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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.

Not sure what kind of talk would be a great fit? Check out some of last year’s presentations.

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.

1. Log in to WordPress.org
2. Go to https://wordpress.slack.com/
3. Email address is wp-username@chat.wordpress.org(an alias to your real email address used to create WordPress.org profile)
4. Password is same as WordPress.org
5. Verify email address by going to the email account used to create WordPress.org profile
6. Log in to Slack with new credentials
7. 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.

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.