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Vote for WordPress Sessions at SXSW

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 09:45 PM PDT
http://wordpress.org/news/2011/09/vote-for-wordpress-sxsw/


Each year, members of the web community from around the world submit
session proposals to the South by Southwest Interactive conference, an
event that played a role in the birth of WordPress. We head to Austin every
year, do a BBQ or throw a party, but despite the fact that almost 15% of
the web is powered by WordPress, there arent many sessions related to
WordPress on the schedule. This year, more than 3200 proposals are
competing for about 350 slots, and who has time to read through, vote, and
comment on 3200 proposals? Out of those 3200+ proposals, only 8 relate to
WordPress! I thought it would be handy to post a guide to the WordPressy
proposals for SXSWi 2012, so that if you would like to check them out and
vote on them it woud be fast and easy. Leaving a comment in addition to
your thumbs up/down vote helps the staff and advisory board know which
sessions are likely to have an interested audience, so make sure to leave
comments on the sessions you think would be cool (remember, they also
publish the podcasts afterward). Voting ends in about 24 hours, so if you
want to weigh in, nows the time. Thanks for helping spread the word!
WordPress-specific Sessions

This list is based on searching for WordPress in proposal titles,
descriptions, and tags. Clicking the proposal title will take you to that
page in the SXSW PanelPicker, where you can vote and comment. Names that
are linked go to those peoples WordPress.org profiles.
Blog Wars: Movable Type vs. WordPress Revisited

Mark Jaquith – WordPress Lead Developer

Byrne Reese – Endevver

These days people tend to pit us against Drupal rather than Movable Type,
but looking back at the early rivalry and learning from the positive and
negative aspects of it would be cool as we position ourselves in
competition with new platforms. I like seeing Mark present at conferences,
he always prepares well and does a good job. Though Im guessing these guys
will be all friendly and collaborative, I might take a nostalgia hit and
imagine them in a fistfight just to liven things up.
Designing WordPress

Jane Wells – WordPress User Experience Lead

Disclosure: This is me! Balancing the desire for truly open and
participatory design processes against the often more efficient and
consistent results of a more curated design method is something weve been
working on for the past year or so in WordPress core. Id use the design
process for several recent core features (like the UI refresh and internal
linking) to illustrate the issues weve faced and the results weve achieved.
Open Source Social Networking

John James Jacoby – BuddyPress Lead Developer

J-trip (as John James Jacoby is fondly known by many in the community) is
the lead dev for BuddyPress and the new bbPress plugin. Hes proposing a
panel discussion among reps from several open source social network
platforms. Its always cool hearing more about BuddyPress, but it would be
even cooler to figure out how it fits in with and/or stacks up against
other platforms.
Welcome to the Chaos – the Distributed Workplace

Nikolay Bachiyski – WordPress Core Developer, GlotPress Lead Developer

Lori McLeese – Automattic

This one isnt about WordPress per se, though using WordPress as a
communication tool is one of the topics and Automattic is obviously a
WordPress-based business. The main reason I think people should vote for
this session is because Nikolay, core committing developer for
internationalization and lead developer of GlotPress, our translation tool,
is an awesome speaker. He is hysterically funny when he presents. I would
bet money this presentation will involve a bear.
Deploying WordPress: From Zero to Ninja

Grant Norwood – Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

When Mark Jaquith says a presentation on security and deployment is on his
short list, Im impressed. (He said it in the comments on the proposal.)
Beyond the Theme Using WordPress as an API

David Tufts – kickpress.org

Obviously a hot topic in the community right now, seems like a no-brainer
to choose.
Local Government Online: WordPress Beats Drupal

Jase Wilson – Luminopolis

There was a presentation at WordCamp San Francisco this month on moving a
news site from Drupal to WordPress. More and more the question comes up of
which tool is best for various situations and requirements. And obviously
getting government to use more open source software would be a cost-saver
in these tough economic times.
WordPress website built live in 45 minutes

Glenn Todd – Dvize Creative

Live walkthroughs are always fun, and help prove to the uninitiated how
easy WordPress can be.

So: go vote on these session proposals and help spread the WordPress love.
If you know of any WordPress-related proposals that didnt come up in my
search, let me know in a comment and Ill update this post. Thanks, and
maybe well see you in Austin in March!




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