This year at WordCamp New York there will be a whole track dedicated to WordPress MU and BuddyPress. Some of the topics being presented are:
Getting off the Farm:
WPMU Beyond Blog Hosting. We all know that WPMU can be used to host multiple blogs for public or internal signups. But what else can you do? How far can you stretch it? I’ll be showcasing a number of sites that use WPMU in interesting ways. Speaker: Andrea Rennick.
Writing Plugins for WordPress/MU:
This session will be directed toward plugin developers. We will discuss platform differences & guidelines to keep in mind when writing a plugin for both WordPress & WordPress MU. Speaker: Ron Rennick.
User Authentication with MU in Existing Ecosystems.
Speaker: Casey Bisson.
How-to with MU: Using Multiple Domains, and Building a Member Directory.
A two-part session where we will dig in to two different concepts. First up, we’ll cover how to domain map member blogs, and the difference between multiple sites and multiple domains. The second half will cover how we built a business/member directory and what plugins we used to accomplish this so you can build one too. Speaker: Andrea Rennick.
Growing Community with BuddyPress:
Speaker: Lisa Sabin-Wilson.
Creating Killer Group Extensions in BuddyPress:
In this session learn how to build highly custom feature extensions to BuddyPress groups. Andy will be talking through how you can use the new group extension API to build Twitter stream integration right into your groups. Speaker: Andy Peatling.
Developing BuddyPress as a Collaboration Hub:
In this presentation, I’ll discuss some of the BuddyPress development I’ve done to bridge the WordPress/bbPress/MediaWiki platforms, taking BP beyond its roots as a social networking platform and turning it into a collaboration hub: a space where users can find, friend, and team up with each other (the social networking part BP that does well), work together to produce content (that’s the “collaboration” part), and feed the content back into BP (that’s the “hub” part). Speaker: Boone Gorges.
Other soon-to-be confirmed sessions: Setting up BuddyPress (workshop); BuddyPress theme framework.
For a full list of sessions please see the program page.
It should be a fantastic event with space for up to 1000 people. Tickets are selling out fast so if you’re thinking of attending, now is the time to hop in and buy a ticket. It looks like this is going to be the east coast WordCamp to attend. I’ll see you all there!
Will there be a streaming video feed of these? There is no way I can make it to NY – but I’d love to see the “Creating Killer Group Extensions” – perhaps info about adding something like tinymce to allow users to post/upload photos and link to group posts?
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I will be watching!!! When are you coming to Los Angeles, California???
Thanks
@Djsteve: I’m not sure about streaming video, possibly, but there are a lot of rooms. Hopefully they will at least be recorded and added to WordPress.tv at a later date.
Just booked my flight, returning to NY after moving to Dallas 2 months ago. I don’t know what we should use, but it would be good to have Erwin;s event plugin or something similar to see just whom among us are attending and perhaps try to put together some BP related unconferences, drinks or dinners. Andy..thoughts?
I’ll be there.
I’m in, although I’ll be on the CMS track.
will WPMU be represented at orlando WC dec 5?
I’ll be there mate thnx
I’ll be there.
I will be watching!!! thnx
I tried buddypress on my install, it does not seem to work on php5! I had to upload a htaccess file, this was so I could change my settings to php4!! It now works! How come it won’t run on php5 ?
@Jon BuddyPress works with no problems on PHP5, please check your server setup.
I would love to attend wordcamp, hopefully i can make it next year, thanks for your efforts this plugin was really helped my website in many ways, cheers
Hope you will come also in Europe 🙂