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WordCamp SF 2013 was great!

We had such a good time at WordCamp this year! Want to re-live WordCamp SF 2013? You have lots of options:

Watch this and other sessions from WordCamp SF 2013 at WordPress.tv.

Recaps: 23 Posts and a Podcast

Really curious about WordCamp SF data? Check this out:

We sold 1059 general admission tickets, including micro-sponsorships and volunteers, and 863 live stream tickets.

General Admission ticket buyers were:
Locals: 33%
Out of Towners: 67%

How Do They Classify Themselves?

Type:
Everyone:
Locals:
Out of Towners:

Dev/Other*
60%
55%
61%

Designer
17%
18%
16%

Blogger
10%
14%
8%

Project Mgr
8%
7%
9%

Publisher
2%
4%
2%

SysAdmin
2%
2%
1%

Attendee Survey General Results
Attendee Survey Venue and Party Results

Accessing the WordCamp SF live stream

If you’ve purchased a live stream ticket to WordCamp SF, you’re in for a real treat! Enjoying WordCamp from the comfort of your living room, dining room table, or backyard is pretty fantastic. Haven’t bought a ticket yet? There’s still time! You can even buy a live stream ticket during the event.

The stream starts at 9am Pacific on Friday, July 26 and 8:45am Pacific on Saturday, July 27, and will be available at https://2013.sf.wordcamp.org/livestream/

You will need to enter the following information to sign in:

First Name
Last Name
E-mail address

If you’d like to join in the conversation via Twitter, the event hashtag is #wcsf. We’ll get as much hallway track content into the early Friday breaks as we can, and later in the event should have a steady supply of interviews and shenanigans.

If you miss any of the sessions on the live stream, don’t worry! All of the sessions will be recorded and posted on WordPress.tv over the coming weeks.

Enjoy the event, and we’ll see you in the stream!

Get smiley with WordCamp SF t-shirts

If WordCamp SF itself wasn’t reason enough to put a smile on your face, check out this year’s awesome t-shirt! Thanks to Tammie Lister, Marko Heijnen, and Prasath Nadarajah for lending their WordCamp panache.

Change in Saturday’s Schedule

We’re sad to announce that Andy Skelton is not able to join us for WordCamp. Mike Schroder has agreed to jump in and give an awesome talk called Magical WordPress Management using WP-CLI on Saturday at 1:30pm. Thanks, Mike!

Live stream attendees: welcome to the Hallway Track

The live stream is a great way for people all over the world to take part in WordCamp San Francisco and learn from our amazing speakers. But what about all the fun (and educational) conversations that happen between the sessions, in the hallway, or at the lunch table?

This year, we’ve recruited members of the WordPress podcasting community to roam the halls of Mission Bay Conference Center, interviewing attendees, and capturing the WordCamp experience on video. Thank you to members of the DradCast, WPTavern, and WPwatercooler for participating, and thanks to the WordPress Foundation for lending us the camera kits!

Podcasters will be uploading footage to the live stream hourly, so you’ll be privy to “hallway track” discussions throughout both days. The interviews will also be published – along with the recordings of all the sessions at WordCamp SF – on WordPress.tv.

Did the WordCamp SF live stream just get even cooler? We think so! By the way, live stream tickets are still available, with or without t-shirt.

Our final round of speakers

Check out the list of fantastic speakers and topics you’ll be able to see at WordCamp San Francisco this year:

Amy Hendrix: WordPress: It’s Made of People!
Andrew Nacin: Current User Can Watch This Talk
Beau Lebens: Taking WordPress to the Front End with O2
Eric Mann: Automated WordPress Development
Jake Goldman, Brad Williams, Shane Pearlman, and Alex King (in a panel moderated by Matt Mullenweg): Teaming Up: From Freelance to WordPress Agency
John James Jacoby: bbPress and BuddyPress: What, Where, Who, Why… and How!
Konstantin Kovshenin: What I Wish I Had Known Before Developing a WordPress Theme
Mark Jaquith: Confident Commits, Delightful Deploys
Mike Adams: Three Security Issues You Thought You’d Fixed
Natalie MacLees: Setting Up Your WordPress Site: Six Stories of Joy and Despair
Tracy Levesque: What You Don’t Know You Can Do – WordPress Development for Absolutely Everyone

Click here to see the post announcing our first round of speakers.

We couldn’t be more excited about this year’s content and are sure you’ll get a lot out of all of these talks. There are still some tickets available, so don’t delay – register for WordCamp SF today! See you all in less than one month!