Though 2009 has only just begun, Plain Black has been preparing for the 2009 WebGUI Users Conference since before WUC 2008 happened. Now it's time to get the community involved. 

We listened to the survey's that we pulled in from the last WUC and have decided on a 3 day / 3 track format which includes workshops inline with the conference, rather than having the workshops on separate days. The three tracks are beginner, intermediate, and advanced. The beginner track should cover only topics related to the WebGUI user interface, the content publishing process, or community related items; and in general should not require any prerequisite knowledge other than basic computer skills. The intermediate track covers building workflows, templating, HTML, CSS, minor administration tasks, advanced assets, or other items that have some prerequisite knowledge. The advanced track is all about the nitty gritty details of programming, administration, security, automation and other hard core topics. The conference is scheduled to be held at the Concourse Hotel in Madison, WI on September 9th through the 11th (Wednesday - Friday).

We can quite easily fill the whole conference with just our own ideas and staff, but the conference is more interesting when we have more presenters and their own topics. So we'd like to invite you to join us. Come speak. Talk about an area that interests you, or something you've worked on. No topic is off-limits as long as it has something to do with WebGUI or the community.

If you would like to speak at this year's conference we would love to have you. Submit your proposals by February 15, 2009. And as an added incentive, presenters get discounted tickets and other goodies that regular attendees don't.