WordCamp Montreal 2013

This year we had an un precedented number of quality speaker applications. And while we are thrilled to announce our 2-track speaker lineup and list of talks for WordCamp Montreal 2013, we would love to include a third track. We have enough speakers, a room is available, but unfortunately we just don’t have the budget. We need your help.

If we can raise $3000 by Tuesday May 21, we can add a third track of excellent speakers and make WordCamp Montreal 2013 truly the best yet. We’ve already contacted over 80 companies and organizations and have been lucky enough to find some really wonderful sponsors. But we need more.

Please reach out to your friends and colleagues to see if they would like to support an amazing open source software event in Montreal. If you have any suggestions for potential sponsors feel free to leave their name in the comments or contact us directly.

Thank you for your help!

Are you a WordPress expert? Do you like helping others and contributing to the open source community? Well here’s your chance!

What is the Happiness Bar?
The Happiness Bar is a special activity at WordCamp where local and visiting WordPress experts offer help and advice to other attendees who come up to the “bar” with their questions. Help a beginners just starting out, solve a tricky configuration problem or a plugin issue, or help an enterprise figure out how WordPress can fit into their plans.

How much time do I have to commit to?
As a Happiness Bar volunteer you need to commit to one-hour blocks of time. Choose one block or many!

What are the benefits?
It’s a lot of fun and a great way to meet new people and show them how much you know (maybe they’ll hire you!). Happiness Bar volunteers don’t get free attendance because it’s a fun and rewarding activity on it’s own. It’s also a great way to give back to the open source community.

How can I get involved?
If you’re better at answering questions than asking please come to the bar and help out! You can sign up to be an official happiness barista on the volunteering page.

Want even more WordCamp fun? Come to our family-friendly picnic on Monday, July 1 at 11:30.

This year, since WordCamp Montreal falls on the Canada Day long weekend, we’re organizing a picnic the day after WordCamp. We’ll be meeting at 11:30 at Mount Royal Park. The park is near Parc Avenue and Mont-Royal Boulevard. We’ll be meeting between the gazebo and the George-Étienne Cartier Monument (view on Google Maps). Bring your lunch!

This event doesn’t require tickets (you will need a ticket to attend the conference, of course). Feel free to bring along friends and family. This is a child-friendly event. Everyone is welcome, just bring enough lunch for you and your friends.

In case of rain, the picnic will be cancelled and we’ll post a message on the WordCamp Montréal website.

Are you a freelancer or a small company or partnership using WordPress? Are you looking for a way to give back to the WordPress community? As in previous years, WordCamp Montreal is offering microsponsorships.

WordPress is a world where you don’t need to be a big company to be a professional and we want to give the smaller players a chance to contribute as well. To this end we are offering a limited number of micro-sponsorships at $200 each.

Note: Only individuals and tiny companies should purchase microsponsorships. We hope that larger organizations will find our other sponsorship levels acceptable.

Micro-sponsors won’t have big logos on the site or merch but will have text links accompanying various sponsor listings. You will also be given opportunities during the event to address attendees with a promotional message about you and whatever WordPress-related services you offer.

By limiting the number of these available we hope to make each micro-sponsor a rockstar at the event itself.

We usually sell Micro-sponsorships as a form of really expensive ticket to simplify the process of signing up.

Get your microsponsor ticket today!

The WordCamp Montreal 2013 call for sponsors is officially open!

For businesses looking to break into the web scene, and especially those looking to hire professionals skilled in WordPress, this is the ideal way to reach your audience and accrue good will at the same time.

Sponsors’ names and links will be shown on the WordCamp Montreal website (wcmtl.org) in the sidebar and in more detail on the sponsors’ page. Your logo will appear on our website at the aluminum level and above. We will also add your graphics onto printed materials at the silver level and above.

Learn more about our sponsorship program.

The WordCamp Montreal 2013 call for speakers is officially open! The deadline is April 29 at midnight.

The ideal speaker has a WordPress-related topic they are passionate about and that they can present in 45 minutes with attractive PowerPoint/Keynote slides and detailed coherent explanations. Designers, Bloggers, Businesses and Developers are all welcome! Talks can be in English or French. Your topic should be specific to WordPress.

Want to speak, or know someone who would be great? Learn more about speaking and apply on the Be a Speaker page.

Too shy for the big stage? We also need volunteers to make the event a success! Sign up to volunteer for four hours and your admission could be free 🙂