DreamHost to sponsor WordCamp San Francisco

We’re delighted to announce that DreamHost is a “California Street” level sponsor for WordCamp San Francisco 2012.

DreamHost knows WordPress hosting: they host over half a million sites that run WordPress, both on shared hosting, virtual private server, and dedicated accounts. DreamHost not only hosts WordPress, they offer full services, too. They can install WordPress for you, and keep your installation up to date to make sure that you can take full advantage of all the features WordPress offers. DreamHost offers 24/7 live chat technical support for virtual private server and dedicated accounts and 24/7 email support for all customers. Learn more about what DreamHost has to offer.

WCSF tickets now on sale

Step right up!

Ticketing for WordCamp San Francisco is now open! Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Don’t delay–get yours today.

There are two types of tickets available to WCSF: general admission and live stream. The general admission ticket ($20) admits you to WCSF and includes a fantastic BBQ lunch, and a T-shirt. The live stream ticket ($18 with or $10 without a T-shirt) allows you to enjoy the conference online from wherever you are in the world. Click here to get your tickets for WordCamp San Francisco.

WordCamp San Francisco is Saturday, August 4, 2012 at Mission Bay Conference Center. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Join us for developer hack day, Sunday August 5th

Are you a WordPress pro who’s always dreamed of the chance to contribute to WordPress core? If you’re going to be in town for WordCamp San Francisco, you’re invited to join us for Developer Hack Day, where we get down and dirty, up close and personal with Core tickets.

Developer Hack Day takes place on Sunday August 5th, from 11 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at True Ventures, 2601 Mission Street #900, San Francisco, CA. True Ventures is located on the top floor of the US Bank building; enter on the north side (from Mission Street).

If you can’t attend in person, hop onto the #wordpress-dev IRC channel to help out from afar!

Hey hey! Though we love you all, this is not a social event, user hangout, or for people who lack a working WordPress core development environment. If you come, make sure you’re ready to be put to work on WordPress tickets—not your own themes, plugins, or websites. This is serious business. If we do not see you working on tickets, you will be asked to go do your work elsewhere, sorry. You have been warned.

Don’t bring a lunch–we’ll make sure you’re fed and watered. Lastly, but most importantly, we appreciate your help and support!

Location


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Parking

The closest parking garage is on 21st Street between Bartlett and Valencia.

Public Transit

You can hop on the BART going south (towards the Airport) at any of the BART stations on Market to get to True Ventures. You can take any train arriving at the platform labeled SFO Airport and get off at 24th/Mission.

Here’s a map of the BART stations around downtown:


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2012 WCSF sponsorship packages now available

Thinking about sponsoring WordCamp San Francisco, 2012? Here’s everything you need to know about supporting the event. To sign up or to get more information, contact Evan Solomon at evan@automattic.com. He’s standing by.

California Street Sponsors $30,000

California Street sponsors are the main supporters of WordCamp San Francisco. You’ll get recognition in both of our tracks and the State Of The Word, have the largest presence in the conference hall, and get the biggest thanks on the WordCamp San Francisco site. Here’s what California Street sponsors receive:

  • Acknowledgment and thanks in opening and closing remarks, and in Matt’s annual keynote, the State of the Word address.
  • Large table in the conference hall to do demos, answer questions, and meet customers.
  • Guest post and tweet from the WordCamp San Francisco blog.
  • Name and logo on the WordCamp San Francisco site.
  • Want to do something special for WordCamp attendees? Let’s talk!

Van Ness Street Sponsors $10,000

Van Ness Street sponsors will have visibility in one of our two tracks and will get a sign with their name and logo in the track room throughout the day. Here’s what’s included in the Van Ness Street sponsorship package:

  • Acknowledgment and thanks at the beginning of the morning and afternoon sessions from your track’s moderator.
  • Easel with your name and logo in your track’s room.
  • Guest post and tweet from the WordCamp San Francisco blog.
  • Name and logo on the WordCamp San Francisco site.

North Beach Sponsor: $10,000

Want to co-host a great after party for WordCamp attendees with food and drinks? Here’s what the North Beach sponsor receives:

  • Branding at the after party on Saturday, August 4th, 2012, including a sign with your name and logo.
  • Announcement in the closing remarks at WordCamp.
  • Acknowledgement and thanks at the party from the organizing team.
  • Guest post and tweet from the WordCamp San Francisco blog.
  • Name and logo on the WordCamp San Francisco site.

Powell Street Sponsors: $7,500

Powell Street sponsors will have space in the conference hall and on the WordCamp San Francisco site, in addition to the following:

  • Medium table in the conference hall.
  • Guest post and tweet from the WordCamp San Francisco blog.
  • Name and logo on the WordCamp San Francisco site.

