The second ever WordSesh, 24 hours of live streaming WordPress presentations, is coming soon. The first WordSesh was a crazy idea that was wildly successful. I love stuff like that. Scott Basgaard is the lead organizer, and he’s announced the second WordSesh is going to be December 7th.
If you’d like to get a glimpse of last year’s event, the entire thing is available on Youtube or you can check out the archived site. I had the privilege of talking plugins with Pippin Williamson last time, and I look forward to being involved again.
The first WordSesh was a huge success. I talked to Scott about statistics and his goals for the event, and he told me that there were thousands of visitors from all over the world in last year’s live presentations:
To be honest, I didn’t expect WordSesh to be so successful. The streamed presentations had over 2,500 unique viewers from 80 different countries and still continued to be viewed on YouTube today. It just re-enforced the idea that the WordPress community doesn’t have to go far, leave their desk at work or home and even change out of the pajamas to have a good time and grow together. And I hope WordSesh 2 (3,4,5,6,…) can do just that again and again.
On average, WordSesh sessions have received over 300 views each since the event. That’s probably more people than most of us could ever present to at a single WordCamp. The most popular talk last year was from John James Jacoby on bbPress and BuddyPress, and has received over 1,000 views.
If you’d like to do a session of WordSesh, you can submit an application, but you need to do it soon. Many speakers are already lined up. Folks like JJJ, Pippin Williamson, Cory Miller, Ptah Dunbar, Jeff Chandler, Noel Tock, and Remkus Defries are planning to participate this year. Brad Williams and Dre Armeda will again kick off the event with the DradCast. A full schedule is coming soon.
I love that Scott works so hard on this project. It’s a great opportunity for people to get as much or more knowledge as they can from WordCamps, from people all over the world, right from their living rooms. And to top it off, he loves offering it for free.
Be sure to keep up to date on Twitter and subscribe to the mailing list on the WordSesh website, because this event is super fun and you shouldn’t miss the chance take part in the videos and the live chat on December 7th.
