OurPDX » WordPress 2.7 http://ourpdx.com Collaborative coverage of news and events, with a focus on community. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:40:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 WordPress Release Party and Blogger Food Drive http://ourpdx.com/2008/12/portland-wordpress/ http://ourpdx.com/2008/12/portland-wordpress/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:39:43 +0000 Aaron http://ourpdx.net/?p=2284

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Portland is a town full of bloggers, and a bunch of those bloggers (including OurPDX) are running WordPress. At WordCamp Portland we saw a preview of features coming in WordPress 2.7; I’m sure I wasn’t the only one in the room excited about the new bits.

Local blogger Chris O’Rourke and I are hosting a party this Friday to celebrate the release of WordPress 2.7. Come hang out with a bunch of bloggers, upgrade your WordPress blog, talk about WordPress, or get some help. Don’t use WordPress? Come anyways. We’ll gladly help you figure out how to convert from another blog platform if you’re interested.

In addition to bloggy goodness, we’re also holding a Blogger Food Drive. The Oregon Food Bank is currently handing out more food than they’re bringing in, so any contributions would be appreciated. Bring your non-perishable food donations to the WordPress party, or drop them off anytime this week at CubeSpace (622 SE Grand Avenue).

If you’re joining us for the WordPress party, please RSVP on Upcoming so we have a general count – we’re planning to have some snacks.



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]]> http://ourpdx.com/2008/12/portland-wordpress/feed/ 7 WordCamp Portland was Waaaaay better than WordCamp [Insert your lame city here] http://ourpdx.com/2008/09/wordcamp-portland-was-waaaaay-better-than-wordcamp-insert-your-lame-city-here/ http://ourpdx.com/2008/09/wordcamp-portland-was-waaaaay-better-than-wordcamp-insert-your-lame-city-here/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:55:56 +0000 Metroknow http://ourpdx.net/?p=1097

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WordCamp Portland, was, let’s face it, everything you could ever possibly wish for in a crazy election year while the economy crumbles – and much, much more.

Geoff K summed up WordCamp’s brilliance really well in his article, “What I learned from WordCamp Portland“, but I wanted to add my observations as a first time caller, long time listener of OurPDXNetwork.

My highlights?

As I recall, in the first giveaway there were two dozen unbranded oil-free hybrid cars powered by the collective kinetic energy of a crowd of mad MacBook Air keystrokers and Power User iPhone/Blackberry text messagers. In the hand-stitched organic velvet gift bags, we each received free matching his-and-her HD videocams with a gift certificate for a lifetime personal satellite uplink (and stickers!), a complimentary Herman Miller Aeron chair (and a button!), and a lifetime subscription to pre-edited versions of StrangeLoveLive. And then there was the outdoor fully-immersive multiplayer virtual reality gaming arena, but that was kind of boring unless you’re into that sort of thing.

Which I am.

To be balanced, I felt that the scavenger hunt for handfuls of free hacked iPhones and Japanese-test-market A-I Google devices in the room that was filled with oversized private label Jägermeister Voodoo donut holes was a bit excessive, but I say to each his own.

In other words, if you weren’t there, well, maybe not your strongest move.

You might have thought that staying home and knitting in preparation for winter was the right way to go for a Saturday, but actually…and this is true: There was also full-on needle-on-needle knitting action going on during WordCamp by the master knitters of CubeSpace who so graciously hosted the unbridled chaos that was collectively referred to as Widgets Gone Wild during the BravoTV nationwide simulcast. Would that I were joking.

What I learned at WordCamp PDX, between the lines

1. 8:45 – Changing Lives with WordPress: Fairy Blog mothers do not steal the teeth of WordPress children, unlike their less-fortunate and somewhat embarrassingly dentured Blogger and Typepad childlike counterparts. Move over to WordPress or face the consequences, because nobody likes to have their eyelids superglued shut, now do they hmmm???

2. 9:45 – From Concept to Execution: While some may have thought Betsy Richter (@betsywhim) was reaching out for an intervention to stop an odd menage with Knob Creek and some heavy-lifting WordPress plugins, I think not. She clearly has the Lord on her side, having received from on High what will surely be the 10 commandments for the coming Golden Age of the Blog (GAB™ ®).

3. 10:30 – Using WordPress for World Domination: Justin Kistner and his crazy-smart use of WordPress MultiUser (MU) may very well be on the committee of those who handed down said tablets to Ms. Richter, which were apparently screencasts. He at the very least helped her to schlep them down from the mountain. Aaron Hockley (@Hockley) was apparently busy at that time handling the keg-rolling, which was also clearly the work of the Lord.

4. 11:45 – And then the Lord said unto thee there shall be Lunch and chattering. And it was good.

5. 1:30 – WP 2.7 Sneek Peek: “WordPress 2.7 may or may not, at any given moment, have these incredibly cool new features that we may, or may not, be able to show you in this build, because folks, we are livin’ life as in-the-moment as a live report of Matthew McConaughey on TMZ in the soiled waters of a Malibu surf break. If you don’t see a feature you want, fill out the online survey that will be offline in two hours, and hit Apple-r. Voila!”

And ya know what? It was STILL awesome.

6. 2:00 – Tying Your Tubes with WordPress, a sixer, and the skilz of @Jabancroft: I did not realize how powerful one man with some crazy PHP, a hang nail-sized microchip, a computer with a cat, and Windows 95 can actually be. I bow. (Even more shocking? The word “skilz” does not trip the spellchecker in WP. How cool is that? Did I break something?)

7. 3:00 – Dane Hesseldahl from Nemo on custom plugin development: Live coding during your presentation is the final frontier, and Dane clearly fears no one. Who else do you know who can write SQL queries while talking about securing text fields AND making fancy hand puppet shadows, all without spilling a drop?

8. 4:00 – Ask the Experts panel: Voting widgets? Very very bad. Accessible blogs? Very very good. Making your blogs translatable into Klingon? Ask Lorelle after the show.

9. Dinner, another sixer, and tattoos: For once, a contest that was not rigged. Unless you count wearing a Goonies shirt as a form of doping, which I do believe was the tipping point among so many good entries. But it is very clear that the pre-contest testing was rather loose, and besides, with the singularity being imminent and all, doping may become necessary for all of us to keep up.

Did I mention beer (thank you Widmer Brothers)?

10. And finally, what did I learn from the great group of people gathered at the first of many WordCamp PDX’s to come (hint, hint), other than the fact that Portlanders may be systematically destroying the Twitterverse with the sheer volume of #wordcampdx (one p) and #wcpdx hash tags and livetweets?

I learned that this community of incredible people quite literally blows my mind. Time travel not required.

Thank you WordCamp PDX. Inspirations galore.



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Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments):

Note: you can share bookmarks back to our site if you have a Mag.nolia account – just join our group and then send relevant links to that group when you mark a site, article, or post!



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