Design Like a Lady. Code Like a Geek. » wordcamp http://blog.lindsaytabas.com Keeping the Mind Engaged Outside of 9-5. Writings and Musings by Lindsay Tabas Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:18:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Working the T Shirt Table at WordCamp SF 2009 http://blog.lindsaytabas.com/2009/05/working-the-t-shirt-table-at-wordcamp-sf-2009/ http://blog.lindsaytabas.com/2009/05/working-the-t-shirt-table-at-wordcamp-sf-2009/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 18:25:15 +0000 Lindsay http://www.lindsaytabas.com/blog/?p=337 Karla and Me at Wordcamp 2009

I think it is certainly appropriate that I write a blog post documenting my time working the t-shirt table at WordCamp SF 2009, considering that my blog is on WordPress, so is The General History Project and The Bead Store SF.  Yes I’m a big fan!  And, I don’t think I need to extol all the great features, you can find that by doing some easy searching.

I’m meeting a lot of cool people – bloggers, theme designers, and the rest.  The Mission Bay Conference Center also has a gym, so I have a lot of people stopping by to ask me what WordCamp is about.  It seems a lot of people know about WordPress!  And others want to know about me and what I can do to help them with their website, which is also very cool.

Some of the highlights of my morning include:

  • Meeting the LaidOffCamp guy, Chris Hutchins. He let me talk my headoff about Turkey and traveling through the Middle East. I told him about Matador Travel, which is an awesome online travel community.  The people there helped me plan my trips to Costa Rica, Greece, Turkey and Israel.  I’m hoping he’ll contact me so I can put him in touch with Laura Lee; she’s a great resource for traveling in Africa.
  • Hearing one woman say, as I gave her the American Apparel shirt – “It’s probably some cheap shirt made in China”.  It’s nice to see that some people don’t pay attention to what seems obviously a pop-culture-brand success.  American Apparel’s whole pitch is that they’re the largest clothing manufacturer in the USA.
  • Meeting Om Malik and asking him if he ever filled that position posted on 37signals.  Sounds like he did! Congrats!
  • Having a run in with the guys from MediaTemple.  They’re a sponsor for WordCamp, and came to the table with a little sway and swagger.  I asked them if they were competitors for GoDaddy, and then if they could help me secure a domain name in less than 5 minutes by phone the way I did for tacocrawl.com last Saturday night.  Their response? “What kind of phone do you use?  Blackberry? It looks a whole lot cooler on the iPhone!”  Me? “Looks like those bloody mary’s this morning were a good idea”.  Bad idea for two reasons.  First, I’m the type of GoDaddy customer they want to acquire.  I buy domain names like other girls go clothes shopping online.  Second, it doesn’t seem to occur to anyone, these guys and my friends that were with me last week, that securing a domain name by phone is a good feature.
  • Seeing how truly humble Scott Beale is from Laughing Squid.  I follow him on twitter, and have been reading his blog since I moved out here in fall 2005.  When he came to the tshirt table, and I saw his name tag, I said something to the likes of “hey you’re that guy”.  He seemed surprised that I would recognize him, which really impressed me since he has 40K followers on twitter and a significant fan base.

If any of you are reading this, come say hi!

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