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WordCamp Providence hosts the first WordPress Contribute Day in Rhode Island

Posted by on August 14, 2013 with Comments are off for this post

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!

 

 

Categories Events, WordCamps | 2 replies

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.

Categories WordCamp Central, WordCamps | 8 replies

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.

Categories Events, General, WordCamps | 7 replies

WordCamps in 2012

Posted by on February 4, 2013 with 3 replies

Another year gone by, and my how the WordCamp program has grown! As you will see below, a total of 67 WordCamps were organized this year by volunteers in communities all over the world. The fairly even split between WordCamps inside the US and outside the US has stayed about the same, and we still average about 250 attendees per event. There were 22 WordCamps in cities or countries that had never had a WordCamp before.

This year, we also expanded the video camera kit program, which ships video camera equipment from WordCamp to WordCamp, to reduce the cost of recording WordCamp sessions. We now have 8 kits in the US, 3 kits in Canada, and 2 kits in Europe. Related: 445 WordCamp videos were posted to WordPress.tv in 2012, almost double the number from 2011. That’s a huge amount of free WordPress content available to anyone, hurray!

WordCamps now use the CampTix plugin to sell tickets and manage registration. Additionally, there is now an SVN repository for the WordCamp Base theme and our special WordCamp custom post types plugin, which means that community members can dig into and help improve these resources.

Stats!

2012
Number of WordCamps: 67
Number of WordCamps in the USA: 34
Number of WordCamps outside the USA: 33
Total Number of WordCamp Attendees: over 17,000
Total Days of WordCamp: 102
Number of sessions presented at WordCamps: 967
Number of people who spoke at WordCamps: 877
Number of companies that sponsored WordCamps: 498
New WordCamps: 22
The month with the most WordCamps: October, with 13 (and one BuddyCamp)
The month with the least WordCamps: December, with 1
WordCamp videos published to WordPress.tv: 445

2011
Number of WordCamps: 52
Number of WordCamps in the USA: 25
Number of WordCamps outside the USA: 27
Total Number of WordCamp Attendees: over 13,000
Total Days of WordCamp: 74
Number of sessions presented at WordCamps: 429
Number of people who spoke at WordCamps: 450
Number of companies that sponsored WordCamps: 313
New WordCamps: 15
The month with the most WordCamps: November, with 9
The months with the least WordCamps: March and April, with 1 each
WordCamp videos published to WordPress.tv: 271

At the end of 2012, the WordPress Events contributor group was created, and we now have 6 subcommittees of volunteers working on exciting ways to make the WordCamp program even better.

If you’d like to participate in the Events group, head over to http://make.wordpress.org/events/

Thank you to everyone who made WordCamps so amazing in 2012. Here’s to even bigger and better things in 2013!

Categories General, WordCamps | 3 replies

WordPress Event Organizers Collaborate

Posted by on November 15, 2012 with 6 replies

If you organize WordPress events – be they WordCamps, meetups, or some other interesting kind of gathering – do take a look at what’s happening over on make.wordpress.org/events.  Eleven projects have been posted for community involvement, and they run the gamut from translating WordCamp guidelines all the way to creating new meetup starter packs! There’s something for practically everyone here, and now’s a great time to get involved.

Great WordPress events help to make our community a wonderful place to publish, design, and code. When everyone pitches in, the sky’s the limit!

Categories Events, General, WordCamps | 6 replies

WordCamp Houston 2010 Makes Second Call for Sponsorship Nominations

Posted by on November 7, 2012 with 1 reply

Do you remember 2010? Faintly? Fondly? Well, here’s a happy blast from the past:

WordCamp Houston 2010 organizers announced, in the process of organizing the event, that they planned to use the surplus funds from the event for a scholarship. Cool, huh? Alas and alack, no one nominated any students back then, and the money has been sitting and waiting… until now.

In order to qualify for the WordCamp Houston 2010 scholarship you must:

1.) Reside in the Greater Houston Metropolitan area
2.) Be involved in the local, or larger WordPress Community in some capacity
3.) Be enrolled as a high school or college student

Applications will be open from Nov. 1 – Dec. 1, 2012.
During the review period, applications will be reviewed by a committee of local Houston WordPress community members and someone from WordCamp Central. The scholarship winner will be announced at central.wordcamp.org on December 15, 2012.

The award of $2,500 will be made by Jan 1, 2013.

APPLY NOW!

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