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It’s a WordCamp Europe Party!

What is a WordCamp without a party? Like a cake without icing, a margarita without tequila, like a WordPress installation without Hello Dolly.

The WordCamp Europe party will be held on Saturday 5th October, 20:00 – late, at Danssalon In Casa, Lammermarkt 100, 2312CW Leiden.

Make sure to bring your WordCamp Europe name badge and identification (over 18s only) to guarantee entry.

Get your glad rags on and come hang out with WordPressers from across Europe.

P.S. keep an eye out for a surprise from our friends at WooThemes that should help to get the party started.

Thank You Haboes!

Haboes means “cheers” and that’s exactly what we want to say, for stepping up as a Silver Sponsor. We are very honored to have such strong local support from dutch WordPress specialists.

Let’s raise our glasses! Indeed, even at this very moment of the day, because we always want to cheer on the best possible outcome and with a satisfied customer. It is also the essence why the company is called Haboes, since the very simple reason that the name of the company itself means cheers.

The organizational structure of our company has few layers and we work with objectives that are crystal clear for everyone. The concept of Haboes is designed to compete most effectively in the ever-changing world of the Internet. Straight from the inner city of Amsterdam we use innovation and new technologies to provide new ways for our customers. Those new ways should, in our view, always be based on WordPress.

Last chance to guarantee your t-shirt size and personalised lanyard!

Tomorrow morning (that’s UK time), all of the WordCamp Europe designs will be sped off to the printers. We’re ordering a bunch of extras, but if you want to guarantee your t-shirt size and have your name printed directly onto your lanyard (as opposed to scribbled on by a volunteer) then make sure you buy your ticket tonight before midnight. That’s:

  • 2am Sofia
  • 1am Amsterdam
  • Midnight London
  • 7pm New York
  • 4pm San Francisco

Go buy your ticket now! See you in Leiden 🙂

Welcome to Blacknight Solutions as a Silver Sponsor!

Blacknight-Transparent-OptimizedBig thanks to Blacknight solutions for supporting WordCamp Europe as a silver sponsor. Hailing from Ireland, Blacknight is a domain registrar and hosting company. It’s cool to have them supporting Europe’s first continental WordCamp. Thanks for your help guys!

Blacknight is a 100% Irish owned and based in Ireland, ICANN accredited domain registrar and hosting company. Recipients of several awards for their revolutionary use of social media, Blacknight are one of Europe’s most cutting edge Internet companies.

Blacknight constantly seek to lead the way by introducing innovative solutions for its clients. Blacknight provide dedicated servers, cloud servers and colocation as well as a comprehensive range of Microsoft Windows and Linux based hosting plans and domain name registration services to business globally.

Thank You WP Engine!

wpengineWP Engine has been a big supporter of WordCamps, so we’re really happy to have them on board as a Gold sponsor at WordCamp Europe. Sponsors like WP Engine are the people who make WordCamps possible all over the world. Make sure you stop by their stand and find out about the cool stuff they’re up to with WordPress.

WP Engine is the one of the most mature premium managed hosting platforms for websites and apps built with WordPress. WP Engine powers tens of thousands of websites, delivering the fastest, most reliable, and most secure web experience.  Businesses large and small have come to rely on WP Engine’s exceptional customer service team that specializes in solving problems ranging from troubleshooting plugins, making themes scalable, and mitigating site migration headache.

Developers love WP Engine because they know that the ‘WP Engineers’ understand the challenges of developing WordPress sites, and have built an entire development toolkit with features like the one-click staging area, and .git for version control and deployment. Customers of all kinds trust WP Engine because they know how easy it is to set-up an account, build a WordPress site, and rest easy because a real human is always available to help with technical issues.

A Massive Thanks to Code for the People!

cftp2We’re really excited to have UK-based development agency, Code for the People, on board as a WordCamp Europe sponsor. They’ve built some beautiful WordPress websites, including one for The Rolling Stones with a memorable 404 page. Make sure you say “hi” to them as they’re a lovely bunch of guys and have huge knowledge about WordPress.

