X-Team is holding it down for the Dolores Park Sponsors, they really are superheros!  We are so lucky to have them representing at WordCamp San Francisco in just 14 days!

X-Team is a revolutionary league of web superheroes formed in Melbourne in 2004. Since then, we have rapidly expanded to USA, Canada, Europe and Asia, working with some of the worlds most loved and respected brands. We have teams stretching around the globe specializing in many areas, including world-class enterprise WordPress development. If you believe you have what it takes to join our internationally-distributed WordPress team whose culture is built around passion and which thrives because of our innovative collaborative community, then become an integral part of helping to shape the future of the web. We want to speak with you!

You will find the X-Team superheros hanging out at WCSF, so be sure to say hello!

A huge thanks to CodePoet and Media Temple for all of their support in making WordCamp San Francisco the awesome event that it is! We are counting down the days, and looking forward to seeing you all there.

If you use WordPress to build things for other people, we want to make your life easier. No matter whether you freelance on a solo basis, lead a small web shop, make plugins in a dark closet, or crack the whip at a large design firm, our aim is to become your go-to source of information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and know-how. To make you better at what you do. To make it easier to make your living and look great doing it.

You’re part of a tribe of WordPress designers and developers over 10,000 strong, spanning the entire globe. CodePoet.com aims to bring the working knowledge and real world strategies of those people into one place, for you tap into.

Media Temple is a web hosting and cloud services provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, they have provided businesses and consumers around the world with professional-class service to host websites, applications, virtual servers, email, and other rich internet content. Their infrastructure serves approximately 100,000 customers and over 1 million websites in top-tier datacenters on the east and west coasts of the United States.

Media Temple staff will be onsite in the lobby of WordCamp San Francisco to answer all your hosting questions. Please stop by the Code Poet “corner” in the upstairs lobby for more information on Code Poet.

WordCamp San Francisco wouldn’t be possible without the generous contributions from sponsors like InMotion Hosting and SiteGround. They will have representatives onsite in the lobby of WordCamp San Francisco to share information about their hosting services. Stop by their tables to learn all about their offerings.

At InMotion Hosting, we understand business – not just e-business. We have stood behind this statement since our inception in 2001 and have been rewarded by a loyal – and growing – customer base.

Our web hosting network is based on the fast and reliable Linux and Unix operating systems. It is monitored 24/7 for any unusual activity and bench-marked continuously for performance. This allows us to immediately respond to short term issues as well as grow our system optimally – keeping it broadband ready and economical at all times. Staying true to this technology and concept has allowed us to offer domain name registration and web hosting that consistently outperforms our competitors – in reliability, speed, and economy.

SiteGround, with over 9 years in the business, provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 3 different data centers across the world, are optimized for ultimate WordPress speed and security and they provide many goodies for the WordPress fans – automatic updates for the core WordPress and its plugins, WordPress SuperCacher for ultimate speed acceleration, staging tool for the coders and unique WordPress autoinstaller for the starting users – all crafted in-house by the SiteGround team. And still they do not forget the importance of the good old standard hosting features like the domain name registration, the email service, control panel and the reasonable pricing. They also have a support team that is not only available 24/7 by phone, chat and ticketing, but consists of WordPress enthusiasts who will help you with specific WordPress issues.

We are so grateful for their support and excited to bring you a fantastic WordCamp this year! See you all in just two weeks!

The WCSF lineup is taking shape: say hello to our first round of speakers!

We’ll be announcing more speakers over the next few weeks, but these WordPress whizzes are confirmed for WordCamp San Francisco 2013. Whether you’re a themer, mobile engineer, hopeful core contributor, one-person (or 100-person) WordPress shop, pro blogger, or just registered your first site, their sessions will take your WordPress skills from awesome to awesomer.

