Tuesday, July 11, 2006

WordPress Camp Dovetails with Journalism-Ed Convention      The creators of WordPress, a "both free and priceless" site management program popular with bloggers and other online publishers, are planning WordCamp 2006 for August 5 in San Francisco.      Stated topic: "To figure out the next generation of publishing on the web."      The event will be free, at an as-yet-undetermined location, and modeled after a class of self-organizing technology-focused gatherings called "bar camps."      Coincidentally, August 5 is the day that the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication convention wraps up at the San Francisco Marriott.      Maybe some of the journalism teachers and researchers using or considering Word Press will be able to get to both events... maybe the next AEJ convention should have sessions on other publishing packages like Textpattern, Drupal, Django ("The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines") and other online publishing packages for blogs or full-scale newspaper sites... Ellington, based on Django, for example. There are still some AEJMC convention events on the 5th, including a couple of panels I'm interested in (or on), but maybe WordCamp will wind up at a close enough location to allow some dual-attendance. The price is certainly right... and the "bar" part is intriguing... 12:04:18 PM    comment []

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