Would you, could you sponsor WordCamp Portland?

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WordCamp sponsors are a great bunch of people: they love WordPress and the amazing WP community and want to give back to the WordPress project.

Whether you are an individual WordPress geek, a small business running your site on WordPress, or a big business that makes a living from WordPress, we all have one thing in common: we benefit from community contributions to the WordPress project. It’s impossible to say how much we all owe WordPress, it is possible to show your appreciation.

WordCamp Portland is a volunteer-organized event that needs your support to provide great content and foster the community that helps make WordPress awesome, while keeping ticket prices affordable for all.

Please support WordCamp Portland! We have affordable sponsorship levels and accept in-kind donations of things we need to make the event awesome, like coffee and lunch and, you know, unicorns and stuff.

Call for Speakers

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Update 7/1: the deadline for speaker applications has passed. Thanks to all who submitted proposals; we’ll be in touch within a week or two.

The program for WordCamp Portland 2012 will include a mixture of pre-planned speakers along with some unconference sessions. Both will cover a variety of WordPress-related topics; anything related to WordPress is fair game for a talk. This could include sessions on blogging, content creation with WordPress, developing plugins or WordPress core, themes and design, or WordPress as a content management system.

We’re interested in a program that features speakers with a variety of experiences and backgrounds.

If you’re interested in being featured as one of our pre-planned speakers, please complete our speaker submission form. Speaker applications are due no later than June 30th. You’re welcome to submit more than one talk proposal; please complete the form for each idea.

Questions about speaking, the submission process, or the program? Contact speaker coordinator Aaron Hockley at aaron@hockleyphoto.com.

WordCamp Portland 2012: August 18 at Norse Hall

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It’s that time of year again: WordCamp is back for the 5th year running! This year we will hold WordCamp Portland on August 18th at Norse Hall in Northeast Portland.

Details on the schedule, registration, speakers, and sponsorship opportunities will be announced over the next week. In the meantime, if you’re interested in volunteering to help out drop us a note at portland@wordcamp.org.

We’re really looking forward to this year’s event. It’s going to be great and we look forward to seeing you there!