WordCamp London 2015

Wapuunk, Wallpapers and More…

With all the wonderful feedback on the design we thought it would be great to share some of the artwork with you from WordCamp London 2015. We are putting these out there under a creative commons licence (except Wapuu, more below) for you download, use and modify. Enjoy!

The Logo

Download the PDF version.

Wapuunk!

Wapuu is already open source and released under the GPLv2. You can contribute to the Wapuu archives on the official repository.

Download the PDF version.

Wallpapers

Posters

These are the posters you would have seen travelling around the venue over the weekend. They are all A3 portrait and ready to print. One subtle detail you my have missed is that we colour matched the posters and bunting around the 3 venues to the map on the back of your lanyard (hence the filenames).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Complete the WordCamp London 2015 Feedback Survey

Thanks for attending WordCamp London last weekend. We had a blast and we hope you did too! We’d love to hear what you thought about the event. All of your feedback is read by the organising team and helps us to improve for next year.

You can find the survey right here – it should only take five minutes or so to complete and will be a big help to us. Thanks!

Catering for WordCamp London

WordCamps can be hungry work. Below are the various menus for WordCamp London. If you ordered a very, very specific menu and you don’t see anything below that you can eat, please grab a volunteer at lunch time to take you to the catering people. They have a list of all of the dietary requirements and will ensure that your requirement is available.

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Be a Volunteer Photographer at WordCamp London

We’d love to get some beautiful photos of WordCamp London that we can share on our blog and use in posts and articles about the event afterwards. We’re looking for some volunteer photographers to document the event over the two days. We’ll make these available on the blog after the event, including image credits back to the photographers. If you’re interested, drop us an email at london@wordcamp.org.

Big thanks to our global community sponsors!

Some sponsors sponsor one WordCamp, others sponsor all of them. These are the Global community sponsors, and they provide funding for every WordCamp in Europe. We think that’s pretty great so a huge thanks to all of them!

Jetpack

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Bluehost

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PlanetHoster

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WPML

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WordCamp London Practical Information

Just one week until WordCamp London and we are getting pretty excited. We hope that you are too! We’ve got lots of fun in store for you, with three days packed full of WordPress. This post has all of the information that you need ahead of the event, so please read it (you’ll also find it in your email inbox). If you do have any questions for us, send us an email at london@wordcamp.org

Contributor Day

If you have signed up for the contributor day, you’ll be receiving and email to confirm your attendance and with all of the finer details. The contributor day will take place at the Graduate Centre. This the building after the main London Met entrance on Holloway Road. Registration starts at 09:30 and the event finishes at 17:00.

Registration

Registration on Saturday 21st starts at 8am and will take place at The Rocket Complex on Holloway Road. We’ve got around 600 attendees so it’d help us out if you could get through registration quickly. There will be coffee, tea and morning pastries, and plenty of places where you can hang out before the talks get started.

Access Requests

London Met University is fully accessible but if you do have any specific access requests please let us know in advance. You can email us at london@wordcamp.org. If there’s anything you need throughout the day, grab one of our volunteers, who’ll be wearing bright pink t-shirts.

Getting Around

The easiest way to access the three areas where the conference takes place (the Rocket Complex, the Graduate Centre, and the Henry Thomas Room) is via Holloway Road. Each of the spaces has direct access onto Holloway Road. There is a map on your name badge. The University itself is something of a warren. If you find yourself getting lost, as one of our volunteers where to go.

Catering

We have done our best to cater to all dietary requirements. If you have very specific dietary requirements (if you’ve requested gluten free -and- lactose free -and- vegetarian, for example), please grab one of our volunteers at lunch time so that they can ensure you get what you ordered. Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free, and Lactose Free diets will be easily available and properly labelled.

Volunteers

Our volunteers will be dressed in gorgeous pink t-shirts. If you need any help, just grab one of them and they’ll do their best to help you out.

After-party

The after-party will take place in the Rocket Complex, and kicks off straight after the end of the conference. A full bar is available, and we’re making plans for some fun activities for you to enjoy. We’ll be providing a full dinner with a selection of that English classic: pies, mash, and lots of sides (all of the dietary requirements that you requested when you bought your tickets will be provided). Dinner will be served upstairs at the Rocket between 7:30pm and 9:00pm.

Please keep your name badge with you at all times. If you decide to leave the building you’ll need it to get back in.

The party will end at midnight.

Code of Conduct

We have a Code of Conduct to ensure that WordCamp London is a safe and welcoming environment for every attendee. If you experience anyone breaking the code of conduct, or see anyone doing so, please tell one of our volunteers.

Big thanks to 1&1 and GoDaddy for being such fabulous WordCamp London sponsors!

Thank you to our Old Kent Road Sponsors!

WordCamps are made possible by the wonderful sponsors who help us out by financially supporting the event. Without them WordCamp London wouldn’t happen, and you’d all have to spend the weekend at home, dreaming about hanging out with your WordPress compadres.

These are our fabulous Angel Islington sponsors. Say thanks and show your love to these fantastic folks.

Moove Agency

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Delivered with care, passion and precision from our studio, based in the heart of London’s trendy Hoxton. Our marketing, creative & technical expertise combined with our dedicated support brings you simply outstanding WordPress development services.

