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Live stream

Niall Kennedy — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:23:54 +0000

We are streaming WordCamp San Francisco live.

Watch Matt Mullenweg, lightning talks, and Scott Rosenberg live this afternoon.

Registration is Closed

Jane Wells — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:02:45 +0000

Advanced registration is now closed. If you did not yet buy a ticket, you will be able to buy a ticket as a walk-in at the event for $60. There are a few people who were having trouble buying a ticket on the site who emailed us over the last couple of weeks. Those people will get an email from me letting them know they can buy a walk-in ticket at the advance rate since it wasn’t their fault they weren’t registered before the deadline.

Walk-in attendees can pay with cash or credit card (MasterCard, Visa, Discover, American Express) when they arrive, and will receive a receipt by email, thanks to the nifty Square payments system we’ll be using (more on that later). Walk-ins will only get a shwag bag/t-shirt if we have extras, but in the event we run out we can mail a t-shirt to any walk-ins after the event.

Don’t forget: your name badge will have your gravatar printed on it. Go to the attendees page and find your name. If you have a gray “mystery man” icon next to your name, then you need to get a gravatar or add the email address you used to register for WordCamp to your existing Gravatar.com account. If you don’t have a gravatar, don’t worry, you can always draw a picture of yourself on your name badge after you get there tomorrow!

Check-in with foursquare

Raanan Bar-Cohen — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:14:13 +0000

While attending WordCamp SF this Saturday at the Mission Bay Conference Center or the developer day on Sunday at Pier 38, we’ll have a special way for you to tell the world that you are present — a check-in using the foursquare service.

Once you arrive at one of the venues and check-in, you’ll be able to activate a special WordCamp SF foursquare badge reserved exclusively for the attendees — something your non-attending friends and family will no doubt envy for years to come.

And while checking-in, feel free to send your check-ins to twitter and use the #wcsf hashtag to get in the flow.

So happy check-ins and thanks to foursquare for working on this and showing much love to the WordPress community.

Hashtag!

Jane Wells — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:36:09 +0000

Hey kids. As you start chattering online about WordCamp SF, try to use the hashtag #wcsf. We’ve used #wordcamp in the past, but let’s face it, that takes up twice as much room in your tweets! So remember, follow us at @wordcampsf to keep up to date, and use hashtag #wcsf to contribute to the conversation. :)

A Week Away!

Jane Wells — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:19:52 +0000

WordCamp San Francisco is only a week away, yay! Sorry the blog has been low on the posting frequency…we’ve been super busy working to make this the best WordCamp yet. This week will see a flurry of posts about our speakers, their sessions, our generous sponsors, the schedule, extracurricular events, and more, so bookmark us, add us to your Google Reader, grab the feed, whatever: just find a way to stay tuned, because there’s going to be a lot of information coming to this space this week, and you don’t want to miss it!

First Speakers Announced!

Jane Wells — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:08:03 +0000

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve published the new Speakers page, which lists the speakers who have been confirmed so far for WordCamp San Francisco 2010. We’re still working out the schedule and additional speakers, but the ones we have confirmed so far should be enough to get you excited. Richard Stallman, founder of GNU (also called the father of open source)! Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic! Karl Fogel, founding developer of Subversion! Me, founder of the bestest cookies and panda raccoon! Just kidding, I felt left out for not founding something big.

Seriously, though, the lineup is going to be stellar, so keep an eye on the Speakers page. You can also sign up for email updates to get the latest WordCamp SF news delivered straight to your inbox. And if you haven’t registered yet, get your ticket now!

Registration is Open!

Jane Wells — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:02:32 +0000

Registration is open, and you can now buy your ticket for WordCamp San Francisco 2010! Early bird tickets are $40 for the first hundred people to register, and regular tickets will be $50 after the early birds are sold out. Walk-in tickets will be available for $60. This year we’re trying something new to help offset the high cost of throwing an event in San Francisco, and are offering personal sponsorships. Intended for individuals and consultants who love WordPress and are doing well, these higher priced tickets run $250, $500, and $1000, and will provide opportunities for people to sponsor the event who couldn’t provide support at corporate sponsorship levels. Whatever the cost of the ticket you choose (they’re all listed on the Tickets page), buy it now, as we’ll surely hit the venue capacity sooner rather than later. And the lineup this year? It’s going to be amaaazing.

Planning for 2010 is Underway!

Jane Wells — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:03:46 +0000

Planning for WordCamp 2010 has begun! This year’s event will be held on May 1st at the Mission Bay Conference Center, the same venue as last year. We’ll also have a developers’ unconference on May 2, since last year’s was so much fun. We’re just getting started with all the planning, so now’s the perfect time to get involved: become a sponsor, propose a session, or volunteer to help organize the event. You may also want to follow @wordcampsf on Twitter for more updates when news is announced.