The WordCamp Report

Plans for WordCamp Montreal 2009 are underway. If you leave in the Montreal, Canada, area, get involved now.

WordCamp Egypt (English)has been announced in Mansoura, Egypt, on March 28, 2009, at Club Mansoura.

Registration is open for WordCamp Tokyo (English) on April 7, 2009, will be followed by a Banquet for WordCamp News Kansai on April 10, 2009.

WordCamp LA has been announced. They are planning on September 12, 2009, for the event.
The location hasn’t been announced, but they are starting planning meetings. If you live in the Los Angeles, California, area, get involved and help make this first LA WordCamp a success.

In “Want to Break and Remake WordPress?” on the Blog Herald and “Time to Break WordPress This Summer” on Lorelle on WordPress, I summarized this year’s WordPress/Google Summer of Code, an exciting annual project that brings together the top WordPress Community experts with college students from around the world dedicated to making and breaking WordPress [...]

In “Top eight reasons why WordPress users need to get to a WordCamp,” Dave Moyer offers some solid justification for attending a WordCamp, whether you choose one near or far. Points five and four were my favorites.
5. Because free inspiration is cool! Spending a day with bloggers talking about blogging is one of the greatest [...]

The next Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress March Meetup is March 28, 2009.
Started last year after WordCamp Dallas, their membership has just passed 200 and they are starting to prepare for the next WordCamp Dallas June 27-28, 2009.
Each monthly event includes a topic with one or more speakers and social networking. The March meeting [...]

You do not have to be at a WordCamp event to learn something. So says Jeff Chandler in his post “What I Learned From WordCamp Denver.”
He shared his experience of watching WordCamp Denver through the eyes of the BitWireLive live streaming from the lobby of the event as well as watching the Twitter tweets and [...]

The following are upcoming WordCamps and WordPress Events.
March 2009

Utah WordPress Meetup – March 18, 2009
Las Vegas WordPress Meetup – March 19, 2009
Ferndale, Michigan – March WordPress Meetup – March 23, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia – Atlanta WordPress Users Group – March 24, 2009
New York City WordPress Meetup – The Wonderful World of Widgets – March 24, [...]

WordCamp Chicago now has a venue. It will be at the UBS Tower Conference Center in downtown Chicago.
It has a maximum capacity for 200 attendees, which means seating will extremely limited. Register now.