WordcampUK comes to Birmingham

(Image with thanks from Antoine Mallet for the freeware map image)

Great news for Birmingham’s ever-growing blogging and social media scene!

Fans of the Wordpress blogging platform have been springing up left right and centre of late, and the icing on the cake is that a first-of-its-kind-in-the-UK event is now being planned for this summer to connect up Wordpress fans, developers and users.

It’s called WordcampUK and it’s being held in Birmingham on Saturday and Sunday 19-20 July 2008.

In true ‘unconference‘ style the actual event content, location and organisation is all being done via a WIKI (a website that anyone can edit), and we’re all free to put in our suggestions for where and how we think it should be run.

So if you’re in the UK or Birmingham and interested in one of the most prolific and powerful blogging systems out there, and more importantly what Wordpress is capabable of doing for society, personal expression, business, politics, family, publishing, citizen journalism and all of the other things it empowers then quite simply…

Just say you’re interested in attending.

Once you do that the whole thing will emerge and I’m hoping it could become one of the most exciting events for people involved in social media in the UK. It’s up to us to make it happen!

[Update] I’ve had a request to turn the image above into a badge for people to put on their blogs.

[Update] At Matt Mullenweg’s request I’ve pulled them because I’d used the wrong logo somehow. I’ll repost later when I have time – something along the lines of this?