Be One of Us: The WordPress Community ------------------------------------- Are you part of the Community? -- WordPress is more than the software, it is the glue that binds its contributors and users together, intertwining their online lives. Apply a working knowledge of the community to your advantage! This session will discuss: * The origins of the WordPress community and how it has grown * The positive and negative effects of community on every day users * How the concept of community extends to your own WordPress site * How to benefit the community via your own participation Bio --- By day, he's Owen Winkler — a developer for Rock River Star, an internet consulting company in suburban Philadelphia. By night, he's known by his IRC nickname, ringmaster — an emeritus developer of WordPress, and current project management committee member of the Habari Project. Between 2005 and 2007, Owen was the organizer of the Philadelphia WordPress meetup, the world's largest regular monthly WordPress meetup. These days, he writes about stuff and junk on his personal blog.