We’d like to welcome Pantheon as Administrator sponsor of #WCEU

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We’d like to invite you to join us in saying a big thank you to our Administrator sponsor Pantheon! Thank you for supporting the European WordPress community!

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Pantheon includes all of the tools professional developers need to build best-practice sites—like staging environments, version control, backups and workflow. Powering 100,000+ sites with hundreds of millions of page views, Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security or performance. It’s free in development. You can scale in software on the same infrastructure from day one, and never touch a server again.

Don’t forget to stop by the Pantheon booth at #WCEU and show your appreciation of their support!

Say hello to our first two #WCEU speakers – Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg

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It’s time. The WordCamp Europe team is delighted to announce our fist two speakers – the founders of WordPress – Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.

Matt Mullenweg

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Matt is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform, WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Jetpack. Additionally, Matt is a principal and founder of Audrey Capital, an investment and research company.

Matt is originally from Houston, Texas, where he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied jazz saxophone. In his spare time, Matt is an avid photographer. Matt splits time between Houston, New York, and San Francisco.

We’re extremely happy Matt is joining us again on the #WCEU stage.

 

Mike Little

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Mike Little is the co-founder of WordPress. After he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg’s blog about forking their blogging tool in 2003, he paved the way for WordPress’ success today. 13 years on and it powers more than 26% of the web. Mike now runs Zed1.com, his WordPress consultancy, training, and web development company.

He’s an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and the original b2. He has helped organize 9 or 10 WordCamps and attended a few more. He has run a WordPress meetup in Manchester, England for the last 7 years.

WordCamp Europe 2016 will be his first WordCamp outside of the UK and we’re delighted he accepted our invitation to join us in Vienna and share the early story about the early years of WordPress.

We’ve got an incredible line-up prepared for you for the fourth WordCamp Europe. In the next two weeks, we’ll announce all of our speakers and the full schedule will be posted by the end of April.

Follow #WCEU on Twitter and Facebook to keep up with all event announcements and to share the love.

We wish you a wonderful Monday!

Your WCEU team

Welcome Plesk as a #WCEU Super Admin sponsor

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Join us in welcoming PLESK as a first time Super Admin sponsor to WordCamp Europe 2016!

 

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Plesk is the leading WebOps platform to run, automate and grow applications, websites and hosting businesses. Available in more than 26 languages across 140 countries in the world. 50% of the top 100 worldwide service providers are partnering with Plesk today. Plesk is managing and securing more than 300’000 servers, automating 10M+ websites and at least 15M mail boxes.

The WordPress Toolkit that is included in Plesk, allows web professionals to mass-manage one or more WordPress instances in terms of deployment, updates, security, plugins, themes and much more.

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Meet the European WordPress Communities – Poland, Lithuania, Estonia

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Baltic Communities

Europe. So many communities and yet – can we name all of them? Do we know every city or country which organizes its own WordCamp or Meetup – where we could go to meet new people that share the same values as we do? With so many countries and so many organizers, Europe is perhaps the most vivid WordPress ecosystem in the world. Different languages used to separate people but today, thanks to WordPress – we all find our ways to work together and help each other.

And that’s the real power of WordPress and its ecosystem of communities. The idea behind WordCamp Europe is to get all these communities together. To hear stories, learn new things and get to know people. Make new friends. And is there a better platform than the very own WordCamp Europe website?

In this article series about the European communities we’ll introduce you to some colourful people from all over the continent. We’ll cover Central, Baltic, Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern Europe and today we’re presenting Baltic European Communities.   Continue reading Meet the European WordPress Communities – Poland, Lithuania, Estonia →

Thank you Jetpack for being a #WCEU Super Admin sponsor

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new-jetpack-logoJetpack joins the #WCEU 2016 sponsors at the highest level, Super Admin. Please join us in saying a huge thank you for their continued support! WordCamp Europe is only possible thanks to the generosity of its sponsors and Jetpack have sponsored the event since the first edition in 2013.

Thank you!

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to focus on what you do best. Create and publish great content. We’ll take care of the rest.

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Welcome Yoast as a #WCEU Super Admin sponsor

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We’d like to welcome Yoast as a Super Admin sponsor for WordCamp Europe. Yoast has been constantly supportive of the WordPress community in Europe and they’ve been helping WordCamp Europe since 2014. We’d like to ask you to join us in saying a huge “Thank you” to Yoast. We couldn’t have done it without you!

 

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Yoast works on website optimisation. We provide eBooks, courses, software and website audits to assist you in making the most of your website. Ranking from SEO and search rankings to Analytics and conversion rate optimisation, we’re here to help.

 

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Child care at WordCamp Europe – parents, fill out our survey

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There are more and more WordPress babies at WordCamp Europe every year. We love seeing kids around the camp, but we also know how important it is to be able to have an hour or two of focused time to go to sessions and chat to friends and make new connections.

That’s why this year we’re planning to provide child care at WordCamp Europe for both days of the conference – Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of June.

