Wordpress & the Voluntary Sector
I’m at WordCampUK - a conference for WordPress developers and users. There have been great presentations, from Accessibility & HTML5 to WordPress Themes. However the real value of any conference is the corridor time, face-to-face chat with peers, and people doing all sorts of unexpected and fun things with Free Software.
WordCampUK has been a bit short on corridor time, but has made up for it with socials, and lunch-time meetings: today in particular when most of the 3rd sector people got together for a not-for-profits meetup. As promised, below are the details of everyone at that lunch, so that WordPress people working in the voluntary sector can find each other:
Not-for-Profit people working with WordPress
Name/Twitter or Web Link & region or country:
Richard Weltman, NW
Chris Middleton, Notts
Jason King, London & NW
Steve Graham, S/SW
Chris Witham, Yorks/Derbys
Daniel Koskinen, Finland
Kristina Krause, Seattle & Kent, UK
Chris Booth, Scotland
Jag Gill, Sheffield
Alex Stuart, Scotland
Chris Murray, Sheffield
Andrew Laughland, Bucks
Richard Smedley, NW
Added in from comments & tweets…
John Adams, Glasgow
Steve Taylor, London
If you’re doing something with WordPress in the not-for-profit sector, please feel free to put your name and link into the comments. I’ve no idea if anything useful will come out of this, along the lines of Plone’s NGO group, or Drupal’s various specialist groups - I just offer this set of links up with a vague hope ;-)
Update
There’s now a mailing list for anyone helping the sector using WordPress - sign up and say hello, everyone welcome.
July 18th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Richard Smedley and Richard Smedley, brookhouse. brookhouse said: RT @RichardSmedley: @cehwitham No worries - it was great to see so many voluntary sector ppl at #WordCampUK :-) - listing at: http://ur1.ca/0pu8a #VCS [...]
July 19th, 2010 at 9:26 am
I think I was in the loo at Pizza Express when the piece of paper for the list came round! So I thought I’d say hi here. For the curious, the agency I’m working with building WordPress sites for non-profits is Public Life.
Good to meet you Richard, Daniel, everyone else!
July 19th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
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