Updated 11/12 @ 8:45 a.m.
WordCamp Boise kicks off this week, and we want everyone to be ready. Here are some updates regarding our venue and ways to make your WordCamp Boise experience easier and more enjoyable.
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Today, we’re very excited to announce our keynote speaker, Rachel Cherry!
Rachel (she/her) is a freelance software engineer and consultant with a focus on accessibility, Higher Education, and WordPress. She is the director of WP Campus, a community and conferences for web professionals, educators and people dedicated to the confluence of WordPress in higher education.
Rachel is an accomplished speaker, who has delivered several other WordCamp keynotes and presentations, and spoken at many other events. I personally have seen her speak a few times and I’m thrilled that she accepted our invitation to headline WordCamp Boise!
Want to know more about Rachel? Check out her speaker profile, view her WordPress.org profile, follow her on Twitter, or find out more about WP Campus.
We look forward to welcoming you to WordCamp Boise, Idaho’s first WordCamp. If you’d like, we’ve gathered a few final reminders and tips.
Continue reading “Last-minute tips for attending WordCamp Boise” →Please let our sponsors know how much their support means to you as a member of the WordPress Community. Read on to find out more about each one.
Continue reading “Spotlight: Silver Level Sponsors” →Please let our sponsors know how much their support means to you as a member of the WordPress Community. Read on to find out more about each one.
Continue reading “Spotlight: Gold Level Sponsors” →Happy to announce our third round of speakers. Their presentations will focus on everything in-depth technical talks about WordPress multisite, WP-CLI, SASS, typography, caching, content strategy, performance, and more.
AmyJune is an active contributor in the open source world. As the Open Source Community Ambassador at Kanopi Studios, AmyJune helps to ensure her team remains connected to open-source communities.
AmyJune co-organizes various open source camps and conventions throughout North America, all while helping each of the communities be more inclusive. This focus enables others to forge deep community connections that benefit the whole. As a self-described non-coder, she helps communities discover how they can contribute back in more ways than code.
In addition to her work building community connections, AmyJune is an avid geocacher, noted Volkswagen enthusiast, and eats with her elbows on the table.
Dave Ryan is an Interdisciplinary WordPress Developer at Bluehost, where he focuses on helping build WordPress and supportingthe WordPress community.
In the past Dave has worked for large publishers and
universities, scaling high-traffic WordPress sites by blending his
skills in information design, journalism and web development.
Dave lives in Phoenix, loves a good taco and will like every photo of your dog on Instagram.
Currently working as a freelance WordPress developer, Erin loves exploring the possibilities of WordPress and pushing it in new directions. When not working, you’ll find Erin spending time with her husband and five kids, playing board games or squeezing a Netflix session in.
Jeremy Felt is a web developer and co-owner of Happy Prime, a strategic web agency. He created VVV, an open-source development environment for WordPress now led by two (fantastic) lead developers. He has been contributing to WordPress for over seven years and has spent much of that time exploring multisite’s depths, problems, and possibilities.
Jeremy believes in community, sharing your work, and free and open-source software. He enjoys finding ways to solve problems in all three.
Link Porterfield is the Founding Member of epic.network who works with small business owners to lighten their technology burden by providing experienced management and guidance.
Link knows it can be overwhelming to keep up with both the rapidly changing landscape of technology in the workplace and the demanding requirements of its continual upkeep, yet it can be disastrous to ignore either. His business interests keep him immersed in those critical areas and he enjoys being able to implement that knowledge for his customers so they can focus on running their business. Link is a seasoned Linux administrator with two decades of experience in managing online services. He is enthusiastic about open source software and system integration. He is a Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider and a Xero Certified Advisor. He has been a member of the Boise WordPress MeetUp since 2016 and volunteers as a co-organizer. He can also be found serving as an Ambassador for the Caldwell Chamber of Commerce.
Mike Ebert has been developing and marketing websites for 15 years and has been using WordPress since 2009. He has been an agency founder, in-house web developer, consultant, and freelancer. Now he’s co-founder of Luhnar, a company focused on democratizing innovative cloud tech, starting with a smart CDN. When he’s not doing Internet stuff, he enjoys camping in the wilds of Idaho, board games, model rockets, and spending time with his wife and six kids.