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All ages are having fun at WordCamp Europe! Photo by Found Art Photography

If you are a parent and you’re planning on bringing your kid, here’s what you need to know:

  • We’re going to hire a professional service with nannies to take care of the children of our attendees which are 12 years old and younger.
  • We are planning on adding some of our volunteers to the professional team – mostly so that we can cover multilingual issues and more fun for the kids.
  • We hope to be able to provide this service for free, but that will depend on the number of children we need to cover. That’s why if you’re planning on bringing your child and want to take advantage of the service, it’s really important that you fill out the survey linked below.
  • We’re also planning to provide options for group visits and workshops in the Leopold Museum and Zoom Kids Museum, that are located within the MQ (where the conference is happening). Those will need to be paid for by the parents, but the average cost is between 4 and 6 EURO per child. Totally worth it. We need to make early bookings for those, so stating your interest would be great. Details on the options are in the survey
  • If you or your partner would like to volunteer some time to the child care efforts, you can and it will be much appreciated.
  • Even though we provide child care, you are more than welcome to bring your kids to the conference itself. They won’t need a separate ticket to get in if they are younger than 16 years old. If you’d like them to get a printed badge and swag, please get them a ticket.

To help us plan better, please fill out the child care survey for each child you plan on bringing to the conference.

http://wceurope.polldaddy.com/s/child-care-at-wordcamp-europe

If you have any questions, please add them in the designated place in the survey. We will answer them in a separate FAQ section of the website dedicated to child care.

Thanks for your help and looking forward to meeting you and your little humans in Vienna!

Love,

The WordCamp Europe organising team

New tickets go on sale – grab yours today

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The last batch of WordCamp Europe 2016 tickets is now available to everyone. These will be the last tickets that will go on sale for this event. After these are gone, we won’t be able to release any more, so if don’t have a ticket yet, we highly recommend you get one now.

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MuseumsQuartier Wien (c) Ali Schafler

The price is only EUR40 and you get a chance to be a part of history:

WordCamp Europe 2016 will be the largest WordPress event to this day

What To Expect
  • two days of the best WordPress content from all over the world
  • a contributor day to learn how to give back to WordPress
  • an opportunity to meet the WordPress community leaders
  • networking activities allowing you to meet and create contacts with likeminded people
  • warm up events and activities to explore the city and make friends
  • a place to be inspired
  • a space to share ideas
  • a job board & a hiring board
  • an epic after-party
  • coffee, tea, healthy lunch (no matter your dietary preferences)
  • swag!
  • more than 2000 amazing people, great mood, adventures and fun

Grab a ticket

WordCamp Europe grows to 2200 people – new tickets go on sale today

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This year’s WordCamp Europe will be like nothing else we’ve seen. The demand has been so high, that we had to look for another building to add to our current setup, to be able to fit everyone who’d like to join us in Vienna.

We did it!

WordCamp Europe expands to the whole MuseumsQuartier as we have now secured the Leopold Museum (next door to Halle E+G) as another venue where we’ll be organising very special, focused content and networking tracks for attendees.

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Halle E+G (center) and Leopold Museum (left) from the Baroque Suites Balcony

We have also rented the beautiful Baroque Suites in the MQ, overlooking the Maria-Theresien-Platz and the Twin Museums, where we’ll have our kids / family rooms, our speakers headquarters and the media room our media partners can use to work and interview attendees and speakers.

What all this means is that

More tickets go on sale today

At 10 am today (March 10), new tickets for WordCamp Europe 2016 will be released. A reservation link will be sent to everyone who signed up for the waiting list so that you can secure your ticket for the event in Vienna.

The reservation link will be available to people who signed up for 24 hours. After that period, at 10 am tomorrow morning, the remaining tickets will become available to purchase from the tickets page on the site.

If you signed up for the waiting list, please check your email and claim your ticket as fast as possible, the number of tickets and the number of people on the list is almost the same and we can’t stop people from purchasing multiple tickets.

If you didn’t sign up for the waiting list, chances are you might still get a ticket, so keep an eye on our tickets page from tomorrow morning CET.

Good luck and see you in Vienna!

Love,

Your #WCEU organising team

Planning your trip? Get a #WCEU discount on for your flight and accommodation

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If you’re in possession of a WordCamp Europe ticket (good for you!) you’re probably going to need to plan your trip to Vienna soon. Our local team has gone above and beyond this year to help you out.

Book your flights with Austrian at a 15% discount

We’re happy to announce that Austrian Airlines is the official airline of WordCamp Europe 2016 and as such has special offers for WordCamp Europe attendees. Follow the instructions below to book your ticket.

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© Austrian Airlines

How to book?

You can book your flights to WordCamp Europe 2016 online at www.austrian.com and save 15% on all applicable fares! To do so, simply enter the code WCEU16 in the eVoucher field on the Austrian homepage booking-engine.

Conditions

  • Booking period: now until June 26th, 2016
  • Valid for flights to Vienna and return as of June 17th, 2016 until July 3rd, 2016 (final date for return flight) on OS operated flights and code share flights with OS flight numbers.

Book your flights here and we’ll see you in Vienna!

A note: Please note that the Austrian airlines final confirmation page will state the full cost of your tickets (before the discount), but you will only be charged with the discounted amount. 

Hotel recommendations for WCEU

We managed to get you discounts on several hotels in Vienna. In the Accommodation page, we also have several hotels that won’t offer discounts, but that are highly recommended either for their excellent location near the MuseumsQuartier or for their value for price.

Go to the Accommodation page to choose your hotel.

We hope you manage to find a great deal and we look forward to seeing you in Vienna!