Jun
29

Wrap Up: WordCamp Dallas ’09

Wow, what a weekend! I helped John P. organize this year’s WordCamp. This was the second year for Dallas to hold a WordCamp, and I’m very pleased at how the event turned out. We had between 300 and 350 people show up (haven’t gotten an official count just yet), we streamed the entire weekend on UStream, and became a trending topic on Twitter.

So many people volunteered to help out, which we were extremely thankful for! I didn’t get a chance to thank each of you in person, so…thank you! Ustream kept us on the home page most of the weekend and ensured we were able to stay up the entire time. We used Tricaster to stream the conference, and I was lucky to have Philip Nelson from NewTek there to train our volunteers on the system, and help sort out any technical issues we had.

We had awesome sponsors (Woopra, Layered Tech, UTD, Taylormark, Automatic, ZipServers, Server Beach, X-Company) and very cool giveaways (Layered Tech, Taylormark, Griffin, Speck, Thoughtout.biz)!

Here are some of the pictures I’ve seen from the event. If you know of any others, please let me know and I’ll update this page:

From @tmsruge
From Flickr

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8 Comments Posted by Cali Lewis

Sam the Bright says:

June 29, 2009 at 10:54 am

I have been mean to tell you that I should thank you instead have you thank to me. And it was rocks day at WordCamp.

Michael Haydel says:

June 29, 2009 at 11:14 am

Cali,

Thanks for helping put on a great WordCamp.

It was fun to hear you and all the other speakers, and meet other individuals in the D/FW area that are interested in some of the same things I am.

Already looking forward to next year’s!

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June 29, 2009 at 1:28 pm

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Justin Wright says:

June 29, 2009 at 4:06 pm

Thanks so much for helping out with the event. I had a blast and learned a bunch of stuff I didn’t know before coming.

Hope to see another great turnout next year!

socialnerdia says:

June 29, 2009 at 10:43 pm

It was awesome. Thanks for helping to put this together. It was very nice to meet you and so many other cool people.

Lisa Marie Mary says:

June 30, 2009 at 12:38 pm

The event was totally awesome!!! I’m so glad I finally got to meet you and John! You guys really did an amazing job! Thank you so much for all of your hard work!