WordCamp San Francisco 2009 BNC Roundup

by Duane Storey ~ Jun 01 / 2009

Saturday was WordCamp San Francisco, and Rebecca & John Bollwitt, John BIehler, Dale and myself all attended. The night before we thought it was a good idea to sit around and drink margaritas until around 2am, so we were all a bit tired during the event. But it was a great event, and we’re all glad we made the trip down.

Automattic

Several fairly exciting things happened during Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word Presentation. First, Matt showed a slide which displayed some of the new profile information that is going to be coming to WordPress.org — BraveNewCode has actually been helping with that effort, so it was great to finally have some of it shown to everyone. Second, Matt displayed a list of the coolest three WordPress plugins, as voted by people on his Twitter stream. The first plugin that was shown, the third coolest plugin, was actually WordTwit. Dale and I were both pretty floored seeing it up there in all it’s glory on Matt’s slide in front of about 700 people. The second coolest plugin was a related posts plugin. And then, Matt flipped to the number one coolest WordPress plugin, none other than our WPtouch iPhone plugin. So, we walked away with the #1 and #3 spots for the coolest WordPress plugins — a pretty exciting event for us to be sure. A big thanks to everyone who voted for us.

Later that night we attended the social down at Automattic’s new offices at Pier 38. I had the chance to meet a lot of great people in person, many of which I had only talked to online before. The bar was completely open, so most people did fairly well in the liquor department. Afterwards all of us found a little hole-in-the-wall diner and had a nice greasy meal to close out the evening. I’ve been really enjoying guacomole lately, and I managed to find a hamburger that had a healthy dose of the stuff on it.

Home

Dale travelled back late last night and today I’m going to be making the long journey back home, then we’ll both rest up and get back on the saddles.

A big thanks to everyone involved in putting the event together- it was a great time and we’ll be back next year.

3 Comments

  1. You didn’t tell me and I wasn’t in that session! How could you miss telling me this????

    Wow! I am so excited. This is awesome. Congrats, guys. This is wonderful news! You are my heroes!

  2. Dale and Duane, you guys winning both #3 and #1 spot is *SO* rightly deserved and I feel happy having contributed to your #1 spot by voting for WPtouch (although WordTwit is very dear to me as well and even more dearer if you add Google Analytics campaign tracking ;) ). Kidding aside, your dedication, openess and professional touch (beautiful admin pages which are only visible to the admin, not even by any enduser) gave you these well deserved Top 3 spots. I’m very happy to use your plugins and I hope to use many more in the next future.

  3. Dale Mugford

    BNC Design Guru

    6 months, 2 weeks Reply

    Thanks very much! We were shocked and excited, it was a good day ;)

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