I love unconferences because the event dynamic is driven by the attendees – folks get to choose the agenda and everyone can learn from the experiences of a diverse set of attendees.
As I look at the current state of things, we have about 135 tickets remaining.
There’s some great discussion going on at the open thread for discussion topic ideas.
As I browse the list of registered attendees and look at the names of other sponsors and organizers who aren’t yet on that page, I see:
- multiple WordPress core contributors
- WordCamp organizers from across the country
- authors who produce great content, developers who write plugins and themes, and designers who make things look and work smoothly
- folks like John Hawkins* and Todd Huish who build websites for Chris Brogan
- Tantek Çelik, a web standards guru and microformats pioneer
* speaking of Mr. Hawkins, check out his article WordCamp Portland – Round 3 in which he explains why (as a 20+ WordCamp veteran) he’s excited to travel 750 miles to come to WordCamp Portland.
