WordCamp NYC 2010

You may have heard these dates bounced around on twitter, but here is the official announcement: WordCamp NYC 2010 will be held October 16-17 at Baruch College. We are very happy to be returning to last year’s venue, and are starting to work on the plan for the event. One of the main issues reported by attendees last year was that they felt it was difficult to choose sessions because there were so many good things going on at the same time. Now, let’s face it, that’s a great problem for a conference to have, but we do want to make it more relaxed than last year, and have a greater emphasis on local attendees. Coincidentally, BlogWorldExpo is the same weekend in Las Vegas, which means a lot of people who might have flown in to attend will not be there. There’s also an Open Source conference in PA that weekend. We see this as a positive, because it forces us to look more closely at local WordPress practitioners who have something to share, rather than automatically defaulting to the names that pop up on the WordCamp circuit all the time. Our goal is to have a mix. So! What next?

• Registration will open in mid-September, giving us a month to sell tickets. Ticket prices will probably be similar to last year.
• Speakers will be assembled from near and far. If you’re interested in speaking, start putting together your pitch. We’ll be taking speaker applications starting later this week, and will announce it here.
• Volunteers are the heart of any WordCamp, and we learned last year that we need more of them! If you want to volunteer, start thinking about your time commitments, talents, and what you’re willing to do over the course of that weekend and the weeks leading up to it. We’ll be taking volunteer applications later this  week, too.

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We use the hashtag #wcnyc, and when talking about WordCamp NYC, you should too.
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