WordCamp Boulder

(Yes, that’s two old mar­quee pho­tos in a row. How­ever, this one is fully in use — the Boul­der The­ater is a liv­ing venue.) What a great com­mu­nity Boulder/Denver is — that they could fill such a place with geeks inter­ested in blog­ging! (Word­Camp Boul­der was Sat­ur­day July 10th.)

The event was great. All the ses­sions were inter­est­ing. It was a big con­trast to Dru­pal­Camp Col­orado, last month, which was much more on the coding/geekiness end of the spectrum.

There were sem­i­nars on why it’s good to test your web­site before launch­ing it, led by Steve Mar­tin of Clev­er­Cubed. Another ses­sion included ideas like fol­low­ing a crit­i­cism with a sug­ges­tion on how to improve the prob­lem. (That’s not applic­a­ble to just blogging!)

Finally, lots of free­bies were thrown in the mix. I loved that iced cof­fee from Atlas Pur­vey­ors. Lunch was a $10 gift card to use at any one of many many restau­rants in down­town Boulder.

I com­pare the Dru­pal com­mu­nity to those who pre­fer Linux — and the Word­Press com­mu­nity to those who pre­fer Macs. Both have their time and place.