Topic: Jetpack-powered Plugin Development by Beau Lebens
Let’s dive into the deep end of plugin development. We’ll use some of the more advanced techniques used in building Jetpack (http://jetpack.me) to illustrate things like how to interact with external services, custom XML-RPC implementations, internationalization and more. Bring your hard hat, this will be a code-heavy, technical session!
Topic: Beginning WordPress
Loren Nason will be presenting Beginning WordPress. This is a special be a two hour session at the start of the camp designed for those new to WordPress. Our goal will be to get you up to speed on the WordPress basics. We’ll cover installation, .com versus .org, Dashboard and Settings overview, Pages and Posts, Themes and Plugins and whatever else we can get to in our 2 hours.
Loren Nason is a technology consultant and owner of Your Local Tech. Loren’s expertise is helping make technology work for businesses and people – from tech savvy to tech newbie. He teaches people the tips and tricks of technology and other Internet tools to help boost efficiency and productivity in order to garner results. Loren also provides instructions and strategies for small businesses to create, maintain and maximize blogs, then integrating the power of blogs with other social media platforms.. Your Local Tech provides technology implementation and management as well as a growing WordPress Design and management service.
Great news! We’ve secured a room for Sunday for a Developer Day for WordCamp Orange County. Admission to the Developer Day is included in the General Ticket price. So if you’ve already purchased your ticket, you are in; if not, what the dickens are you waiting for?
The Developer Day will be a very informal gathering for attendees to come and exchange ideas, test new found knowledge, meet even more people and nerd it up just a bit more (because one day is never enough).
The Developer Day room will be in the same building as the camp, so if you come on Saturday, you’ll know where to go on Sunday. We may not be able to cover the price of parking for Sunday as well, but there is some free parking nearby. We’ll try to scope that out for you ahead of time. So, bring your laptops, your ideas and your willingness to share.
Last year we were really excited when Wiley decided to donate a few books for us to give away in our raffle. This year, they’re coming through for us again. They’ve actually increased their donation and are generously offering more than twice as many books (of our choosing) from their Wrox library. I picked up a copy of their newest book the other day, Professional WordPress Plugin Development by Brad Williams, Ozh, and Justin Tadlock the other day and let me tell you, it’s awesome. Thank you Wiley/Wrox for donating this little slice of awesome.
Madness! 50 of the possible 200 tickets are already spoken for. And just within 24 hours of going on sale no less. We can’t thank you all enough for your enthusiasm, tweets, likes and so on. If you are on the fence about coming, get your tix now! At this rate we could potentially sell out. We are stoked. We hope you are too.
Tickets are now on sale for WordCamp Orange County 2011. Payment will go though PayPal. Once you complete payment, you’ll be sent a confirmation email with a link. BE SURE TO CLICK THAT LINK! It will take you to a form to fill out important information for the event – things like name, twitter handle and most importantly, shirt size.
We need your help. Part of what makes every WordCamp go is the generous help of sponsors. While the ticket price covers a portion of the event, we need sponsors to round out the costs. So, if you’d like to give back to the WordPress community by sponsoring our event, we’d love to hear from you. Check out our Sponsors Page for more details. You may also Contact Us with any questions.
We’ve been getting a lot of inquiries about tickets today. The ticket price has been set at $25 (plus PayPal fees). This will include admission to the event, breakfast, lunch, t-shirt and parking. What a bargain, right?! Tickets will go on sale within two weeks. But you can be sure we will send out another newsletter, post and tweet when they are available.
Anika and everyone from wpjewels.com love WordPress. So much so, they wear it on their sleeves. Actually, they wear it on their ears and necklaces. They were kind enough to send us a few pieces of jewelery for us to give away in our end-of-day raffle.
Many thanks to Chapman University in Orange, CA. They have been working hard with us to help put on a great camp.
We’ll be using Kennedy Hall’s classrooms for our lectures and it’s surrounding areas for eating, meeting and milling about. Parking is in an adjacent building. Seating for lunch will be limited, so be prepared to find a nice grassy area and have yourself a little picnic.
WordCamp Orange County 2011 is over. Check out the next edition!
