November 16, 2009 If you’re like me and were not able to make it to Word Camp NYC, you’ve been wildly monitoring the twitter feeds to make sure that you didn’t miss anything important.
A big thank you to David Bisset who set up the “I Wish I Was at Word Camp” site to stream twitter feeds from many of the WordPress influencers who were in attendance. Those of us who didn’t make it were able to keep up to the minute with topics of conversation, as well as links to resources that were presented at Word Camp. I took some time to collect a few of the WPMU and BuddyPress-related material that would be pertinent to our readers. Check out some of the slides and news from the community below.
Creating Community with BuddyPress – Lisa Sabin Wilson
Quick Summary:
These slides are a short introduction to using BuddyPress to build a community and it includes several mini-case studies of how people are currently using it. There is also an excellent, simple walk through of how the parent/child theme framework operates.
BuddyPress Groups API – Andy Peatling
Quick Summary:
This set of slides Andy Peatling outlines the necessity for the BuddyPress Groups Extension API, which makes it simple to build new group features.
Hyperlocal Journalism, Meet BuddyPress – Ted Mann
Quick Summary:
Tedd Mann outlines a new model for journalism that allows citizens to engage with the ability to author posts and create their own profiles. This user-generated content combined with contributions from veteran journalists creates a collaboration environment that has become a new model for journalism. BuddyPress can be much more than just a social networking platform!
Developing BuddyPress as a Collaboration Hub – Boone Gorges
Quick Summary:
These slides focus on how to develop BuddyPress for the purposes of connecting and collaborating. With the ease of bbPress integration in BuddyPress 1.1, getting your collaboration hub off the ground is easier than ever.
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I did not see any information about WPMU/WP merging the code. I would like to know if I should start to work on WPMU or wait until WP to merge the codebase to make it easier for me to customize it instead starting all over again when it merges.
@Jed, I was at WordCamp NYC and the topic of WordPress-MU merging with regular WordPress came up multiple times. The general consensus was that they’re going to make the transition as seamless as possible and that there’s no need to wait. You could be waiting a while too.
The merge will be in WP 3.0 and as of today, WP 2.9 is not even out yet (and who knows how many releases there will be between 2.9 and 3.0). The general time frame given for 3.0 was early next year, possibly as early as February, but often things get pushed back.
In the sessions I was in, the people that were asking about whether they should wait were told no.