Wordcamp Ireland / Kilkenny
Having flirted with Typo and Mephisto in the past for this blog, I eventually switched all of my blogs/websites (bar one) over to Wordpress. In my view, there is simply no more powerful, or easier to use blogging platform than Wordpress.
Next weekend, March 6 & 7, Kilkenny plays host to Wordcamp Ireland – a Wordpress conference/camp/general love-in. I booked my ticket months ago, but the missus, hot on the heels of a Social Media course that she’s doing hosted by Krishna De (nothing but excellent feedback, by the way), has decided that she’s going to tag along as well.
To their immense credit, the organisers of Wordcamp have gone out of their way to make the event family friendly, with supervised play areas, free meals for the kids, and so on. So, we’ve decided to go along en famille. Should be an opportunity to indoctrinate them at early age. (As an aside my 4.5 year old mentioned the other day that she has to “get the internet” on her toy laptop – don’t need to worry about her).
The only problem will be deciding which talks to attend. The camp has been organised as three parallel tracks, with a few plenaries. Great content, great speakers, and to top it all off, a fantastic price: €50 for a day and a half, including lunch on both days – outstanding in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland.
Can’t wait! See you at #wordcampirl.
March 7th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Like the site refresh Steven
Other event organisers could do well to learn from wordcamp on making events family friendly.
March 7th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Thanks for that. I took plenty of notes (not to mention a copious Twitter stream) so I’ll provide a detailed update when I get a chance to edit everything.
The childcare was absolutely excellent, and didn’t cost the earth to provide. Definitely something that I’d like to see more/all conferences provide. Sabrina Dent and her co-organizers deserve huge praise.