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I couldn’t figure out how to connect with such a distributed group of people, and it was right out there at the WordCamps. Geez how could i have missed that. I’ve been out of practice, i guess.<\/p>\n

Now the big question is which wordcamp should I go to next? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Also I’ve been learning about Jetpack<\/a>, and now see it might be the key to getting the tech out there.<\/p>\n

As far as I can see it doesn’t have much news distribution functionality. We have huge stuff there with FeedLand, which I didn’t talk about much at WCEH.<\/p>\n

Hope you don’t mind that I used your blog, I started out writing this as an email to Dan, who was kind of my minder at WCEH, but remembered that I’m a blogger and there’s a better place to put stuff like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I couldn’t figure out how to connect with such a distributed group of people, and it was right out there at the WordCamps. Geez how could i have missed that. I’ve been out of practice, i guess. Now the big question is which wordcamp should I go to next? \ud83d\ude09 Also I’ve been learning about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21152445,"featured_media":9074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/10\/dave-keynote-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3991,"url":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wordcamp-canada-flier-for-meetups\/","url_meta":{"origin":9188,"position":0},"title":"WordCamp Canada Flier for Meetups","author":"Troy Chaplin","date":"June 23, 2025","format":"aside","excerpt":"Spread the word about WordCamp Canada! 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