The WordCamp Report

Recently, Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress started adding WordCamp and WordPress event tweets to her @lorelleonwp Twitter account, along with her daily WordPress tips and WordPress Plugins tweet announcements.
If you would like to have your WordCamp event promoted here, on Twitter, or elsewhere, please email Lorelle.

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 [...]

Registration is open for WordCamp Columbus with the date set for May 16, 2009, at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio. Registration is $20.
The Twitter account is @WordCampColumbus.
Noel Jackson, designer of the Monotone WordPress Theme, and Nick Momrick, speaking about WordPress.com, and Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection along with some of his [...]

WordPress and WordCamp events around the world for February 2009 include:

Gulf Coast WordPress/Blogger Meetup – Mobile, Alabama – February 5, 2009
Beer & Blog WordPress Meetup – Las Vegas, Nevada – February 5, 2009
Toronto WordPress Meetup – Toronto, Canada – February 7, 2009
WordCamp Paris 2 – Paris, France – Feb 7, 2009
Los Angeles WordPress Users Group [...]

WordCamp Israel 2008 (English) is set for November 16, 2008 at the Z.O.A. House in Tel Avia.
The schedule has been announced and includes a representative of Automattic, Raanan Bar-Cohen of the WordPress Publisher Blog. It’s free but registration is required. If you need help with the Hebrew, email info@wordcamp.co.il.
The event will bring together [...]

If you are living in Pompano Beach, Florida, or nearby, check out the new South Florida WordPress Users Meetup on November 11, 2008, for a discussion on WordPress as a CMS.
The Meetup is also in preparation for the upcoming WordCamp Miami scheduled for February 22, 2009, as a track at BarCampMiami. Volunteers and sponsors [...]

The following are WordCamps under construction. Expect news on them soon. If there is a link, go to the site or the Twitter account and tell them you are interested and might want to volunteer to help with the WordCamp event.

WordCamp Indy (Indianapolis)
WordCamp Augusta
WordCamp Seattle (WordCamp Seattle Twitter
WordCamp Argentina
WordCamp Perú

The following is the latest calendar of WordCamps and WordPress Events from November 2008 forward. There are a lot of WordCamps in flux for the first two quarters of 2009, and some scheduled for then are changing their dates, so check their sties for the most current information.

The semi-un-not-so-official WordPress Upgrade Party at CubeSpace – [...]

October 18-25 has been declared Hawaii Geek Week in honor of a packed week of technology conferences. The special proclamation (pdf copy) honors Hawaii’s contributions to technology.
Put together by Hawaii Macintosh and Apple Users Society (HMAUS) and their Secretary and Ambassador Eugene Villaluz, Hawaii Geek Week is celebrated with the following mostly free events:

Mactoberfest – [...]