Author: Ken

Now in its third year, WordCamp Lehigh Valley serves a widespread region of the WordPress community throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and beyond.

Sponsoring this event is the perfect opportunity to introduce your services and products to a focused community of users, developers, business owners, and more—our 2017 event attracted over 100 attendees and we are hoping to grow even more this year!

Without our generous sponsors, WordCamp Lehigh Valley would not be possible.

Sponsors allow us to offer an amazing ticket price of just $20 so that our attendees can enjoy this full day event and learn from our speakers, network with others, and immerse themselves in the WordPress community.

As a sponsor, you’ll be highlighted on our website and event materials, as well as be able to meet face-to-face with other WordPress community members to build their confidence in you, your products and services. Check out our sponsorship levels for more information on what will be included in your sponsorship.

WordPress is made possible by the thousands of volunteers throughout the world that lend their time and talents to the open-source project in countless ways, including community events like this WordCamp. Your sponsorship furthers these efforts and makes it possible for us to host this event as a gathering place for the community to learn, share, network, and collaborate.

Click here to complete the 2018 WCLVPA Sponsorship Interest Form

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Please note that all sponsors will be vetted according to the WordCamp Central Official Sponsorship Guidelines below:

• Fundraising Philosophy
• Local WordCamp Sponsorship
• 100% GPL Vetting Checklist

Are you looking for a great opportunity to get involved with the WordPress community?

We are in search of WordPress enthusiasts eager to lend a hand! WordCamps would not be possible without a strong volunteer base of people like you. If you’ve been thinking about attending WordCamp Lehigh Valley and want to help out, we would love to have you join us! Volunteering at WordCamp is a fun way to meet members of the local and national WordPress community, as well as help contribute to making the event a success.

There are a variety of volunteer opportunities, each with different time commitments, experience requirements, and logistics. There are two requirements for ALL volunteers, regardless of the job or duration: be reliable and be friendly.

Look over the list to see if anything strikes a chord.  Then if you’d like to volunteer, fill out the volunteer form below to express your interest in volunteering. Our Volunteer Wrangler will get back to you and let you know which options are available and work out a schedule.

During the Event

Set Up/Clean Up – Help with event set up and clean up as needed
Registration – Check in registered attendees and hand out nametags and swag. Sell walk-up tickets, take money and make change, or an iPad/Square reader.  Being really awesome with alphabetical order helps here.
Room Emcee – Introduce speakers/sessions and keep things running on time. Keep an eye on the clock and give speakers a heads up when they are down to 10 and 5 minutes, and let them know when their time is up. Brevity and wit a must.
Photography – We need your your unique vision and your photography skills to document the event with your camera.
Room Runners – Work with the emcees, video people, speakers, and everyone else working in the room to keep things running smoothly. Make sure there’s water for speakers, and provide support as needed for other event staff.
Happiness Bar – Answer questions and help WordPress users fix problems with their sites. Must be able to show a level of expertise to be selected for this gig.
Food/Beverage – This is already taken of for the most part, but it would be helpful to have a few people keeping an eye on things. We’ll especially need a couple of people to help around lunchtime.
Miscellaneous Prep – Random helping here and there that doesn’t have a category.

Remember that if you volunteer, or are sending an employee to volunteer, you must meet the WordCamp Central guidance for volunteers.

WordCamp Lehigh Valley is currently looking for speakers to inspire and inform at least 125 attendees including: designers, developers, bloggers, and content strategists.

Sessions will be 40 minutes, with 25-30 minutes allotted for your talk and 10-15 minutes for Q&A and further discussion.

The deadline to submit your application is 11 PM on Sunday, June 24th, 2018. You will be notified when a decision about your submission is made, no later than mid-July.

General guidelines for speakers

We’re looking for talks that are relevant to casual WordPress users, experienced developers, and anywhere between. You do not need to be a professional speaker, but you should be knowledgeable about the topic you are presenting. You are encouraged to apply even if you have never spoken at a WordCamp before. If you need some inspiration, take a look at some of the great talks published on http://wordpress.tv/

All submissions are reviewed by the organizer committee. Be prepared to submit your speaker slides or review your presentation with an organizer prior to the event if asked.

Speakers will be provided free admission to WordCamp Lehigh Valley 2018 and also get to attend a speaker dinner, but we cannot reimburse travel, lodging, or other expenses.

While all topics are welcome, we would like to see talks relating to:

• WordPress Fundamentals
• Blogging and Content Creation
• Design and User Experience
• Backend Development
• Workflows
• Marketing and Branding
• Running a WordPress-Based Business
• Themes
• Plugins
• Security
• Digital marketing and

Know someone you’d like to hear speak?

If you know a person who is a great speaker, or maybe a new speaker with tons of knowledge to share, and would like to nominate them to speak, get in touch via our Contact Form and let us know who it is, where they are located, and what it is they speak about, as well as a way for us to get in touch.

If you’d like to propose multiple topics, please submit the form multiple times, once for each topic.

We’re happy to announce that WordCamp Lehigh Valley is officially on the calendar!

WordCamp Lehigh Valley will be held August 18, 2018, at the NCC Fowler Family Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Subscribe using the form in the sidebar to stay up to date on the most recent news. We’ll be keeping you posted on all the details over the coming months, including speaker submissions, ticket sales, and more!