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#wcmtl WordCampMontreal gathers all wordpress fans

By Heri Aug 30th 2010 in Events

Clever cupcakes @ wordcampmontreal

As told by netfirms sponsor, WordPress is the #1 installed blogging and cms software. It has been embraced by corporations, consultants, SMBes, but also big publishing companies such as Wall Street Journal or LeMonde.fr. I know it’s my #1 recommended software for anyone wanting a web presence, with a website and a template up up in less than a couple of hours. As a matter of fact, its ubiquitous presence made competitors focus instead on niche markets, and made entrepreneurs go to other areas, such as mobile development or facebook/social applications development.

That’s why WordCampMontreal was in my top conferences to go this summer. It’s great to see again the early adopters who I already met 5 years ago (although not all of them), when WordPress was still up against blogspot (or even movabletype and livejournal). But the majority of the audience were not early adopters: php developers, web designers, bloggers who just got started this year, etc. It’s a diverse crowd, and it was reflected in the unconference’s schedule: theming wordpress, integration with forums, making it bilingual, SEO for wordpress, multimedia and wordpress, deploying wordpress on windows etc. I was sort of hoping for talks about federated/distributed buddypress, or maybe wp realtime and mobile blogging talks, but that’s a little bit too advanced probably. We got great food though, and the little extra-touch which surprised me.

Thanks to the organizers (Jeremy Clarke, digibomb, Shannon Smith) who did a wonderful job. Thanks also to the wordcampmontreal sponsors (Netfirms, Make Web Not War, also Philippe Martin’s N’ayez pas Peur)

More pictures (alexa clark)

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