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	Advanced Search My Gallery WUC Photos Thumbnails · Slideshow · Album WUC 2008 · By: Admin Can you believe we've been doing this for five years already? DSC01412 1 DSC01413 2 DSC01414 3 DSC01415 4 DSC01416 5 DSC01417 6 DSC01419 7 DSC01420 8 DSC01421 9 DSC01423 10 DSC01424 11 DSC01425 12 DSC01426 13 DSC01427 14 DSC01428 15 Jamie working remotely from a cushy chair in the hotel lobby. DSC01429 16 Tavis, Corey, and Graham working hard during Kristi's Content Manager workshop. DSC01430 17 Kaleb, Chris, and Graham watching and working in the Content Manager workshop DSC01431 18 The "new guy" at Plain Black. Kaleb was hired as a programmer and has been an active member of the community for some time. He's a great guy and the brains behind the upcoming 2.0 survey asset. DSC01432 19 Chris is no longer the "new guy" at Plain Black and is happy about that. Some staff still try to push this title back on him for comical reasons. :) DSC01433 20 Graham is the wise support guru at Plain Black and if you've ever worked with him then you know he's the man. DSC01434 21 Jamie is the guy at Plain Black who handles things like billing, hosting, and contracts. You can find this guy on the phone helping customers during the day and at night you'll catch him on the Teamfortress 2 servers. :) DSC01435 22 Corey concentrating on an epic game of solitaire. DSC01437 23 Some of the attendees of the Content Manager workshop. DSC01438 24 Kristi teaching her Content Manager's workshop. Kristi used to be a school teacher and so she's right at home teaching people how to use WebGUI. DSC01439 25 DSC01441 26 DSC01442 27 DSC01443 28 DSC01444 29 Another view of Content Manager workshop. DSC01445 30 Content Manager workshop 2008. DSC01446 31 DSC01447 32 DSC01448 33 Shannon & Vanessa are marketing specialists and attended the workshop to learn how they could improve their WebGUI website. DSC01449 34 DSC01450 35 DSC01451 36 DSC01452 37 DSC01453 38 Jamie and Frank smile at the camera while hanging out in the hotel bar after the first day of workshops. DSC01454 39 DSC01455 40 Liam, Kristi, and Steve catch up after the first day of workshops. DSC01456 41 The Dutch Team has arrived and are immediately found in the hotel bar! DSC01457 42 DSC01458 43 DSC01459 44 DSC01460 45 DSC01461 46 Kristi enjoying a nice cold beer after a long day of teaching. You deserve it! DSC01462 47 Koen arrives at the hotel bar after a 12.5 hour trip from Amsterdam. DSC01463 48 DSC01464 49 Joeri arrives at the hotel bar after a 12.5 hour trip from Amsterdam. DSC01465 50 Joeri happy with the beer in his hand. DSC01466 51 Albert! After missing the last couple of WUCs, Albert makes an appearance this year and we're glad to see him. DSC01467 52 DSC01468 53 Bart is back again at this year's WUC and he's showing his Chicago Cubs pride! DSC01470 54 This was what happened after we told him that the Cubs suck. Maybe we deserved it. DSC01471 55 Yes, we all know this fellow... Martin! One of the few WUC Veterans, Martin has attended all 5 WUCs and is a Contributor of the Year award winner. All around a great guy and usually the life of the party. (with the rest of the dutch team) DSC01472 56 What are you up to Koen? It's always something.. DSC01473 57 Patspam! Er, I mean Patrick! He travelled to the WUC this year from Australia and it was great to meet him this year. Good things ahead from him! DSC01474 58 DSC01475 59 William from Knowmad was again in attendance. William is a great guy and lots of fun to hang out with. DSC01476 60 Albert and Joeri in good spirits. DSC01477 61 DSC01478 62 Arjan from United Knowledge. Another great member of the Dutch Team. DSC01479 63 Joeri and Diona. Diona is from Knowmad and her name is pronounced "dee-awn-ah". :) DSC01480 64 Corey relaxing DSC01481 65 Gooey dolls! DSC01483 66 Doug and his famous WebGUI tie! One of a kind! DSC01484 67 Kathy and Tavis hanging out at the front desk. Kathy is Colin's wife and she's always a big help at our events. DSC01485 68 Arjan teaching a class... not for beginners! :) DSC01487 69 DSC01488 70 Mego and Tabb are both fairly new Plain Black employees and have been a great addition to our team. Smiling faces! DSC01489 71 Jamie and Frank camping out in the hallway. DSC01490 72 A busy session.. find a chair! DSC01491 73 Kaleb giving WebGUI the thumbs up. DSC01494 74 More session DSC01495 75 Tiffany teaching a class on using the new WebGUI Shop! DSC01496 76 Tavis giving his surprised look while presenting at the WUC. DSC01497 77 Great minds at work here.. DSC01498 78 Frank teaching his Content and URL Handlers class. He's the man. DSC01499 79 Another busy WUC session. Very full! DSC01501 80 Yung speaking on the brand new, super cool, totally awesome... THINGY asset! DSC01502 81 Doug teaching his class.. Doug is a great teacher and has a game show host voice for it to boot! DSC01503 82 Steve assisting Jobe from GAMA with a