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That’s a Wrap

Thanks for coming to WordCamp SF. We hope you had a wonderful time!

In a few more days we’ll have collected all the recaps and links to the videos so we can post a proper wrap-up. But in the meantime, we sure would be grateful for your feedback. We have two surveys for you here: one for the WordCamp itself, and a separate one just to rate our speakers and give them some valuable input.

Thanks in advance!

Unclaimed WordCamp tickets to be removed today

WordCamp SF is less than 3 days away, wow! Seems like we’ve been waiting for this weekend forever, and excitement among the organizing team is at a peak.

We’ve made our lists and checked everything twice: badges, check. T-shirts, check. Lunch, check. But what we’ve also counted was over 50 unclaimed ticket purchases, yikes!

What’s an unclaimed ticket, you ask? Well, this year we introduced a registration flow that tied your WordCamp ticket purchase to  wordpress.org profiles. It’s been so cool to see all the WordPress.org profiles showing who’s bought tickets to WordCamp SF! An unclaimed ticket 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. 🙂

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’ll build in some kind of automatic notices and returns, but in the meantime, we have to call time on this year’s registration.

Because we’re 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 tickets at registration is going to make registration for the other 1000ish attendees pretty painful, we’re now going to refund all of those unclaimed tickets, removing them from our registration lists.

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.

If you have been holding on to an unclaimed ticket and you DO plan to attend WordCamp SF, don’t freak out! We’ll be selling walk-in tickets at the door (and hand-writing name badges), so you won’t miss out on all the fun.

Can’t wait to see you all on Saturday morning!

What’s for lunch?

Your general admission ticket not only gets you in to Mission Bay Conference Center for two days of inspiring WordPress talks, it also gets you a swanky conference t-shirt and lunch on Saturday and Sunday!

If you have food allergies, dietary restrictions, or just a healthy appetite, you might be wondering what will be served at the buffet tables this weekend. Luckily for you, we’ve posted the lunch menus — including ingredients lists for each dish.

We’ve done our best to create meal options that will mean delicious dining for every attendee at WordCamp SF, regardless of allergies or special diets, but we can’t provide specialized single meals. If you’re unable to eat anything that we’re planning to serve, please plan to arrange your own lunch.  If you have a question about our lunch menu and ingredients list, please fill out the contact form to ask!

Final speaker announcement

We kept a few surprises up our sleeves for the schedule next weekend. Please welcome our final round of speakers!

  • Pamela Bey is the founder of Be Brilliant Media, a web design and tech curriculum development agency. She is a WordPress trainer, UX designer, and mentor for women and children.
  • Jen Mylo (formerly Jane Wells) is a community organizer for the WordPress open source project; prior to this she spent four years as the UX lead and project manager of WordPress core.
  • Jeff Veen is the Vice President of Product Design for Adobe and the co-founder of Typekit.

Refunds close Monday at noon

If your plans to attend WordCamp SF have changed, you have until Monday at noon Pacific to request a refund for your WordCamp SF ticket. (We have to give the venue a final count on lunch on Tuesday.) You can request a refund up until noon on Monday by clicking on the URL in the email we sent you when you bought your ticket.

Thank you Civic Center Sponsors

We’re so grateful for the support of our Civic Center sponsor!

YIKES, Inc.

YIKES, Inc. is a web design and development company located in the vibrant Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia. YIKES specializes in custom WordPress theme and plugin development, site maintenance, eCommerce and more.

Thank you Washington Square Sponsors

WordCamp San Francisco wouldn’t be possible without the generous contributions from companies like our Washington Square sponsors. Thank you! Thank you!

Amimoto

AMIMOTO greatly simplifies the development and management of WordPress hosting, allowing you to start developing your WordPress as soon as the AMI is launched onto Amazon EC2.

Manage WP

ManageWP is a WordPress management service, designed for WordPress users by WordPress users.

Stream

Developed and supported by the folks at X-Team WP, Stream is a service that tracks every change made by logged-in users.

Thank you to our Telegraph Hill Sponsors

Helping WordPress enthusiasts connect and get inspired to do more with WordPress is what WordCamp is all about, and without our sponsors we just couldn’t make that happen. Please join us in thanking our Telegraph Hill sponsors!

WooThemes

Started in 2008 as 3 WordPress enthusiasts who met online, from 3 different countries, WooThemes is now an international team of designers, developers and support ninjas catering for a passionate community of hundreds of thousands of users.

WP Engine

WP Engine is a leading SaaS content management platform for websites and applications built on WordPress. The company powers thousands of websites and apps built on the WordPress platform delivering a fast, reliable and secure web experience. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has offices in San Francisco, California.

Flywheel

Flywheel is a managed WordPress hosting platform built specifically for designers and creative agencies. Flywheel can make it simple to build, launch, and manage client sites with its easy-to-use dashboard built from the ground up for the modern web designer.

InMotion Hosting

InMotion Hosting was established in 2001 and currently serves over 250,000 websites with customers all over the world. They currently offer shared, VPS, reseller, dedicated, and commercial class servers and focus on tuning their servers to have an optimal WordPress experience.

Thank you to our Coit Tower Sponsors

A huge thanks to our Coit Tower sponsors 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.

DreamHost

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DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites and apps hosted. The company offers a wide spectrum of Web hosting and cloud services including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects, and the cloud computing service DreamCompute.

SiteGround

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SiteGround, with its 10th year in business in 2014, provides WordPress hosting designed not to 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 and GIT integration for the coders and unique WordPress autoinstaller for the starting users – all crafted in-house by the SiteGround team.

MailChimp

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More than 6 million people use MailChimp to create, send, and track email newsletters. Whether you’re self-employed, you manage projects for clients, or you work for a Fortune 500 company, MailChimp has features and integrations that could suit your email marketing needs.

Parallels

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Parallels, a leading hosting and cloud services enablement provider, offers the new Parallels Plesk 12, web management tools, featuring a powerful new security core, a full-featured WordPress Toolkit and four distinct editions of the software designed to deliver targeted functionality to web professionals, web administrators, application developers and resellers.

Special accommodations for WordCamp SF

Can you believe WordCamp is less than 10 days away? We’re so excited!

I hate to say it, but back in September we were so eager to get tickets on sale that we completely forgot to ask whether general admission attendees needed special accommodations to participate in WordCamp SF. We’re committed to providing access to every attendee, but we need to make any special arrangements by the end of this week if they’re needed.

Please fill out this contact form by Friday if you need special accommodations to participate in WordCamp SF, and thanks! We can’t wait to see you on October 25.