Lots of you have already bought your tickets and we are just thrilled to have you, you guys are all done, nothing to see here move along you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.

If you’re one of those on the fence maybe I’ll go, maybe I won’t people –there are still a few tickets left.

But you need to hurry, if you want to go, because pre-sales end at midnight Friday! Awoogah!

You can click here, or here, or here, or anywhere on this sentence to go buy tickets.

Look forward to seeing you at the show!

Last-minute changes are always a possibility due to unforeseen circumstances, but this is the plan as it sits right now.

Now that we have all of our speakers confirmed, I’ll be putting the final touches on the exact schedule of who is speaking at what time and on which day. I hope to announce the tentative schedule in the next week or so.

We want YOU for the WordCamp army!

WordCamp needs 24 good beings (actually even kinda ok beings will do), to volunteer at the event.  We have a LIMITED number of slots available and they are going fast!  We need you, want you, got to have you!

So what do you have to do? Volunteer, even for just ONE day. You won’t be enslaved for the whole day (unless you want to!).  There are plenty of things to do but most of them are finite in duration. Loan us your body, with brain still (mostly) attached and you get that Golden Ticket!  Actually I don’t think it’s golden, but you get the idea.

Here is what we need:

• Your name
• Your email
• Your phone
• which day you would rather work
• any special skills or proclivities you might have (“I am good at audio” or “I like to serve coffee”, “I am a massage therapist”, “I dunno but I am a live body”)

Send this information to our Volunteer Coordinator, Louie Alvis.

None of this work is hard, some of it is fun but ALL of it is necessary. It could even give you a nice reference for your resumé! As we build this roster of Olympians you will be informed as to what day and what job you will have. Please show up on the designated day to get your assignments and Voila! WordCamp for Free!

He’s doing it again.

I’m excited to announce that Matt will again attend WordCamp Portland, giving an informal “Town Hall with Matt” presentation where attendees will have a chance to ask questions to the founder of WordPress and Chief BBQ Taste Tester for Automattic.

If you haven’t yet purchased your ticket for WordCamp Portland, I think you now have one more reason to get on that.

You know, this guy:

AAAAAAAHHHH

First, The Schedule, aka the When.

The event starts on September 18th (Saturday) at 9am (not 8pm like it currently says on the Tickets Oregon page!), throwing amazing talks your way until 5pm. Right around 6pm-ish we’ll have a NotAfterAfterParty. It’s the big party that normally is after an event where you get to mingle with the speakers and attendees and talk about all things WordPressy and have a few drinks and a general good time, but it’s in the middle, not after! Got it? Great! We’ll have the details on that a bit later. Sunday the 19th, you return for another day of WordPress goodness and delight at 9am, continuing until about 5pm or until everyone’s done and goes home.

Now, the Where.

We’re going back to the fabulous space at WebTrends, located at 851 Southwest 6th Ave, in Portland. [map] It’s right downtown, half a block from the Pioneer Courthouse Square, with excellent transit access. In fact, I’d recommend taking a bus or the MAX down, since parking down there is a bit rough. A lot rough, actually. There are parking garages nearby, however. The NotAfterAfterParty location is still TBD, but we’re looking at places close by to WebTrends so you don’t necessarily need to drive if you’d like to attend.

You know what’s next right? Yep. The Who. (Not the band)

We’ve got some amazing speakers lined up! This year, we had so many great submissions that we decided to have something of a dual track. We’ve got one track for the hardcore dev types with everything from theming, WPMU, using GitHub, and even some beginner PHP and CSS dev talks, and a second track for people interested in the less technical topics such as UX/UI, marketing, and even one of my favorite topics, accessibility. I’m going to be hardpressed to pick which talks to attend!

What

We’re just gonna go ahead and skip that one. If you’re here, I figure you know what by now, right? If not, check this link.

Why

Because. Because we can.

Finally, ZOMG HOW?? I WANNA GO THIS IS AWESOME, TELL ME!!!

Well now, that’s the spirit! All you have to do is go to the Tickets Oregon site, locate the WordCamp Portland 2010 event, and buy a ticket! When you do, you’ll be asked for your desired Tshirt size, because among all the other amazingness you get for your $40 (plus $2 service charge), you get a Tshirt with the new WordCamp Portland logo emblazoned across the front, and our amazing sponsors featured on the back. Cool!! Remember, you MUST have your physical ticket with you for entrance on BOTH days. This way, if you want to share your ticket with someone, you can just give it to them for the second day. Only one Tshirt per ticket, and you’ll probably need it for the NotAfterAfterParty as well. Stay tuned!

Any more questions? Contact us on the Twitterz! @wcpdx

There will be a mass email later to ask for any dietary restrictions so we know how much bacon to order.

Other questions and answers?

1. “Will I have to tattoo a sigil or code onto my body in order to trade goods or attend your event?”
   • Emphatically, NO. After much spirited debate, we are doing just a plain old physical ticket this time. This ticket will be required at the door on both days of the event and will magically transmogrify IN YOUR HANDS into your ticket for the afterparty.
2. “That’s super boring. Can I transfer my ticket to someone else?”
   • Yes, a thousand times yes. (Frankly this is what killed my sigil tattoo idea). The transfer process is simple. We get a sample of both YOUR DNA, and the DNA of the person you want to transfer to. After a long bout with the sequencer, we should have at least one viable, undifferentiated “stem cell”. We knock the nucleus out of an egg cell, and then you just hand your physical ticket over to the other person and they use it to get into the event. You don’t even have to tell us about the transfer. Please do not tell us about the ticket transfer.
3. “ZOMG ticket prices went up, b..b..b.bbut why?”
   • This year’s Wordcamp is WORTH IT. Twice the number of speakers, two tracks of talks (one code focus and one non-technical). When you see the speakers we have in store, I will simply advise you to look down and observe that your socks have been blown clean off your feet.
4. I want to volunteer!
   • Slow down there Enthusiasmo! We’ll have an open call for volunteers in the coming weeks.

There will be many more updates to come as we announce speakers, call for volunteers and sponsors, I’ll have a post up Tuesday with a link to the registration page. Thanks for your patience everybody!

Read our full list of speakers including session titles, descriptions, and short biographies.

We’ll be throwing all of those proposals in a blender, flipping the switch, and seeing what flies out.

Not really. This is not ‘nam… this is WordCamp. There are rules. In the next couple of weeks several of the WordCamp Portland organizers will review the proposals and make some decisions about the schedule and speakers. If you submitted a proposal, you should hear from us by the end of the month. Once we have things somewhat formed, we’ll announce the speaker list publicly.