Thanks to all of our speakers for the great jobs they did! There were a few last-minute schedule changes, so thanks to the the pinch-hitters who made it all work!

Brandon Kraft – Why WordPress Is A More Powerful Word Processor Than You Think

Brandon Kraft

Jared Atchison – bbPress 101

Jared Atchison

Stephanie Leary – Keeping It Simple

Stephanie Leary

Eric Weiss – Content Is King

Eric Weiss

Josh Ward – Darth Vader’s Guide to SEO and Galactic Domination

Josh Ward

Aaron Campbell – Community – How to Get Involved

Aaron Campbell

Chris Wiegman – Securing WordPress Is Easier Thank Making Coffee

Chris Wiegman

Leslie Hancock – Developing a Distinctive Online Voice

Leslie Hancock

Nick Batik – Designer’s Guide to Working With WordPress Developers

Nick Batik

Clark Wimberly – Child Themes

Clark Wimberly

Ilene Haddad, Crystal R. R. Edwards, Amanda Quaraishi and Corrin Foster – But don’t you know who I am???

Ilene Haddad, Corrin Foster, Amanda Quraishi, Crystal R R Edwards

Debra Schmidt – Monetizing Your WordPress Sites

Debra Schmidt

Automattic Team – Things We Learned the Hard Way – Things WordPress Pros Wish They’d Known Years Ago

Code Poets Pete Davies and Evan Solomon

Elizabeth Quintanilla – Yes, I can have multiple language site

Elizabeth Quintanilla

Thomas Umstattd Jr – 12 Secrets of Excellent Blogs

Thomas Umstattd Jr

Laurie Leiker – Blogging for the Real World

Laurie Leiker

Bill Erickson – Managing a Freelance WordPress Development Business

Chris Olbekson – The query, the whole query and nothing but the query

Chris Olbekson

Clark Wimberly – Mastering Custom Post Types

Clark Wimberly

Nando Caban-Mendez – If You Build, They Will Come, Right?

Nando Caban-Mendez

Look for all the videos to eventually be available on WordPress.TV’s WordCampTV. It takes some time as there is editing to be done and many procedural steps to be followed, but they will be there! (Videotaping sessions is a new WordCamp requirement). You can watch presentations from other WordCamps in the meantime.

Also check the WP Austin site where we will share the presentations.

If it’s true that an event is only as good as the volunteers, then WordCamp Austin must have been phenomenal!

Our small army of folks started arriving at 7:00 am to help get everything set up and ready for registration. Shirts and name badges were already prepped and ready to go thanks to the dedicated work of a number of people a few days before, so it was easy work to lay everything out. Others helped hang signs and banners, put out beverages, set up electrical cords and tables in the classrooms (we made sure everyone could plug in!), and lay out our sponsor swag.

And then off we went!

Throughout the day it was difficult to find anything that needed to be done, because the volunteers took charge of every tiny detail and made sure things ran like clockwork.

• We need recycling containers? Done.
• Speaker release forms? Done.
• Presentation introductions and surveys? Done.
• Happiness bar assistance? Done, done, done.

It was fantastic to see how many people took the initiative and got the job done – even if it was a task we had never anticipated beforehand!

At the end of the day, the volunteers moved back in like a swarm of fire ants and magically, in minutes everything was back in its place, thrown away or loaded back into vehicles… as if we had never been there at all!

The truth be told, the whole event seemed to run effortlessly, but only because so many people worked so hard behind the scenes.

The beauty of WordPress is the community, and in Austin, our WordCamp volunteers proved that community is the backbone of everything we do.

From the Organizing Committee, and on behalf of all of our attendees:
THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!

We had a lovely after party at Maria’s Taco Xpress.

Trust me, a lot of very tired and brain-filled WordCampers enjoyed the buffet, bar and company!