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Even More WordCamp San Francisco Speakers

We’re excited to introduce you to another six WordCamp San Francisco speakers. You’ll be able to hear these fine folks share their knowledge at the Mission Bay Conference Conference Center on 25th & 26th October.

  • Jenny Lawson is a journalist and author of The Bloggess. Her autobiography, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, is a New York Times bestseller.
  • Luke Wroblewski is the CEO and Co-Founder of Input Factory Inc. He’s the author of three popular web design books, (Mobile First, Web Form Design, and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability).
  • Joe Dolson is a WordPress plug-in developer and accessibility consultant.
  • Zack Tollman is a web developer at the Theme Foundry. He writes regularly about WordPress performance.
  • Jenny Wong is a web developer at Human Made. She organises WordCamp Manchester and PHP Northwest.
  • Paul Clark is a TEDx speaker, WordPress core contributor, and Director of Recruiting at 10up.com
  • Morten Rand-Hendriksen is a staff author at lynda.com and the Director of Pink & Yellow Media Inc. – a digital media company based in Burnaby, BC.

Welcome our next group of WCSF speakers

We couldn’t let the week pass without introducing you to another handful of WordCamp San Francisco speakers. We hope that you’re as excited to see them speak as we are.

  • Boone Gorges is an independent consultant specializing development services for colleges and universities. He is a lead developer of BuddyPress.
  • Jenn Schiffer is an open web engineer at Bocoup where she writes code to build web apps using open web technologies.
  • Cody Brown is the founder of Scroll Kit, a tool to help people tell dramatic visual stories on the web.
  • Christine Harkin is a writing and editing consultant. She’s been blogging at EditorPlease.com since 2011 and at the award-winning Naptimewriting.com since 2006.

Watch the blog and our Twitter account for more announcements and your email inbox for news because we’re still working on speaker selection!

Our second group of WordCamp San Francisco speakers

It’s Thursday! And what better day to introduce another group of WordCamp San Francisco speakers to you? The selection process is still ongoing, so if you haven’t heard anything, don’t count yourself out just yet. With that in mind, say hello to our second group of WordCamp speakers!

  • Guillermo Rauch was the founder of CloudUp is the author of several popular WordPress plugins, and the author of popular framework socket.io
  • Kel Santiago is Japan-based writer and product evangelist for Digital Cube, a WordPress Consultant company (pending visa approval).
  • Jeremy Felt is a developer at Washington State University and is a contributor to WordPress core.
  • Cory Miller is a former journalist turned full-time entrepreneur. He is the co-author of WordPress All-in-One for Dummies and founder of iThemes.

More speakers will be announced soon!

 

My First WordCamp San Francisco

The year was 2012. My first WordCamp San Francisco.

At the time, I’d been investing in the WordPress community for a little over two years. I’d met a number of people online that were well known WordPress developers, designers, and business owners.

I knew WordCamp San Francisco was the place to go to interact with more WordPress professionals in one place than anywhere else in the world.

The format for the conference was a little different that year. In 2012, the main event was one day, so I knew it was going to be tough to meet a lot of people.

And I was right:  it was an absolute whirlwind. I met hundreds of folks whom I previously only knew by their Twitter handles and Gravatars. At WordCamp San Francisco, we got to chat over coffee, beers, lunch, and elsewhere.

It’s kind of amazing, looking back.

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