Day 2 of WordCamp Dallas started out with a live taping of The WordPress Podcast, featuring hosts Charles Stricklin and Jonathan Bailey with guests Mark Jaquith, Mark Ghosh and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg.

In case I forgot to mention it lately, we want to thank our generous sponsors without whom this event simply wouldn’t have been possible (please spread the link love):

• Layered Technologies
• Find My Host
• 3Tera
• Automattic
• B5Media

And also to Tom Kraemer, the City of Frisco’s AV Manager who worked tirelessly all weekend to record all of the WordCamp videos.
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This latest video from WordCamp 2007 features Lloyd Budd and Mark Jaquith on the topic of Getting Involved with WordPress.

This lecture occurred on Saturday July 21, 2007 from 3pm-4pm in San Francisco, CA at the Swedish American Hall.

If I had to summarize Lloyd and Mark’s comments into just one sentence it would be, “you don’t have to be a programmer to contribute to the development of WordPress.”
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This was the last one hour session, entitled Developer Duke-out, from the WordCamp 2007 conference conducted by Matt Mullenweg and featuring Mark Jaquith, Donncha O Caoimh, Michael Adams and Andy Skelton.

The Developer Duke-out occurred on Sunday July 22, 2007 from 4:30-5:30pm in San Francisco, CA at the Swedish American Hall and it gave everyone the chance to get to know a little more about some of the people behind Wordpress as well as have the opportunity to ask questions and make suggestions.

The guys talk about some of their favorite plugins, the current and future state of WordPress, and a number of other interesting and at time comical issues.
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