WordCamp Sacramento is a Volunteer Organized and Run Conference for The WordPress Community

WordCamp Sacramento takes hundreds of hours to create, plan, manage, and run — and every bit of time is donated by community volunteers who spend their own time and resources to make WordCamp a reality for our local community. No one associated with WordCamp — not the organizers, not the speakers, and not the event volunteers. No one gets paid in any way.

Planning of the 2016 event began in February with the hunt for a venue. Beginning in May, the organizing team began planning the event and meeting both in person and via a private Slack Channel.

If you’ve been watching WordCamp Sacramento and have ideas, suggestions, opinions, desires for the future events, etc., we encourage you to pay attention to what’s happening with the event, talk to the organizers at the event and ask questions, and check out the information below.

We are ALWAYS looking for new people who would like to help out volunteer their time to enhance our local WordPress community!

WordCamp Planning Tasks

Here are just some of the tasks that go into planning and hosting WordCamp Sacramento:

• Venue research, visits, contract negotiation, floor plan planning, management
• Event logistics, including parking, food, supplies, set up, clean up
• Speaker submission evalutation and selection, coordination and communication, speaker registration and management
• Website creation (from WordCamp approved themes), design and development
• Design, including logo design, event program, tshirts, signage, swag, name badges, etc.
• Event copywriting, blog post copywriting, image sourcing, email marketing
• Social media management
• Sponsor management, including outreach, invoicing, benefits management, GPL vetting, registration, table management, etc.
• Finance and budget management, vendor payments
• Volunteer recruitment, roles and responsibility management, volunteer training
• VIP dinner planning and management
• After party planning and management
• General communications management for all contact forms and questions
• Research, management, and ordering for speaker gifts, swag, printed materials
• Catering company interviews, estimate gathering, contract management, communication
• Event schedule development and management
• Ticket sales management
• A/V and Photography management, including submission to site post event and submission of final video to WordPress.tv

Getting Involved

Come To The Sacramento WordPress Meetup!

The easiest way to get involved with the local Sacramento WordPress community is to join and attend the monthly Sacramento WordPress Meetup Group held at The Urban Hive on the first Tuesday of every month. The Meetup Group is ALWAYS looking for new speakers to share their knowledge and experience and folks to help out and lend a hand during our hands-on help nights.

Join The Sacramento WordPress Slack Team!

Yes, we do have a Slack team for the Sacramento WordPress Meetup:

• Sign up here: Slack Invite
• Community URL: wpsacto.slack.com

Say Hi At WordCamp Sacramento!

We also encourage you to reach out to an organizer for WordCamp Sacramento to ask any questions you may have, learn more about getting involved in WordCamp Sacramento 2017, and get to know your local community members better.

We would LOVE to meet you!