{"id":166,"date":"2012-08-23T14:57:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.vegas.wordcamp.org\/?p=166"},"modified":"2012-08-23T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:57:55","slug":"up-to-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2012\/up-to-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just because it&#8217;s been quiet over here doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s nothing going on. So much has taken place&#8230; Let&#8217;s get you caught up!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsors<\/strong><br \/>\nThe community support around WordPress is amazing! Code Poet, Dream Host, Switch, BinaryM, PixelJar, Sucuri, TravelVegas, VeloMedia, 9seeds&#8230; I&#8217;m blown away by your generosity! There are still a couple of <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.vegas.wordcamp.org\/sponsors\/become-a-sponsor\/\" title=\"Become a Sponsor\">sponsorship opportunities available<\/a>, so check out the page and let us know if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve already had a TON of submissions and the schedule is filling in nicely. The <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.vegas.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/\" title=\"Speakers\">speaker page<\/a> already has a handful of the speakers who&#8217;ll be here, and we&#8217;re just waiting for some bios to come in to post a whole bunch more. There may be a spot or two that still need to be filled. We&#8217;ll do another post next week with any holes in the schedule that need filling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen putting on an event, finding a location that serves your purpose, is available and is affordable all in one spot is usually a bit of voodoo magic. The other way it comes together is usually blind luck. For us, a chance meeting with the right person at a crowded networking event happened, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re thrilled to be hosting WordCamp at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.switchnap.com\/pages\/all-things-switch\/switch-innevation.php\">The InNEVation Center<\/a> this time around. We&#8217;ll tell you more about the place soon, but if you want to know where it&#8217;s located for the sake of booking a hotel close to it, head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=6795+Edmond+Street,+Las+Vegas,+NV&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=36.06622,-115.210469&amp;spn=0.010563,0.017316&amp;sll=38.502032,-117.02306&amp;sspn=10.999684,13.557129&amp;oq=6795+EDMOND&amp;hnear=6795+Edmond+St,+Las+Vegas,+Nevada+89118&amp;t=m&amp;z=16\">Google for a map<\/a> to the venue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hotel deals, or lack there of&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nLast year we got amazingly lucky. The weekend we hosted WordCamp was a ghost town in Vegas. So hotel deals were super easy to come by. This year, not so much. We&#8217;ve reached out to a bunch of hotels looking to reserve a block of rooms, but they&#8217;re all booking at $150\/night or more and nobody wanted to offer up a discount. Boo.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any connections for a hotel who&#8217;d like to book 20-30 rooms on WordCamp weekend, please <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.vegas.wordcamp.org\/contact\/\" title=\"Contact\">contact us<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dev\/Hack Day<\/strong><br \/>\nThe plan is to have a dev\/hack day on Sunday the 7th. The time, duration and location are still up in the air. But, before we put anything official together, we&#8217;d like to know how many of you out there would be interested in attending. Leave a comment here and let us know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food<\/strong><br \/>\nFeeding 200 people at the same time is an interesting challenge. We&#8217;re still looking to nail down a supplier for lunch. If you&#8217;ve got connections with some folks who can cater lunch for a group of this size, please <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.vegas.wordcamp.org\/contact\/\" title=\"Contact\">reach out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets<\/strong><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll be putting tickets for WordCamp on sale in the next couple days. Subscribe to the blog (Check out the form over there on the right) or follow us on twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lvwordcamp\">@lvwordcamp<\/a> to be among the first to know.<\/p>\n<p>If we missed anything or if you have questions, <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.vegas.wordcamp.org\/contact\/\" title=\"Contact\">drop us a note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because it&#8217;s been quiet over here doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s nothing going on. So much has taken place&#8230; Let&#8217;s get you caught up! Sponsors The community support around WordPress is amazing! 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