Matt loves to answer questions.

The event is only 3 days away and I just realized we never sent out our request for the questions you want us to ask Matt, the founder of WordPress and our celebrity guest at WordCamp Montréal. Here’s your chance!

Matt will be on stage on Sunday afternoon to answer questions from the audience as well as ones posted online. Here’s the talk profile on the talks page. We used the same format when Matt visited two years ago and it worked well. People asked all kinds of WordPress-related questions that gave Matt a chance to both answer and wax poetic on the principles, strategies and motivations behind the creation and development of WordPress.

So what do you want to know about WordPress? Are you curious about some aspect of the history of WP? Wondering why a given feature was never added? Confused about why the three letter word “GPL” starts so many barfights?

Send us your questions using the comment form on this post or use twitter to tweet us @wordcampmtl with your burning queries. If you are also going to be in the room then please mention that in your question so we can keep it ’till the end in case you want to ask it yourself!

See you this weekend!

WordCamp Montreal is only a few weeks away! We’re as excited as ever about this event. We’ve prepared a speaker spotlight series that will show off some of our speakers at this years event!

I’m happy to present our next spotlight, Ron & Andrea Rennick!

Ron & Andrea Rennick specialize in the network/multisite feature of WordPress, ranging from custom plugin development to commercial plugins and ebooks at wpebooks.com. Both are active in the core WordPress development and support communities and Ron has the rare honor of being a “core committer” to the WordPress project. Find Ron and Andrea on Twitter.

Ron & Andrea will be hosting a Q&A session titled Multisite basics and Q&A with the experts.

Why WordPress?

Andrea Rennick

Ron Rennick

That’s like asking why I decided to breath oxygen. It just is.

Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?

We’re from New Brunswick, and this is the closet Canadian WordCamp to us. So we’re using “local” very broadly. And it’s a great city! We’re even heading up a couple days early to take in some sights.

What is your talk going to be about?

II’l be speaking with my husband and partner Ron about the most common multisite questions – with answers! We’ll go over the top ten or so questions we get and leave plenty of discussion time.

What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Montreal?

I’m tempted to say bagels, but really it will be meeting up with familiar faces and seeing new ones. The people in the community are the best part.

What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?

I’d like people to walk away with a better understanding of how multisite works internally, what to use it for and when not to use it. At the very least, I’m going for “less scary”.

What is your favourite WordPress plugin, and why?

Hmm, that’s like asking which child of mine is my favorite! One plugin I like a lot, because it should be in core, is the snack bar plugin. It adds extra links to the admin bar for managing the subsites when using multisite.

Photo by LexnGer on Flickr. Click for original.

The site is launched and the first batch of speakers are up on the talks page, so we are closing down the -10$ early-bird tickets at the end of the day. You should be able to get the new price until early saturday morning, but why wait?

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Starting Saturday morning the normal $40 price will be in effect. Remember, this is still an amazing deal in the world of tech conferences! Because of our amazing sponsors (see sidebar) your measly $40 will get you two days of expert talks, catered lunch both days and some sweet WordPress-related gifts/surprises. There are cheaper things in life, but few are as educational and fun.

Whether the early-bird tickets are still available or not, now is definitely the right time to Get your tickets!

Note: Friday May 13 is also the deadline for speaker applications, so we will be shutting off the forms and working with the proposals we’ve already recieved. Thanks to everyone who applied! If we haven’t gotten back to you yet we will do so soon

Thanks for your support so far and for your excitement about year three of WCMTL!

Our venue will once again be UQAM’s Coeur des Sciences. It’s a great space right downtown.

We’ve had a phenomenal response to our call for speakers. We’ll be featuring some great international speakers along side our homegrown talent. In addition to talks for users and developers, we’ve added some exciting unconference style events for the first time. And we are thrilled to be able to offer a Happiness Bar throughout the event, in both English and French. Our full schedule will be posted soon.

It’s not too late to become a sponsor. Just like last year, we are also offering microsponsorships for freelancers and small agencies.

This event depends on the hard work of volunteers. you can be one of them. Sign up now to become a volunteer.

We’ll be announcing even more details over the coming weeks. Check back often!

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