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WordCamp Weekly Update: August 21, 2013

Posted by on August 21, 2013 with 1 reply

It’s another two-WordCamp weekend; woot!

WP y’all! WordCamp Birmingham is boiling over with WordPress content – three tracks on Saturday and Sunday. With sessions on everything from responsive design to the legal aspects of blogging to WordPress and the command line, WordPress enthusiasts are sure to learn a lot and have a great time, too. Tickets are still available – get yours today!

Up in the great state of Michigan, there’s a lot of WordPress happening in Grand Rapids, come Saturday. WordCamp Grand Rapids attendees will enjoy 4 tracks of content on Saturday: Publisher, Business, Developer, and Themer. Learn about 13 WP mistakes to avoid as well as why you should stop making things pretty and start designing. Then on Sunday, they’re hosting a Contributor Day, with room for experienced and new contributors to the WordPress project. If you’re in the neighborhood, you can still buy a ticket and totally should.

Upcoming WordCamps:

What are you waiting for? You can buy tickets for these upcoming WordCamps right now:

These WordCamps don’t quite have tickets on sale yet, but have found a venue and announced their date!

 

 

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WordCamps LA, Salt Lake City, and Sofia open registration

Posted by on August 19, 2013 with 2 replies

If you’re in or near Southern California, Utah, or Bulgaria, you might want to grab a ticket for one of these awesome upcoming WordCamps:

WordCamp LA: September 21

WordCamp Salt Lake City: September 21

WordCamp Sofia: October 26

Enjoy a day of stupendous WordPress content, enthusiasm, and fun at these or other WordCamps this year – find a WordCamp near you on our schedule page.

This post was corrected for accuracy on August 20, 2013 at 12.57pm.

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How WordCamp Europe chose its speakers

Posted by on August 14, 2013 with 2 replies

WordCamp Europe announced speakers the other week, and then published a great post on how and why they chose those speakers. This is a great explanation of the criteria, statistics, and selection process for this very exciting event. The decision process is particularly notable. Thanks for all your hard work, WordCamp Europe organizers!

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WordCamp Providence hosts the first WordPress Contribute Day in Rhode Island

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In addition to their four Friday workshops, WordCamp Providence is also hosting a WordPress Contribute Day this Friday!

Have you ever been interested in giving back to WordPress? With versions 3.7 and 3.8 both starting early development this month, there’s never been a more exciting time to get involved—and from experienced contributors to enthusiastic beginners, we would love to have you all join us! We’ll kick off the day at 1pm with an introduction to contributing from one of the WordPress lead developers, then spend the afternoon working individually or in groups on tickets for core.

This is a developer-oriented event, so knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, CSS or HTML will be useful. We do also need help with documentation, video transcriptions, handbook editing and other non-code tasks, however, if you’re not comfortable with coding.

 

Bring your laptops, bring your notebooks, but most of all, bring a desire to join the team and contribute back to WordPress!

While this event is free, please RSVP so we can ensure we have enough space to accommodate all participants.

Attending an event like this is a great way to get started contributing to WordPress. If you’re available, you should totally go!

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WordCamp Weekly Update: August 12, 2013

Posted by on August 13, 2013 with 2 replies

In August, WordCamps come out to play! On both coasts (of North America at least) there are awesome events that you should check out.

On the east coast, WordCamp Providence will be held August 16-17. The biggest event to hit the smallest state in the Union since last year’s WordCamp, speakers this year include Andrew Nacin, Brad Parbs, Mel Choyce, Jake Goldman, John James Jacoby, and so many more! They’re starting off the event on Friday with a Contribute Day, which is a great chance to talk to current core contributors and learn how you can get involved WordPress 3.7 and 3.8!

Over on the left coast, the fifth WordCamp Vancouver is lighting up the Pacific Northwest on August 17. With three tracks and 27 speakers, this event will be full of fun for casual users and high-intensity developers alike! People from all over the continent are coming together to make WordCamp Vancouver rad. They’re sold out, but you can follow them on Twitter with the #wcyvr hashtag, and don’t forget to look up their videos on wordpress.tv in the months to come.

Upcoming WordCamps:

What are you waiting for? You can buy tickets for these upcoming WordCamps right now:

These WordCamps don’t quite have tickets on sale yet, but have found a venue and announced their date!

 

 

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Multi-Event WordCamp Sponsorship Program

Posted by on March 29, 2013 with 8 replies

Do you love sponsoring WordCamps? Perhaps you love it so much that you wish you could sponsor every WordCamp on the planet. If so, you’ll probably want to look over our new Multi-Event WordCamp Sponsorship Program, a new way for companies to sponsor multiple WordCamps even more easily. We’re excited to roll this program out for the second quarter of 2013, which starts… Monday!

Huge props to the events group that helped draft this program: Al Davis, Kevin Cristiano, Jared Smith, and Marissa Rosen.  And to the sponsors of every WordCamp, thank you for helping us make great WordPress events possible.

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WordCamp SF dates announced

Posted by on March 28, 2013 with Comments are off for this post

WordCamp SF has been scheduled for July 26-27, with a developer’s hack day on July 28, 2013. The event will be held at Mission Bay Conference Center again this year, and as the annual WordPress conference, will surely feature some of the best WordCamp speakers known to humankind.

A Call for Speakers and a call for speaker nominations have been published, so don’t delay! Help us create the best WordCamp SF to date by telling us who you’d like to see at the podium.

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Reviewing WordCamp Guidelines

Posted by on February 13, 2013 with 7 replies

Current WordCamp guidelines were published in April of 2011 and haven’t changed since. We’ve had nearly two years to observe what’s been working, what needs clarification, and what might need a tweak. A working group to review WordCamp guidelines was announced in December of 2012, and has drafted a survey for past WordCamp organizers to share their experiences with the guidelines.

The deadline for response to this survey is February 28, 2013. At the end of the data collection period, the working group will create a prioritized list of current guidelines that are pain points, identifying why they are pain points and for whom.

They’ll go on to compare each pain point to the reason behind the associated guideline, and analyze the most efficient way to ease the pain while still solving the issue the guideline was introduced to solve, for the community’s maximum benefit. After that, they’ll draft a plan for revised guidelines for review by team reps.

If you are a WordCamp organizer and have NOT received an invitation to take the Review Guidelines Survey, please comment on this post, and they’ll send you the link. All members of a WordCamp organizing team can take the survey, but the survey is restricted to past or present WordCamp organizers. It’s not required, but at the end of the survey, the group does ask for an email address so they can contact respondents directly with further questions.

Updates to this project will be posted at Making WordPress Events – if you’re involved in organizing any kind of WordPress event, I highly recommend following that blog.

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