First Wave of Speakers Announced

As WordCamp Raleigh 2017 gets closer, we’re releasing the first wave of confirmed speakers. You’ll find some repeat speakers familiar to the WordCamp Raleigh crowd such as Adam Sewell, Tony Zeoli, and Alisa Herr as well as newcomers to the area such as Mika Epstein, also known as Ipstenu, a member of the wordpress.org plugin review team.

You can view the complete list here.

Call for Volunteers

Hey, before you skip this part thinking “they’ve probably got this covered, read on.

WordCamp Raleigh is entirely run by volunteers. We need people to help with social media, people to help with setup, people to help with Audiovisual needs, people to help us think of other things we are forgetting to ask for help with, etc.

All WCRaleigh organization takes place in our slack channel. After filling out the info below, we’ll send you a link to the slack channel where you can help us prepare for WordCamp!







Call for Speakers

We’re excited to open this year’s call for Speakers for WordCamp Raleigh!

If you’d like to propose multiple topics, please submit the form multiple times, once for each topic.

We are specifically looking for talks around these topics (though we are primarily looking for quality folks to give talks, in general):

Developers

  • JavaScript
  • REST API
  • Extensibility
  • Plugin and Theme development
  • Mental health for developers
  • Scaling WordPress
  • Working as a part of a team (GitHub, communication, etc)

Business

  • How Small Businesses can leverage WordPress (Twenty Seventeen Theme?)
  • How to take your offline business online
  • SEO
  • Ecommerce
  • Selling WordPress products
  • Selling digital products with WordPress

Power Users

  • WordPress Multisite
  • Ecommerce
  • Site Maintenance
  • Hosting
  • Intro to Actions and Filters

Beginners

  • How to vet a WordPress developer
  • Site Maintenance
  • Why your theme shouldn’t try to do everything
  • Getting Good Support
  • How to Contribute in non-code ways to WordPress

EDIT: we’re all full, full list of speakers can be found here, and tracks/schedule are coming soon!

Call for Sponsors

WordCamp Raleigh is actively seeking sponsorships. Ranging from individual sponsors to corporate sponsorship.

Get your business in front of hundreds of local WordPress users, developers, and small business owners!









Sponsorship Levels

Gold – $1500

  • 3 tickets to WordCamp Raleigh
  • Table / booth at the event
  • Large logo & link on our website & our Facebook page
  • Blog post and tweet introducing your company

Silver – $1000

  • 2 tickets to WordCamp Raleigh
  • Medium logo & link on our website & our Facebook page
  • Swag on the community swag table at the event
  • Blog post and tweet introducing your company

Bronze – $500

  • 1 ticket to WordCamp Raleigh
  • Medium logo & link on our website & our Facebook page
  • Swag on the community swag table at the event
  • Blog post and tweet introducing your company

Individual – $100

  • 1 ticket to WordCamp Raleigh
  • Small logo & link on our website & our Facebook page
  • Blog post and tweet introducing your company

WordCamp Raleigh 2017 is over. Check out the next edition!