Coit Tower Sponsors: $5,000

Coit Tower sponsors get a small table in the conference hall to meet customers, give away trials of your service, or do something special for WordCamp attendees. You can buy a Coit Tower sponsorship on its own, or add it to any of our other packages.

Hyde Street Sponsors: $2,000

Hyde Street sponsors can give back to the WordPress community at a lower cost than the other sponsorships. If you have a business or product built on WordPress, or you just want to say thanks and support the community, this is a perfect way to do it. You’ll get your name and logo on the WordCamp San Francisco site and the heartfelt thanks of all the attendees.

Need more information? Have any questions? Evan Solomon’s your man: evan@automattic.com.

Last year’s sponsors made WordCamp SF 2011 a big success

As we mentioned last week, WordCamps are no-cost or low-cost events where WordPress enthusiasts get together to learn more about WordPress and spend time with one another. No WordCamp could offer a low-cost or no-cost event without the support of their sponsors. Last year, WordCamp San Francisco was amazing, and we’d like to recognize our sponsors’ generosity one more time.

Currently the WCSF team is busy finalizing sponsorship packages for our 2012 event, which takes place on August 4th, 2012 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, California. If you want to get out in front and become a sponsor for 2012, please contact Evan Solomon at evan@automattic.com. He’ll be delighted to hear from you.

In the meantime, give it up for the amazing sponsors of WordCamp San Francisco, 2011:


Dreamhost is focused squarely on providing quality customer service and the absolute best web hosting packages in the industry.


Automattic Inc. is a startup from a handful of people passionate about making the web a better place. So far we’re best known for our work on WordPress and other projects but we have a lot of other interesting things in the pipeline as well. We are strong believers in Open Source and the vast majority of our work is available under licenses like the GPL.


Bluehost has been providing quality web hosting solutions to businesses and individuals since 1996. Their goal is to provide outstanding services for the best possible price.


Gold Supporters


A .tv domain name is much more than a web extension. Hands down, it’s the best way to announce that your site has video or other rich media, like animation, audio or streaming content.


Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and internet technologies for personal and business computing.


Silver Supporters


A Small Orange provides internet solutions and services specializing in web hosting and site management. They have the web hosting solution for you.


Event Espresso is a top-of-the-line event registration and management plugin for WordPress.Their mission is to empower business and organization leaders with the event registration, ticketing, and management tools that maximize the success of events.


Laughing Squid is an online resource for interesting art, culture & technology. It is also an independently owned and operated cloud-based web hosting company.


Layered Tech helps thousands of businesses—including WordPress.com—move forward quickly with hosted infrastructure in secure, top-tier data centers.


As a leading dedicated hosting provider, ServerBeach delivers powerful dedicated servers, convenient server management tools, and 24x7x365 LifeGuard Support™ all on their rock-solid IT infrastructure and FastFiber Network™ backbone.


Voce Communications is an award-winning marketing and communications consultancy. Founded in 1999 with the mindset that telling each company’s story requires an agency partner that shares a high level of enthusiasm and passion, Voce has always sought to be different from other agencies.


Zemanta is a tool that looks over your shoulder while you blog and gives you tips and advice, suggests related content and pictures and makes sure your posts get promoted as they deserve to be.


WP e-Commerce is a free WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online.


In-kind Supporters


StickerGiant has been providing high quality sticker printing services to companies for over a decade. StickerGiant is a values driven company focused on delighting customers and serving the communities their customers come from.


The WordPress Swag Store is the official source for WordPress-branded gear including t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, notebooks, and other items. Proceeds help supply free swag to WordCamps around the world.

What’s a WordCamp, you ask?

New to working with WordPress, and you’re not exactly sure what a WordCamp is? A WordCamp is a low-cost or no-cost event, usually held on a weekend where WordPress enthusiasts can get together to meet one another, and learn more about how to get the most out of WordPress.

In 2011, WordCamp San Francisco (WCSF) was one of 52 WordCamps held around the world. WordCamps are held from Austin, Texas to Auckland, New Zealand. The atmosphere is friendly and relaxed and everybody has at least one thing in common: a love of WordPress.

At WordCamp San Francisco, were were fortunate to have a great line up of speakers in 2011. The finale, each year at WCSF is the State of the Word address, where Matt Mullenweg, co-founding developer of WordPress, talks about upcoming WordPress developments and answers questions from the audience. If you didn’t get a chance to see the State of the Word last year, here’s a recording of Matt’s talk.

Looking forward to seeing you at WordCamp San Francisco, 2012!