Below you’ll find a tentative schedule for WordCamp Portland. Exact times are subject to change (other than our starting\/ending time each day).<\/p>\n
08:00 Doors open
\n08:45 Welcome\/Introduction
\n09:00 Featured Speaker: Scott Berkun
\n09:45 Discuss and create Unconference schedule
\n10:15 Unconference sessions
\n11:15 Unconference sessions:
\n– main room: You have *no* idea what your users want (a\/b testing)
\n– B201: Business aspects of plugin development
\n– B202: Second year slump, what to do when it’s no longer shiny
\n– B204: Get a new WP installation up and running ( as fast and future-ready as possible)
\n12:00 Lunch (onsite, included w\/ ticket price)
\n13:15 Featured Speakers: Andrew Nacin \/ Hanni Ross
\n14:15 Unconference sessions
\n– main room: Intro to Child Theming
\n– B201: Music blogs
\n– B202: SEO
\n– B204: setting up various WP development environments
\n15:00 Break\/snack
\n15:30 Unconference sessions
\n– main room: the personal blog in 2011: beyond cat photos
\n– B201: small business blogging “what do I say” and more
\n– B202: plugin development Q&A and best practices
\n– B204:
\n16:30 Unconference sessions
\n– main room: WordPress as CMS
\n– B201: blogging for photographers
\n– B202: WordPress multi-site
\n– B204:
\n17:15 Wrap up<\/p>\n
Some sort of not-after party is in the works for Saturday evening… stay tuned.<\/p>\n
13:30 Doors open
\n14:00 Featured Speaker: Jane Wells – What’s Coming in WordPress 3.3 along with Town Hall Q&A
\n15:00 Unconference sessions:
\n– main room: WordPress Developer meet & greet \/ discussion \/ networking
\n– B201: Making themes and plugins talk to one another
\n– B202: Discussion: Blogging\/content productivity: how do you write? workflow? tools? Discussion of EditFlow
\n– B204:
\n16:00 Unconference sessions
\n– main room: Social Media & WordPress \/ Web Actions – connecting WP with other apps
\n– B201: Practical Design: workflow centric design, function over form
\n– B202: Post Formats: using your blog to write about anything
\n– B204: Why WordPress has it alright
\n17:00 Unconference sessions
\n– main room: Custom Post Types – development, discussion, Q&A
\n– B201: Practical publishing: how WP is used by newspapers
\n– B202: Adding video\/audio\/animation to your blog
\n– B204: Training clients & end users to manage their WP site (discussion)
\n17:45 Wrap up<\/p>\n
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