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I seriously can’t believe it. When John Eckman, Jake Goldman and I sat on the floor of Baruch college a few months ago and started planning WordCamp Boston, we thought 200 sounded a little small, but it was a first year conference and we loved the NERD center. When we sold out almost immediately we thought, “eh, that’s ok. Keep em wanting a little.” Then the desperate emails started:) And the phone calls. And the black market tickets!!! At some point, someone threatened a cat. #justsayin.
Kudos to Leah Brunson and the NERD Center for working with us to develop new spaces and processes to allow us to double our capacity for WordCamp. And even more kudos to our sponsors and vendors for magically coming up with more products to support it.
And yet, here we are, weeks away and sold out again with a mile long waitlist. To be clear, we are indeed sold out. We have a few Individual and Small Business Sponsorships left, but otherwise, you’ll have to bribe someone to give up their ticket, check ebay and craigslist, or just check the wordcamp.tv videos after camp this year.
We have every plan to increase capacity for WordCamp Boston 2011. Meanwhile, if you have a ticket for 2010 and do not plan to attend, PLEASE gift your ticket to someone, or ask us for a name. Many, many thanks to all of you for making 2010 SUCH a success.
Now… log back into Eventbrite and tell us what size shirt you wear, make sure you details are correct so we can tell you all part at WordCamp!
Pleas, please, please, PLEASE do a WordCamp in Minneapolis!! I am more than willing to help with the planning, preparation and implementation of this event if people from your “camp” are willing to bring the popular concept to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. I have a few friends that would be willing to attend and I am slowly building my network of Wordpress users. Please contact me EITHER WAY to let me know if any discussion around this large hub city has been considered or will be placed into consideration. Many thanks, and let me know if there is any way I could help make this happen – I am fully committed.
yeah dude. we’re all just volunteers ourselves! each wordcamp is organized by regional volunteers just like you who want to see it happen! I checked on google for WordCamp Minneapolis and it appears there is interest there… check it out. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS342US342&q=wordcamp+minneapolis&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g-sx1
meanwhile…. get onto wordcamp.org and talk to Maya and start plotting one of your own! http://central.wordcamp.org/
OMG NOOO!! I didn’t even get a chance to try and get one
I live and work around corner. What if I just happened to be walking by, and you let me in the back door, I’m good at pretending I’m supposed to be somewhere when I’m not. Don’t make me bring a cat wired with explosives!
lol that gave me a good laugh when I read that. I am very upset I’m already too late though. I can practically see the building from where I’m sitting too.
Next year have it at Fenway!
Sorry dude. It PAINS us to have to turn anyone away. But, luckily, Microsoft has this whole venue security sitch pretty well down pat. Good news- we’ll video tape it all and post to wordcamp.tv and you can catch the play by play through our twitter list, I’m sure.
I’m considering opening the waiting list for WordCamp 2011 shortly.
Everyone’s support of this event has been, well, overwhelming:)
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