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Make sure to grab free swag and gifts at the sponsorship tables!

WordCamp NYC is in full swing, thank you to all our sponsors for making it happen.

Be sure to stop by their booths and support them!

  • Hover is giving away a free domain.
  • Bluehost is giving away t-shirts, fidget spinners, sunglasses and a chance to win a monitor.
  • Pantheon is giving away stickers and toolsets.
  • Jetpack and WooCommerce are giving away pens, stickers and they have an iPad mini giveaway.
  • SiteGround is giving aways stickers and bookmarks.
  • BoldGrid has Tide to Go sticks and selfies with Boldie.
  • Prime Strategy New York is giving away snacks and stickers.
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Everything You Need to Know About WordCamp NYC 2017

Hello to all our attendees this year! We are excited to see you at WordCamp NYC tomorrow! To make sure everyone has everything they need, we wanted to give you a quick overview of the activities this weekend and the important facts you need to know about before the camp.

Full Address: 117 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036 (google maps link)

Schedule is up in case you have not checked it out yet.

Registration begins at 8 am and opening remarks are at 9 am on Saturday.

Lunch is at 12:30 pm on both days.

Afternoon snack breaks will be at 3:30 pm on both days.

Workshops will be running during both days. You can check out schedule to get exact times.

Kids Camp starts at 9:30 am on Saturday and ends around mid afternoon. Check out the schedule and FAQ for that if you want more info. Don’t forget to bring your own laptop and to stay with your kids throughout the day!

Contributor day will start at 9:30 am on Sunday.

Closing Remarks are at 5:45 pm on both days.

There is no official after party. Make plans accordingly with your fellow attendees during the day!

 

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Kids Camp Schedule and FAQ

9:30am: Kids Camp Welcome
10am-12:30pm: KidsCamp Morning Session
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch Break (with Parent/Guardian)
1:30-3:00pm: KidsCamp Afternoon Session
3:00-3:30pm: KidsCamp Wrap Up

Q: Do I need to bring a laptop?
A: Yes, we do not provide laptops. Tablets can also work although they are slower for many young ones (and adults) to type on.

Q: What ages are appropriate?
A: We recommend ages start at 6 or 7 (depending on your child) and onward up to 14 and above.

Q: I’ve got a question, who can i send it to?
A: Send it via our contact form.

Q: Do I need to stay with my child?
A: Yes

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Are You Ready for WordCamp NYC this Weekend?

WordCamp NYC is fastly approaching. With the camp being less than a week away, the question is: are you ready?

If you have not picked up your ticket yet, now would be the time! Tickets may run out soon and you’ll also want to get your ticket now to make sure your name is on the Badge this year.

As a reminder, we have some amazing events going on this year:

We hope you are as excited as we are! Looking forward to seeing you out there!

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Help Us Spread The Word

Now that WordCamp NYC is about a month away, we are asking the community to help us spread the word to make sure everyone in the NYC area is aware of the event. There are many ways you can help spread the word, here are a few:

Share that you are going to WordCamp NYC 2017 on Facebook

Join our facebook event page and share that you are going to the event with your friends. You can also like our facebook page!

Share that you are going to WordCamp NYC 2017 on Twitter

Follow us on twitter and tweet out the something like this:
Looking forward to going to WordCamp NYC 2017 on October 21st and 22nd! Hope to see you out there! https://2017.nyc.wordcamp.org/ #wcnyc

Display a banner on your website or other social media sites saying that you are going to WordCamp NYC 2017

If you are a speaker, share that you are speaking at WordCamp NYC with your friends by sharing this banner

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Help us put WordCamp NYC 2017 posters up

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KidsCamp Poster

Thank you all for the support and we are looking forward to seeing all of you on October 21st and 22nd at Convene!

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Third Round of WordCamp NYC Speakers

We are proud to announce the third round of speakers for WordCamp NYC 2017! Stay tuned for the full schedule!

Steve Bruner

Steve Bruner is the CEO of SlipFire, New York City based WordPress development studio established in 2007, and a partner in Piklist LLC. where he is creating the most powerful framework available for WordPress.

Zac Gordon

Zac Gordon is a professional educator, currently working on the JavaScript for WordPress Master Course. Previously, Zac taught WordPress for Treehouse. He has years of experience teaching WordPress and JavaScript at high schools, colleges, bootcamps and online learning sites. In addition to teaching, Zac also runs Web Hosting for Students, one of the world’s largest hosting companies dedicated to students and teachers.

Chris Edwards

Chris is co-owner of CE Squared, a WordPress Maintenance and Marketing agency. He is a 17-year Internet marketing veteran with experience in web design & development, search engine optimization, online marketing, social media marketing and mobile development. He specializes in WordPress custom development utilizing either Genesis Framework or underscores and is very active in the WordPress Orlando community. Chris has held development and Internet marketing positions in some of Orlando’s top technology companies.

