Here comes the girl power (and entrepreneurial spirit). Yasmine Mustafa, the founder of 123LinkIt.com, has been confirmed to discuss Starting a Startup with WordPress and give us a glimpse of creating a company out of a free WordPress plugin. Recently launched in the Philadelphia area, Yasmine’s company builds online tools to help bloggers streamline their advertising process. Her presentation will be featured in the Vedder track, and we look forward to having her! Check out her full bio on our Speakers page.
New Speakers Announced!
We hope you enjoyed your Memorial Day Weekend, whether it included the Jersey shore, work, or that horrible Flyers game last night. Luckily, we have a few new speakers to announce (and more coming later in the week) – Brad Williams and Vasken Hauri.
If you’ve attended or followed other WordCamps, you may know that Brad is no stranger to WordPress. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of WebDevStudios.com, the co-author of Professional WordPress from WROX, and a co-host on the SitePoint Podcast. You can check out his full bio here. His topic, most likely an addition to the Springsteen track, is to be announced shortly. Brad has also joined the organizing team for the event, so we’re happy to have him on multiple fronts.
We’re also pleased to have Vasken Hauri, a web developer at Plymouth State University, also confirmed for the program. His presentation title is still in the works, but the topic will discuss the ongoing development of WP-CAS Server, a plugin to convert WP into a fully-functioning CAS server. Vasken’s presentation will be included in the Springsteen track. His full bio can be reviewed here.
Phillip Copley Joins the Springsteen Track Stars
Beyond Object Orientation: Increasing Plug-in Iteration Using a Modified MVC Architecture – say that three times fast. Actually, don’t. Just mark it in your calendar and come check out Harrisburg’s own Phillip Copley’s kick-ass presentation – by that same title – at WordCamp Philly. Wanna know more about Phillip? Check his bio on the Speakers page.
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Doug Stewart Talks Making WordPress Work AT Work
WordPress in a Fortune 500 company may frighten your typical IT professionals. But not Doug Stewart, who has been rocking out in the IT industry for over ten years. He’s dropping by WordCamp Philly to tell us just how a little care, creativity and a hearty helping of plugins can make WordPress work in such an environment. Check out Doug’s bio on our Speakers page.
Logo Finalized
The WordCamp Philly 2010 logo has been finalized, and you can see it – in all of its glory – above (yes, in the header). We’d like to extend an official and formal thank you to Nick Silva for putting his personal and valuable hours into this project. We’d also like to apologize to Nick – and any other confused readers – for not having the full and complete logo up sooner (the previous one you may have seen was incomplete and not the envisioned work of Nick – only the bell image was.). Check out Nick’s personal portfolio at http://wingnutart.com/, and feel free to drop him a line.
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Be One of Us: The WordPress Community
We’d like to extend a warm welcome to Owen Winkler, our newest speaker to join the WordCamp Philly program. His presentation, Be One of Us: The WordPress Community, will be a part of the Vedder track and touch on a slew of issues, from the origins and growth of the WordPress community to how you may benefit the community by offering your own participation. Read more about Owen on our Speakers page and his personal blog.
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Eddie or Bruce?
In case you haven’t noticed, WordCamp Philly is set to have 2 speaker tracks. What’s more, the tracks are much more fun to identify at WCP, as they are named after two of the greatest musicians of all time – Eddie Vedder and Bruce Springsteen (you know, “The Boss”). While the tracks, and their focuses, may certainly dictate the speakers you’ll follow throughout the day, we encourage you to avoid having a one-track mind (pun absolutely intended). After all, have you ever seen Bruce and Eddie do “Better Man” together? It’s epic! So, we say plan on hopping around a bit, and you just may learn something unexpected.
I’m a Pearl Jam guy myself. 🙂
Using BuddyPress to Change the World
We’re please announce another addition to our lineup – Scott Sussman and Ron Bercume, the minds behind ilivewithadisability.com, a recently-launched social networking community designed to give the disabled, their friends, family and co-workers the tools, ability and network to love themselves. The duo’s presentation, within the Vedder track, will focus on the mission, concept and story behind the evolution of their project, how BuddyPress has enabled them to realize accessibility within new media, and what the future may hold.
Speaker Update: Andrew Nacin
Andrew Nacin, one of the core WordPress developers, will be migrating up I-95 from D.C. to speak at WordCamp Philly in the Springsteen track. Needless to say, we’re psyched to have him! Details of his presentation are still being hammered out, so stay tuned for further updates.
In the meantime, read some more about Andrew on our Speakers page.
Speaker Update: Ryan Duff
We’re pleased to announce that Ryan Duff has been confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Philly! His presentation, Productivity 101: Making a Easily Redeployable Dev Environment with Subversion will be found in our Springsteen track. You can read more about Ryan on our Speakers page and on his blog.
Many more speakers are to be formally announced shortly, so please stay tuned! Remember, we still need to fill some speaker slots, so please drop us a line if you’re interested in presenting.