We will be in attendance at the 2012 WordCamp SLC on September 22nd. I will be presenting on WordPress theme development and Event Espresso are one of the official sponsors for the event. Seth and Garth will also be in attendance. Be sure to come find us and say hi! If you are planning to be in town (or nearby), and you haven’t registered for SLC WordCamp, do it today!
Seth will be at WordCamp San Francisco this weekend. Make sure to say “hi” if you see him! You can also find him on Twitter at @sethshoultes and @EventEspresso.
We are pleased to announce that we are sponsoring the WordCamp Developers conference May 5th at the SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver British Columbia. In addition to purchasing a “Silver Sponsorship,” Event Espresso is supporting this conference by donating the Event Espresso WordPress plugin which they are using for the event ticketing/registration and to accept donations.
We will likely be offering special discounts and offers to those who are turning into WordCamp Developers (#wcdev, not sure if that is the official Twitter handle). Follow Event Espresso on Twitter to get the latest news and offers related to WordCamps.
We are very excited help WordCamp Orange County possible by being a “Stoked” sponsor. WordCamp Orange County (#wcoc) is already sold out but we’d love you to stay tuned for news and special offers going on during this event. The organizers of WordCamp Orange County are Event Espresso Users, and we even know them personally from the Las Vegas WordCamp in 2010. Checkout their nice introduction of Event Espresso as a “Stoked” sponsor.
This is our 3rd WordCamp sponsorship in the past year! I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. So I am truly honored to be a part of WordCamp Phoenix.
In 2011, WordCamp Phoenix will be a multi-day event held all over Greater Phoenix, including free workshops, a full-day conference with four tracks, a day just for WordPress developers and networking opportunities for all.
WordCamp is organized and run by unpaid volunteers, underwritten by sponsors, and profit free. Remaining funds are donated to local charities. Since I am coming a little to the game, our sponsorship funds are going directly to one of the local charities.
Follow all the happenings of WordCamp Phoenix on Twitter via the #wcph hash tag. We’ll see you there…and follow us on Twitter to watch for discount to WordCamp Phoenix attendees.
The Event Espresso team is excited to be a part of WordCamp Las Vegas 2010 (follow on Twitter: @lvwordcamp #wclv,). This will be our second WordCamp sponsorship after we sponsored WordCamp Utah, right here in our hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah. We enjoyed networking with everyone at WordCamp Utah so much, that we decided to do it again in Vegas.
Be sure to follow us on Twitter or join our WordCamp Las Vegas Twitter list of attendees and be online during the event. One special Twitter follower will walk away with a free download of Event Espresso to use on their site (or a clients) WordPress installation.
Can’t wait until WCLV for a chance to get your hands on the premium version of the plugin for free? Use the coupon code LVWORDCAMP to get $20 off! Hurry the code is limited to the first 10 uses.
Keep the Cash Campaign
This weekend we had the opportunity of attending WordCamp Utah. For those who haven’t attended a WordCamp, it’s a great opportunity to be inspired by and network with skilled developers, writers, webmasters, and entrepreneurs. We even had a town hall meeting with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and a live presentation from Will it Blend, yeah, seriously! Needless to say, we had a great time.
Even though we had a great time at WordCamp, there was a $30,000 problem that really bothered us. Each of the 153 attendees had to pay an additional $1.49 to cover the cost of registering for WordCamp through Eventbrite. With all the plugin development around WordPress, why would WordCamp not use Event Espresso to manage their events? Event Espresso only costs $59.95 for unlimited events, and no fee per registrant (compare that to $1.49 per registrant with Eventbrite). WordCamp could either use that $1.49 for cool WordCamp things, or they could give us all a discount.
There have been or will be 136 WordCamps in 2010 and if, on average, each WordCamp gets about the same number of attendees as WordCamp Utah, attendees could collectively pay $30,396 just to register for WordCamps! That could fund the development of a sweet new feature or theme or be used to publicize WordPress as a CMS. Developers can help their clients save more money too by using Event Espresso.
To help make WordCamp better, and save a lot of cash, we have decided to donate our event manager plugin, Event Espresso, to every WordCamp site. We do not want to see all that money go toward just registration fees – we’d like to see WordCamp use that money to make it better or let us all keep the cash. We’re here to help you manager your events better, so if you’re in charge of planning or hosting a WordCamp, contact us to get your free event manager plugin.
You too should make more money from your events, or make them more affordable with Event Espresso.
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We our proud to be a sponsor of WordCamp Utah 2010!
What is WordCamp?
WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people. Read more…
Since Bluehost is providing lunch for everyone and Nametag.com is supplying the badge holders and lanyards. We figured we could help out with a few extra refreshments in addition to the small cash contribution we already made.
We would also like to give a very special shout out to Joseph Scott and his team for bringing WordCamp back to the great state of Utah! Not only did Joseph and his team bring WordCamp back to Utah after two long years without it. They have managed to round up a great group of speakers, which includes the founding developer of the WordPress project himself – Matt Mullenweg as the keynote speaker.