If you dug Ward at PDX Web Innovators, you might continue the digging at this week’s WebVisions conference in Portland. He’ll be there, getting down, getting (possibly) funky tomorrow (Friday, May 23rd) at 10:30 a.m. He’s a member of the Open Source panel, taking place at the Oregon Convention Center. (Think of it as a quaint village built by outer space fascists.)

Here’s what the WebVisions site says about W the C (as the kids call him).

Ward Cunningham is the Chief Technology Officer of AboutUs.org, a growth company hosting the communities formed by organizations and their constituents. Ward co-founded the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., has served as a Director of the Eclipse Foundation, an Architect in Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the AgileManifesto.org. He is a founder of the Hillside Group and there created the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences which continue to be held all over the world.

Well, lah-dee-freakin-dah.

If you’ve had it about up to here with this Ward Cunningham critter, consider dashing down to glory in the wisdom of Brandon and Stephen, two of our developers, as they yammer on about “Inching from Mediawiki to Rails on a High Traffic Site.” But hurry. HURRY! It starts at 2:45 and ends at 4:00.