WordCamps are all about making connections and getting inspired to do more with WordPress. But why wait until next weekend to connect with the other WordPress enthusiasts you’ll see at Mission Bay?
Check out our new attendee forums if you’re interested in arranging Ride Shares and/or Get Togethers with other WordCamp SF attendees. If you have suggestions for other forum topics, leave a comment on this post!
WordCamp SF couldn’t happen without volunteers — they’re the backbone of every WordCamp. If you want to get more involved WordCamp SF, connect with community members, and give back to WordPress, this is a great opportunity. Whether you can pitch in for one hour or ten, we’d love to have your help.
There are a variety of roles with different time and experience requirements. Check out the list below, see what tickles your fancy, and fill out the volunteer application to let us know you’re interested. Thanks! We’re all full now.
See something you’d like to help with? Fill in the form and let us know!
Once we get a sense of who’s interested in what, our volunteer coordinators, the inimitable duo of Andy Christian and Lori McLeese, will be in touch to pin down the details. Thanks in advance!
Need a room for WCSF? We have some hotel rooms available on two of our discounted hotel blocks, where a bunch of WordPress contributors, WordCamp speakers, and WordPress community members are staying.
At The Handlery on Union Square, we have double rooms (2 queen beds) available for about $275/nt. Sharing a room with a roommate is a great way to keep costs down!
If you would rather get something cheaper, we also have some cheaper/smaller rooms at The Mosser at 4th and Mission: either private rooms with private bathroom for $199/nt, or private rooms with a shared hallway bathroom (European hotel style, not dorm room style) for $149/nt.
For any of these rooms, in order to access these rates we must include you on our rooming list so that when you call or email to make the booking you will be in the system. The rates are good between 10/24 and 10/30.
Please fill out our contact form let us know which hotel and room type you would like to reserve, and include your check-in and check-out dates (minimum of 2-3 nights, please). We’ll reply to confirm availability and provide booking information. Hurry though… once they’re gone, they’re gone! 🙂
The schedule is live! Now you can check out when your favorite speaker is on stage, and agonize about tough choices over who you’re going to see live and who you’ll catch on WordPress.tv later.
And, as promised, we have another batch of tickets on sale. One more small block of tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, October 1 at 6am Pacific time, but buy your ticket now if you can! There’s only so many WordPressers that we can squeeze into the Mission Bay Conference Center at one time.
Coming in from out of town? Having trouble finding a hotel room? We have arranged a special rate of $269 per night at the Hotel Triton (342 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108). Book your room at this reduced rate via this special link or call Alison Kuntz at 415.292.8173.
See you in October!
Wow, that was fast! Our first round of WordCamp SF tickets sold quickly… but if you didn’t get yours, don’t despair!
A final round of General Admission tickets to WordCamp San Francisco will be released when we announce the schedule, in the coming weeks. Live stream and live stream + t-shirt tickets are unlimited, and a few GA tickets may pop up unannounced as people request refunds. Subscribe to the site so you won’t miss any WordCamp SF announcements!
As mentioned in the Schedule + Format post, this year we’re rolling a couple of community events into the overall plan in addition to the traditional conference.
Monday, October 27 will be the Community Summit day. This event is aimed at active contributors to the WordPress open source project and leading community professionals, and uses an unconference discussion format to get the people heavily involved in the project talking about the issues that matter most. If you think you’ll be interested in this event, you’re in luck, because we have a whole page filled with Community Summit details!
Tuesday and Wednesday, October 28-29 will be meetup days for WordPress.org contributor teams. The organization for this chunk of the WCSF week will mostly happen within the contributor teams themselves, but we have a Contributor Team Meetups page with general information as well.
We’ll update both pages with more information as it becomes available.
As the official, annual WordPress conference, WordCamp SF has to be great and big. Organizing a great, big event gets pricey in San Francisco, which is why we depend on financial support from WordPress-based and related companies, local businesses, and even WordPress enthusiasts who’ve done well for themselves to help cover the event costs and keep ticket prices as accessible as possible. This year, we’re happy to be offering a two-day conference as well as an iteration of the 2012 WordPress Community Summit, and we depend on sponsors to help us make it all happen.
Your sponsorship will help pay for things like the venue rental, live stream, lunches and coffee, travel assistance, and commemorative t-shirts. So please — dig into your marketing budget, outreach allotment, or petty cash drawer to support the most anticipated WordCamp of the year. Check out the support levels and their associated benefits and get in touch to set up your sponsorship for WCSF 2014. Thanks!
WordCamp San Francisco needs you! We’re looking for speakers from across the WordPress community and across the web to take to the stage and share their stories. Think that’s you? Have someone in mind? Now’s the time to let us know.
We’re looking for speakers from a broad range of backgrounds to cover all aspects of WordPress, the web, writing, and beyond. We want speakers who inspire rather than instruct, speakers that send our attendees away fired up, ready to do something new and creative. Tutorials abound on the internet; the joy of a great presentation is getting to see someone in the flesh and be inspired.
Previous speakers include:
Did you attend a workshop that left you inspired, energized, and ready to take on the WordPress world? Do you have a story that will light up the WordPress community?
We’re looking for speakers from around the world and across the web. Fill in our speaker nomination and application form with details. We’ll accept speaker nominations and applications until June 30. Speaker nominations and applications are now closed!
Potential speakers who need help covering the travel costs in order to speak at WordCamp SF can apply for travel assistance.
It’s summertime, and WordCamp SF planning is heating up for the big event in October. We’re excited to be trying something new this year — in addition to the traditional conference at Mission Bay, we’ll be hosting a community summit to bring together contributors to the open source project with the WordPress professionals who are investing in the platform, as well as mini-meetups for the active contributor teams.
Saturday & Sunday, October 25-26: Our traditional 2-track conference at Mission Bay Conference Center, we’ll have sessions to inspire developers, designers, and content creators. Matt Mullenweg will give his annual State of the Word address, and we’ll incorporate workshops for people who are interested in becoming contributors to the open source project.
Monday, October 27: An iteration on the 2012 WordPress Community Summit, this will be a day of group conversations between WordPress.org contributors and WordPress professionals to build bonds, identify issues, and plan upcoming projects. This event will have separate registration as the attendance is capped based on venue capacity, which will be the Automattic Lounge.
Tuesday & Wednesday, October 28-29: WordPress.org contributor teams will have two days to work on their projects together and make plans in a face-to-face real-time environment.
