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RSS feed now available for newly announced WordCamps

Posted by on December 30, 2013 with 3 replies

Wish there was a way for you to know as soon as possible when a new WordCamp goes on the schedule? Now you can subscribe to newly announced WordCamps with RSS!

If you already use RSS, just copy and paste https://central.wordcamp.org/wordcamps/feed/ into your aggregator.

If you’re new to RSS, you can get started by signing up for a (free) service like Feedly or NewsBlur. Or if you prefer desktop applications, check out FeedReader for Windows, NetNewsWire for OS X, and Liferea for Linux.

If all this talk of RSS makes you long for the good ol’ days of e-mail, you can use a service like Blogtrottr to get notifications of new WordCamps in your inbox.

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Media Temple Sponsors Every WordCamp in the US

Posted by on December 27, 2013 with 1 reply

Thank you to Media Temple for their commitment to sponsor every WordCamp in the US at the WordCamp Pillar level for 2014 via the multi-event sponsorship program. This pledge will really help WordCamp organizers to spend less time fundraising and spend more time focused on WordCamp programming and planning, which really helps us create the most educational and inspiring events possible.

From its inception in 1998, (mt) Media Temple has been on a mission to help people and businesses succeed online. Over 125,000 customers in 100 countries now rely on Media Temple’s tools for domain registration, web hosting, business applications, virtual servers, and other cloud services to power more than 1.5 million websites. With 200 dedicated, U.S.-based employees, Media Temple takes pride in their 24/7 customer support. Our customers range from everyday people to top bloggers, creative professionals, and small businesses, as well as large enterprises like Starbucks, Adidas, Samsung, and Toyota. More information can be found anytime on the web at http://mediatemple.com or on Twitter @MediaTemple.

Huge props to Media Temple for their commitment to WordCamps all over the US!

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WordCamp Recap: London

Posted by on December 26, 2013 with 2 replies

Q4 2013 has been the season for big WordCamps in Europe. Not even the greying skies and the drop in temperature can stop WordPress aficionados from getting together to talk all things WordPress. Just six weeks after WordCamp Europe was WordCamp London, the second biggest WordCamp in Europe, and the first ever WordCamp in London.

50% of the attendees had never attended a WordCamp before so there was a good mixture of experienced WordCamp attendees and those new to experience. Overall, this helped to create a positive and excited vibe that was consistent across two days.

The event was split over two days, with day one, the conference, held at Bishopsgate Institute and day two, the Contributor Day, held at Mozilla Spaces. Bishopsgate Institute is a listed building in East London thats mixture of Arts and Crafts style with Art Nouveau and Victorian architecture reflects the eclecticism of London. It also reflected the eclecticism of the day, with developers mixing with designers mixing with writers mixing with supporter mixing with business-people.

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WPML Sponsors All WordCamps in the World in 2014

Posted by on December 25, 2013 with Comments are off for this post

We’re so grateful to WPML for their commitment to sponsor every WordCamp in the world at the WordCamp Accomplice level for 2014. They sponsored at this level in 2013 in selected regions, and were apparently so happy with that decision that they decided to go global for 2014!

wpml-webWPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 400,000 commercial websites from all over the world. More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org.

Huge thanks to WMPL for their commitment to all WordCamps in 2014!

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WordCamp Lima Recap

Posted by on December 24, 2013 with Comments are off for this post

WordPress enthusiasts in Lima, Peru enjoyed the second WordCamp in 5 years this last October, with more than 60 attendees and 14 presentations about WordPress. The event was also live-streamed to over 250 people for free. Spanish-language recaps of the event, written by two of the organizers, can be found here:

http://blog.almadark.com/2013/10/20/wordcamp-lima-2013/

http://www.tecnoaventuras.com/2013/wordcamp-lima-2013/

We look forward to seeing what WordCamp Lima puts together for 2014!

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34SP.com Sponsors All WordCamps in Europe and Africa

Posted by on December 23, 2013 with Comments are off for this post

We’re really excited to welcome a new multi-event sponsor in 2014: 34SP.com has agreed to sponsor all WordCamps in Europe and Africa in the coming year at the WordCamp Champion level.

34sp logo34SP.com is a professional website hosting and domain name registration company offering services for web developers, bloggers, designers, and small businesses throughout the world. The 34SP.com team of technical experts offers support and service coupled with a money-back guarantee to ensure client satisfaction. 34SP.com has particular focus in WordPress hosting, having supported the WordPress community since WordPress was originally developed and launched in 2003. The company currently hosts thousands of WordPress websites and is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

Many thanks to 34SP.com for their commitment to supporting WordCamps in Europe and Africa in 2014!

 

 

 

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WordCamp Toronto Recap

Posted by on December 22, 2013 with Comments are off for this post

WordCamp Toronto 2013 took place earlier this month (same time as WordCamp Europe, actually) at Humber College in Toronto’s west end. This was the largest WordCamp that Toronto has ever held. We had over 400 registrants & 30 speakers, 4 session tracks, plus workshops and discussion panels. As with any event, there were risks and challenges, but it all worked out in the end. We knew we succeeded when we heard people talk about how much they had learned, how great of a time they had, and how they were motivated to tackle more projects with WordPress. All good stuff! We’d like to look back on the event in this post, and share some of our organizerly experiences. :)

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DreamHost Sponsors All WordCamps in the US and Canada in 2014

Posted by on December 21, 2013 with Comments are off for this post

We’re so grateful that DreamHost has, for the second year in a row, committed to sponsoring all WordCamps in the US and Canada in 2014 at the WordCamp Champion level. This amazing commitment to the WordCamp program has been a true boon to the WordCamp program in the last year, allowing WordCamp organizers to focus less on fundraising and more on programming and planning amazing events that bring the WordPress community together.

dreamhost_logo-cmyk-no_tag-2012DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites, and apps hosted. The company offers a wide spectrum of Web hosting and cloud services including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects, and the cloud computing service DreamCompute. More information about DreamHost can be found at  http://dreamhost.com.

Thank you to DreamHost for your commitment to WordCamps in North America!

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