WordCampLA

Sponsor Spotlight: SlideRocket

Frosty — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:01:41 +0000

I would like to thank WordCamp LA for the opportunity to provide you with a little sponsorship support. As an avid blogger and online marketer, I appreciate that the WordCamps are a remarkable place to get together and share ideas on web strategy, design and development. SlideRocket looks forward to helping out in the future and at WordCamps in your sister cities (see you in Portland!). And if you’d like to use SlideRocket for your WordCamp presentation just hit us on Twitter @SlideRocket and we’ll set you up with a complimentary SlideRocket Pro account. There is also a robust free version of SlideRocket that you can give a try.

SlideRocket is an online presentation program and we know our UI really makes a difference for our customers. They demand the ability to craft presentations that are dynamic, easily shared, handle all media types, and play perfectly on all devices and operating systems. And customers certainly enjoy the presentation analytics, which are akin to web analytics in tracking which slides your audience views and how long.

As web designers and developers I think you’ll appreciate the simplicity of posting presentations to websites and blogs using just a short embed code, and that the presentations automatically update as you modify them, with no files sitting on your server. You can pack presentations with images, audio, video, YouTube, live Twitter feeds or whatever, and they still play perfectly. And sharing presentations on Facebook, Twitter, email or really anywhere is just a matter of sharing a URL rather than a file – it’s a link that you control, that you can turn off at any time, and dictate who is able to view it.

Managing presentation content is something the WordCamp audience will value more than the average PowerPoint jockey. By building presentation and media libraries into the SlideRocket application, your entire organization is able to share assets. All your images, videos and slides are available to others in your organization or workgroup. So assembling presentations becomes something of a shopping trip where you drag and drop the latest and greatest assets into your presentation. And if a shared asset (e.g., your company logo) gets updated, the update percolates through to every presentation using that asset. These capabilities are not available in your everyday presentation builder.

Well, enough talk. Below are a few examples of SlideRocket presentations for you to take a peek at:

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Registration open for theme workshop

Frosty — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:47:28 +0000

Join us Friday the 9th @ Blankspaces in Santa Monica from 11am – 4pm for a WordPress theme workshop. This event is a free seminar which is part of WordCamp LA 2011.

You must be registered with the conference to attend, but if you feel like only attending this event please leave a donation (anything helps). Please note, there is only 50 spaces available so if you are a developer or a more advnaced user, please hold off on attending, we’ve got a developers day for you.

What to expect

We will have two WordPress theme experts to walk you through themeing for WordPress. Welcome John Hawkins and Kristin Falkner, with break-out session help from Marty Thornley and myself (Austin Passy) – Would you like to help? Leave comment below.

Schedule

11:00am – Checkin

11:30am – Kristin Falkner – From PSD to WordPress: Tips & Tricks for Taking Any Design & Turning it Into a Custom Theme

Overview of the key concepts behind taking any design and turning it into a functional WordPress theme. Tips include base themes to work off, how to break up a PSD and its content into pieces suited for WordPress, the best plug-ins for heavy customization, etc.

12:30pm – Quick Break *optional

1:00pm – John Hawkins – An introduction to Child Theming

A presentation on how to get started building a child theme. showing things like importing CSS, overwriting files, functions, etc…

1:45 – 4:00pm – Break out sessions (anything goes).

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Show some spirit, add a banner

Frosty — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:27:07 +0000

Hey camper’s, for those of you who are attending the event at LMU this September, I’ve just created some attendee/speaker/sponsor banners for you to put up online! Show you love.

Thanks!

Please let me know if any of the links are incorrect by leaving a comment on this post here

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After party at Brennans Pub

Frosty — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:46:11 +0000

Since we finally locked in the after party venue I’d though I would announce it here! While the last two WordCamp after-parties have been at The Custom Hotel, I though I would change it up a bit this year and head over the the famous Brennans Pub; known for there turtle races every Thursday night.

The after party will start promptly after the last session and closing announcements. We are looking into a free shuttle ride to and from the Custom Hotel and Brennans, so for those who are coming in from out of town need not worry about LA’s pricey taxi’s. More info on that soon

If you’ve got any other question or comments, leave them below.

Oh, and like the last two years, yes, there will be a few free drinks (and possibly appetizers — since Brennans has a full kitchen).

I’d like to take a moment an thank our sponsors:

Developer Day

Frosty — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:53:27 +0000

A lot have people have been asking about Sunday the 11^th, which has been shown as developers day. There is no additional cost to attend Sundays event, but there is a limited availability compared to Saturdays event. We’ve only got seating for 50 people, so I will have a sign up form for dev day. Though as stated by the name, this day is reserved for the more advanced users.

We are in the process, of changing dev day from a less un-conference day to hosting a few speakers and break-out sessions. I’ll have the announcement of speakers in the coming days.

Speakers, Sponsors and Tickets, oh my.

Frosty — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:53:23 +0000

Well, less than a week after opening tickets sales for WordCamp we are reaching the 100 ticket sale point. We also sold out the early WordBird tickets in less than six hours! But don’t worry, we’ve got plenty of general admission tickets left before we sell those out.

I’d also like to thank all the speakers who’ve submitted their presentation who are now listed on the speaker page (presentation info coming soon), with room for a few more…

Also a quick shout out to the few sponsors who already followed through with their kind contributions. We thank you. But we are still looking for more, so if you are interested please contact us soon.

I hope most of you are headed to the now sold out WordCamp in SF, if not, be sure to grab a ticket for LA before they sell out.

It’s official, a date has been set for WordCampLA!

Frosty — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:05:28 +0000

If you follow us on Twitter, are on our mailing list, or attended camp in the past two years then you are one of the first to receive this announcement!

So what’s the big news? Well, if you read the title then you now know we’ve set a date for this year’s WordCampLA. Although we are still five months away, summer tends to fly by so we’ve secured the venue. Leaving us plenty of time to secure awesome speakers and sponsors for another great event.

So, can we plan anything?

Yes! I personally opened up speaker and sponsor submissions on the 2011 site.

So, when is it?

WordCampLA will be held the same weekend as the last two camps were held. That’s the second weekend in September, the 10^th to be exact (of twenty eleven) ¹.

Where is it?

Just like 2009 and 2010, WordCampLA has been graced with an awesome venue thanks to the Studio Arts – Media Emphasis department of Loyola Marymount. We’ll be holding the event at Seaver Hall 100 & 200, that means we will be hosting two tracks.

Want More?

Just follow us on Twitter, sign up for the newsletter and/or the 2011 feedburner feed.

Thanks,
—Austin Passy

¹Please note that tickets aren’t going to go on sale until some time in July.

Poll: When would you choose to host WordCamp

Frosty — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:33:46 +0000

The last two years in a row we’ve held WordCamp the second weekend of September, problem is that it follows Labor Day weekend and the start of school (in our case this applies because its taken place at LMU).

Last year our camp was also the same date as Mid-Atlantics (which is splitting into two different camps this year). We have also be followed each of the last two years by WordCamp Portland, and now are following WordCamp San Fransisco’s move from mid to late May into the middle of August for a four day event.

So many great camps happening this year, and I hope to make LA‘s that much better from the last two. I just want to pick the right date this year so as to not step on any ones feet and allow for some kick ass WordPress people to fly in from all over the US.

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Hello world!

Frosty — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:00:26 +0000

Well hello there curious. Getting slightly ahead of yourself, no?

Update
It’s a new year, which mean another WordCamp is just around the corner. The last two Los Angeles based WordCamp’s have been in September. And at the present time this is most likely when twenty eleven will take place. But to know for sure, please subscribe to our updates via newsletter or follow us on Twitter.