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The First WordCamp LA Is Just Weeks Away
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Written by Efren Toscano   
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 10:35
I’m attending WordCampLA!

If you are a passionate journalist, poet, song artist, you name it and chances are you are going to need a blog.  Well if you are on the fence and not sure which or what platform you want to go with such as Joomla, Wordpress, or Drupal this is an event for you.  From the site:

"WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people."

And to top it off it is the first WordCamp to happen in LA!  They already have an awesome speaker line-up with a few local favorites:

Andrew Warner

In his 20s, he used credit cards and ingenuity to create a $30+ mil / year (in sales) internet business with his younger brother. He created Mixergy to help ambitious people who love business as much as he does learn from a mix of experienced mentors. He does that by inviting speakers to live events and online interviews.


Beau Lebens

After growing up in a tiny town in rural Western Australia, Beau decided that he needed to be somewhere with a little more excitement so he could be a part of this “Internet” thing that no one was talking about at the time. After 10 years of illustrious (and sometimes not-so-illustrious) development work in a variety of companies (and freelancing), he landed his position with Automattic, beating code into shape with his mad Krav Maga skillz.


Ben Huh

Ben is the CEO of Pet Holdings, Inc., the company behind the hugely popular blogs I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog and others. The success of his sites can be attributed to his knowledge of memes, viral content and crowd-sourcing.


Darren Rush

Darren is an entrepreneur, technologist and current CTO of Breitbart, one of the leading online news networks. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Koders.com, the leading search engine for software developers, which was acquired in 2008. Darren will be talking about lessons learned performance tuning Wordpress for high-volume websites, and the future of search for the Wordpress platform.


Jim Turner

Jim began blogging in early 2004 and soon became very passionate about blogging. His passion grew to the point where he wondered how he could take this passion and turn it into a business or a way to make a living to support his family, or at least supplement his income.


John Hawkins

John Hawkins is a WordPress evangelist, plugin hacker and self-proclaimed geek, John was the organizer of WordCamp Las Vegas. In his spare time he blogs, is an avid Twitterer, talks WordPress at a weekly beer and blog meetups, enjoys photography and spending time with his wife and two teenagers.


Micah Baldwin

Micah is the VP, Business Development and Chief Evangelist for Lijit Networks, a Boulder, CO startup, provides publishers a robust trusted search and stats tool. Lijit is the sixth startup Micah has been involved with, (having sold his last startup, Current Wisdom, in the beginning of 2007). Micah is well versed with online social media, using it strategically since 1995, and more recently starting the #followfriday meme on Twitter.


Shayne Sanderson

Shayne has 10 years of experience in web development & graphic design. Working primarily with CMS applications like Wordpress.


Siel

Siel blogs about living green in Los Angeles at green LA girl – with the help of a solar-powered host, carbon offseter CO2Stats, a car-free graphic designer and a WordPress consultant who gets her veggies from a local CSA.

 

 

 

So When is it happening?

September 12th 2009

Where is it happening?

Loyola Marymount University, 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045

How Do I Attend?

Click Here

 

Definitely Check this one out if you have a chance.

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