WordCamp SF is less than 3 days away, wow! Seems like we\u2019ve been waiting for this weekend forever, and excitement among the organizing team is at a peak.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve made our lists and checked everything twice: badges, check. T-shirts, check. Lunch, check. But what we\u2019ve also counted was over 50 unclaimed ticket purchases, yikes!<\/p>\n
What\u2019s an unclaimed ticket, you ask? Well, this year we introduced a registration flow that tied your WordCamp ticket purchase to\u00a0 wordpress.org profiles. It\u2019s been so cool to see all the WordPress.org profiles showing who\u2019s bought tickets to WordCamp SF! An unclaimed\u00a0ticket is one that was purchased but left blank of any registration info like name, t-shirt size, meal preference, and wordpress.org username — in short, all the information we need to know that it’s a real person and not a ticket squatter. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
We ended up with a lot more unclaimed tickets than we thought we would, even after we emailed people a bunch of times with requests to confirm their ticket purchases (like before we ordered event badges and t-shirts). Next year we\u2019ll build in some kind of automatic notices and returns, but in the meantime, we have to call time on this year’s registration.<\/p>\n
Because we\u2019re not sure if the people holding tickets with the name “Unknown Attendee” plan to attend WordCamp SF or not, and because hunting down the purchasers of over 50 unclaimed\u00a0tickets at registration is going to make registration for the other 1000ish attendees pretty painful, we\u2019re now going to refund all of those unclaimed\u00a0tickets, removing them from our registration lists.<\/p>\n
To be clear, this only affects you if your name was never even on a ticket. Only tickets with the name “Unknown Attendee” will be cancelled and refunded.<\/p>\n
If you have been holding on to an unclaimed\u00a0ticket and you DO plan to attend WordCamp SF, don\u2019t freak out! We\u2019ll be selling walk-in tickets at the door (and hand-writing name badges), so you won\u2019t miss out on all the fun.<\/p>\n
Can\u2019t wait to see you all on Saturday morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WordCamp SF is less than 3 days away, wow! Seems like we\u2019ve been waiting for this weekend forever, and excitement among the organizing team is at a peak. We\u2019ve made our lists and checked everything twice: badges, check. T-shirts, check. Lunch, check. But what we\u2019ve also counted was over 50 unclaimed ticket purchases, yikes! What\u2019s … Continue reading Unclaimed WordCamp tickets to be removed today<\/span>