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WordCamp Philippines 2008…Finally!

It’s finally happening. After long years of being a WordPress user-slash-buff and exchanging WordPress gibberish with Aja during our late-night geeky chats years ago, discussing articles from the Codex (I knoooowwww…how…geeky…hehe…Aja is my WordPress “mentor,” so all hail Aja and his plugins! heh), and basically being our usual dorky selves, WordCamp Philippines 2008 has “arrived,” thanks to the people behind Mindanao Bloggers. Of course I’m not about to waste this chance. It’s a go!

Topics like Video and Mobile Blogging and Blog Monetization make me wonder why Web Standards and Web Accessibility are not in the list of “considered topics.” They’re not even exactly as “advanced” as vlogging and moblogging are, since they basically deal with correctly structuring HTML documents in the first place. They’re not even hard to do; in fact, documents that are standards and accessibility compliant are hundred times easier to build and manage than documents with randomly placed and unclosed tags. The WordPress Default theme itself takes web standards and web accessibility into account.

Maybe someday PWAG or, errrr, the forever-hiatus Web Standards Philippines group, will be able to present their “arguments” before people who won’t get bored with stuff like those and become “responsible netizens,” whatever that means.

Anyway, since I’m required to post the list of sponsors without rel="nofollow", here it is in all its listed glory.

Sponsors

WordCamp Philippines 2008…Finally! was posted by Shari on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 under Events & Happenings, Featuredand tagged with , . It currently has 13 responses. You can add your own, or trackback from your site.

13 Responses

  1. Ria Jose on 15 Jul 2008 at 09:10 # (Quote)

    Thanks for blogging about this! :)

    I already told them to consider the topics. :D

  2. ia on 15 Jul 2008 at 09:22 # (Quote)

    Where is the Web Standards Philippines group? I agree that creating webpages that follow web standards should be simple enough, but maybe being disciplined enough to do it every day like a good habit is an “advanced” skill. :D

  3. Shari on 16 Jul 2008 at 12:31 # (Quote)

    @Ria, thanks! And geez, blogging about it is NO BIG. ;)

    @Ia, haha, somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight? ^_^ I should think that being disciplined enough to write sponsored posts is as easy as being disciplined enough to write the correct markup for them. But then, yeah, there isn’t any tangible incentive on doing “valid” and accessible pages. Heh.

  4. ia on 16 Jul 2008 at 03:06 # (Quote)

    Incentives? Easier to maintain code! Better SEO standings! Faster loading pages! Ehehehe.

    Perhaps they could include it alongside “Designing WP Themes” because the topic “Developing WP Plugins” is combined with “Best Practices in PHP Coding”.

    Saka baka gusto ninyong mag-organize ng meetup sa WordCamp Philippines ng Web standards Philippines group? :lol:

  5. Shari on 16 Jul 2008 at 04:01 # (Quote)

    True, and that’s what I’ve been telling some people. Still, the topics are too “technical” for them. Which is kinda confusing, since it’s all HTML anyway.

    Great idea. Perhaps. Let’s here it from the organizers muna, maybe the topics will indeed be included. Sana.

    Imma talk with Aja ’bout a meet-up (crosses fingers). Gusto ko nga rin ng ganun sana. :D

  6. Ai~ on 16 Jul 2008 at 11:36 # (Quote)

    Sounds like an awesome event :mrgreen:

  7. Lexie on 16 Jul 2008 at 03:51 # (Quote)

    Hmm. Don’t you guys think it’s time we made progress with the Web Standards Philippines group? I keep logging in our basecamp. It looks lonely. :(

  8. jhay on 16 Jul 2008 at 09:04 # (Quote)

    Kita-kits sa WordCamp Philippines. :mrgreen:

  9. Shari on 16 Jul 2008 at 11:56 # (Quote)

    @Ai, join us? :D

    @Lexie, uh, yeah. *hangs head* Meeting up with everyone will be a huge progress though, don’t you think? Mebbe we can talk ’bout how to step forward some more, heh.

    @Jhay, more like kitakits on Saturday :p

  10. MiGs on 22 Jul 2008 at 05:48 # (Quote)

    Thank you for registering for WordCamp Philippines!

    You will be receiving your camper pass via email soon.

    For updates, please visit http://philippines.wordcamp.org
    and/or subscribe to its feeds: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wcphils

    See you in WordCamp!

    MiGs
    on behalf of WordCamp Philippines Organizers

  11. Aja Lapus on 27 Jul 2008 at 09:24 # (Quote)

    Yay! I could finally load your site. (I wonder why sometimes I couldn’t.)

    I agree with ia about best practices. Dapat kasama rin yun sa Designing WP Themes. Napakalenient kasi ng browsers ngayon, hopefully wala nang quirks mode sa mga susunod na taon, kasabay na sana ng paglabas ng IE8. That would give incentives to produce valid and semantic markup. :)

  12. Aja Lapus on 27 Jul 2008 at 09:28 # (Quote)

    Confirmed na rin nga pala ako Shari. Pray for me na lang na wala akong important matter sa class sa date na yun. :D

  13. WordCamp Philippines 2008: On Meeting Mr. WordPress, Web Standards, and Other Stuff • MISTERYOSA.COM on 08 Sep 2008 at 08:22 # (Quote)

    [...] topics. I was ecstatic when I saw that it was to be discussed by Regnard Raquedan, especially after I hinted that said topic should be considered. WordPress in itself adheres to Web Standards, and I couldn’t help being passionate about web [...]

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