WordCamp Philippines 2008
The spearheading of the organization of WordCamp Philippines 2008, in both Manila and Davao, is in the hands of Mindanaoans (among them, an adoptive Dabawenyo). This is the same group of intrepid bloggers who made our MindanaoBloggers.com community possible.
When we were organizing MBS1, I was asked by Matt Mullenweg when we spoke over Skype about the acceptance or usage of WordPress in Davao. I had to be honest and told him that the Philippine South is Blogger.com country. But I promised the founder of Automattic.com that I would give time and effort in increasing the number of WordPress users in Davao and Mindanao.
Towards fulfilling this promise, my group — Andrew, MiGs™, Ria & Winston — and I have been doing blogging seminars centered on WordPress, developing Web sites on WordPress, and encouraging other bloggers to use this awesome content management system.
We were also doing blogging events, such as the Davao Food Trips, the culmination of which was the Davao Food Appreciation Tour last March, and meet-ups with business groups such as the Davao Association of Tour Operators. Not to mention the bloggers’ parties.
And so it was only a natural turn of events that I broached the idea of doing the country’s first WordCamp to the group. This was right after MBS1, but firmed up only when all of us went to Quezon City to attend iBlog4 last April.
The main event of WordCamp Philippines 2008 will be held in Manila on 6 September 2008, at the College of St. Benilde. The Davao leg will be a couple of days earlier, at Bryan’s Grill & Café, 91 Narra St., Palm Village (at the back of Victoria Plaza, via Veloso St.). For more information: http://philippines.wordcamp.org.
I look forward to the successful conduct of the first WordCamp in Southeast Asia. With my team, and our Manila-based collaborators — Juned, Dave, Paul and Chuckie — it will surely be a great event!
Our gratitude goes out to this international event’s generous sponsors:
- i.PH: the Domain for Individuals
- Free Online Flash Games
- Wazzup Manila Philippines
- Real Estate CRM
- Real Estate Website Designers
- Orange County Real Estate
- Auto Insurance Quotes
- Lane Systems Inc.
- RedMedia
- Orange County Business Lawyer
- Cebu Pacific Air
- Buddy Gancenia Reality TV
- SmartBro Wireless Broadband
- SPOT.ph
- Make Money with Performancing Ads
see you guys at the Wordcamp, hoping to learn a lot from this great event.
See you there also
I’m very excited to attend this said event and its very different experience for me as newbie in blogging again see you there.
ooopps, Aileen is for sure 100% out of this activity. hehehe
http://reyian.blogspot.com
reyian, what ur saying goes to show how much u dont know! check mo nga ang schedule ng wordcamp sa manila! and obviously di mo alam na wordpress uses google blog search sa dashboard nya.
some people…
it’s a joke mac. don’t take it so seriously.
@WordPresser — No need to react so negatively.
@reyian — And as for you, my friend, the joke was done in poor taste.
See you all at WordCamp!
hello, anybody here from Davao blogs about JAVA or programming in general in WordPress? I just recently migrated my blogging garbage to wordpress and i thought i could hook up with you guys.
Wow, the davao-leg of WordCamp Philippines 2008 is just a few hours away. Can’t wait!
For those who will not be able to make it, I will be streaming the event LIVE on my blog. That is, if it’s OK with the organizers.
I just hope the WiFi in the venue can take bandwidth requirements of the live streaming. If not, I’ll just live blog it with photos.
Just click on my name to catch the WordCamp online.
hey Blogie
I do have a wordpess blog 
I actually have a very old one that I deleted some time ago – this is the resurrected one hehehe 
Interesting to say the least! Just got to know about a few things that I should have known from a long time, so thank you for this. Will surely be regular to this site from now on:-)
will there be next word camp for 2009? can someone update me?
When will be the next wordcamp? Some of my friends join this event and I heard lot of great comments about it!
Wow, Mindanao Bloggers are really gaining full speed in the blogging industry. This should inspire the others to blog and be part of the exciting blogosphere. Keep it up!