I am one step beyond what you would call a casual user of software. By that I mean that I can just barely figure out what acronyms stand for and I’ve tinkered a bit with the code on my website. So I had to be wondering whether or not it was a good idea for me to sign up to attend WordCamp NYC 2009 (ignore what it says on the web page – you can no longer sign up, since the event is over). But once I got a sense of the range of offerings and the fact that it was only 40.00, I figured it could be a fun new experience.
That it was – I’m going to try to write a more in depth review of the whole thing, but let me just say that I left the event utterly enthused about WordPress as a platform. I think that it has some potential to answer some of the problems that a couple of the organizations I’m involved with are facing. People are doing some amazing things with it. Not in the sense of super flashy eye candy, but in the sense of community building.
I also left feeling that it would be fun to tackle some coding, and that even when the technical stuff I sat through was over my head, I could always glean a certain understanding of how things were working. It’s making me look at web pages in a very different way.
It was bracing to be confronted with my own ignorance , and yet to feel that there was some new thing that I was capable of learning about.
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