Guaranteed T-Shirt sizes

In order to make sure that our shirt people have the shirts back to us by the time of the event, we have set November 25th as the official cut off date for guaranteed T-Shirt sizes with your ticket purchase.

If purchase your ticket for WordCamp Las Vegas after this date we can not guarantee that we will have a shirt in your size.  Shirts will be available on a first come, first serve basis.

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Tomorrow is the last day for Hard Rock Hotel deal

November 15th is the last day to get the awesome deal that the Hard Rock Hotel has given us on rooms.  If you are interested in using this special make sure to book your room with the link on the accommodations page.
If the demand is there I will reach out to the Hard Rock and see if they can extend this for us.

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Sponsor Highlight: 9Seeds

group-ie : noun, informal:
1. a young person, especially a teenage girl, who is an ardent admirer of rock musicians and may follow them on tour.
2. an ardent fan of a celebrity or of a particular activity.

Over the past 3 years, 9seeds has definitely reached groupie status. Las Vegas 2011 will be the 35th WordCamp where they’ve attended, sponsored, organized or presented.

So, who the heck are 9seeds, anyway? 9seeds is a web development company based out of Las Vegas, NV that focus exclusively on WordPress development. They build custom plugins, custom themes and applications that eliminate roadblocks for clients. In their spare time, they also produce a handful of plugins available for free in the WordPress repository.

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Sponsor Highlight: JetPack

Supercharge WordPress with tools that help you to blog better and faster — all by activating a single plugin. Jetpack is a suite of great add-ons that are fully supported by the team behind WordPress.com.

With Jetpack…
you can get better feedback on your site’s popularity with WordPress.com Stats
never publish a typo again with After The Deadline
readers will love the social features from Sharedaddy (including sharing posts on Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and many others)

Twitter Widget lets people know your latest 140-character thoughts and there’s lots more!

Find out more, and download Jetpack, at Jetpack.me

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Hard Rock Hotel and Casino WordCamp Deal!

We have made arrangements with the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino to provide a discounted rate for all WordCamp Las Vegas attendees.  The deal that is offered is for $65 per night (Plus Tax and Fees).  If you are interested in staying at the Hard Rock we suggest you book your room as soon as possible as we have a limited number of rooms for the event.  When booking your room you MUST use the link outlined in our Accommodations page else you will NOT receive the discounted room rate.
We chose the Hard Rock for its location to the Venue, all in all it is within walking distance, or a very short/cheap cab ride.

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Sponsor Highlight: InMotion Hosting

InMotion Hosting, Inc. is a leading provider of Business  Class Web Hosting, VPS Hosting and Dedicated Server solutions.  InMotion Hosting  has been rated as a certified service provider by CNET and is accredited by the  Better Business Bureau.  InMotion Hosting continuously monitors their network  from over 80 locations worldwide to ensure maximum performance and  reliability.

InMotion Hosting is also a proud supporter of open source and community  based projects such as WordPress.  Our Business Class Web Hosting solutions  allow for a one-click installation of WordPress – making the platform easy to  use for just about anyone.  To learn more, please visit http://www.inmotionhosting.com/wordpress-hosting.html.

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Sponsor Highlight: CloudFlare

CloudFlare makes security and performance for WordPress sites super simple. CloudFlare makes any site on WordPress twice as fast, protects them from attacks and makes it simple to add web apps with a single click. CloudFlare supercharges websites with no need to add hardware, install software, or change a line of code. To help WordPress blogs specifically, CloudFlare developed a WordPress plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cloudflare/). Additionally, W3 Total Cache, a leading performance plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/) offers CloudFlare as an integrated option. CloudFlare also complements WP Super Cache (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/), a very fast caching engine.

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Sponsor Highlight: Apptivo

Apptivo Company Description
Wordcamp Las Vegas 2011

Apptivo, Inc.  provides a small business app platform with over 40 apps available in the cloud, for free.  These apps offer a comprehensive suite of tools that deliver everything a small business or freelancer needs to stay organized and running efficiently.  Founded in 2009, Apptivo has a strong global development team and management team with over 10 years experience in building enterprise applications.

Staying in line with its goal to become a one-stop shop for SMBs and Independent Professionals, Apptivo offers website management.  With WordPress being one of the best solutions building websites today, the choice was clear to provide a WordPress App for users to manage their web presence alongside their business.  Anyone can use it, setup takes seconds, and getting started is free… learn more here http://www.apptivo.com/wordpress

Apptivo’s WordPress partner program will be launched in November 2011, where WordPress developers and designers can kill two birds in one stone – make their customers happier by offering a single platform to manage their entire business and also earn more money through referrals. Please write to partners@apptivo.com if you are interested in participating.

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WordCamp Las Vegas Badges

Attending WordCamp Las Vegas? Sponsoring WordCamp Las Vegas? Show the world by using one of the following images and linking back to the site!

    

When linking to the site please direct all traffic to the following URL:https://2011.vegas.wordcamp.org

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Hotel Deals

If you are coming from out of town and plan on making WordCamp a weekend event, or are local and are looking to have a mini WordCamp vacation hold off on booking your hotel room.  We are currently in the works with the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino to offer a deal to all those that are attending.

We hope to have more details on this in the following week

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