Here on Do the Woo, I gave you a look at our official Do the Woo Lunch during Showcase Day.
But I thought I would do a recap from the perspective of Do the Woo and some of the things we did, or didn’t do. The fact is I always have written a recap of WordCamps I attend, and I just wanted to pull out so much of the positive I experienced on behalf of Do the Woo.
Conversations
In line with Do Woo, I had several conversations. In fact, a lot of short ones and long ones. But I did specifically schedule a couple of slots with an old and new friend via their calendars. My first one was with Jesse Friedman from Jetpack and WP Cloud. We took the time to catch up on projects we were both doing. In fact Jesse is shared about his new podcast Impressive Hosting, which you should check out.
The other conversation was with Aaron Edwards from DocBots AI. It was not only great getting to know Aaron better, but I was really impressed with his product. He even had it hooked up via our site and showed me some it in action. Good stuff!
In fact I got a bonus from him. Some AI images that you can see over on my personal blog.
And as I said, so many, many other great conversations
Podcasting at WCUS
This one was no different than others. Scheduled times often go awry. We were the victim of confusion around a time slot. The second one, with a couple of our hosts and a sponsor, was slotted in for the last day, early afternoon. Not a great time as all of our energies were low and we just didn’t have it in us.
Now on the other hand, spontaneous recordings always work out much better. But, again, that just didn’t happen.
There is one that I will be putting out in a bit. Since the slogan for Portland is Keep Portland Weird I decided to ask some attendees a weird WordCamp question. Nothing edgy or offensive. Just weird. That turned out to be a lot of fun and you can look forward to that.
And now for something completely different
Okay, one more thing that will be coming to the blog, though it may take time
At the Woo booth they were giving out disposable cameras. It was really fun to use one of them that I haven’t used in years and years. Advancing your film manually and moving backwards or forwards without a zoom. It was great!
Now for those who attended, you will know that there was a whole area clustered with Automattic properties. Woo, WP VIP, Jetpack, WordPress.com, Gravatar, etc. Something I named Mattic Town.
As a result I took several pictures of various people and things in the booths with my disposable camera. And from that I am going to use them in a post about my visit to Mattic Town. Slanted towards visiting a “real town”.
Right now, having brought the camera back to Portugal, I am researching a local place that will developer the film. So this might be down the road.
To sum it up
Well, those are some of the highlights specific to Do the Woo. Between my personal post and this post, it was a busy time.
And if you are curious, here are all of our hosts that attended WordCampUS 2024.
Adam Weeks
Brad Williams
Carl Alexander
Courtney Robertson
Emma Young
Jonathan Wold
Katie Keith
Marcus Burnette
Robbie Adair
Robert Jacobi
Tammie Lister
Tom Willmot
Zach Stepek
And lastly, our sponsors who also sponsored WCUS.
Avalara
GoDaddy
Hostinger
Kinsta
Omnisend
Weglot
So what’s up next? WCAsia 2025 in Manila. We are really looking forward to this one as both a media sponsor and a sponsor. And as we did earlier this year, our booth will be a hub for community conversation and connections. Hope to see you there!
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