WordCamp Philly 2011
4 - 6 Nov 2011 at Temple University Fox Business School, Alter Hall

Good information about the benefits and challenges of using BuddyPress and bbPress. I especially liked the tip about rolling out features slowly so users can integrate them effortlessly.

This presentation was the best and most interesting of the day for me. The whole concept was customer-centered in a very practical way. The presentation was well prepared and very effective. I came away with new ideas, but also with confidence to go in and play with WordPress to make it work better.

Great introduction to the topic. There is a ton to know, but Brad gave a good outline.

This was probably the best session of the day for me. Ben did a great job walking through optimization steps ranging from simple to complex. It was the right amount of information for the timeframe. Ben was nice enough to keep the discussion going after the session ended.

The topic of capabilities wasn't particularly interesting. But the speaker did a good job of walking through it and revealing some subtleties behind it. Q&A was informative.

The speaker did a great job explaining the benefits of "clean" code. The code examples were helpful in describing his approach to writing clean WordPress code. I would have liked to see an entire session devoted to the testing portion of the talk.

Good pointers on community building and maintenance. The speaker did a good job of working in his own stories to back up his points. Q&A was good as well.

I might like to have heard more information about how to do support properly from someone who obviously does a lot of it, since this seems instrumental to understanding how support will be returned. Otherwise, this short session covered the bases reasonably, and made a few great points about who the people are that provide support (users, essentially) and what to provide/expect when requesting support.

Loved the topic. Presenter clearly knew the topic area and provided - apart from the expected "gamification of social interaction is good" conclusion - useful raw data from his own experience in using it. Nicely done. Apart from that, the session was a little dry, and it might have been educational to see more interactively enabling/using some of the workings of the plugins used for enabling achievements and leaderboards for users.

A *ton* of information was presented very clearly in this short session slot. It didn't feel like there was a lot of opportunity to do much hands-on work in this classroom session, since there was so much to absorb from the presentation. This session could easily be twice as long, with time for real hands-on coached coding, but then it would probably be more appropriate as paid training than the informal sessions of a WordCamp.