We are pleased to announce that Shopp, the popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress, is a Silver Sponsor of WordCamp Raleigh.

Shopp is a great e-commerce plugin that adds a sophisticated online storefront and transaction engine to your WordPress-powered blog or website. It features powerfully simple store management, a robust set of development APIs to extend and customize every aspect of the shopping process, and support for many payment gateway services including PayPal, Google Checkout and 2Checkout.

I’d like to thank Shopp for their continued support of WordCamp.

WordCamp Raleigh is pleased to announce the addition of Margaret Roach as a Silver Sponsor. Margaret Roach is a blogger and author whose career has included positions at The New York Times, Newsday, and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where for many years she was Executive Vice President/Editorial Director. Her anticipated memoir about walking away from the fast lane for a dirt-road rural life is due in February 2011 from Grand Central Publishing. Margaret is a big supporter of the WordPress community and of WordCamps. Her current projects include A Way to Garden and The Sister Project. Find her also at MargaretRoach.com.

I would like to thank Margaret for her continued support and generosity to the WordPress community. Please visit Margaret’s various sites to learn more about the projects she is involved in.

WordCamp Raleigh is pleased to announce the addition of Margaret Roach as a Silver Sponsor. Margaret Roach is a blogger and author whose career has included positions at The New York Times, Newsday, and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where for many years she was Executive Vice President/Editorial Director. Her anticipated memoir about walking away from the fast lane for a dirt-road rural life is due in February 2011 from Grand Central Publishing. Margaret is a big supporter of the WordPress community and of WordCamps. Her current projects include A Way to Garden and The Sister Project. Find her also at MargaretRoach.com.

I would like to thank Margaret for her continued support and generosity to the WordPress community. Please visit Margaret’s various sites to learn more about the projects she is involved in.

You may be asking yourself “who did that great logo for WordCamp Raleigh?” Well that would be the creative geniuses at Paper Pixel Arts. I met the ladies from Paper Pixel Arts at WordCamp Boston back in January where we discussed some of the great design work they had done. I was impressed with their ideas and with their commitment to our event. They have produced some great designs for us and I encourage you to check out their website at http://www.paperpixelarts.com/.

Paper Pixel Arts is a creative studio specializing in cutting-edge WordPress customization, graphic and web design.

WordCamp Raleigh is excited to announce that The Rackspace Cloud has become a Silver Sponsor. The Rackspace Cloud have been generous sponsors of other WordCamps and we are pleased that they have agreed to sponsor our event.

The Rackspace Cloud provides on-demand and scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through an integrated suite of cloud solutions – Cloud Sites™, Cloud Files™ and Cloud Servers™ – The Rackspace Cloud enables astute developers and IT managers to trade the hassles, upfront investments and high costs for a hosting environment that scales easily when traffic fluctuates.

For more information about The Rackspace Cloud, visit www.rackspacecloud.com or call 1-877-934-0409.