• Alison Barrett: Actions and Filters in Core
• Andy Skelton: How pcntl_fork() Can Save Us
• Carrie Dils: Collaboration Not Competition
• Grant Landram: Bridging the Chasm: Working with Non-Technical Stakeholders
• Helen Hou-Sandi: Custom Tailoring the WordPress Admin Experience
• Ian Stewart: The Future of WordPress Themes
• Josh Broton: Sticks, Spit & Duct tape: Advanced RWD Layout Techniques
• Lucy Beer: How to Trick Out Your WordPress Site Without a Lick o’ Code
• Michele Mizejewski: Positive User Experience: The Power of P2
• Mika Epstein: Don’t Use WordPress Multisite
• Nikolay Bachiyski: Writing Code as User Experience Design
• Shannon Smith: Big in Japan: A Guide for Themes and Internationalization
• Siobhan McKeown: The History of WordPress
• Stephanie Leary: Content Strategy for WordPress
• Tammie Lister: Beyond the Default – Explorations and Experiments in BuddyPress
• Will Norris: How WordPress Helped Me Learn Android Development

And of course, Matt Mullenweg will give his annual State of the Word talk — your chance to learn about what’s next for WordPress and ask questions at the source.

We’ll be posting more information about each of these speakers and their sessions in the next few days, with more confirmed speakers coming next week. Get excited! (We are.)

Still haven’t decided whether you’re attending? There are still a few General Admission tickets left; snag yours today.

Seems like you’re just as excited as we are — our General Admission tickets sold out even more quickly than we’d anticipated. But if you’ve been on the fence, there’s still a chance to get your ticket to WCSF!

We crunched some numbers and are making 200 additional General Admission tickets available. They’re available as of right now, so head over to the ticketing page to get yours today.

Once these tickets are gone, they’re gone. We won’t be releasing any more General Admission tickets — we can only accommodate so many people before we all get too close for comfort!

Seats for the live stream are still available, as are microsponsorships, but this is your last call for General Admission. Get ‘em while the getting’s good!

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: WordCamp San Francisco tickets are now on sale!

Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. You already have WordCamp San Francisco on your calendar (right?) so buying your ticket is just a formality (but a necessary one!).

There are two types of tickets available: General Admission and Live Stream.

• The General Admission ticket ($40) gets you access to all the fabulous sessions at WordCamp San Francisco at Mission Bay Conference Center, two days of lunches and snacks, and a super-cool WCSF T-shirt.
• The Live Stream ticket ($20 with a T-shirt, $10 without) lets you enjoy the conference online from wherever you are in the world. You supply the internet, we supply the sessions.

$200 microsponsorships are also available for showing some extra WordPress love, and include one General Admission ticket.

Click here to get your tickets for WordCamp San Francisco. You can also click the orange “tickets” button above, or the “tickets” tab on the top menu.

WordCamp San Francisco happens Friday, July 26 and Saturday, July 27, 2013 at Mission Bay Conference Center, with Contribute Day on Sunday, July 28. Tickets are non-refundable — and limited, so buy yours today!

Don’t forget WordCamp San Francisco tickets go on sale this Thursday, May 23, at 10am Pacific! We’ll be releasing 700 General Admission tickets — valid for attending WordCamp San Francisco in person for both days, Friday and Saturday (July 26-27). In addition to the General Admission tickets we will be offering 50 Microsponsorship tickets. Microsponsorship is a new sponsorship level for those in the WordPress community who want to give back a little something but aren’t in a position to sign up for a traditional sponsorship package. Microsponsorship includes one General Admission ticket.

Tickets are $40 for the 2-day General Admission pass and $200 for the Microsponsorship. We will not be offering single day passes. Please note that we can not offer refunds at this time. If you find after purchasing your ticket that you won’t be able to attend after all, you can give your ticket to someone else or consider the expense a donation to the WordPress Foundation.

Tickets will be sold right here, on sf.wordcamp.org/2013.

If you can’t be with us in person, you can be with us in spirit via the live stream. Live stream access can be purchased with, or without, a WCSF 2013 shirt. Live stream access is $20 for the whole event including the shirt or $10 for the whole event without the shirt. Please note that shirts are sent out a couple weeks after the event.

Also if you want to gain some good karma points you can still sign up to be a WordCamp San Francisco Volunteer –  click here for more details.

Thank you again to those of you who submitted speaker applications and nominations. Speaker applications are still being reviewed and we’ll release more details on speakers and program as soon as we are able.

Do you want to get the very most out of your WordCamp San Francisco experience, see how it looks from “the inside,” and be part of an amazing team of people making it a success? Then you should sign up to one of the revered rockstars better known as WordCamp San Francisco Volunteers!

