Get To Know Cristina Robinson

Cristina Robinson is a Sacramento-based designer and blogger with over 10 years of experience.

Her passion for web design began in high school where she created layouts on LiveJournal, web pages on Yahoo! Geocities and managed her high school’s website. She’s been growing her skills ever since teaching herself WordPress, PHP, LESS, Sass, and design. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science degree in Web Design and Interactive Media from The Art Institute of California – Sacramento in 2012 and has worked for two local web agencies as well as freelance.

Cristina is currently the UI/UX Designer at Sacramento digital marketing agency Three29 and can be found blogging at TheLovelyGeek.com.

We’re thrilled Cristina will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on the Best Practices For Creating Content!

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Get To Know Colin Dowling

Colin Dowling is Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Media Temple. Before transitioning to Media Temple, Colin worked in Enterprise Accounts and Agencies at WP Engine and was Vice President of Sales at ISON, LLC.

We’re thrilled Colin will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Leveraging Partnerships to Grow Your Web Development Business!

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T-shirts are hard. Way harder than you think. Seriously.

The fabric needs to be soft or people won’t wear them. The design needs to be great or people won’t take them home. You need sizes available for every possible attendee — and you need to offer both men’s and women’s sizes. Sizing between brands and companies are totally inconsistent, and some are just completely wrong.

Last year, we offered men’s and women’s shirts for WordCamp and we warned women that the ladies shirts ran small. But in no way did we expect the women’s shirts to be sized for kids. The women’s small was so small that it didn’t even fit my twelve year old!

This year we’re trying something different…

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This is the third post in a series to help you get to know our 2016 WordCamp Sacramento organizers a little better! You’ve met Jose Castaneda and Bill Mead, and today we’re introducing you to Jennifer Bourn.

Jennifer Bourn is an award-winning designer and the founder/partner at Bourn Creative, a full service design agency, specializing in web design, brand design, messaging, and content strategy, with WordPress as her platform of choice. With more than 18 years experience in the design and branding trenches, Jennifer leads workshops and speaks regularly at both virtual and live events across the country, co-organizes the Sacramento WordPress Meetup, and is lead organizer for WordCamp Sacramento 2016.

When not working with clients, Jennifer manages the Bourn Creative brand, writes for several marketing blogs, and has her own personal blog Inspired Imperfection where she shares recipes, family-friendly adventures, and candid commentary on work/life balance.

Be sure to give Jennifer at shout out on Twitter and don’t forget to use our hashtag #wcsac.

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Get To Know Tate Barber

Tate Barber is a developer, husband, and DIY farmer. He is a 24-year-old, college dropout that began learning and making a small living off WordPress gigs. He quickly absorbed as much information and as many development tutorials on the internet as I could, and is now a Programming Analyst at WalMart headquarters.

We’re thrilled Tate will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Local WordPress Development with Docker!

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Releasing Tickets In Batches

In 2015, we hosted the inaugural WordCamp Sacramento. As the only Northern California WordCamp, we knew tickets would go fast and we were right. Tickets went on sale at 10:00 am and by 12:20 pm all 150 tickets had sold out completely!

For 2016, we have moved the event to a larger venue — The Harper Alumni Center at Sacramento State — and will have more than double the amount of tickets available. We’re also going to be releasing the tickets in three batches instead of all at the same time. We’ll also be staggering the times that tickets go on sale to accommodate those who work full time jobs and may not be able to buy tickets during their workday.

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This is the second post in a series to help you get to know our 2016 WordCamp Sacramento organizers a little better! You’ve already met Jose Castaneda, and today we’re introducing you to Bill Mead.

Bill Mead teaches web design and development classes at Art Institute of California, Sacramento. Through Mead.Design, he has been building custom WordPress websites since 2005, and loves the platform and the community. He helped found the Sacramento WordPress Meetup Group in 2010 and is involved with other local groups including SacInteractive, the Adobe User Group, and the Sacramento Ad Club.

Be sure to give Bill at shout out on Twitter and don’t forget to use our hashtag #wcsac.

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This is the first post in a series to help you get to know the 2016 WordCamp Sacramento organizing team a little better! Today we’re introducing you to Jose Castaneda.

Jose Castaneda is a member of the Theme Review team and contributes to the WordPress forums. He has been working with WordPress since late 2011, is a co-organizer for the Sacramento WordPress Meetup Group, and and loves to help as much as possible.

Be sure to give Jose at shout out on Twitter and don’t forget to use our hashtag #wcsac.

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WordCamp Sacramento is October 22-23, 2016

WordCamp Sacramento 2016 is coming up fast, and while the entire organizing team is getting more and more excited with each speaker application submitted, we’re working hard to secure sponsorships for this year’s event.

Like all WordCamps, WordCamp Sacramento is a locally-organized, volunteer-run, non-profit event focused on WordPress and the community it represents — and it can’t happen without the support of sponsors.

If you use WordPress, love WordPress, or make a living with WordPress, we encourage you to step up and sponsor WordCamp Sacramento 2016. Supporting WordCamp Sacramento is a great opportunity for freelancers, business owners, and larger companies that benefit from a free and open source software like WordPress to give back to the project that’s given them so much.

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I know for a fact that there are several of you that are considering the idea of applying to speak at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 — and that is AWESOME!

But, I know many of you haven’t yet submitted a speaking application simply because you’re not quite sure what topic to submit.

That’s where can help!

Check out the list of potential topics below that our community has show interest in, find one that you have some experience with, and submit an application!

It’s not scary, I promise! To be totally honest, the more specific, highly focused talks on one key topic or point are often the best.

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