As noted by CogDog and Dan Cohen, I’ve organized a WordCamp event to be held at GMU:
WordCamp conferences are taking the blogging community by storm as one-day events to meet fellow WordPress users in regional communities. WordCamp Ed has been organized to specifically focus on WordPress and Education. The day-long event to take place November 22, 2008, and will bring together a wide-range of institutions of higher-ed, professors, high school teachers, and students.
The event has been scheduled as a morning of preplanned speakers that will cover a cross-section of educational uses of WordPress, and an afternoon unconference in the vein of THATCamp: The Humanities and Technology Camp. Food and t-shirts will be provided. If you’re using WordPress for teaching in your class, publishing scholarship, or you’re just interested — please consider registering for the event. Over that past year there has been emerging interest in WordPress MU as a blogging solution for institutions of higher ed, and we’ll have WordCampers in attendance who are responsible for the Georgetown University Digital Commons and University of Mary Washington Blogs at WordCamp Ed.
You’d like to attend, but can’t make it? I’m working closely with Randall Rode to make WordCamp Ed not just a one-time event, but a larger series of regional WordCamps for Educators. Randy is organizing a WordCamp Ed that will be hosted under the Nercomp SIG format, and I’m optimistic this could catch on. These events are done with minimal costs, and go a long way in building a professional community. Let me know if you’re interested in starting your own regional WordCamp Ed.