Speaker Spotlight: Rachel Nabors of Smashing Boxes

Rachel is a web comicker turned front-end developer and UX enthusiast. Rachel still draws comics on the weekends, and WordPress is her CMS of choice. Also, Rachel loves tea and reading comics in Japanese. Rachel will be presenting on the topic of Simple Steps to WordPress Security in the Users track.  Here’s an extract from [...]

TayloeGray sponsors WordCamp Raleigh 2011

We are very pleased to announce that TayloeGray has returned to WordCamp Raleigh as a sponsor for a second year running. TayloeGray is a full service marketing firm based in Wilmington, NC.  TayloeGray works with clients to develop innovative solutions to marketing and technical challenges. The TG development team has built a wide variety of websites [...]

SitePoint Podcast returns to WordCamp Raleigh for live show

We are extremely excited and pleased to announce that for the second consecutive year, the SitePoint Podcast will host a special live show at WordCamp Raleigh. Last year’s show, the first ever live, in person episode of the podcast, was a big success, with a face to face audience of 80-120 people and a live online audience [...]

Speaker Spotlight: Dave Moyer of Bitwire Media

Dave is a blogger, podcaster, web developer, radio host, actor, YouTuber, musician and photographer. He’s the founding President of Bitwire Media, the producers of blogs, podcasts and new media programming including WordCast and Making My Life. Recent speaking credits include: – WordCamp Developers (Vancouver, BC) – Library of Congress Teacher Librarian Day 2011 – CSIA [...]

VaultPress sponsors WordCamp Raleigh 2011

We are extremely pleased to announce that VaultPress is a Gold sponsor of WordCamp Raleigh 2011. VaultPress is the complete website backup and security solution that’s as simple as WordPress itself.  Vaultpress provides realtime, continuous backup and synchronization of every post, comment, media file, revision and dashboard setting across at least two separate cloud services [...]

Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Jorbin of Clearspring

Aaron is an engineer with Clearspring where he works on AddThis and a WordPress Core Contributor. He has spoken to multiple User Groups and at WordCamps in four time zones. When he’s not busy creating and fixing bugs, Aaron helps run an educational simulation conference for over 1500 college students. He’ll gladly toast to the [...]

Announcing CompTIA as a sponsor of WordCamp Raleigh 2011

We are extremely pleased to announce a Special Event sponsor, CompTIA.  CompTIA will be providing lunch on Saturday for hungry WordCampers. As the non-profit association for the global information technology (IT) industry, CompTIA offers globally-recognized, vendor-neutral IT certifications to raise the skill level of the world’s IT workforce as well as member educational programs, networking events, research, and public policy advocacy [...]

Speaker Spotlight: Chris Jean of iThemes

With six years of experience developing and maintaining a closed CMS, Chris finally saw the light in 2008 and shifted his focus over to WordPress. As a member of the iThemes team, his focus is creating themes and plugins that allow users to have advanced control over their site without knowledge of code. Whatever that [...]

A Small Orange sponsors WordCamp Raleigh 2011

We are pleased to announce that A Small Orange is sponsoring WordCamp Raleigh 2011.  Here’s a note from the guys at A Small Orange: We’re A Small Orange – a soon to be Durham-based Linux hosting company dedicated to our customers. We provide a wide range of high value hosting options including shared hosting, business [...]

Speaker Spotlight: Ronald Huereca of iThemes

Ronald’s worked with WordPress since 2006 and mostly dabbles in WordPress plugins. He has extensive experience with Ajax and jQuery. He recently joined the iThemes team to develop plugins for PluginBuddy. Ronald will be presenting on the topic of Plugin Localization in the Developers track.  Here’s an extract from what you can expect to hear from [...]