Steal these badges

By Christopher Spencer | Published: April 21, 2010

Super thanks to Blue Zoo Web sites, a sponsor of WordCamp Fayetteville for crafting these badges for us.

Please steal them freely and spread them around the Interwebz with a link back to this site.

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Does Automattic have a conscience: My interview with Matt Mullenweg

By Christopher Spencer | Published: March 30, 2010

Matt Mullenweg of Automattic

By Christopher Spencer

An Interview with Matt Mullenweg

Not my smoothest interview, but Matt was a good sport at WordCamp Birmingham. This interview happened at Shift Workspace in September 2009 when we got a few moments away from the unconference crowd.

It’s interesting that Google’s stance toward China’s censorship is prominent in the news right now. This was a hurdle that Automattic dealt with almost a year ago in a very ethical fashion by refusing to change their practices after they were blocked by Chinese authorities.

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Meeting tonight from 5:30 to 8:30 at the Technology 101 Training Center in Rogers

By Christopher Spencer | Published: March 25, 2010

Tonight’s presentation:

Eric Huber and Collin Condray of Blue Zoo Websites, will do a short presentation of their new business as well as how and why they chose the WordPress engine as one of the key elements. A short demonstration and Q&A will follow. Condray has launched Social Media Revolutionary as a business and Huber owns Mighty Creative, LLC which focuses on graphic design for web and print.

Here’s the location -

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Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act pamphlets are in

By Christopher Spencer | Published: March 16, 2010

A hundred Arkansas Freedom of Information Act pamphlets, courtesy of the Arkansas Press Association

Many thanks to the Arkansas Press Association for giving WordCamp Fayetteville 100 copies of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act pamphlet. I went to Little Rock yesterday and picked them up.

These are going to be included among the giveaways for conference attendees.

In this age of citizen journalism, it’s pretty important for civic-minded bloggers to know their rights to public records and public meetings.

This is one of the reasons I’m so excited about State Rep. Lindsley Smith’s presentation at WordCamp about the act, its exceptions and how to use it.

If you don’t want to wait till May to get your copy, you can download a PDF version here.

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Getting Better Each Time: WordCamp Fayetteville meetup now features 50 percent more content

By Christopher Spencer | Published: February 24, 2010

Thanks to everyone who turned out for the second WordCamp Fayetteville meetup last night at U.S. Pizza.

I found the restaurant to be accommodating to our meeting and am inclined to try them again sometime. If you know or want to suggest another location please do.

So for those who weren’t there, we kept the organizational stuff light. Let me give you the quick rundown

  • We’ve sold 11 of the 80 tickets. This a good amount I think with three months to go
  • New Design School is allowing us run of their building and picking up the rental fee so we can have an outstanding space on Sunday. It’s gonna be a great space and I’m really looking forward to it. Thank you.
  • The WordCamp Fayetteville schwag bag is coming together. We’ve got water bottles and canvas bags donated from Beaver Water District, as well as a folder with our logo on the front and a networking list (with the names of participants who want to be listed), sheets for holding business cards, a printed schedule and a sponsors list
  • Gave away a WordPress embossed moleskin and a copy of Scott McNulty’s How to Build a WordPress Blog People Want to Read. Congrats to the winners.

Also, we decided that at the next monthly meeting we would like a short informational presentation. That topic has not be decided yet, but some of the potential topics are: How to monetize your blog, plugins, the 3.0 merger?

What would you like the topic at March’s meeting to be?

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Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint!

By Christopher Spencer | Published: February 23, 2010

WordPress › Blog » Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint!.

COMMENT: Some details on the 3.0 WP and WP MU merger and the awesomeness that is WooThemes custom navigation plug in.

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Sent out our first press release Monday

By Christopher Spencer | Published: February 23, 2010

I drafted and sent out a press release to local media Monday announcing WordCamp Fayetteville.

Here’s a copy:

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Second WordCamp Fayetteville Meetup tonight

By Christopher Spencer | Published: February 23, 2010

Hey everyone,

Our second WordCamp Fayetteville meetup is scheduled tonight at 6 p.m. at U.S. Pizza. Hope you can all make it.

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I think the main goal for the evening should be just to socialize and do some informal talking about WordPress.

I do plan to make some quick announcements at the beginning and do the giveaway for the book and moleskin at the top of the meeting.

Thanks Automattic and Peachpit Press for the giveaways

My idea for these WordCamp Fayetteville meetups is a once-a-month social gathering where we can all talk about potential issues and what’s coming down the pipeline for WordPress, as well as just generally growing the WordPress community around here.

I’ll ask this at the meeting also, but would you guys like a presentation each monthly meeting on some aspect of WordPress or even blogging generally?

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WordCamp Atlanta Notes

By Brian Colinger | Published: January 27, 2010

Here are some of the bullet points of the presentation Brian Colinger gave last night during the first WC Fayetteville meetup.

Very Organized

Weather sucked

  • Still had a good turnout, 400+ people
  • Had to bump a couple of speakers because of weather related late start

Venue was at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design)

  • Visually nice
  • Lots of space

Basic Breakfast

  • Starbucks coffee, cookies, and pastries
  • Lunch sponsored by SCAD
  • Location: SCAD cafeteria
  • Good food
  • Lots of choices

Goodie Bags

  • Recycled cloth bags with WCATL logo
  • Printed schedule
  • Pens
  • T-Shirt
  • Pressed pennies with WordPress logo
  • Nice guy who makes them, can’t remember his name
  • WordPress logo pins

Tickets included raffle ticket

  • Books, some signed
  • Donated by publishers?
  • Free web hosting
  • Free classes for certifications
  • Genius Bar
  • Automattic started this in San Francisco, I think
  • Always a huge success
  • Non-technical people can ask WordPress guru’s for help with various things

Intro from Jane Wells

  • Info about WordPress 3.0
  • Calming fears about “The Merge”

Ryan Imel

  • Basic how-to’s on creating themes
  • Explained child themes

Mark Jaquith Q&A

  • Big conference room
  • Security and scaling expert
  • Does not work for Automattic

WCATL was a very diverse crowd – compared to typical tech crowd type

  • Lots of minorities
  • Lots of women
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WordCamp Fayetteville Ideas

By Brian Colinger | Published: January 27, 2010

Getting the conversational ball rolling with WordCamp Fayetteville ideas. Please contribute your own in the comments section.

Sponsors?

WordCamp Badges

  • Who will print?
  • Must have lanyards FTW!
  • Maybe local sponsor?

Coffee!!!

  • Reach out to local coffee shops

Breakfast?

  • Local bakery?
  • Donuts?
  • Basic stuff, but have something

Lunch

  • Catered?
  • Nearby restaurants, discount with WC badge?

After Party!

  • Where?

Photographers / Video

  • University A/V club?
  • Equipment rental?

Group discount rates

  • Hotel
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