Mikel King

Mikel is a 20+yr Technology Leader, Public Speaker, Columnist, USCG Veteran, Brewer of beer, Coffee Evangelist – Director of Customer Experience & Software Development at Trusted Media Brand home of such iconic brands as Reader’s Digest, Taste of Home, and The Family Handyman.

His personal blog: JAFDIP and tweets constantly @mikelking.

Christie Chirinos

Christie Chirinos is a Partner at Caldera Labs, a WordPress plugin company, and in charge of business development and marketing. Caldera Labs is the company led by Josh Pollock behind Caldera Forms, a leading drag-and-drop form builder for WordPress, and a handful of other free and premium plugins. Christie started making websites at the young age of 14 due to an interest in internet business, and has since launched an ecommerce site, sold on third-party marketplaces, created sites for service businesses to generate leads, and then focused in for 3 years on tech for nonprofit organizations. Now, she has gone from WordPress user to WordPress products. Christie received her Master of Business Administration degree with a specialization in information systems management from Florida State University, and is currently based out of New York City.

Josh Pollock

Josh is a WordPress developer and educator. He is Founder/ Lead Developer/ Space Astronaut Grade 3 for Caldera Labs, makers of awesome WordPress tools including Caldera Forms — a drag and drop, responsive WordPress form builder.
Also, he is a WordPress core contributor, the author of two books about WordPress development and a member of The WPCrowd.

Adam Silverstein

Adam wrote games in assembly code, and then applets and of course the obligatory CMS in Java when Netscape Navigator ruled the web – eventually embracing WordPress as his platform of choice. He is a WordPress Core committer and works on the WordPress security team. He is currently helping lead an effort to improve core JavaScript. Adam is a Lead Web Engineer at 10up where he helps make the web better by finely crafting websites & tools for content creators. Adam loves long rafting trips, playing mbira, travel, taking walks and tending his over-sized garden.

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Second Round of WordCamp NYC Speakers

We are happy to announce the second round of speakers for WordCamp NYC 2017! Stay tuned for the full schedule!

Angelica Yarde

Angelica Yarde is the co-founder of Sevenality, a brand strategy agency, located in Orlando, Florida. She is also the owner of Studio 404 Paper and co-host of the Heart + Hustle Podcast, a weekly podcast focused on giving creative entrepreneurs the tools they need to achieve with life-work balance. She has been a designer and developer for over a decade and is passionate about helping brands achieve their goals using design and user-experience based solutions. She helps out with the WordPress Orlando meetup group and the Central Florida Branding & User Experience meetup group.

Chris Rogers

I am the Co-Organizer of WordCamp Las Vegas 2017 and 2014 and Co-Organizer & Frequent Speaker of Vegas WP Meetup Group. I have a degree in MultiMedia from West Los Angeles College.
I am a professional actor with BFA in Acting & Minor in Voice from U of Louisville and started my dance training the Louisville Ballet.

Rahul Bansal

Rahul is the founder and CEO of rtCamp – only WordPress.com VIP Partner from Asia.

His WordPress journey began in 2007 when he was looking for ways to customize his blog. Later on, he moved from professional blogging to freelancing, and from freelancing to starting rtCamp in 2009.

At work, Rahul plays multiple roles, switching between sysadmin (his favorite), to sales and everything else company demands from him.

Over the years, Rahul has contributed to the WordPress community in different ways as a WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, polyglot, theme/plugins developer.

Outside of WordPress, he loves spending time with his son and is a self-proclaimed foodie.

Sam Brodie

Sam is a big proponent of the productized mentality, having built a successful productized web design business (https://jurispage.com) that was acquired for 7 figures in 2016. He now teaches about the productized service business model (http://productized.com) and has started a new business, Offsprout (https://offsprout.com), a website building platform, being built with React, specifically for web design agencies who want to build and manage their client sites faster.

Bruce Chamoff

Bruce Chamoff has been a web developer for over 21 years and has worked on over 1,000 websites. He has worked on WordPress since 2006 building themes and plugins for Fortune 500 companies as well as mom and pop shops. His Udemy courses have taught WordPress development to web designers in over 150 countries as he loves to teach!

His most recent involvement was with the Radio City Rockettes website in New York City and he is the senior director of technology and development for American Media Inc, the publisher of top gossip magazines in the US including National Enquirer, OK, Star, and Soap Opera Digest. In his spare time, he performs with this band and is a dedicated father.

Alonso Indacochea

Born in Lima, Peru and a proud East Coaster, Alonso taught English as a Second Language and spent time in the non-profit world before becoming a WordPress evangelist. Le gusta hablar en castellano y também em português. Although he misses the rain and clouds every once in a while, New Mexico, where he started a WordPress business, is his home for good. He lives with his wife, Kathleen, his energetic daughter, Josephine, toddler twin boys, Francisco and Iñigo, a neurotic dog, Rafa, and the various rabbits, quail, road runners and spiders that roam his backyard.

