Theme Weekend (WordPress Meetup Group, Vancouver) June 30th, July 1st 2012

While I have only played with my WordPress theme, you (and I) should thank J. Karen Parker for the customization and CSS wizardry you see on Hummingbird604.com. I think the whole concept of spending a full weekend just doing WordPress themes is one of those brilliant things that only Morten, Angela and their team can come up with. And as always, my friends at The Network Hub are always sponsoring worthy projects so they are providing space sponsorship. So, WordPress enthusiasts, get your computers

Theme Week­end is a not-for-profit project ini­ti­ated by Pink & Yel­low NFP Soci­ety and the Van­cou­ver Word­Press Com­mu­nity. The Net­work Hub is spon­sor­ing us with the space to host the event and we have also received spon­sor­ship from the Word­Press Foun­da­tion to help foot the bill.

Tick­ets are set at $15, the funds of which will go towards lunches and refresh­ments for both days, as well as sup­plies to run the event. By sign­ing up, you are com­mit­ting to par­tic­i­pate for the dura­tion of the two-day event and help build the theme picked by your team.

All the code from the themes will be hosted on GitHub for easy col­lab­o­ra­tion. A short primer to GitHub will be pro­vided at the begin­ning of Day One for any­one not famil­iar with the system. You must bring your own com­puter equip­ment, soft­ware and nec­es­sary power adapters. Please come prepared.

At set points on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, each team will be asked to do a short pre­sen­ta­tion of their work up to that point and ask help for any issues they have run into. This will allow the teams to crowd­source everyone’s knowl­edge at the event for ideas, solu­tions, and suggestions.

Teams are allowed to swap mem­bers and bor­row mem­bers at any time. This is an open source event by the com­mu­nity, for the com­mu­nity. If you have ideas, let us know and we’ll try to incor­po­rate them.

I am sad I’ll be missing Theme Weekend, but I love the idea that it is customized for whichever level you have. I am most effectively a beginner with Themes, though I do love doing my own stunts. I love the fact that community-driven WordPress events seem to be alive and kicking in Vancouver. Let’s keep it up!

You can register for Theme Weekend Vancouver 2012 here.