Author Archives: Andy McIlwain

About Andy McIlwain

Andy wrangles content at GoDaddy and co-organizes WordPress meetups & WordCamps in Toronto. Find him on Twitter and his personal site.

Featured Speaker: Dale Mugford

Co-Founder of BraveNewCode, Dale Mugford, has been working with the web since 1994 and WordPress since 1.0. His company BraveNewCode has been building WordPress-only websites and plugins for the past 5 years. BraveNewCode has become a leader in the WordPress community … Continue reading Featured Speaker: Dale Mugford

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Featured Speaker: Kathryn Presner

Kathryn Presner is a web designer turned Automattic Happiness Engineer, who gets to meld her background in crafting WordPress sites with a love of helping people and troubleshooting. She gives back to the open-source community by answering questions as a volunteer WordPress.org … Continue reading Featured Speaker: Kathryn Presner

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Featured Speaker: Victor Granic

Victor Granic is part owner of a WordPress development, hosting and training company called SwitchWP. He built and manages their hosting environment as well as helping with the development of customer websites. SwitchWP places a strong emphasis on content strategy and … Continue reading Featured Speaker: Victor Granic

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Featured Speaker: Joe Rozsa

An award winning creative director, designer and owner of Trailer Trash Design, Joe thumbs his nose at the stuffed-shirt, smoke and mirrors approach to providing creative communication services. Operating under the sometimes unheard of adage that work can be fun, Joe, … Continue reading Featured Speaker: Joe Rozsa

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Featured Speaker: Shannon Smith

Shannon Smith is the founder of Café Noir Design, a boutique Montreal web design company specializing in multilingual web development. She builds beautiful, functional websites that her clients can update themselves and that are easy for search engines to find. She support … Continue reading Featured Speaker: Shannon Smith

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Clarification: Moo Business Cards

Update: We’ve just been told by our contact at Moo.com that there are no Moo watermarks on these card orders! That means you’re getting 100 watermark-free mini cards from Moo, and you’re only paying $4.00 for shipping. Quite a deal! As mentioned … Continue reading Clarification: Moo Business Cards

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Featured Speaker: Christopher Ross

Christopher has spoken at WordCamp events in Toronto and Montreal in the past, taught community college courses in web design, and run a successful WordPress based consulting business since 2005. For the past three years, he has been focussed on delivering … Continue reading Featured Speaker: Christopher Ross

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Featured Speaker: Jonathan Davis

Jonathan is the lead developer of the Shopp e-commerce plugin for WordPress and owner of Ingenesis Limited. He is a designer of code solutions. He enjoys typography, good design, UX, solving e-commerce problems and helping people with WordPress. Back in Ohio, he helps … Continue reading Featured Speaker: Jonathan Davis

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Speakers, accommodations, and more!

Good afternoon, WordCampers! We’ve got another big round of updates for you this week: Speakers, sessions, and schedule are finalized! We’re in the process of adding the last few names to our lists. Hit the Speakers page and Sessions page for full details. We’re also pulling … Continue reading Speakers, accommodations, and more!

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First wave of speakers and sessions are in!

We’ve just added our first batch of confirmed speakers and sessions to the site! This update includes the vast majority of presenters for September, but we’re still waiting on some final confirmations to finish things off. A roundup of what’s … Continue reading First wave of speakers and sessions are in!

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