Schedule

Below is the WordCamp Philly 2011 schedule. We have a great lineup of speakers for a fun weekend of WordPress in Philly!

The schedule is subject to change at any time.

Please use the hashtag #wcphilly for this year’s WordCamp. Tweet away!

Saturday – Nov 5th

Location: Fox School of Business and Management @ Temple University

Time	User	Power User	Developer	Designer
8:00	Registration
9:00	Opening Remarks
9:15	WordPress 101: The Basics of Blogging & 101 Resources to Get Started Fajr Muhammad	Building Community Around Your WordPress Publication Patrick O’Keefe	Building a Plugin in One Night Jason Coleman	Customizing the WordPress Twenty Eleven Theme Tom Carney
10:15	How I Explained WordPress to my Mother Lisa Sabin-Wilson	Custom menus and navigation Reed Gustow	Get control of WP with version control Dave Konopka	Workshop session: HTML to WordPress theme conversion Jayvie Canono
11:15	What You Need To Know to Get Your Company on The Web Owen Winkler	Adding A Social ‘Stache: BuddyPress, bbPress And Beyond Doug Stewart	Applying Agile Coding Techniques to WordPress Plugin Development Michael Toppa	WordPress Design and Development For the Client In Mind Nile Flores
12:00	Lunch Academic Panel: Socializing Higher Education through Content Management Systems
1:15	Stop Worrying, Start Publishing Anthony Bubel	WordPress End-User Security Dre Armeda	Moving Beyond jQuery and into Javascript Aaron Jorbin	HTML5: Just cut to the chase! Sam Napolitano
2:15	Gamification for a Funtastic User Experience Steven L. Johnson	Facebook + WordPress = How to supercharge social on your blog Sean Blanda	Advanced WordPress Development Andrew Nacin	Polishing the WordPress Admin Andrew Norcross
3:15	How I Made over $15,000 from One Blog Post Yasmine Mustafa	WordPress Multisite in Education Paul Paire	Editing the Visual Editor Jake Goldman	Desktops, Tablets, and Mobiles Oh My!: Adaptive and Responsive Web Design Chris Cochran
4:15	Getting Support in an Open Source World Andrew Spittle	Mastering The Shortcode API Peter Baylies	The Power of the Loop: Using Custom Post Types to Create a CMS based Portfolio Site Pete Schuster	A base framework won’t box you in Brian Richards
5:00	Closing Remarks
8:00	Afterparty @ National Mechanics

Saturday – Classroom

The Saturday Classroom will be more hands on training. The first three classes ( 9:45-11:15 ) will be 30 minutes theme demos with a Q&A located directly afterwards outside the classroom.

It’s recommended you bring a laptop or tablet to interact with the classroom sessions

Time	User
9:45 – 10:15	Genesis Demo Chris Cochran
10:15-10:45	Startbox Demo Brian Richards
10:45-11:15	iThemes Demo Matt Danner
11:15-12:00	WordPress for Beginners Reed Gustow
12:00	Lunch
1:15-2:00	Creating Your First WordPress Plugin Brad Williams
2:15-3:00	Extending WordPress for Beginners Reed Gustow
3:15-4:00	WordPress Optimization Ben Metcalfe
4:15-5:00	Gravity Forms Demo Carl Hancock

Sunday – Nov 6th

Location: Philadelphia Center for Architecture

Sunday Dev Day will be less session based and more hands-on hacking!

Time	User
1:00pm	Doors Open
1:15	Contributing to WordPress Core
2:15	Releasing a Plugin to WP.org
3:20	Releasing a Theme to WP.org
5:00pm	Event Ends