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Fresh! Scott Berkun How WordPress.com is Made
Straight from WordCamp Seattle, Scott Berkun on how WordPress.com is made. You can read more on the WordPress.com News blog. (Listen carefully for metrics Scott mentions that you may never have thought about that are available as a result of your using WordPress.com.)
To be fair, Raanan Bar Cohen mentioned how Automattic handles internal communication when he spoke at WordCamp Israel in 2008, when WordPress.com had a mere 4.7 million users. Today, WordPress.com is closing in on 20 million users.
(If the above embed link is not working, you can watch Scott’s presentation on WordPress.tv)
Better shared!
RSVP
There are nearly 400 people signed up and a long waiting list for this year’s WordCamp. Really an incredible interest and response even compared to last year’s 200+attendees. But, just like last year’s event, a significant number of people who signed up will not able to attend. If that’s you, please inform the organizers to make someone on the waiting list a happy blogger!
I’m there!
Time again for WordCamp Israel
WordCampIsrael
WordCampIsrael 2008 is set for November 16 at ZOA House in Tel Aviv, less than a month away. Already there are over 260 WordPress users, aficionados and just plain curious people signed up. 
That’s me down at #206. Next to WordCamp Beijing, Israel is the next largest WordCamp to take place outside of the US. Yes, we Israelis love our Internets and WordPress. (It’s actually rather astonishing how many Israelis write plug-ins and the like for WordPress.)
Like last year, WordCamp will be a one-day, free event. The schedule hasn’t yet been published, so we don’t know who the speakers are, but looking at the list of attendees, it looks like Automattic’s Raanan Bar-Cohen will be there. (see update below) Exciting to see lots of familiar names, Gravatars as well as many fellow WordPress.COM bloggers, too.
(Have we sent a personal invitation to Automattic’s CBBQTT?)
WordCamp Israel will be one of the first WordCamps following the official release of WordPress 2.7, scheduled for November 10. (Guys, may your 5-minute installation/upgrade go smoothly and make sure those presentation screenshots are up to date!)
Why are you still here reading? If you’re in the neighborhood, go sign up!
UPDATE at midnight 23/10/2008: Well, there you have it. With almost 300 people signed up, registration is now Waiting List only. So if you’ve registered and find that you can’t make it, tell the organizers so some lucky person on the Waiting List will be able to go.
The nice discovery was finding at least 15 other WordPress.COM bloggers registered for WordCamp Israel! This doesn’t include COM bloggers that have mapped domains (i.e. whose blogs don’t end in wordpress.com) and there are at least 5 more Israeli COM bloggers I know who aren’t registered but probably would have if they’d known about it. Looking forward to meeting you on the 16th!
UPDATE 24/10/2008:Hanan Cohen has created an RSS feed aggregater for all the blogs that were listed on the WordCamp Attendees page.
UPDATE 30/10/2008: There are now nearly 370 bloggers registered for WordCampIsrael! And the schedule is up as well (Hebrew only).
