Ok now that all the excitement on WCT09 is long gone….
I wrote the two previous posts while on the excitement of things…
Overall WCT08 was better but WCT09 was sort of a failure. Read more
WordCamp Toronto 2009 was WAAAAAAAAY better than WordCamp 2008.
It wasn’t all the way EAST of the city. I have to be honest. I live in the East end but to be fair to the other hundred or two that are coming out of town, this WCT was at OASI which was just west of downtown Toronto and it was about 20 minutes.
For both WCT08 and WCT09 locations I used google with PEARSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT and then the addresses of each WCT. Both took the highways and most direct route. WCT09 was reached a lot quicker.
Brendan Sera-Shriar who was the main organizer really did a good job overall. There were some issues but most of them were solved.
The Wi-fi was a HUGE issue and thank god Lorelle VanFossen didn’t open her 147 tabs (this later on). However I do have to give it to Brendan as Wi-fi is an issue at most WordCamp events and it was irritating for me to be twittering from my Blackberry and taking photographs with my Canon.
The last day had this beautiful chicken from the place that had the opening party. IT WAS AWESOME. I also met Lorelle VanFossen. So that is it for me for this extremely late post
This is a summary of WordCamp Toronto 2008 (I didn’t do it a year ago but it leads to the WCT09 entry).
This was my very first WordCamp that I attended.
From all the conferences/meetings/barcamps/podcamps that I have attended, THIS ONE IS THE ONE I HAD THE MOST COMPLAINS with.
Anyways, I went to WordCamp Toronto 2008 (WCT08).
There were a few things I didn’t like about that WordCamp. You see, it was at Centennial College’s Progress Campus which is 35 kilometres east of Toronto’s Leaster B. Pearson International Airport in the former City of Scarborough.
I took transit to get there both days. There were two branches one from each route (102A and 134C) that went DIRECTLY to the College but not on Sunday.
I came home from my European vacation on October 2nd. and I went to bed and got woken up at noon on Friday, I forgot that I had an event to help out with.
The organizer of that event was a close friend, he came to pick me up. I showered, got dressed, got in his car all while being jet-lagged. We stopped at a Timmies.
Event takes place, it was some charity event. He drives me back and I arrive back home around 2:30-3 in the morning Saturday.
I go to bed, wake up around 6am, get ready, travel around 90 minutes to WCT08 as it is in a part that is not the best if you are Transiting.
Things finish for Saturday at WCT08 I had to go to Yonge-Dundas Square as I had to do an overnight shift for Nuite Blanche festival.
That finishes around 6am or so. I then head to another part of downtown to do a 7am-1pm shift at yet another event (have you figured out by now I like to support my community a lot?). I then head back to WCT08 to get the second half of the day and I arrive just when lunch is ending. I attend the last sessions, the first one (I think) was of Brendan Sera-Shriar.
I think I then went somewhere and eventually home, sleeping for 3 days.
Things I didn’t like about WCT08:
Things I liked about WCT08:
Sometime during the weekend Brendan Sera-Shriar of Phug works out so he runs next year’s WCT event.
For the next 2 hours there will be the WCT Awards
Key Note – Nick La session is on now
