We’ve actually had this website ready for some time now, but have been sort of stuck trying to figure out the venue and accommodation up in Whistler. As you can imagine, January is rather busy in Whistler as it’s at the peak of the skiing/snowboarding season.

We are officially taking submissions for speakers, which you can do my clicking the appropriate menu up above. We’re also really happy to announce our first two confirmed speakers.

The first is our keynote speaker, Lorelle Van Fossen. Lorelle is practically a legend in the WordPress community, and recently gave a talk at WordCamp Hawaii. She’ll be down in Vegas right before WordCamp Whistler, but has agreed to make the long trek up North to be the keynote speaker and get in a few runs on the hill.

Also confirmed is everybody’s favourite Buddy, Andy Peatling, who is about to launch the first social networking framework build on top of WordPress-MU, BuddyPress. Andy has been speaking about BuddyPress at various WordCamps over the last year, but this should be the first event where he speaks after it has been released. I spoke with Andy a few days ago, and he said he was looking forward to not just speaking about what BuddyPress “will most likely do”, but what it in fact “can do”. So it should be a great talk.

We’re going to be opening up registration for the event shortly, so stay tuned. Right now we’re targeting about 100 – 150 people for the event. We’re also taking sponsorship, so if you’re a business or individual that wants to contribute to the success, please visit our sponsorship page.