Speaker: Dan Milward of WP e-Commerce Fame

18th August 2011 by thenbrent • Comments Off on Speaker: Dan Milward of WP e-Commerce Fame
Dan Milward at WordCamp Melbourne

Dan Milward @ WordCamp Melbourne

Dan is a member of WordPress royalty. His company, Instinct Entertainment, has been building WordPress Plugins & providing custom WordPress development since, well, since the dawn of the ‘Press. Instinct’s flagship plugin, the hugely popular WP e-Commerce plugin, even has a download count double the population of the Gold Coast!

Dan has attended and spoken at WordCamps all over the world. At WordCamp Gold Coast, he’ll present on how to facilitate and build an Open Source community. A subject core to WordPress and a topic he knows a thing or two about, with tens of thousands in the community around Instinct’s plugins.

I asked Dan a few questions about his presentation and his love of WordCamps.

At WordCamp Gold Coast you’ll be discussing how you built the open-source community around WP e-Commerce, which now has more than 1.2 million downloads. Can you give us a teaser with your top tips for how to build a community like that?

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Speaker: Stew Heckenberg, Freelancing FTW!

15th August 2011 by thenbrent • 1 Comment
Stew Takes the Plunge

Stew's Plunge into Freelancing

After taking the plunge into freelancing, Stew Heckenberg has successfully transitioned from the cubicle to the cafe.

Through his superhero alter ego, Web Coder, Stew has wrangled the wild business of freelancing to the point where in the last month, he brought in just over half of the entire previous financial year’s income.

That’s why we’ve teed Stew up to present Freelancing FTW! at WordCamp Gold Coast.

Through his presentation, Stew will divulge the wild adventures of his freelance journey and unveil his mission to make web development sexy.

I had a quick chat to Stew about his story, playing hard to get and why he thinks web development is so hot right now.

In our previous discussions, you mentioned you ramped up your business to make in the last month over half of what you made in the entire past financial year. In a nutshell, how did you achieve this?

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Speaker Announcement: Dee Teal, The Web Princess

5th August 2011 by thenbrent • 2 Comments

Dee Teal - The Web Princess It brings me great pleasure to announce the first card-carrying, super awesome Gold Coast WordCamp presenter – Dee Teal.

Dee is the body and brains behind the Web Princess development studio. She’s been building websites for almost as many years as WordPress has been able to power them and loves to give clients the WordPress experience.

At WordCamp Gold Coast, Dee will present a professional workshop on WordPress theme development with the popular Genesis Framework. Dee’s workshop is a must see for all WordPress theme designers.

The Skinny

To get the low-down on why Dee’s love of all things WordPress, Genesis & WordCamp, we asked her a few questions.

What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Gold Coast?

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Logo Design Competition!

9th July 2011 by Dion Hulse • 2 Comments

Hi Guys and Gals!,

We’ll be continuously looking for ways to involve the local community throughout this adventure of organising a WordCamp. The first chance that you’ve got to get involved is here – we need a logo!

We haven’t come up with anything that we love yet, so we’ve decided to throw it over to you to see what you can come up with.

The competition will close on July 24th.

How to enter:

  1. Design something!
  2. Tweet about your entry with the #wcgold hashtag mentioning @wordcampgc and a link to your logo
  3. Email it to us: goldcoast @ wordcamp.org
  4. Profit! (With your name published as the logo author, and a free ticket to the event!)

Any rules?

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Announcing WordCamp Gold Coast 2011!

17th June 2011 by Dion Hulse • Comments Off on Announcing WordCamp Gold Coast 2011!

It’s that time of year again – Winter is here. As the cold sets in, the dream of lying on a hot sandy beach seems so far away… the warm sand between your toes, the warm sun on your back, and water (at a temperature you can swim in!)

The dream sounds nice doesn’t it? That’s why we’ve organised the perfect excuse for a summer sojourn to the beach.

That’s right folks, this summer the Gold Coast is playing host to it’s very own WordCamp!

When? November 5th and 6th, Where? The Gold Coast! Oh, Venue? WordCamp Gold Coast will be held at Bond University, Check out the Venue Page for more details.

We’re planning 2 full days of WordPress’ing fun. Come rub-shoulders with Queensland’s finest WordPress users, developers, designers, and bloggers!

We’ll be putting out a call for speakers in due course, however, if you, or someone you know who would be interested in speaking,  you can get in contact with us right away. 🙂

If you’d like to be kept in the loop on what’s happening, We suggest you sign up to our Mailing list below or RSS feed so that you don’t miss out on any of the juicy details!

Of course, We’re also on Twitter and Facebook if you’d prefer!

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