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WordCamp-PH merchandise coming soon!

Lyle Santos, Chattee Lara and yours truly have been joining heads for some time now to come up with a line of cool WordCamp Philippines merchandise for everyone. Yesterday, the two went out to have a few laptop stickers prototyped. And here they are!
The WordCamp Philippines online store will be open very soon! Please bookmark [...]

WordCamp RP2009 in the works

I’m happy to announce that the gang of Mindanao Bloggers and their supporters will soon be commencing plans and arrangements for WordCamp Philippines 2009! I will be calling the first organizational meeting within the following week.
It has yet to be officially finalized, but I’m excited to let everyone know that we’re working with the Asian [...]

WordCamp Phils. T-shirt: it’s officially famous

Ever since Matt started talking about the WordCamp Philippines 2008 T-shirt design, the buzz hasn’t quite died down yet, even months after the event. Today I got a trackback to the WCP site from WordCamp Ed D.C. (WordCamp Ed is an initiative that’s focused on promoting the educational uses of WordPress.)
The post is about their [...]

WordCamp Philippines blog: a winner!

I know this post is rather late, but I don’t want to pass off blogging about this!
The WordCamp Philippines official blog site was acclaimed the best website in the Events / Conferences category of this year’s DigitalFilipino Web Awards. Needless to say, I feel really proud of this award. It adds to the [...]

Matt: one of 25 most influential people on the Web

In March 2007, PC World declared Matt Mullenweg as 16th out of the 50 most important people on the Web. And a few days ago, BusinessWeek released their own list of the most influential people on the Web: Matt is one of the top 25. This prestigious magazine has dubbed him “The Publisher” for [...]

The WordCamp that was

After months of preparation, and a flurry of activities over several days, WordCamp Philippines 2008 is now just a memory — but still an exhilarating one!
Being the organizing team leader of the event, I am reluctant to proclaim it a huge success, but judging from the many blog posts and news stories published about [...]

Touchdown!

No, not football. Matt Mullenweg, the main man at our WordCamp events, has arrived in Manila early this morning! He’ll be flying to Davao today and will stay here for a couple of days.
The mini-WordCamp in Davao will take place tomorrow evening. Then on the 5th of September, we both fly to Manila for the [...]

Can’t wait for 6 September!

[UPDATED: 2008-08-28]
The two WordCamp Philippines events — in Davao and then in Manila — are barely two weeks hence… I’m getting all worked up about it already!
For those of you who have registered successfully for the main event in Manila, you’ll be getting a camper’s badge, much like the one shown here.

WordCamp in Davao!!

The core group of organizers of WordCamp Philippines 2008 are all from (or based in) Davao City. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that, before the main event on the 6th of September, there will also be WordCamp Davao!
Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic, will be in Manila and in Davao to join us for [...]

WordCamp t-shirts up for grabs!

Whether you’re attending the first WordCamp in the Philippines (and the second in all of Asia) or not, here’s a chance for you to get cool merchandise!
The WordCamp Philippines 2008 T-shirt comes in 2 colors: royal blue and maroon. They’re selling for P400 each for small, medium and large; P450 for extra-large.
Sizes come in two [...]