The 2nd WordCamp in the Philippines, organized by the Mindanao Bloggers Community and hosted by the Asian Institute of Management and co-presented by Mozilla, was a success! It was smaller in terms of participation, with only 120 attending this year, but it was just as enjoyable and informative. I was happy to see many new [...]
Just like in 2008, we will do a Davao leg of WordCamp Philippines this year. This is made possible by the sponsorship of Davao Delicious, the city’s most popular foodie blog. WordCamp Davao 2009 will be a get-together of WordPress enthusiasts and those who’d like to get to know this fantastic piece of software a [...]
The WordCamp Store Philippines is now open to serve you! The items currently available are our WordCamp Philippines t-shirts in 3 different colors and sporting a new design (thanks to Lyle Santos), as well as cool WCP stickers and pop buttons. All orders from today to 7 September 2009 will be delivered at WordCamp on [...]
The online registration form for WordCamp Philippines 2009 is now up! The registration fee for the early-bird period is US$12 per person, from today up to 8 August 2009. This includes lunch and freebies. Currently, we are only accepting payments via PayPal. Once we have other modes of payment, we’ll make further announcements here. The [...]
We have two gimmicks running on WordCamp.ph. The first is a photo gallery of WordPress pride, where people show off how much they love WordPress. To submit your own photos, click here. The second is a feature section for the Philippines’ outstanding WordPress-powered websites: blogs, corporate / organizational sites, online magazines… any Web presence that [...]
*** Calling all Filipino WordPress developers *** Are you into WP theme design, or plugin development? Or both? Get yourself counted among your peers by submitting your WordPress developer profile via our submission form. Not a Filipino but based in the Philippines? You’re welcome to chime in, too! As part of our activities running up [...]
Last year, there were a number of people, including Matt Mullenweg himself, who raised very valid concerns about the way we let bloggers attend WordCamp for free, in exchange for having them post an article with links to the event’s sponsors. Some of these concerns were the following: Google, in particular, frowns upon frivolous linking, [...]
Having discussed it with my fellow organizers, and after taking into consideration the result of the poll conducted right here, the decision has been made: WordCamp Philippines 2009 will be held on the 19th of September 2009 (Saturday). Just like last year, it will be a one-day event, jam-packed with much WordPress goodness! The date [...]
Welcome to the new home of WordCamp Philippines on the Web! Plans for the second WordCamp in the Philippines are in the pipeline. The main event will be held in Makati City, and just like last year, we will do a mini-WordCamp in Davao City. Volunteers! Speakers! We will soon be publishing a sign-up form [...]
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