City, UT 84117
It is officially winter here in Utah. It’s about 2pm and it has already dropped about 5 inches of snow today and it is still going. Here’s the view from my front door:
Here’s what the front of my house looks like in the snow:
This being my first winter in Utah (or anywhere else that gets snow) it is something of a learning experience. Earlier this morning I saw some kids out on an ATV dragging a snow saucer with some rope down the street. They came through my court and made a nice arc, looked like fun.
My plan for getting through the winter, leave the house as little as possible :-)