As a WordPress newbie I was surprised at some of the things I learned at WordCamp last year. I started that morning thinking hashtags might be a type of potato; that Akismet was an insect of some kind; that a dashboard was a type of surfboard – and I’d never surfed, much less been near a lake or an ocean!
I was also surprised to learn that a footer was not a type of running shoe, that the visual editor was not another name for an optometrist. Heck, I thought that tag referred to a kid’s game and that JQuery was the name of one of the speakers!
Luckily I found a lot of friendly help with all of these concerns and more during lunch, in the afternoon, at snack time, from the presenters, other participants, and at the Happiness Bar. I had all kinds of ideas about what a Happiness Bar might be, but more on that next time.
