WordCamp Atlanta

Don’t worry. We are getting a fix for you to get your tickets! We held out block for you and now that the others are sold out we need to get you a link to register. Stay tuned.

We are close to posting a schedule but haven’t got it quite ready yet. In the meantime, let me give you the overview.

Registration will start both Friday and Saturday at 8:30 AM, with the Welcome and Keynote talk starting at 9 AM. The beginners workshop be two hours beginning at 10 AM. Bring your laptops, if you have one, and you can actually work on a site we will have set up for you.

We will have five simultaneous presentations throughout the two days giving people a great selection of talks for various levels of expertise and backgrounds. Each day, we will end at 5:00 PM. We have a location where there will be a happy hour both days, after a hard day at Camp!

As of today, we have officially “sold out”. Thanks everyone for signing up, it is going to be a great event. Our lists of speakers and presentations are really quite impressive. If you have not already, we encourage you to check out the speakers and sessions available.

Sorry to all of you latecomers! We knew we were going to have a full house and the tickets did fly out of here fast. We still have some tickets for some SCAD students who are just back from break. But the rest of you, don’t despair. Scurry on over to the WordCamp Birmingham site and snag one of their tickets for WordCamp Ya’ll January 14 and 15. A lot of us from Atlanta will be presenting there. And they have a lot of people who are not speaking at WordCamp Atlanta.
In fact, even if you are going to WordCamp Atl, you might also want to go to the Birmingham camp. You can’t get enough live WordPress training at these prices!

If for some reason you can’t make it and already have a ticket, please consider donating it to someone else; just contact us for information about transferring your ticket.

One of the many things I love about WordPress is the community. At our Atlanta WordPress Users Meetup we have a great group of regulars that cover all ages, all races and varied backgrounds from techies to newbies, business owners and bloggers. People come with some intrepidation having never attended a technical meetup and find a welcoming group of helpful people. You will find that same spirit of community at WordCamps. In fact, it is the norm and one of the reasons we do the whole event totally on the power of volunteers, do not want to make a profit and and keep the cost of the event affordable to most (forty bucks for two days of stellar presentations, lunches, snacks, a t-shirt and free parking. Really!!!???)

So far at WordCampAtl, we have registered a couple of people over the age of 70 and we have one boy, almost twelve years old, who is eager to learn more about WordPress. His mom asked if we had a children’s track, but I assured her that he will fit right in with the other beginners and will probably have as much or more technical ability than some people much older than himself. The curious thing is, his Mom said she is not technical at all. I am going to find out more about how he became interested in WordPress and I will let you know.

I promise in between holiday festivities, we are hard at work on our presentations and will be posting the speakers and their talks real soon.

I have been talking to a lot of people who have questioned me about whether WordCamp Atlanta will be over their heads. Rest assured beginners, we have not left you out. In fact we really want to go out of our way to make sure you get enough info to get you on the way to using WordPress.

On the morning of the first day of camp we have planned a two hour hands-on workshop for the complete novice, which will also be a great refresher for new users. So get your laptops charged up (or bring your extension cord) and be ready to take a spin through all of the basic functions to a new WordPress site. We have planned our presentations in four separate tracks throughout the two days. One track during each in time slot will feature presentations applicable to new users such as how to choose themes, the difference between pages and posts and basic search engine optimization for your content.

The presentations have been nailed down and speakers are being contacted so it won’t be long before we have the first draft of our schedule up on the site. Go ahead and get your tickets now since they are going fast and when they are gone, we won’t be able to issue more.

It is very exciting to be coming into the home stretch planning for WordCampAtl 2012. Tickets went on sale, Sponsors have been signing up, presentations and speakers are being lined up as we speak. But if you wanna really get excited watch this video from our last WordCamp. Almost got snowed out in 2010 but we have ordered better weather this year!