Orange County WordCamp » Sponsors

5 Lucky Attendees

Brandon — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:26:09 +0000

Thanks to Wiley (@WileyTech), publisher of all kinds of awesome WordPress books, five lucky attendees will be walking away from Orange County WordCamp with one of the fine titles shown below.

Checking in With UC Irvine

Brandon — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:39:54 +0000

Here’s a little back story on why we chose UCI as our venue.

First off, UCI wasn’t our first choice. As a graduate from Chapman University in Orange, I thought it would have been be a perfect venue for OC WordCamp. It’s small, central to Orange County and has a good community. Unfortunately, they don’t use WordPress at all internally and therefore didn’t have any sort of motivation to help us out. My wife is a UC Irvine graduate and suggested we look there.

Guess what?

It turns out that UCI is using WordPress MU to facilitate Blogs @ UCI, a blogging service for UCI faculty, staff and graduate students. I spoke with the manager of the UCI blogs, Sylvia Bass, who works in the OIT department about sponsoring the event, but due to reductions in university budgets they aren’t able to help us out. However, we were able to secure two rooms on campus that have the technology that we’d need to put on a successful event.

Today I went down to campus to drop off our deposit. OC WordCamp is right around the corner and I’m super pumped.

Much WordPress love goes out to all of the people who have already registered. There’s still tickets left, but the price is going to go up pretty soon. Don’t wait to get your tickets…and why not donate a few bucks to the cause while you’re there.

Big Time Support From John Hawkins

Brandon — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:16:20 +0000

Over the weekend I had the pleasure of attending Blogworld Expo as well as WordCamp Las Vegas. While Blogworld was fairly large, WordCamp Las Vegas was a more intimate and exclusive sub-conference I had the opportunity to talk one-on-one with some really great WordPress users and developers, including long time WordCamp Las Vegas organizer, John Hawkins of John Hawkins Unrated. John gave us the low down on how an event like this should really shape up. Needless to say, his insight was very valuable for us since it’s our first time planning an event like this. John really believes in what we’re trying to do, so he accepted our request to have him present and also decided to sponsor the event through his new venture 9seeds. We couldn’t be happier to have John on board, and I hope you feel the same.

Shopp Plugin Sponsors OC WordCamp

Brandon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:30:47 +0000

We’ve just confirmed from Jonathan Davis of Ingenesis, that he’ll be providing a few single site licenses for the popular Shopp plugin for some lucky attendees of Orange County WordCamp.