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WordCamp Lancaster proudly announces the first wave of confirmed speakers. Join us March 14th in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a full day of learning and celebrating WordPress, the software that powers 33% of the web. One ticket is $25, and two tracks of presentations deliver value to web professionals of all skill levels.
Laura began her career with non-profits, where marketing the mission was part of everyone’s job. After dabbling in FrontPage for a few years, Laura found WordPress in 2006 when she and a friend unexpectedly created a viral website. Thrust into a vortex of website management meets Hollywood, her marketing arsenal exponentially grew with new skill sets in SEO, social media strategy, podcasting, event management, and more. Today, she’s Bet Hannon Marketing’s content specialist. NewYorkerLaura.com Laura currently resides in Philadelphia, PA with her husband, Kevin, and dog, Scully.
Tracy Rotton (she/her) is Founder and Principal of Taupecat Studios, an independent WordPress development agency based near Washington, D.C. She has been a web developer for over twenty years, and a WordPress developer for ten, specializing in custom theme and site development for nonprofits and the enterprise. She has spoken at WordCamps throughout the eastern United States and has been a core contributor to WordPress and related projects.
Matt has a WordPress consultancy business offering custom website development and monthly website maintenance and help desk services. Originally from Baltimore, MD he now calls Sadsbury Township, PA home. He is back into coding after a long hiatus having survived for a time as a network project manger and software channel manager. He has become an avid Phillies fan, but tends to favor the minor league teams in Reading (Fightins) and Lehigh Valley (Iron Pigs). He and his wife are empty nesters, with a brand new grand-daughter. You can find Matt on Twitter at @ryancommamatt.
Joe Casabona is an accredited college course developer and professor.
He also has his Master’s Degree in Software Engineering, is a Front End Developer, and hosts multiple podcasts.
Joe started freelancing in 2002, and has been a teacher at the college level for over 10 years. His passion in both areas has driven him to build Creator Courses, a school for those who want to create online businesses.
As a big proponent of learning by doing, he loves creating focused, task-driven courses to help students build something. When he’s not teaching, he’s interviewing people for his podcast, How I Built It.
Pam is a major SEO nerd, a huge fan of WordPress, and a Slayer-loving metalhead. She was named one of the “Top 10 Women in SEO for 2019.” Pam offers SEO consulting and training, as well as white-label services for agencies that want to provide high-quality SEO services to their clients.
Jason is co-author of Building Web Apps with WordPress and CEO of Paid Memberships Pro, the 100% open source membership plugin for WordPress. He has been pushing WordPress to its limits for many years and is an advocate for using WordPress as an application framework to build web sites and apps that go above and beyond the typical blog of CMS site. Jason works out of his home in Reading, Pennsylvania where he lives with his wife and business partner Kimberly Coleman and their two children.
I’m a designer and developer of user experiences and interfaces for WordPress websites and products. With over seven years experience building WordPress solutions, I currently put my skills to work for clients and agencies as cofounder at Sidetrack Studio and WPBlockShop and as the User Success Advocate with Castos and the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin.
Dan is the Chief Operating Officer of DigitalCube, a company committed to supporting WordPress and its communities. He’s a web developer, AWS superfan, JAMstack advocate, and design thinking enthusiast.
Donna is the owner of Delos Incorporated, a website development and digital marketing company in the Philadelphia area. Donna has been working with WordPress since 2010, creating websites and applications that help businesses grow and improve their processes. Donna frequently speaks to business organizations on how to make the web work for them. She enjoys hanging out with her family, the outdoors and Italian wine. Connect with Donna on Twitter @DonnaBotti
We are working to confirm the rest of our presenters and will release a full schedule as soon as possible.
The WordCamp Lancaster 2020 logo began at the end of the 2019 summer, was launched in a tweet on December 5th, and is based on the Flower of Life, a sacred geometry symbol that was drawn by humans as early as the 7th century BC.
To be clear, I’m not a designer by trade. I’m a coder. Graphics projects wreck me emotionally, and I can’t find a way to charge for them and maintain my health. I choose a couple passion projects each year, and WordCamp Lancaster has been my muse for these two years that I’ve been the lead volunteer.
Lately, I’ve pushed myself to design in monochrome and only consider one or two colors after the shapes are complete. You can see this trend in the pieces I’ve shared at coreysalzano.com, and I believe the two WordCamp logos I’ve made have benefited from this discipline.
The wordmark came first. I find it valuable to decide on a typeface for the words or at least the most important words early on during a design.
Last year, Dustin Leer gave me great feedback while I was working on the 2019 logo. He suggested that I limit the number of typefaces in a logo to two. In a draft, I used a third for the digits of the year. It’s clear Dustin was right, I changed “2019” to use the same typeface as the word “Lancaster,” and I believe that’s what pushed 2019’s logo from good to great.
This year, “WordCamp” and “2020” both use a typeface called Moon that reminds me of the engraved wood signs used in Pennsylvania state parks.
The typeface used for the word Lancaster is Lovelo Inline. Lovelo Inline has uncontained inlines and rounded terminals that complement Moon and reveal pairs of lines. Each time slot at our event offers two presentations from which attendees can choose, and much of our local landscape is carved into parallel rows of crops.
