Category Archives: Conferences
Tech conferences, meetups, and community events.
The more WordCamps I visit, the better of an experience each becomes! WordCamp MontrĂ©al was no exception and I had great conversations, met local WordPress developers, fellow Automatticians, and even merged an attendee’s pull request for Underscores while volunteering at the Happiness Bar!
It’s really the people and the interactions that makes WordCamps outstanding to me. Everyone was super-open and approachable, and the organizers did a great job putting it together. I really wish I would have made better travel arrangements so I could have stayed a little longer, but that won’t happen to me again! 🙂 Continue reading
WordCamp Montréal
Beer Checkers
After yesterday’s Portland WordPress Meetup, we headed over to Bailey’s Taproom, where we invented the game of Beer Checkers. At least we thought we did, until we wanted to register beercheckers.com. Also we played with slightly different rules: Drinking was a reward. Continue reading
Picture by Glenn Bennett.
Q&A Session at the Ventura WordPress Meetup
From left to right: Ryan, Alison, Konstantin, James, Derek, and Bryan.
Picture by Mike Schroder.
Automatticians at WordCamp Orange County
Busy June
Three Meetups, two WordCamps, a conference, and a birthday. Coming back from a team meetup in Florence, Italy, the awesome WordCamp Orange County kicked of the month of June, which will be a busy, WordPress-filled one for me.
I’ll speak at the Ventura WP Meetup and then travel to Portland, Oregon where I’ll be co-working with Michael Fields, attend the Portland WP Meetup, participate in an advanced jQuery training, and join many other Automatticians for a jQuery conference. Back in Ventura, I will speak for the first time at the Topanga Canyon WP Meetup, and celebrate my 30th birthday one day after that. For the grand finale, I’ll be traveling to Canada for the first time in my life and volunteer at WordCamp Montreal. Throughout the month I will also meet a lot of my Automattic colleagues for the first time, which always makes for a good time.
Last but not least, I hope the new version of WordPress will be released this month, making the new default theme Twenty Thirteen available to millions of WordPress users.
Konstantin Obenland 