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MailPoet

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Wholegrain Digital

Wholegrain Digital is a web design and web development company headquartered in London and was the first London agency to specialise exclusively in WordPress. Founded in 2007, Wholegrain Digital has worked with a wide range of corporate clients including Marks and Spencer, Method, Totaljobs, Jamie Oliver, Time Inc, Unite the Union and is passionate about helping good companies do good things through good use of open source technologies.

The Wholegrain team is a diverse and close knit team of passionate individuals who all are brought together by the love of WordPress, good design and all things wholesome.

iThemes

Since 2008 iThemes has been creating WordPress plugins, themes and training for freelancers, marketers, entrepreneurs, designers, and developers. iThemes takes the guesswork out of building, maintaining, securing and running WordPress websites.

Our tools are built to help you prosper in your business. Whether you manage 1 WordPress site or 1,000 our goal is to make sure your work is profitable and enables you to spend more time away from a computer or give you more time to take on more clients.

Connected

Connected are a WordPress-only Digital Agency covering London and Yorkshire. Established in 1996, they offer the full range of agency services including design, build, support, migration, traffic, marketing, CRO, SEO. Working exclusively with clients that target £100k to £50m of online business. Fully-managed WordPress builds from £5k to £100k, to get started contact them at https://connected-uk.com

WP Bees

WordPress Bees specialises in providing WordPress development to design agencies and freelance graphic designers. Whether you need front-end development (PSD to HTML) or a complete theme developed from your designs, WPBees can help!

Theme Isle

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Big thanks to our Angel Islington Sponsor!

WordCamps are sponsored by all sorts of different companies, and we’re appreciative of every single person who helps us out. WordCamp London wouldn’t be possible without this type of support.

Say hello to our Angel Islington sponsor!

Make Do

Make Do is a passionate WordPress design & development agency based in the UK. Recently working with Stephen Fry, the NHS, Teaching Schools Council and Sheffield University they have a pedigree for making and doing wonderful things with the WordPress platform.

Show some love to our Piccadilly Sponsors!

We’ve got some more great sponsors to tell you about today. Our Piccadilly sponsors will be exhibiting at WordCamp London; make sure you check them out, say hi, and grab some of their cool swag. These are the people who make WordCamp possible, so make sure that you say thanks too!

SHOWthemes

SHOWthemes.com is a boutique Premium WordPress Event Theme Shop based in London UK. We work with the top WordPress Developers and Graphic designers to bring you the most beautiful and performing conference and event WordPress themes on the market.

By combining our deep knowledge of events, event marketing and event technology we are able to bring you the most advanced and sophisticated WordPress event themes, yet easy to use and implement.

Our small team is committed to provide the best code and support on the market. Our products have custom functionality specifically designed for event management, that sets them apart from competition.

SiteGround

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MultilingualPress Pro

MultilingualPress provides a clean, usable solution to publish content in multiple languages for simple blogs as well as high-end web services with enterprise-level requirements regarding SEO and performance. MultilingualPress offers seamless integration with workflows of both, single-screen translating content creators as well as distributed units of staff authors and localisation contractors.

Developers will appreciate a highly attractive toolset of well-documented objects. Our strong commitment to OOP and WordPress coding standards will make your custom solutions with MultilingualPress both maintainable and extendable.
MultilingualPress is made by Inpsyde. Like WordPress, it has been published under GPL.

tibdit

tibdit is an innovative micropayments and microdonations service, specifically designed for bloggers to generate revenue in a way that appeals to the general public. Its WordPress plugin offers an easy, logical method of transferring money from reader to blogger. Unlike other microtransaction services, tibdit’s WordPress plugin makes payment intuitively simple, so fans can contribute without a second thought.

tibdit was founded by Justin Maxwell and Pauline Hunter to combat the declining practice of paying for high quality online content and services. tibdit helps to reward WordPress bloggers with the deserved funding they need to continue producing great material, whilst allowing their readers to show love for the blogs they follow.

Thanks to our Regent Street Sponsors!

Thank you to our fantastic Regent Street sponsors for being huge supporters of WordCamp London and of WordCamps all over the world. It’s folks like this that make WordCamp London both possible and awesome. Stop by their exhibition stands and say thanks!

WP Engine

WP Engine is a leading SaaS content management platform for websites and applications built on WordPress. The company powers thousands of websites and apps built on the WordPress platform delivering a fast, reliable and secure web experience. All levels of users including bloggers, marketers, SMBs and large corporations rely on WP Engine’s platform to keep their websites up and running. The company’s exceptional customer service team specialises in quickly solving technical problems, and creating a world-class customer experience for it’s customers. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has offices in San Francisco and more recently launched a new EMEA office in Tech City, London.

WooThemes

WooThemes is a proudly WordPress company of 50 fifty across sixteen countries. From humble beginnings selling a handful of commercial themes, Woo now offer the ultimate WordPress Toolkit of themes, plugins and extensions to help people build great things with WordPress, including WooCommerce. Proudly bootstrapped, work-life balance believers and passionate about prospering people.

34sp.com

34SP.com is a unique WordPress Hosting provider based right in the Northern Quarter in Manchester, UK. What separates 34SP.com from other hosting companies is our unwavering commitment to customers through our exceptional service and support.

Founded in the year 2000, 34SP.com has been hosting WordPress accounts since the platform launched in 2003.

34SP.com has long been a strong supporter and sponsor of WordPress and local WordCamps throughout Europe. We are advocates of the Open Source movement and use Open Source code and resources in our own business
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Parallels

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