After WordCamp UK 2008

What a fantastic event! A whole weekend with geeks and no one telling us how sad we are. Just enthusiasm and excitement about a piece of software that makes our lives and the lives of individuals and companies so much easier and more productive - now I don’t call that sad!

I don’t have much time for this post so I’m just going to pick on one of the highlights (for me) from this event. Simon Dickson gave us a bit of an inside view on what is hopefully an emerging trend in UK government with regard to web development. Namely, the increase in adoption of WordPress to create quickly deployed and much more cost-effective government web sites. As in let’s talk in thousands not millions! As taxpayers I guess we’d all welcome that!

And secondly, Simon’s vision of a WordPress ecosystem of consultants, developers and designers, all with a committment and passion for WordPress as the web site platform of choice. The agreement with Simon’s views on this subject could be felt around the room.

And I sincerely hope that this ecosystem will develop from now on, and indeed we’re seeing this moving forward on the mailing list even as I type this post.

I may come back to WordCamp UK in later posts but I must go now.