Meet the Organizers: Chris Perryman

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Chris Perryman | Organizer WordCamp San Diego

Chris Perryman is the designer/developer behind Revelation Concept and founder/creative director of Mind-Blowing Things. She attended the University of Google after graduating the School of Hard Knocks where she acquired her design and development skillz. Chris was an organizer for WordCamp San Diego 2015 and is honored to be leading the team for WCSD 2016. She is an admin of the ever-growing Advanced WordPress Facebook group and co-organizer of the original San Diego AWP Meetup. She lives in San Diego North County with her husband Drew, infant son Caiden and his two crazy dog-sisters.

Chris doesn’t tweet, or respond to tweets, @RevConcept.

Call for Volunteers

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Become a volunteer at WordCamp San Diego 2016!

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The Call for Volunteers is closed for 2016. Thank you for your interest in becoming a volunteer!

Volunteers are a huge part of what makes WordCamps awesome. It’s a great way to give back to the WordPress community and also to get involved!

Benefits of being a volunteer include:

  • Being an essential part of the running of a successful WordCamp
  • Have the opportunity to meet speakers from all over the world
  • Helping to support the local WordPress community
  • Meet WordPress users and professionals from Southern California and beyond!
  • Great way to make new contacts and meet others excited about WordPress

Tasks that you may find yourself doing include:

  • Helping with registration – name badges, t-shirts
  • Handing out swag
  • Helping out at lunch time
  • Helping speakers with anything they need
  • Running audio/video in sessions, and/or helping with microphones during Q&A sessions
  • Giving directions!
  • Supporting the Help Desk/Happiness Bar

Please note, it is likely you will NOT be able to attend any speaker sessions (unless supporting speakers) or workshops on Saturday or Sunday. Please don’t apply if you simply wish to attend the WordCamp as an attendee, thanks!

Last Call for Speaker Submissions

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last-call

It’s sunset and you’re waiting for that last set to come rolling in. You see it about to take shape and come closer… Will you pass on it or make waves?

Happy New Year folks! Welcome to 2016. We hope you are feeling refreshed and ready to take on the new year. What better way than to submit a speaking topic for this year’s WordCamp San Diego 2016?

We Are Still Accepting Applications

While we have received many excellent submissions already (thanks to all those who have already submitted) we want more! It’s time to catch the wave. You have until this Friday, January 15th, 2016 as announced in our earlier speaker submission deadline post.

Click there to submit a speaking topic.

See you at the Camp! Stay tuned for information about when tickets go on sale. It’s coming soon!

Announcing the Speaker Submission Deadline

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Since we announced speaker submissions last week we have already received some really excellent speaker submission. Have you had a chance to submit yet? If not, you have some time still:

The deadline for Speakers Submissions is Friday, January 15th, 2016. 

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We understand with the holidays it may be hard to get in your submission that’s why we set the deadline for mid-January. If you feel like submitting an additional talk or two after the New Year, go ahead! The more the merrier.

We’re looking forward to your submission.

 

Call for Sponsors

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Last year, WordCamp San Diego hosted nearly 400 attendees. Sponsor support for WordCamp San Diego enables attendees to experience the event for a low cost. Being a sponsor gives you a unique opportunity to invest in the San Diego WordPress community. Letting members of our community know you support them will earn you their goodwill and provide great exposure for your brand.

WordPress has a unique community of smart, kind, and open people. The attendees are made up of web-savvy professionals who work in design, publishing, music, art, technology, education, healthcare, financial services, government… you name it! Many come from San Diego, but the event also has a worldwide audience.

This is your chance to get your brand in front of some of the brightest people in technology and help make WordCamp San Diego 2016 a success.

WCSD Call for Sponsors

Looking to Sponsor WCSD? Click here »

We have all benefited from using WordPress; now is the perfect time to give something back. We’ve created sponsorship levels to fit every budget from the multinational corporations of  to small local businesses to independent freelancers building WordPress themes for a living. Even if you are a small agency, restaurant, magazine, or an individual wanting to give back because you know that WordPress has helped you and your business, we have a support level for you.

If you would like to show your support for WordCamp San Diego sign up to be a sponsor!

If you have any questions about sponsoring the #WCSD, please contact the organizing team.

Call for Speakers

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Wanted: Awesome speakers from the local San Diego WordPress community and abroad who can communicate clearly and articulately about the world’s favorite publishing platform. Help spread your knowledge about WordPress, make new friends, accept new challenges, and enjoy beautiful Sunny San Diego at the best time of the year. Dates for this year’s camp are April 23-24, 2016 and it will be held at Liberty Station, in Point Loma – minutes away from downtown and the airport. Know WordPress? We’d love to have you apply!

Since we want to show off the local San Diego WordPress talent, preference will be given to local speakers who have not yet had a chance to present at a WordCamp. To those outside of San Diego, don’t let this discourage you! Each submission will be thoroughly read and discussed with the entire #WCSD organizing team.

WCSD 2016 Call for Speakers

WCSD 2016 Call for Speakers – Click here to apply

Announcing WordCamp San Diego 2016

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All systems go! The WordCamp San Diego 2016 organizing team is pleased to officially announce next year’s WordCamp will be held April 23-24, 2016 at NTC at Liberty Station in beautiful Point Loma, San Diego – California. This two day event will feature prominent local and nonlocal speakers, sponsors, and attendees coming together in the name of WordPress.

Make Waves

The theme for this year is “Make Waves”. Every WordPress user has the potential to leave their mark and create a significant impression whether it be by providing services, software, support, or something else that’s special and unique. The WordPress community is full of smart folks who are entrepreneurial, innovative, and disruptive. The WCSD organizing team pledges to assemble a conference that empowers you to further your diverse skillsets, meet great people, make new friends, accept new challenges, and have a lot of fun in the process. Here’s to WordCamp San Diego 2016!

Naval Training Center (NTC) at Liberty Station

This year’s event will be held at NTC at Liberty Station. Due to complications with last year’s venue we had to seek a new location and we think we’ve nailed it. Liberty Station is one of the most unique locations in San Diego and is of historical importance. The Naval Training Center trained 1.75 million sailors over the course of 74 years in use. With so many military veterans in San Diego and within the WordPress community this venue seemed to fit perfectly.

Source: http://libertystation.com/blog/ntc-memories/

Source: http://libertystation.com/blog/ntc-memories/

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The NTC at Liberty Station

The NTC at Liberty Station

Where San Diego Gets Creative

Where San Diego Gets Creative

New Website

We all like new and shiny things right? Of course we do! We hope you enjoy the new WordCamp San Diego 2016 website and we want to say thanks to our friends up north in the Los Angeles WordPress community for their help and support creating it. It may be a little bare right now, but don’t worry we’re just getting started! You can expect a lot of content leading up to the event as we continue planning and progressing towards the date.

Speakers and Sponsors

WordCamps wouldn’t be possible without the generous speakers and donations from our sponsors. We appreciate every single speaker and sponsor who has helped our Camp in year’s past. We will be seeking local and non-local Speaker and Sponsors in the coming weeks. If you’re interested and want to be first to hear we encourage you to subscribe for news and updates:

Interested in Attending?

We’re still in the process of fine tuning the event plans and tickets aren’t yet on sale. When they do go on sale we will post information on this website, on social media (WCSD Twitter and Facebook),