WordCamp 2008 Philippines

Sep

2008

I got up early even if I slept late already from Oktoberfest and the thing is, I was sleepy the whole time when I was on my way to College of Saint Benilde. I haven’t went to Taft Avenue for a long time already. The last time I went there before WordCamp was when I was going to have a technical presentation for Society of Manufacturing Engineers at DLSU a year ago or so.

Anyway, I felt quite relaxed in the early morning even though I did not practice my presentation. I went over it though in the morning.

When we saw Matt Mullenweg arrived, it seemed to me that the inner fangirl/fanboy unleashed that some (including me, Norman and Sha) were excited to have a photo op with him.

Anyway, we went to see Jayvee’s talk after eating a fast breakfast that I bought from Tropical Hut. I had a lot of insights from Jayvee’s talk which me and Sha could apply to our food blog. I attended Blogie Robillo’s talk not just because I’m going to talk after him but I’m interested in what he’s going to talk about.

I talked about Wordpress as CMS and a girl from GMA7 had an interesting question since her issue is that they were not allowed to use YouTube which I find a bit odd since they would save some hardware cost because of the space being occupied by it. Anyway, I of searching some possible plugins since I haven’t encountered this kind of issue yet before with the clients that I’ve dealt with. I’ve found some plugins recommended by Lorelle. Anyone who needs to host the video file on their own site and wants to post it using WordPress could use Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin. In this way, they don’t need to convert the video to Flash format. However, it’s best to optimized the video for web viewing.

After the talk, we had lunch courtesy of Chowking and some cupcakes from Spot.PH that I was not able to taste because I’m already full. We had plenary sessions in the afternoon. Matt showed us a demo of what to watch out for WordPress 2.7 and I’m excited with the new features! Aileen Apolo, and Regnard also talked in the afternoon sessions.

Photo by Norman Dellosa

After the afternoon sessions, there’s a picture taking with Matt. Norman, took a shot of photographers and it’s fun seeing them in this photo like this. I hope there will be another WordCamp in the Philippines next year.

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19 Responses to “WordCamp 2008 Philippines”

Alrenz
September 7th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

Ooh, that’s me beside you on the picture with Matt Mullenweg!

I attended your talk too. I felt like there was a heated argument because one camper raised his voice! *scared*

Me too, I’m excited about WordPress 2.7! Woot!
Karla Redor
September 7th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

@Alrenz,
haha thanks for going to my talk. Anyway, I don’t think that it’s a heated argument. Maybe he’s just excited.

Cheers!
Carlo
September 8th, 2008 at 12:25 am

Nice pics See you soon!

And yeah 2.7 is so cool.. I am also excited
Joni
September 8th, 2008 at 12:43 am

Great talk! Next time ulit
Karla Redor
September 8th, 2008 at 1:01 am

@Carlo,
pics po yan from my friend Norman hehe

@Joni,
Hello Joni. Thanks ah. I hope you understood my talk. I was told that it was a mixed audience that’s why I did not want to dive so much in the code
Anyway, medyo kinakabahan nga ako nun lol. I haven’t spoken in public more than a year na lol.
Carlo
September 8th, 2008 at 1:10 am

@karla - yeah hehe… antok na ko habang nagbblog hop lol
L.A
September 8th, 2008 at 1:12 am

I didn’t have a chance talking to you, maybe next time! But I saw lecturing in the room haha! See yah on PBA ‘08!
Karla Redor
September 8th, 2008 at 1:14 am

@LA,
honga eh. Well, there’s always a next time.
Sayang nawala yung mug mo. Di bale makakarma din yun hehehe
Jehzeel Laurente
September 8th, 2008 at 2:16 am

waaaaaaaaaaaaa! sayang di kita naka usap.. kaw pala yung nasa starbucks nung bumili ako ng iced tea.. waaaaaa! iba kasi mukha u sa pic sa sidebar ng blog u.. hehehe kita kits ulit next time Karla
Karla Redor
September 8th, 2008 at 8:43 am

@jehzeel,
masikli pa hair ko dun sa sidebar lol
sige kitakits ulit next time hehe
Jehzeel Laurente
September 8th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

oo nga no mas maikli.. baka next time masyadong mahaba na hair mo hehee.. kita kits sa PBA
Karla Redor
September 8th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

@jehzeel
haha. ganun?
see you sa PBA!
Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net
September 8th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

Ang galing ng pwesto ng mga Photographers ah..
Karla Redor
September 9th, 2008 at 9:35 am

@dexter, kulit noh? hehe
icezorg
September 10th, 2008 at 9:30 am

hey karla, i enjoyed your talk. I was there, di mo lang yata ko nakilala. Long hair na din kasi ako. hehehe.
Karla Redor
September 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

@icezorg,
ngork. ganun. di ka nagsasalita haha.
sayang di tayo nakapagkwentuhan dun hehe
Ria Jose
September 10th, 2008 at 10:03 pm

Thank you so much for coming! And for being a speaker.
Karla Redor
September 10th, 2008 at 11:10 pm

@riajose,
you’re welcome
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Karla Redor

Blogging live via Paranaque City since 2001. A 20-something graduate of DLSU-Manila. An engineer, amateur photographer, graphic and layout artist. Plays the guitar. Always thought to belong to a certain band. Almost got stuck in a mosh pit but rarely in the mush pit. Coffee lover. Former gig-a-holic. Asteeg!