We are thrilled to get the session and track information published today and in the next couple of days. The sessions and tracks have been prioritized from the 2013 WordPress Austin Member Survey. The 4 big categories are
Each track is jam-packed with sessions all day long we’re posting these throughout the day.
The theme of the WordCamp Austin 2013 is ‘Grown in Texas’. We are celebrating the tenth anniversary of WordPress, and saluting the WordPress Community that has grown and flourished here in Austin, and throughout the Lone Star State. We are designers, developers and users of WordPress. We’re colleagues, a community, and a ready resource to the small business owners, bloggers, artists, designers, educators, publishers and developers who contribute to vibrancy of the Austin WordPress Community.
WordPress Austin has grown over the years from a small informal group meeting at Halcyon coffee house in 2007, to a more structured interest group meeting first at Austin’s Conjunctured, and later at CoSpace. Today the Austin WordPress group has over 1460 members. To reflect our continuing membership expansion, we have segmented our WordPress group meetings to better address the different user levels and interests. We now hold five meetings a month at locations throughout the Austin Metro area. This will be our third WordCamp Austin adventure. In 2010 we held a 60-person WordCamp. Our Austin WordCamp 2012 boasted 250 attendees. This year’s WordCamp Austin will host 450-WordPress enthusiasts gathered to celebrate the tenth anniversary of WordPress and talk about, “What’s next?”
The first official announcement, thus the official “Birthday” of WordPress was made on May 27, 2003 in a humble summary post called “WordPress Now Available.”
Born out of a desire for an elegant, well designed, personal publishing system, GLP licensed and built on PHP and MySQL — what started as a fork of b2/cafelog by founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, has since grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world. WordPress is used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
WordCamp Austin 2013 is a celebration of how we all use WordPress today.
The tracks and sessions have been developed based on the data gathered from the 2013 Austin WordPress Member Survey. Come prepared to learn, share and have fun doing it — because that’s the way we do WordCamp here in in the Lone Start State.
Chris Lema scared his parents by dropping out of the engineering school at Berkeley in order to get a degree in Social Welfare. That didn’t stop him from playing with computers and starting a career at Berkeley National Lab right after graduation. He started managing software engineers back in 1994, at the same time that he started building business software using the Internet.
Today he continues to lead innovation and software development for Emphasys Software, manage staff on different continents, in multiple countries and across the US – all with his trusted internet account and phone. He’s helped design, develop and launch over 90 different software solutions delivered as online services (SaaS) and in his spare time coaches start-ups and other small companies looking to leverage technology. A regular speaker at WordCamps and other conferences, Chris is also a blogger, ebook author and runs a WordPress meetup in North County San Diego.
Chris will be Featured in the Business Track and will present, ‘The Client’s Not Always Right: How to Protect yourself from Overshoot & Dwindling Profits with WordPress
The organizers of the Austin WordPress Group would like to express our gratitude to Blossom Braemer, of Posh Co-Working Lounge, for analyzing the raw data from the 2013 Austin WordPress Survey and producing an actionable report. Thanks to our members who took the time to respond to the survey, we now have a better idea of the skill levels and interests of our WordPress Community. Not only will we plan our future WordPress Meetups based on our member’s requests, we used the topics you requested to plan the Tracks and Sessions for the 2013 Austin WordCamp.
Thanks to the larger venue for this year’s WordCamp, we will be offering four Tracks: Content, Site Administration and Management, Technical-Design and Development and Business.
The Track Sessions are being developed right now based on the topics requested by our members. We’ve reached out to the subject matter experts and a gratifying number have accepted our invitations to present at WordCamp Austin 2013. The session tracks will be finalized in a few weeks. In the meantime we’ll announce the sessions and speakers as they are confirmed on the site. Go ahead and signup to receive automatic updates to Wordcamp Austin 2013, Saturday May 18th
WordPress was Born in Texas and thanks to our vital WordPress Community Grown in Texas.
Our goal for the 2013 Austin WordCamp is to throw a WordPress 10th Anniversary Celebration — Lonestar Style.
See you there!
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Back By Popular demand, POK-E-JO’s BBQ will again be catering the 2013 Austin WordCamp lunch service. The 2012 Austin WordCamp attendees filled the Twitter-verse and Facebook with pictures and ‘umm–umm good’ comments about the delicious food that our friends at POK-E-Jo’s served up. In addition to the smoked Texas brisket and other carnivore treats, POK-E-JO’s also offered a tasty vegetarian service with vegan options.
So many 2012 attendees commented on how nice it was to relax outside while munching great BBQ, that we will set up tented outdoor eating areas for our Campers to kick-back, hang out and enjoy some down time between the morning and afternoon sessions.
WordCamp Austin 2013 is over. Check out the next edition!