Bonjour l’Europe! Hallo Europa! Γεια σου Ευρώπη!

We’re Code For The People, and we build interesting things for interesting clients using WordPress. Clients like Oxford University, Riverdance, Heathrow Airport, the British Government, Automattic Inc and the Rolling Stones.

We’re one of only two WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner agencies outside the United States. And you’ll regularly see members of our team named on the Credits page of each new WordPress release.

We’ve been proud sponsors and organisers of WordCamps and other events in the UK since 2008, and we’re delighted to be part of the inaugural WordCamp Europe.

We’re bringing our entire team to Leiden to learn new things, and meet new people. Come and talk to us at our demo stand, especially if you’re interested in multilingual and multisite development.

 

Thank You Siteground!

sitegroundA big thank you to Siteground for supporting WordCamp Europe as a Gold sponsor. Siteground have been supporting WordCamps around the world so we’re really excited to have them as part of the WordCamp Europe family. In addition to their regular hosting, Siteground offer managed WordPress hosting, tailor-made for your WordPress website.

SiteGround provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing: unique in-house crafted WordPress speed and security solutions for ultimate performance and protection, 24/7 support that knows WordPress and wide variety of WordPress tools – automatic updates, SuperCacher, CDN, staging.

All this combined with the good old features of standard hosting – email service, ftp service, domain registration and the reasonable pricing.

Thank You Team Treehouse!

treehouse-logo31We love education, so it’s great to have Team Treehouse on board, a Platinum sponsor who is dedicated to learning. By providing Platinum Sponsorship they’re making a significant contribution to the event, for which we’re all hugely grateful. Be sure to say “hi” to them and see how you can expand your knowledge of WordPress, of a number of programming languages, and even how to start your web business.

A better way to learn technology

Learn to build websites, create iPhone and Android apps, code with Ruby on Rails and PHP, or start a business.

From zero experience to job-ready

The extensive Treehouse library of step-by-step video courses and training exercises will give you a wide range of competitive, in-demand technology skills that will help you land your next dream job or build your startup idea. No experience? No problem!

A Big Thank You to WooThemes!

woothemes_logoWooThemes is supporting WordCamp Europe as a Platinum Sponsor, so a huge thank you to them for their support. You’ll see all of the WooThemes folks running around at WordCamp Europe as they’re having their annual WooTrip at the event. Be sure to say to them.

And watch out at the after-party, because WooThemes have organised an extra surprise for all of the event’s attendees.

WooThemes is an international, market leading, bootstrapped business providing a platform to extend standard WordPress-powered websites via a range of innovative themes and plugins. With WooThemes businesses and individuals can get professional WordPress sites launched quickly and affordably.

Welcome to .Me as a Platinum Sponsor!

me.Me is the country code top level domain for Montenegro, although it’s popular all over the net because of the multiple meanings of the word “me”. As fans of the .me domain, we’re really excited to have them on board as a platinum sponsor. Without the support of companies like .me, WordCamp Europe wouldn’t be possible.

Shortly after Montenegro gained independence in June of 2006, the ISO 3165 Maintenance Agency assigned the emerging nation the country code ME. Proud of the country’s new-found sovereignty, the new government of Montenegro took important additional measures to formalize the country’s fledging independence. One such step was to submit an application to IANA for delegation of .Me as the country’s Top Level Domain (TLD). The delegation was finally approved and took place in September 2007.

Understanding that “ME” has multiple meanings and has mass appeal as a word, the government of Montenegro embarked on generalizing the .Me name space so that anyone and everyone could enjoy obtaining a .Me for themselves. As a result, in November of 2007, a formal public RFP was issued to find a Registration Agent who could provide a world-class registry platform, run operations for an international registry, and deliver marketing expertise to make .Me a worldwide success. The contract was eventually awarded to doMEn, d.o.o., a Montenegrin joint venture (doing business as .Me Registry), whose partners include Afilias Limited, GoDaddy.com, Inc., and ME-net d.o.o.