Pam Ann

I own an agency in NJ that specializes in SEO & PPC. We have a very strong reputation for being experts in results-driven white-hat SEO and highly-effective PPC campaigns. We recommend WordPress to almost all of our clients, and consult with developers on how to maximize its search-engine-friendliness.

Brian Rotsztein

Brian is a renaissance man whose passion and enthusiasm as an experienced digital entrepreneur has shined over the last two decades. With a unique constellation of talents, he successfully multitasks between being a CEO, Internet marketing professional, conference speaker, author, consultant, content creator, mentor, photographer, web designer, and startup founder. His highly praised book, Content Marketing Ideas, is a complete guide to content creation and maintains an influential five-star rating on Amazon. He is in demand as the head of established brands such as Uniseo.com and RedstoneX.com, President of the Canadian Internet Marketing Association, Editor-in-chief of Citynet Magazine, Founder of WordPress support and maintenance brand WP Phone Support, and Editor at The WP Crowd, among other accolades. You may have caught his many appearances on local and national news, radio shows, podcasts, and other online media as a go-to expert. Brian holds two Master’s degrees and has taught at McGill University and Boston College. Visit www.rotsztein.com and connect with him on Instagram and Twitter: @brianrotsztein

David Wank, DMD

Dr. David A. Wank is a practicing general dentist and an authority on dental website development, search engine optimization, and social media. He received his dental degree from Harvard in 2003, is an active speaker, and is the president of Short Hills Design, LLC, a WordPress-based web development and Internet marketing firm for dentists and physicians that provides solutions across North America.

Dr. Wank is the the author of the The Web Design Workbook for Dentists, an 100+ page non-technical, online guide for dentists and dental team members that explains the website development process, search engine optimization, and social media in detail.   He is the founder of the “Internet Marketing for Dentists” group on Google+ and Facebook, and maintains an active Internet Marketing blog for dentists at his website: www.shorthillsdesign.com.

Corey Maass

Corey Maass is a full-stack web developer with a love for entrepreneurship and minimum viable everything. He built his first website in 1995, his first SaaS app in 2003, and his first WordPress plugin in 2009. In 2015, after 4 years of full-time WordPress development, he combined his passions and launched his first commercial plugin, Kanban for WordPress. He currently lives in Saugerties, New York.

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First Round of WordCamp NYC Speakers

We are excited to announce the first round of speakers for WordCamp NYC 2017! Stay tuned for the full schedule!

John Eckman

After a first career as an academic, John‘s been working in professional services agencies for the last 15+ years, and as the CEO at 10up for the last 3+.

He’s been focused on open source (primarily WordPress and Drupal) since 2006, as one of the organizers of WordCamp Boston and a frequent speaker at WordCamps (US, Ann Arbor, Toronto, New York, Rhode Island, Maine, and Boston) and DrupalCamps (Montréal, Western Mass, Connecticut, Boston). He’s also presented at many conferences outside of the WordPress community: Gilbane, Confab Higher Ed, CMS Expo, etc.

He received a BA from Boston University, an MA & PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an MIS from Northeastern University.

He lives in Salem MA with his wife and dogs.

Keanan Koppenhaver

Keanan Koppenhaver is the Lead Developer at How-To Geek, one of the top 300 sites in the US, where he help the editorial team share all their awesome, geeky knowledge with the world.

He is passionate about mentoring other developers as well as teaching people that WordPress can be more than just a blogging platform.

Miriam Goldman

Miriam is a developer for a boutique digital marketing agency in Ottawa, Canada. She has been developing for over twelve years, and working with WordPress for eight.

She has spoken at WordCamp Ottawa and Montreal, and is one of the organizers for WordCamp Ottawa.

Outside of her development life, she is a black belt in karate, and also is a competitive latin ballroom dancer.

Kevin Langley Jr.

Kevin has been working with WordPress since 2010. He recently joined Human Made in mid 2017, as a WordPress Engineer. Before working with Human Made, he has worked for various agencies and had a large stint freelancing as well. Over the years, Kevin has expanded his knowledge of WordPress by working on projects ranging from small microsites to enterprise level customizations for companies such as ESPN, Disney, and BigTen Networks.

Kevin resides in sunny Orlando, FL and when not working can be found spending time with his two children, tinkering on a side project, or riding his bicycle.

Jarrett Gucci

Jarrett Gucci comes from a retail background that started at Home Depot in Buffalo NY as cashier and 18 months later was asked to be a project manager based out of Carson California with a goal of opening 12 stores in 14 months. This goal was accomplished. He has also been an area manager at Big Lots and Bed Bath and beyond. He left his very last retail career as a district manager at Linens & Things in 2007 to pursue a hobby of website development as hope he could make some money doing it. After 4 years of building and managing WordPress sites, he founded a company called WP Fix It and since 2011 his company has serviced over 54,000 WordPress support tickets. Something you may not know about Jarrett besides all this, is that when he was 15 his neighbor gave him a 1962 dodge dart and he completely took it apart and rebuilt it.