There are a variety of volunteer opportunities, each with different time commitments, experience requirements, and logistics. There are only two requirements for ALL volunteers, regardless of the job or duration: be reliable and be friendly. If that sounds like you, fill out the volunteer application form to express your interest in volunteering and our fabulous volunteer coordinator, Cat Rymer, will get back to you to discuss making it happen.

Want to know more about what you’d actually be doing as a volunteer? Check out the list below to see more details about the different volunteer opportunities:

Registration – Check in registered attendees and hand out name tags. Being really awesome with alphabetical order helps here.

Happiness Bar – Help other WordPress users with their sites. Only available to volunteers with demonstrated WordPress prowess.

Room Runners – Work with the emcees, video people, speakers, and everyone else working in the room to keep things running smoothly. Make sure there’s water for speakers, and provide support as needed for other event staff.

Casual Runners – Handle the unexpected things that always seem to happen at events.

Time Keepers – Keep things running on time. Always have one eye on the clock and give speakers a heads up when they are down to 10 and 5 minutes, and let them know when their time is up.

Green Room Guards – Watch over a safe place for speakers and volunteers to leave their stuff while they run around. We need people to sit outside of these rooms (maybe an hour or two at a time?) to guard everyone’s stuff.

Airport Pickups – Pickup speakers from the airport and take them to their hotels or local lodging. These volunteers must have reliable cars, insurance, and safe driving practices.

Pre-event Prep – Help out with some of tasks that need to happen in the days leading up to WordCamp San Francisco.

Miscellaneous Prep – Dole out random assistance here and there, as needed – running errands, etc.

So there you have it! A volunteer opportunity for everyone. Now head on over to the volunteer form and let us know how you want to help! Expect an email/phone call to determine the best use of your personal expertise. And thank you in advance for helping to make WordCamp San Francisco awesome!

Sponsors are awesome! They make WordCamps possible.

Our Golden Gate Park sponsors for WordCamp San Francisco are Bluehost and DreamHost. The Golden Gate Park sponsors are two beautiful, talented, stellar, stylish, and service-minded organizations that help make WordCamp SF a success.

Allow us to thank them both below!

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. To achieve these goals they’re constantly innovating and upgrading their services at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.

DreamHost is WordPress-optimized web hosting. DreamHost proudly hosts more than 500,000 sites running WordPress at their core. From bloggers to businesses, WordPress is the Swiss Army knife of web apps. They’ll install it, keep your install up-to-date, and keep you online.

Aren’t they just marvelous?

As a lot of planning and fundraising goes into making WordCamp San Francisco an awesome event for everyone who participates – whether in person or via the live stream! The event just wouldn’t be the same without the generosity of the Golden Gate Park Sponsors!

There’s still time to help make WordCamp San Francisco stupendous by sponsoring the event! Visit the sponsorships page to learn more about the great opportunities, and to boost your WordCamp karma!

Mark your calendars! Ticket sales for WordCamp San Francisco 2013 will open on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 10am Pacific. The link to purchase tickets will be here on the WCSF 2013 website.

We’ll be releasing 700 General Admission tickets — valid for attending WCSF in person for both days, Friday and Saturday (July 26-27). In addition to the General Admission tickets we will be offering 50 Microsponsorship tickets. Microsponsorship is something we are offering for the those WordPress fans who want to give back a little something but aren’t in a position to sign up for a traditional sponsorship package.

Registration fees will be $40 for the 2-day General Admisson tickets and $200 for the Microsponsorship ticket. We will not be offering single day passes. Please note that we can not offer refunds at this time. If you find after purchasing your ticket that you won’t be able to attend after all, you can give your ticket to someone else or just consider the expense a donation to the WordPress Foundation.

If you are unable to come to San Francisco for the conference but would like to watch from your house (with or without a mouse), on a train, in a tree, in a car, or on a boat¹ or anywhere else you have wifi, you can purchase access to the live stream. Live stream access can be purchased with, or without, a WCSF 2013 shirt. Live stream access is $20 for the whole event including the shirt and $10 for the whole event without the shirt. Please note that shirts are sent out a couple weeks after the event.

¹ We do not recommend viewing the WCSF livestream in the rain. Goats and foxes not provided by WCSF.