question. DSC01504 83 Jamie and Doug with their hands in their pockets. DSC01505 84 This is a picture right before the big Dutch Team surprise nomination!! DSC01506 85 The Dutch Team presenting their Presidential Nomination to JT Smith. DSC01507 86 The Dutch Team presenting their Presidential Nomination to JT Smith. DSC01508 87 JT accepting the nomination for President. DSC01509 88 JT flaunting his super cool posters which are a mock up of the Obama posters. Very well done Dutch Team! DSC01510 89 Colin juggling Gooey dolls! This man can do it all! DSC01511 90 Photo of the main ballroom for the 2008 WUC DSC01512 91 Ryan, the official WebGUI Roadie! DSC01513 92 Ryan's plenary. Ryan is the official WebGUI Roadie and serves at all WUCs! DSC01514 93 Arjan and his awesome JT shirt! DSC01515 94 DSC01516 95 Colin rocking out the JT shirt... This is a great photo. DSC01517 96 DSC01518 97 DSC01519 98 DSC01520 99 Front desk team.. Nice work everyone! DSC01521 100 DSC01522 101 DSC01523 102 Colin teaching his session on "Getting Your Ideas Into WebGUI". It was a great session. IMG_0448 103 Colin and Kathy both juggling Gooey Dolls. IMG_0449 104 IMG_0450 105 IMG_0451 106 IMG_0452 107 IMG_0453 108 IMG_0454 109 This, my friends... is Koen from the Dutch Team. Great friend and WebGUI fanboy! IMG_0455 110 Kathy, Colin, Martin, and Albert enjoy the authentic german entertainment and food at the Essen Haus. IMG_0456 111 Joeri, Tavis, and Bart trying to listen to the other side of the table.. Music is sooooo loud. IMG_0457 112 still can't hear anything over the music. IMG_0458 113 nope, still can't hear anything over the music. IMG_0459 114 IMG_0460 115 IMG_0487 116 Sarah is the social director for the WUCs. Tavis assists her in executing social events but she's the brains behind the operation. She's also married to JT so don't get any big ideas! IMG_0488 117 Colin and Kathy. IMG_0530 118 More Colin and Kathy. IMG_0532 119 Come Back Inn - Monday, Aug 25th 120 Everyone was arriving on Monday night and so a big group of us went over to the Come Back Inn to catch up with old friends. img_0901 (Modified) 121 Tavis striking the powerful and manly Oqapi warrior pose. This is used when battling nerds who use other CMS products besides WebGUI. (Disclaimer: a rival nerd was probably harmed when this move was used..) img_0900 (Modified) 122 Tavis working out the kinks in his new patented pool shot. (Disclaimer: no one was harmed in the making of this pool shot or photo.) img_0899 (Modified) 123 Kristi doing work on the pool table. img_0898 (Modified) 124 Sarah showing the boys what's up! img_0896 (Modified) 125 Tavis rocking out his new Oqapi hoodie!!! img_0892 (Modified (2)) 126 Josh doing work on the pool table. img_0891 (Modified) 127 Rogier getting tricky. img_0890 128 William playing an epic game of pool against Josh. One for the history books. img_0889 (Modified) 129 Josh (aka topsub) showing why you never bet your rent money against him in pool. He's a shark! img_0888 130 img_0887 (Modified) 131 img_0885 (Modified) 132 img_0884 133 Rory, the master at work. img_0883 (Modified) 134 Albert is about to poke the girl behind him. img_0882 (Modified) 135 Bart making the winning shot. img_0881 (Modified) 136 Joeri lining up his shot. img_0880 (Modified) 137 Rory and Albert watch the longest and most boring pool games ever. (due to lack of skill) img_0879 138 Graham is a pool shark when he's not doing support. img_0877 139 Pat, Patrick, aka Patspam... playing pool. img_0875 140 William the pool shark. img_0873 141 William img_0872 142 Rogier img_0871 (Modified) 143 Another group shot in front of Irish pub on Capitol Square. img_0870 144 Group shot in front of Irish pub on Capitol Square. img_0869 145 Koen, Kristi, Lisa, and William chilling at the Irish pub on Capitol Square. img_0868 (Modified) 146 Rogier and Joeri strategize about WebGUI.. or their next beer. img_0867 (Modified) 147 Kristi, Tavis, Albert, Patrick, and Josh pose in the upstairs area of the Irish pub.Martin decided to join the pic late. img_0866 (Modified) 148 Kristi, Tavis, Albert, Patrick, and Josh pose in the upstairs area of the Irish pub. img_0865 149 Bart and Sarah. JT is coming for you Bart. img_0864 150 Bart = happy. img_0863 (Modified) 151 Kristi, Tavis, and Albert rocking the VIP of the upstairs room in the Irish pub. img_0862 (Modified) 152 Frank, Bart, Koen, Graham, and Kristi at Samba Room. img_0861 (Modified) 153 Yung, Diona, John, and Joeri at Samba Room. img_0860 (Modified) 154 Tavis, Rory, Josh, and Arjan at Samba Room. img_0859 (Modified) 155 Josh, Arjan, Rogier, and William enjoying meat-off-the-sword at Samba Room. img_0858 156 Liam, Yung, and Rory around the hibachi table... img_0857 157 Martin, Sarah, Tiffany, Bart, Koen, Liam around the hibachi table. img_0856 158 Martin proves once again that he is a crazy dutch team super genius. img_0854 (Modified) 159 Albert, Arjan, and Martin around the hibachi table.