Jarrett Gucci also know in the WordPress support world as Quicksilver has the superhuman ability to troubleshoot WordPress issues at great speeds. He is a mutant that was born in darkest depths of open source with superhuman support powers. He is the product of a genetic experimentation with the goal of solving WordPress issues as fast as possible. Jarrett Gucci (cough) Quicksilver is most commonly know as the owner and founder of WP Fix It where he and his superhero team have serviced over 58,000 WordPress issues since 2009. Clap as fast as you can for Jarrett Gucci and WP Fix It.

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Dan is COO at DigitalCube, a WordPress solutions company with offices in the US and Japan. He lives and works in Philadelphia PA, home to the first WordCamp US.

His work includes building WordPress SaaS products focused on security and scalability, offering advanced security services through AWS, and providing managed web hosting support for eCommerce clients, large media organizations, and higher education.

Away from the keyboard he enjoys experimenting in the kitchen, eating everything, tasting all the beers, traveling to meet new people and helping with the family business, a pet boutique and bakery in South Philadelphia.

Juan Pablo Gomez

NYC based Web Designer. Built my first table-based site in 2004. Currently designing for FC Harlem, New York City FC. UX Design Mentor at Bloc.io

Daniel Schutzsmith

Daniel Schutzsmith is a rare breed – a hybrid of equal parts business, design, coding, and strategy – ready to change the world for the better!

As the Digital Technology Manager / Senior Web Developer for Amnesty International USA, Daniel is creating websites and mobile apps that engage supporters through great user experience design to advance human rights.

In addition to his work with AIUSA, he is also the Co-Founder of:
– Hudson Valley Tech Meetup, a monthly meetup bringing together technologists, designers, entrepreneurs and educators to share their passion and craft.
– Catskills Conf, a weekend-long event gathering of technologists and creators at The Ashokan Center in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains.

He also gives back his time by teaching our next generation of web designers at SUNY New Paltz as an Adjunct Professor. Previously he taught at NYU SCPS and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Over the past decade he has worked with clients such as Adobe, Greenpeace, The Pixies, MTV, Phish, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Oxfam, PBS, They Might Be Giants, TBS, Pepsico, Dave Matthews Band and many more.

In his free time he enjoys inspirational wanderings through the streets of NYC, single malt scotches, and evenings at the drive-in with his wife and three kids around the corner from his house in rural upstate NY.

Andrew Roberts

CEO and founder of Ephox, the company behind TinyMCE. Andrew has led the TinyMCE team’s contribution to Gutenberg – the new WordPress editor – and has been involved in Gutenberg since its inception. TinyMCE is also an important open source project in its own right with over 100,000 downloads per month.

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Kids And Parents Invited To WordCamp New York City!

WordCamp parents can now usher in the next generation of WordPress builders at our first KidsCamp! We are encouraging parents and guardians to bring their kids to WordCamp New York City! Parents and guardians can now grab a ticket (only 20 tickets available) for their children ages 6 to 14 on the ticket page. We are finalizing plans and some surprises now. Here’s what you can expect:

– On Saturday (October 20th), if your child is new to publishing on the web we will have a workshop devoted to teaching children w/ their parents how to safely and securely publish content on the web with WordPress.

– We will be devoted to introducing coding to the young ones, starting with basic concepts with the goal of allowing them to edit their WordPress site/blog.

Lunch will be provided, however if your child has a special diet please bring something just in case.

Here is a little video of what WordCamp Miami did to give you a feel for what KidsCamp will be like:

Please stay tuned for additional updates and we are looking forward to seeing you next month!

Disclaimer: Interested WordPress parents or guardians will need to have a ticket for Saturday attendance purchased before signing up their junior creators. Parents will be responsible for staying with their child during KidsCamp, but may switch guardians during the course of the day if you are both attending. Each child will need his or her own laptop to work on. We are not providing daycare services at this time.

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Check Out Some New Pictures of Our WordCamp 2017 Venue and Final Speaker Submissions Deadline Extension

As many of you know, we are having our conference at a venue called Convene in Midtown Manhattan! We thought we would go ahead and share a few more photos of the venue. See below and looking forward to seeing everyone out there on October 21st and 22nd!

Additionally, due to many requests, we have extended the speaker deadline to September 9th at midnight to account for everyones long labor day weekend. Looking forward to seeing all the amazing talks come in!

And remember, you don’t need to be an expert to submit your talk. We want to hear from all types of speakers!

WordCamp New York City is over. Check out the next edition!