I intended to create a round hex art logo containing the WordPress “W” logo from the beginning because I am a huge fan of annual traditions, and it’s worked so well for our event. My decision to use the Flower of Life didn’t come until Saturday, November 9th while listening to Eric Claypoole speak at the Lititz Library about the history of hex sign art. Claypoole is still painting barns after his father, Johnny, and there is more history on our Art page.
Here’s what my November looked like.
The move that made this logo was excluding lines belonging to circles on the perimeter that did not completely fit inside a surrounding circle. Only after this was it clear to me that this design was also going to be my nod to the most captivating logo that features overlapping circles, Lance Wyman’s Olympic Games Mexico 68.
The light blue on dark blue color combination was chosen by my teammates. I wanted to use a pink or a creamy off-white on blue. Dustin suggested we use the 2020 Pantone color of the year, Classic Blue, and away we went. The logo was public less than 24 hours later.
Thank you, Eileen, for your kind words and encouragement to share this.
Thank you, Dids, for sharing these striking photos of your paintings: 1, 2. They’re the best part of these compositions I made to share the event’s announcements.
WordCamps are some of the most valuable tech conferences available. Sponsorships enable low ticket prices, and low prices allow almost anyone to attend a full day of educational sessions and networking. It’s almost unbelievable that a twenty-five dollar ticket to an all-day event could include lunch, but here we are getting ready for another WordCamp Lancaster in 2020.
We are excited to bring back a sponsorship tier that we first used last year with some success. Anyone can support WordCamp Lancaster by paying the actual cost of the ticket instead of the list price of $25. Our lowest sponsorship level available to individuals at $100 and includes one ticket to the event. We are grateful that sponsors allow us to offer such affordable tickets, and we will appreciate anyone who can afford to pay the full price.
We can only accept speaker applications through January 18th. Please apply early, apply often, and encourage friends. Tell us about the session you’d like to present at this link.
I just added some details to one of our event’s evergreen* pages, Location.
The last time I dropped my brother off at the Lancaster station, he said, “Oh, I forgot how cool your train station is.” This didn’t make sense to me because I don’t travel as much as he does, and everything is beautiful here in one of our country’s oldest small cities.
I updated our location and travel page to note that rides from Penn Station, New York City to Lancaster are three hours and a little less than $65†, with stops in and around Philadelphia. But you should also know the station was built in 1929, and looks like this:
In 2018, Lancaster was the second-busiest Amtrak station in Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia’s 30th street station.
* Evergreen content never loses its relevance. WordCamp Lancaster gets a new website each year, but we copy pages like Location and bring them along for the ride.
†Sixty-five dollars is much more than our ticket price of just $25, which includes lunch. Tickets are on sale now.
Slack is a internet chat platform where many teams of web professionals discuss work. The WordPress project is one of those teams.
Signing in to the official WordPress Slack for the first time can be confusing for a few reasons, so we’ve created this post to help clarify the process. The key point is that you will need to verify your Slack account by clicking on a link in an email from Slack. This email will arrive to the inbox of the email address that you used sign up for WordPress.org, but it will be sent after signing in to WordPress Slack using an alias email address that has this format: wp-username@chat.wordpress.org.
Verify email address by going to the email account used to create WordPress.org profile
Log in to Slack with new credentials
Optional: open in App
There are many more Slack servers dedicated to WordPress communities beyond the official server described above. Join ours: WordCamp Lancaster’s Slack server is https://join.slack.com/t/wclancaster/signup
WordCamp Lancaster is a not-for-profit conference celebrating its seventh year. Our speakers, volunteers, and staff all donate their time to make an event that is as engaging and accessible as possible to anyone who wishes to participate.
Lancaster is unique in that we have a very passionate, growing community of technology professionals, and have seen consistent growth year after year. WordCamp Lancaster is frequently attended not only by locals, but by WordPress professionals and enthusiasts from all over, most notably the regional Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and New York WordPress communities.
Sponsoring a WordCamp is an incredible way to contribute to the WordPress community and meet developers, designers, and users from near and afar.
Similar technology conferences cost hundreds of dollars to attend, but WordCamp Lancaster costs less than dinner for two. To keep ticket prices low, we work with generous sponsors to participate in our event, and WordCamp attendees appreciate that sponsor contributions help strengthen our community, and make the event possible.
Have something in mind for swag, or a special idea to engage attendees? We’d love to hear from you. Please inquire below. All sponsors and the products they promote must adhere to our code of conduct and the GPL.
GoDaddy and Paid Memberships Pro brought booths to WordCamp Lancaster 2019
Thanks for applying! The submission deadline has passed, and our schedule will be released soon.
We would love for you to speak at WordCamp Lancaster 2020, a one-day conference for WordPress enthusiasts on March 14th in Lancaster Pennsylvania.
Speaker sessions make up the bulk of the conference, and are typically 30 minutes each. Please propose multiple talks, we do not enjoy passing on a speaker because a talk is too similar to another on the schedule. To submit multiple talks, please fill out this form multiple times, once for each talk.
Just do it! We’d love to be the first event at which you give a talk. The first handful of rows in both our rooms have table tops; we welcome your workshop proposal and any talk that would also work well at our monthly meetup.
Speaker applications will be collected on this page until midnight on January 18th. We will announce our selections the week of January 20th, and we will ask that all speakers submit slides no later than two weeks before the event on March 14th. All speakers and their talks must adhere to our code of conduct and the GPL.
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