With WordCampLA less than three month away, we’re busy finding a suitable venue, event sponsors and speakers.
Now, since WordCamp is a users conference, I thought I might ask you who you might like to see speak. As long as there in the Los Angeles area, or are willing to drive or fly out, anything goes. Just as long as they’ve got something great to talk about.
Just leave a comment with their name, website (if applicable) and contact info (if not available on website). Oh, and their location would be great too.
About Austin
Hi, I'm
Austin, but you can call me
Frosty. I'm an LA native living in Santa Monica.
I'm currently "Principle Engineer; Content" for Crain Communications and when I'm not working on WordPress during the day I create premium plugins; which I sell. My most popular products are extensions for
Custom Login (a plugin with over 1 Million downloads) and other plugins.
I've been working on WordPress since ~2006 and from 2009-2012 I was the organizer of WordCamp LA. I'm a huge Dodgers fan, softball player and golfer.
Links: Be sure to follow me on Twitter @
TheFrosty, and check out my premium
WordPress plugins.
Example:
Name: Austin Passy
Website: http://frostywebdesigns.com
Location: Santa Monica
Nick Ohrn
http://plugin-developer.com
Oregon ?
Alex King
http://alexking.org
CO
I’ll be there and I’m looking forward to it.
Here ere the speakers I would love to see:
Alex Lindsay of the pixel corps
Leo laporte
Tim ferriss of the 4 hour work week (he spoke st wordcamp sf)
also I’d like to see someone talk about theme and plugin development (especially with the plugin API improvements in 2.8) but I do t know any names there
Dave
Wait- this is la. Get Jason calicanis. I could convince 4 more people to come right now if he was speaking.
Name: Soh Tanaka
Website: http://www.sohtanaka.com/
Location: Torrance, CA
Why: CSS/Design tutorials and techniques
Name: Chris Kasten
Website: http://www.solo-technology.com/
Location: lower ‘4o’s but I think willing to travel 🙂
Why: aka HandySolo aka ChrisK, WP Support Forum Administrator
Name: Vladimir Prelovac
Website: http://www.prelovac.com/
Location: haven’t the faintest idea
Why: Book Author – WordPress Plugin Development; popular theme author as well
Last but not least ….
Name: Matt Mullenweg — of course!
Website: http://ma.tt/
Location: San Francisco, CA
Why: He’s The Man!
… and that’s only part of a list 🙂
Good luck!
Name: Braxton Woodham
Website/Company: http://www.zannel.com
Location: San Francisco
He is out of town…
Name: Dennis Hathaway
Website: http://banbillboardblight.org
Location: Venice
Why: A great example of a writer and activist who has nearly single handedly taken on LA City Hall in order to defend the urban landscape of Los Angeles against billboards. A wordpress success story.
And yes, Matt Mullenweg.
Not to forget that a diversity of gender and other wider representation is always appreciated.
Name: Siel
Website: http://greenlagirl.com/
Location: Santa Monica
Why: She is a PhD environmental writer/bloger who previously, headed up the LATimes.com’s environmental blog, Emerald City, and was the editor for the L.A. section of WorldChanging, and speaks out on living green and thriving in LA without a car.
Name: Kristin Bedford
Website: http://www.kristinslist.net
Location: L.A.
Why: A curatorial psychogeographical approach to listing creative events in L.A.