Sacramento WordCamp 2016

Last weekend was the 2nd annual WordCamp Sacramento. It was organized again by our local Sacramento WordPress Meetup group, and this time it was hosted at the Harper Alumni Center at CSU, Sacramento.

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.

— WordCamp Central

This year I had the privilege of being a speaker in addition to an attendee. My talk was Best Practices For Creating Content in which I did a 10 minute lightning talk on why you shouldn’t copy and paste from Microsoft Word into the WordPress editor and what you can use instead.

Cristina @AiCASAC grad speaking now @WC_Sacramento #aiproud! pic.twitter.com/knHDFPXbyt

— William Mead (@wmmead) October 22, 2016

Alternatives to using a Word Processor to create your website content with @LovelyGeek #wcsac pic.twitter.com/Y6Kk3d312f

— Sacramento WordPress (@WC_Sacramento) October 22, 2016

More doodle notes from the lightening talks @WC_Sacramento w/ @LovelyGeek @jonthewayne and @jonathandenwood #wcsac pic.twitter.com/vtddVwIgbr

— Michael McGarry (@doublem44) October 22, 2016

In addition to my talk, I got to attend several great talks throughout the weekend including…

• Chris Lema – Five Things You’ll Discover About Yourself As You Blog Consistently
• Jason Cosper – Scaling WordPress With Load Testing
• Tirzah M. Johnson – Creating An Active Project Management Process
• Anthony Skelton – Rediscover Theme Settings With The Customizer
• Ozzy Rodriguez – Developer First Design: Make Design Great Again
• Jennifer Bourn – Lessons Learned Over 11 Years Selling Design
• Treighton Mauldin – WordPress and Git
• Austin Gil – Web Performance: Three Stages To Success
• MY BOSS Kevin Howe – Freelance To Agency: Peaks And Pitfalls Of Growth
• Cat Scholtz and Timofey Rytikov – Lightning Talks: WooCommerce
• Jon Trujillo – A Full Stack WordPress Project Workflow

I met a lot of great people, reunited with old colleagues and classmates, and had an overall great time.

Rocking day 2 at #wcsac with the fam-bam! #wordpress #wordcamp #sacramento

A photo posted by Cristina Robinson (@thelovelygeek) on Oct 23, 2016 at 12:33pm PDT

If you’re thinking about attending a WordCamp check out WordCamp Central to find one near you. They’re happening all over the world! How awesome is that?