WordPress Meetup Southwest Florida

The inaugural WordCamp Tampa will take place at the Kaiser University on  October 4th and 5th, 2014. The Call for Speakers went out in July and we hear the selection has been made for this event. Tickets went on sale couple of weeks ago,  and only a few are still available.

The price is $ 30 per person for the 2-Day WordPress conference with multiple tracks for all skill levels, lunch for Saturday and Sunday, t-shirt, lots of swag, and a fantastic networking after party.

The groups of speakers promises a great array of presentations. Saturday schedule holds the two tracks:

• Design & Development
• Publishing & Marketing

And on Sunday it’s about  “Business & other”

Of course, the party on Saturday night will be epic

Here is the list of speakers and I started a Twitter list with the speakers so you can follow them before and after WordCamp

Wordcamps are casual, locally-organized conferences about All-Things WordPress, the free and open-source publishing software powering millions of sites on the Internet. They are attended by people ranging from blogging newbies to professional WordPress devlopers, designers and consultants.

Hope to see you in Tampa. Leave a comment if you’ll attend, so we can connect during WordCamp, too.

On Wednesday, August 27th, I coordinated efforts with Chase Livingston via Skype to make WordPress Meetup Southwest Florida an official member of the WordPress community. “With great power comes great responsibility” in this case with a few good-faith rules for WordPress meetup, created by a group of volunteer meetup organizers:(quoted directly from the WordPress.org meetup up chapter program)

1. WordPress Meetups are for the benefit of the WordPress community as a whole, not specific businesses or individuals. All actions taken as an event organizer are with the best interest of the community in mind.
2. Membership in the local meetup group is open to all who wish to join, regardless of ability, skill, financial status or any other criteria.
3. Meetups are volunteer-run with volunteer speakers. In cases where a modest attendance fee might be necessary, this fee should only cover the costs of the meetup and shouldn’t be used to pay speakers or organizers.
4. Meetup groups allow events to be organized by any reliable/trusted member of the community.
5. Meetups are welcoming places where everyone works to foster an accepting environment which is free of discrimination, incitement to violence, promotion of hate, and general jerk-like behavior.

So far the good faith rules…

Read up more about it here