We’re so close to WordCamp Austin 2012 on Saturday! We’re all excited and hope you are too.
In order to make sure you all get tagged and t-shirted and fed, a bunch of people are busy at work tonight! Name tags are being printed and sorted with food preferences and t-shirts and drink tickets.
Please be sure to appreciate all the volunteers without whom WordCamp wouldn’t happen!
We are pleased to announce that the WordCamp Austin 2012 After Party will be held at Maria’s Taco Xpress. For over 19 years Maria Corbalan’s iconic Austin taqueria has been known and loved for its delicious Tex-Mex food, cold beer, friendly service and its funky folk art. Your WordCamp Austin name badge is your ticket onto Maria’s famous party patio. WordCamp attendees will be treated to a light buffet and drinks. Two drink tickets are tucked in your name badge holder. This year’s after party is graciously sponsored by Media Temple.
Maria’s Taco Xpress, 2529 South Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX 78704
Phone: 512-444-0261
Maria's Taco Xpress
Please don’t show up the day of the WordCamp hoping to get in without being registered because we will just hate to have to turn you away. We cannot take any walk-ins. All people who are registered will be wearing large badges throughout the conference.
The only way you may be able to get a ticket now, is to get one from someone who isn’t going to use theirs. You are welcomed to do this, but understand that Tee-shirts and meals have already been ordered and the orders can’t be changed, so you will get the Tee-shirt and meal choice that your ticket came with. We are directing folks with tickets they can’t use to post them on the WordCamp Austin 2012 FaceBook page. So check there first.
Since we do not actually issue paper tickets at the time of purchase, you will need to have the name and e-mail address and a transaction receipt of some sort, from the person that you got your ticket from.
If you bought a ticket you don’t need…
We do not offer refunds on ticket sales. If you have a ticket but can’t come, let others know by using our Facebook page to hook up with someone looking for a ticket.
All of the WordCamp Austin 2012 sessions will be recorded and available on WordPress.tv.
Thanks for your support of WordCampAustin 2012!
Were you lucky enough to score a ticket for WordCamp Austin 2012?
If so, you’ll be glad to know that we’ll have our very own souvenir tee-shirts at WordCamp. The American love affair with tee-shirts has been going on since about 1913 (thanks, US Navy for comfort clothes!) and no WordCamp would be complete without a souvenir tee.
And no other town will have a design like ours.
We’re happy to announce Developer Day Austin, an all-day event taking place Sunday, May 20, the day after WordCamp.
This event is meant for WordCamp Austin attendees who are WordPress developers, the folks who’ve written a plugin, created a theme, are at home reading code from Core. The ones who add_action() in their sleep, contribute code to the community, speak CSS as a second language. LESS is more, they’re responsive and jQuery UI is EASEy. Query_var()? Only if ( is_main_query() ). If ( TRUE != the above ), you might want to pass on this add-on to WordCamp Austin 2012
Thanks to the enormous support and interest in WordCamp Austin! As of today, all tickets have been distributed.
If you will be attending next week, we are so excited to get to meet you and share in our love of all things WordPress.
And if you didn’t get a ticket this time around, don’t fret! We will be video recording all of our sessions and posting the to WordPress.tv after the event.
Missed a ticket for our sold-out WordCamp? Lots of people did. 
However, I just noticed that one of our sponsors, A Small Orange Community, is holding a contest to give away two extra tickets to WordCamp Austin 2012.
If you enter it before midnight TONIGHT, you may be able to snag a ticket.
Check out their newsletter to enter: A Small Orange Community. You do have to answer a little quiz, BTW. Then it’s all luck!
Good luck! We’d love to see you there.
This was the first year we used the WordCamp.org ticketing process.
To try to be as fair as possible, we released the tickets in waves.
Our goal was to give everybody a shot at getting tickets no matter what their work schedule.
For the most part, we reached that egalitarian goal…
There were however, some serious systemic hiccups.
We did not capture the data we need.
In order for us to order the right mix of food — veggie vs. BBQ and to get our Tee shirt order right, we needed our ticket buyers to fill out the form that was part of the ticketing process.
About 50% of our ticketed attendees, either did not have a chance to get that information in before the ticketing plugin timed out; or were so happy to get the ticket bought and paid for they left site before filing out the required information.
We will be contacting these ticket holders Tuesday and Wednesday of this week with an online form to gather the information we need.
The tee shirt order has to go in by Thursday PM so please respond right away.
If you don’t respond to the form, we will declare you a fan of BBQ who wears a size large shirt.
For those who missed out on tickets for this year…
Some of our Sponsors may not use their assigned tickets.
By next week we know if we have a few more tickets to make available for sale.
If we do have a few more tickets available, we will post it on this site, our Facebook page and we will tweet it.
All of the WordCamp Austin 2012 sessions will be recorded and available on WordPress.tv.
Thanks for your support of WordCampAustin 2012!
WordCamps are casual, locally-organized, non-profit conferences covering everything related toWordPress, the free and open source personal publishing software that powers millions of sites on the web. One of the best things about WordCamps is they are based on a open source philosophy where everyone participates by contributing what they can. It may be that you want to support WordCamp by volunteering to help plan, or work the event. Perhaps you have WordPress knowledge, skill and experiences you wish to share as a presenter or maybe you can expand the WordPress Community by reaching out to help a fellow camper. WordCamp Austin 2012 is very much a community event, being organized by the members of Austin WordPress Meetup Group.
This year’s WordCamp will include sessions from basic WordPress user information for Bloggers to CMS for WordPress site development and responsive design. The session topics are being driven by suggestions submitted by the Austin WordPress Community. WordCamp presentations and discussions are led by people who are passionate about WordPress, and everyone from casual end users, all the way up to core developers, show up for WordCamps. The types of sessions typically seen at WordCamps can be viewed at the WordCamp channel atWordPress.tv.
