<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jane,<div><br></div><div>I'm a developer at UBC Vancouver and I am really excited about the opportunity to get WordCamp hosted on my campus.</div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Michael Ha, Web Applications Developer</div><div>Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, UBC</div><div>Tel: 604.822.9897</div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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<div><a href="http://blogs.ubc.ca">http://blogs.ubc.ca</a> | <a href="http://sites.olt.ubc.ca/">http://sites.olt.ubc.ca/</a></div><br><div><div>On 2010-11-15, at 10:27 AM, Jane Wells wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>One of the biggest hurdles for organizing a WordCamp in any city is <br>finding a venue. Ideally, venues are donated, so that the organizers can <br>focus on content rather than raising lots of money for room rentals, and <br>one of the best sources of venue donation is college and university <br>campuses. They tend to have various room sizes, projectors, etc. and are <br>usually easy to get to. Since academia is a growing area of WordPress <br>use, it frequently happens that hosting a WordCamp at a college campus <br>is possible because someone at the college wanted to be involved in <br>bringing a WordCamp to their school. A faculty member who wants his/her <br>department to host/sponsor a WordCamp has built-in access to facilities <br>and services, while an outside organizer would be handed off to <br>conference rentals, when what is usually appealing about campuses is the <br>classroom format.<br><br>Why am I telling you this? If you are on this list, chances are you're <br>using WordPress in an academic setting. Some WordCamps, like New York <br>City, feature an academic track due to close collaboration with college <br>personnel, and I'd like to see this trend continue.<br><br>If you work for a college with a campus that would make a good setting <br>for a WordCamp and would be interested in getting involved, let me know. <br>I can try to put you together with local people who are also interested <br>in organizing a WordCamp. Whether you try to include an academic track <br>or not, bringing WordCamp to your campus has benefits on all sides.<br><br>While I'm at it, is anyone here affiliated with any San Francisco <br>universities? :)<br><br>Jane<br>_______________________________________________<br>wp-edu mailing list<br><a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a><br>http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>