Designer, Trekkie, animal lover, and snarky introvert, Tracy Lay is the owner of digiVisual design, a boutique design experience helping entrepreneurs level up their branding to attract their perfect-fit people. Design, when done right, does a lot more than look great. Design conveys meaning on a deep, wordless level, and leads the people you’re dying to work with on a journey from curious to customer to raving fan. With 20+ years of professional experience in design, Tracy has helped all kinds of business owners uplevel their brand presence and do better business with great design.
The countdown has begun!
If you haven’t yet, please register by noon on Thursday, November 7. This is the deadline for getting in food orders to our catering services.
We would gladly welcome a few more volunteers. Technical knowledge is not necessary. If you’d be willing to help, head over to our website to learn more and sign up to volunteer.
And lastly, just a head’s up that we’re putting together an attendee guide and will be emailing that out in advance of the event. It will include info on parking, location, After Party details, etc.
Just a friendly reminder that ticket sales end next week on Friday. There are less than 40 remaining, so if you’re planning to attend but don’t have a ticket yet, giddy-up!
Continue reading “Sponsor Spotlight: Bluehost” →Thank you, Bluehost! As another one of our Platinum sponsors, they’re contributing greatly to the success of the event and we’re grateful for their support.
We invite you to get connected with others attending WordPress Boise before, during and after the event. You can find us on:
Continue reading “Sponsor Spotlight: Jetpack” →We’d like to thank Jetpack! As one of our Platinum sponsors, they’re contributing greatly to the success of the event and we’re grateful for their support.
Continue reading “Sponsor Spotlight: WooCommerce” →Thank you, WooCommerce! As another one of our Platinum sponsors, they’re contributing greatly to the success of the event and we’re grateful for their support.
We’d like to give shout out to our second round of speakers. Their presentations will focus on everything in-depth technical talks about “how WordPress works” to building businesses around WordPress, content strategy, performance, marketing, and more.
Ticket sales for WordCamp Boise are now open. We can’t wait for you to join us, November 15-16, 2019, at Boise State University. Tickets are $40, and they cover 2+ days of programming including but not limited to:
Continue reading “Sponsor Spotlight: Liquid Web” →Thank you, Liquid Web! As another one of our Platinum sponsors, they’re contributing greatly to the success of the event and we’re grateful for their support.
The moment many of you have been waiting for is here. The WordCamp Boise Schedule that contains full descriptions of sessions is now available.
On Thursday, Nov. 14, the day before WordCamp Boise “officially” starts, we’ll have a beginner workshop about creating a website without code. And then WordCamp Boise kicks off on Friday, Nov. 15, with two full days of sessions, networking opportunities, and more.
Ticket sales are coming soon… we promise!
We’d like to give a warm welcome to our first round of speakers. Their presentations will focus on everything from navigation design to the business case for accessibility to WordPress security, and more.
We’d like to thank Boise State! As one of our Platinum sponsors, they’re contributing greatly to the success of the event and we’re grateful for their support.
Our metropolitan campus runs along the banks of the Boise River, just a quick walk from the heart of Idaho’s largest city. We are home to more than 25,000 students from every state and more than 60 foreign countries. Our campus is growing right alongside our city, with new, state-of-the art research labs, living and dining spaces, and a brand new high-tech home for visual arts.
Our public web presence Boisestate.edu runs on WordPress Multisite with over 1200 users across nearly 500 sites. To learn more about our 2018 web redesign see A New .EDU
Boise State University is proud to support WordCamp Boise 2019.
As I write this, we’re confirming our speaker lineup and the schedule is almost ready to be released. We’re excited for this amazing group of people to share their knowledge with all our WordCamp Boise attendees.
Tickets will go on sale tentatively Oct. 1. The total cost for the two-day event is $40. (A huge shoutout to our sponsors for help making this possible.)
We are looking for non-technical and technical help. Learn more in our call for volunteers blog post.
WordCamp Boise’s success will be in large part due to the help of all our community members! We are looking for non-technical and technical help. Let us know how you’d like to help.
Volunteer opportunities include:
WordCamp Boise 2019 is over. Check out the next edition!