Me presenting at WordCamp RVA

So WordCamp RVA was today and I was really pleased with how well it turned out.  There were periods today where I was nervous about my presentation, then other periods where I figured it would be fine.  There were times (in the morning) where I was worried if eveything would work out well and whether or not enough people were coming, but in the end I think it turned out great.  Folks seemed to be happy with the content and attendance was just about perfect I think.

It really blew me away that we had folks traveling up from Georgia for the event.  I mean … wow.  Guys, if you read this blog, let’s get a WordCamp Atlanta going on.  I’ll help.  There’s no reason Georgia shouldn’t be able to support it’s own WordCamp.

As I said at the event, and have mentioned on twitter, etc, I’m really hoping to organize some follow up events to the main WordCamp Richmond (/RVA) event.  I’d like to focus them on real in depth topics like theme development where we actually take some time and build a theme from scratch.  I’d also like to do the same with plugins.  Plugin development was something I was reluctant to cut from my presentation, but I knew there just wasn’t going to be time for it, and it’s also a topic that would be really hard to present without giving so many code examples that a lot of the crowd would have been put to sleep.

Anyhow, I would like to give a huge thanks, once again, to Andrew Miller, Chris Gatewood, and Business Bullpen along with all the other that helped make today happen.  I may have been in the middle of it all, but they made it easy on me and I really can’t thank them all enough.