The After Party: A Word About Parking

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Two weeks from today, we will all be gathering for WordCamp St. Louis! That night, we will be having an after party at one of St. Louis’ biggest attractions, the City Museum. The City Museum is a playground and interactive art piece for children and adults alike.

The City Museum has lots of options for parking. There are two lots that are owned by the City Museum, one is on site and the other is down Lucas Ave between 17th and 18th streets. Both lots are $5 to park. Between both lots, there are about 200 spaces. There is also lots of parking on the streets surrounding the museum as well as other pay-to park lots with pricing varying from $5 to $20.

Haven’t bought your ticket for WordCamp St. Louis yet? Get your tickets here!

Get Excited for Kids Camp

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This year the second day of WordCamp is our community day. One of the sessions we’re proud to bring is our Kids Camp. WordCamp attendees are encouraged to bring the young people in their lives to learn about WordPress and publishing on the web. We’ll spend the morning covering the basics of WordPress, free and open source software, copyright, and what it means to be public on the web.

We’ll end the morning with lunch from Pi Pizza and our keynote with Mika Epstein!

It will be a relaxed affair. Come as you are, but be sure to bring a laptop! For more information check out the Kids Camp session on the schedule and get your tickets today! (Note, only one adult ticket is needed if you’re bringing multiple kids. Sweet!)

Official Afterparty Announce­ment!

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Photo Courtesy of The Chicago Reader

Photo Courtesy of The Chicago Reader

We are excited to announce that this year’s WordCamp St. Louis afterparty will be at the City Museum! If you’ve never been to the CM, get ready for an amazing time. The City Museum is a 600,000 square foot mega playground that’s a blast for both children and adults.

The City Museum was opened in 1997 after artist Bob Cassilly purchased the former International Shoe Company and along with his crew, built the museum using found objects. The City Museum has features like old chimneys, salvaged bridges, cranes, and my personal favorite, a seven-story slide!

Free admission is included in the cost of your ticket to WordCamp St. Louis. There are still some tickets for WordCamp left. Get your ticket now!

Community Day Keynote by Mika Epstein (aka Ipstenu, aka Half-Elf Support Rogue)

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We’re super-excited to let you know that everyone’s favorite Half-Elf Support Rogue will be joining us to talk about how you can fit into the WordPress community by being true to yourself. Mika will not only be joining us for the Sunday keynote, but she’ll also be helping out during the Community Day “Give Back to Core” session. This session is where you can learn how to submit plugins or themes to the repository or submit patches to WordPress Core.

For those of you who might not know Mika, we could list her achievements and interests but it would take me the better part of the day. It would probably just be easier if you checked out her website, .Org profile, or Twitter. We promise that you will be awed, inspired, and entertained.

If this sounds like a fun way to spend your Sunday, grab your ticket and be sure to follow us on Twitter or Facebook to stay up-to-date with all of our latest announcements.

The Schedule Has Arrived

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In just 5 short weeks, WordCamp St. Louis will be in full swing.  We’ve previously announced both our local speakers and our out of town speakers and today we’re happy to finally let you know the schedule of topics for Saturday.

Sunday, The community day, is going to be more hands-on and interactive so the schedule is more about which room will have the activities that you wish to participate in.

Additionally, we do have an exciting Community Day keynote speaker that we will be announcing in the next day or two.  For more info, just head over to the schedule page to see an overview of both days.

Last year’s WordCamp St. Louis sold in just 3 weeks so if any of the topics interest you, get your tickets today.

Announcing Our Remaining Speaker Lineup

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Last week we announced out local speaker lineup, yesterday we announced Cain & Obenland in the Morning would be our Saturday keynote speakers, and today we’re really excited to announce our remaining speakers.  If you’ve been paying attention to Twitter or our attendees page, some of them might not be that big of surprise. 🙂

What a great list of great people.

That about does it for our speakers, but we still have a bunch of stuff to let you know about between now and March 14th, so don’t forget to subscribe to updates or follow us on Twitter or Facebook to stay up-to-date with the latest WordCamp St. Louis news.

Automatt­icians Konstantin Obenland and Michael Cain to Keynote WordCamp St. Louis 2015

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We’re super excited to announce that Automatticians Konstantin Obenland & Michael Cain, hosts of the popular Cain & Obenland in the Morning podcast, will be keynoting WordCamp St. Louis this year.  Some of you may remember Obenland‘s appearance on the WordCamp St. Louis rating scale last year.

https://twitter.com/coderaaron/status/439900516701593601

This year he is returning with his co-host Michael Cain to help start off your day at WordCamp St. Louis.

We could wax on poetically about the most famous morning show in the WordPress world, but the easiest way to find out what you’re in for is to check out their site, and watch their episode from WordCamp Maine below.

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Tickets are now Available for WordCamp St. Louis 2015

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Tickets are now available for WordCamp St. Louis 2015.

WordCamp St. Louis 2015 will be held March 14-15 at Washington University. Tickets are $25 and cover both days. The first day will be filled with two tracks (Developer/User). The second day is our Community Day where we’ll give folks an opportunity to learn about how they can give back to the St. Louis and WordPress community. Tickets include a spiffy t-shirt, lunch, and attendance to the after party.

We have some great speakers lined up this year. Attractive, eloquent, funny, knowledgeable, and smart folks from across the St. Louis community will be joined by WordPressers from various corners of the globe to bring you the best WordCamp in St. Louis.

The goals of any WordCamp – but you know, ours especially – is to bring together great people and foster a community where everyone is free to learn and share. Any WordPresser – blogger, designer, developer, small business owner, writer – is welcome. We know you’ll have a great time.

Get your tickets while they last. We had over 250 attendees last year and sold out a week in advance. This year we anticipate the same!

If you can’t make it, but still want to support WordCamp in St. Louis, there are still sponsorship opportunities available!

Sponsorship Update

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It’s been a few weeks since we reached out to the WordPress community and asked for their support in making sure WordCamp St. Louis 2015 is as amazing as possible.  In that short time we’ve connected with many different organizations that all want to help in a variety of ways and share our vision.

As we continue to gather support, I wanted to give a big thanks to a few of our early sponsors.

It’s not too late to become a sponsor, fill out the form and we’ll be in touch.

Don’t forget to check out our constantly updating list of astounding sponsors.

Announcing Our Local Speaker Lineup

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WordCamp St. Louis is first and foremost an event for the local WordPress community.

St. Louis has a thriving tech community with many talented and knowledgeable WordPress developers, designers, writers, and more.  The St. Louis WordPress Meetup has over 500 members  and meets twice a month to talk about everything from theme and plugin development to content strategy to security.

Many of the speakers who presented at past meetups have volunteered to speak at WordCamp St. Louis. These great presenters are being joined by other members of the larger St. Louis WordPress community to come together to form what we think is a very exciting schedule.

Without further ado, we proudly present our lineup of local speakers:

This is not the complete list of speakers, we will be sharing the rest of the group soon.  Additionally tickets will be going on sale very soon, so subscribe above or follow us on Twitter or Facebook so you don’t miss any upcoming announcements.