WordCamp Vernon

WordCamp Vernon, April 30, 2016 at the Vernon Atrium Hotel

What Is WordCamp?

WordCamp is a conference for anyone that uses WordPress and wants to learn more about WordPress! Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.

For our inaugural year, WordCamp Vernon is offering two conference tracks. The Track A schedule is aimed at intermediate to advanced users while Track B focuses on helping the beginner/novice user. We don’t want that to stop you though! If you see a talk that looks interesting, you’re welcome to attend either track.

This is a great way to learn more about WordPress and sharpen your skills. It doesn’t matter if your a newbie thinking about starting a blog, a business owner looking to manage your WordPress website, or an I.T. professional looking for an easy to use, well supported content management system — WordCamp has something to offer you.

What Do You Get?

Aside from getting smart about WordPress, you can meet with other bloggers, designers and developers. You also get a free T-Shirt, free coffee, a great lunch and an excuse to come to the Okanagan (if you’re not lucky enough to already be here). Oh, and an after-party ticket at Marten’s Brew Pub where you can munch on appies while sampling their local brew and carry the WordPress conversation on into the evening.

How Much?

WordCamp is cheap cost effective. A full day of learning is $30.

GET YOUR TICKETS!

Here’s our schedule for the day!

Time	Track A	Track B
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 am	From Zero to Hero – How to Become a WP Developer in 12 months Anton Iancu	Get a Site up and Running with WordPress Ainslie Koopmans
10:00 am	SEO for Beginners Cathie Dunklee-Donnell	Getting Started Part II Ainslie Koopmans
11:00 am	Deconstructing Child Themes Lisa Armstrong	Image Wrangling for WordPress Laurena Rehbein
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	How To Build Your Audience Justin Jackson	Intro HTML and CSS – Site Customization for Beginners
2:00 pm	What’s new with Woo? Joey Kudish	WordPress Tune-Up Chris O’Connor
3:00 pm	WordPress and MailChimp, a Happy Couple Kristina Plauche	Happiness Bar
4:00 pm	WordPress Security 101 Jonathan Hall	Happiness Bar

… What Exactly Is ‘WordPress’?

Short answer:
WordPress is a way to create websites. It allows you to set up a site add content, pictures, videos, ads etc. without being a programmer.

Technically, it’s an open-source content management software that runs about 24% of the world’s websites. Yes, it’s that big. The best part: it’s easy to use whether you’re a business owner who needs an easy website to manage or a web developer looking for a platform to build sites and applications in.

For more info on WordPress:

Can I Help?

Sure! WordCamp is about community — come and join us.

WordCamp brings a lot of tech folk together, if that sounds like a good fit for your business become a sponsor!