Today is the last day to vote for proposals for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival (though if history precedes itself, it could be extended), and I’ve spent a good amount of time promoting what I think should be a killer topic for attendees. “Deploying WordPress: From Zero to Ninja” will cover business-oriented subjects like developing in multiple environments, the have-to-have plugins, and best practices from the community’s experts for running your enterprise-class application on the WordPress platform.
But I’d like to spend the remaining voting time promoting some other topics I’m really looking forward to, and I’ll update this list over time as I find new panels that catch my eye:
- Design from the Gut: Dangerous or Differentiator? — Organized by Phil Coffman, Springbox
- Curiosity Makes You Stronger: Testing UX Design — Organized by Ashley Moreno, Springbox
- Blog Wars: Movable Type vs. WordPress Revisited — Mark Jaquith, WordPress Lead Developer
- Social Media Cures Cancer and Speaks for Survivor — Doug Ulman, LIVESTRONG
- Reaching Teens on the Digital Streets — Organized by Anastasia Goodstein, Inspire USA Foundation/ReachOut.com
- The Google+ Design Team Tells All — Organized by Brett Lider, Google
- Designing WordPress — Jane Wells, WordPress User Experience Lead
- mHealth: Destroy Boundaries | Create Connections — Organized by Leigh Householder, GSW Worldwide
- Beyond the Theme – Using WordPress as an API — David Tufts, kickpress.org
- Free Your Mind: APIs as Lifeblood for Innovation — Organized by Andrea Chow, TripIt
- Open Source Social Networking — John James Jacoby, BuddyPress Lead Developer
Be sure to check out all of the great WordPress-related panels and give them your vote! More than 3200 proposals are competing for about 350 slots, and only 8 relate to WordPress! A little surprising, but that will translate to far greater expectations from the WP-related topics that are picked 🙂