WordCamps in NZ & Australia
7 03 2011In February I was fortunate enough to be part of a dual event held in Wellington, NZ and a week later in Melbourne.
As one of the NZ organisers we curated a number of talks on what WordPress users are doing here; as well as how they do some of that. All of the talks were good and a number of links and photos from Wellington are to be found over here.
I really enjoyed a panel discussion on the future of blogging & related matters which featured David Farrar of Kiwiblog, John Ford of Automattic, Julie Starr from Evolving Newsroom, Richard MacManus of RWW and Lance Wiggs.
Some of that was captured on video and other notes were scribbled down. I’m hoping to write up some of those key quotes when I get a moment.
What I particularly liked is the idea that you can invite a little chaos into the process and so I was delighted when DiscourseNZ duo – Ben Gracewood and Morgan Nichol agreed to come along and give a taster of their show. It was an excellent end to the day.
On Sunday we had some more hands on sessions and finished with a ukelele trio called the Custom Post Types who sang a song about CSS called the curly bracket blues. Really you had to be there 
A week later I was in Melbourne for WordCamp Melbourne. It was a great event with a full range of presentations – many of whom were recorded on video – well done guys.
The video archive for #wcmelb is over here at Blip TV
As with any event like these it was very useful to hear people approaching many of the same topics from different perspectives and sharing those experiences.
At the event was Kym Huynh from WordCast who recorded a short talk with me. Ironically it lasted about 8 mins and I later did a 5 minute lighting talk covering some of the same ideas in the main room.
There was no script and it is always a little scary to see one self on video but I reckon it turned out well. I’m sure Kym did some great editing in there. (Thanks Kym)
Were you at WordCampNZ in Wellington on Feb 19th & 20th or WordCamp Melbourne on Feb 26th & 27th. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Wish I could have made it over to Melbourne Jason, it looked like another great event.
I liked that we only had 6 months to wait between WordCamp AKL and WordCamp WGTN, – it is going to seem strange to have to wait an entire year for another one.
Thanks for putting on a good show, – always looking towards the next.
S