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High five to WooThemes

Sponsors
WooThemes make awesome premium themes and plugins
WooThemes make awesome premium themes and plugins

Today we are sending a few 100 high-fives to the awesome people over at WooThemes who as our ‘Gold’ sponsor provided a generous £500 to the WordCamp Sheffield budget 🙂

Who are WooThemes?

WooThemes have a huge portfolio of WordPress themes that cover most niches.

All of their premium themes are powered by the versatile WooFramework which gives you not only a beautiful site but some incredible flexibility.

WooThemes (despite the name) also make some of the most awesome premium plugins out there – this includes the awesome WooCommerce, a game-changing eCommerce platform that is totally FREE to download, use and build on.

Thanks to Human Made

Sponsors
Our premium 'Stainless Steel' sponsors are Human Made
Our premium ‘Stainless Steel’ sponsors are Human Made

We’d like to thank our big-awesome-and-super-friendly sponsors Human Made who became our major ‘Stainless Steel’ sponsors throwing a massive £1000 into the WordCamp Sheffield budget!

Who are Human Made?

A leading WordPress agency based in the UK who provide WordPress development & consultancy for large-scale sites and big name clients worldwide.

Human Made Limited is run by real people, with a strong company culture. They are active members of the WordPress community; creating plugins, developer tools as well as sponsoring and speaking at WordCamps & Meetups.

The team are also often members of our little WordPress Sheffield meetup – which makes them even more awesome 🙂

Conference tickets sold out

Status, Tickets

Last week we sold our 100th conference ticket and are officially sold out – this takes attendance levels to:

  • 100 conference attendees
  • 18 speaker passes
  • 20 volunteers/helper tickets

That’s almost 140 people and our venue can hold a comfortable 150 – max (room 2 only has space for around 95).

WordCamp Sheffield t-shirt design
WordCamp Sheffield t-shirt design

Will we release more tickets?

As yet I just don’t know sorry – if you missed out stay tuned, we are checking with our sponsors to see if they are using their full allocation of tickets and with the venue to see if we can fit any more chairs in the main hall.

Staying informed…

Keep following the twitter #wcsheff hashtag and follow @wpsheff and Kimbs twitter at @mkjones for the latest updates.

Want your WordPress fix but can’t wait until the conference??

Harrisons 1854 - our latest Sheffield meetup venue
Harrisons 1854 – our latest Sheffield meetup venue

Don’t miss the next WordPress Sheffield meet-up which has food, drinks, talks and is on the 8th of April at 7pm at Harrisons 1854 – which coincidentally is the after-party venue for the conference :)

State of the ‘Camp

Speakers, Sponsors, Status, Tickets

WordCamp Sheffield is just 5 weeks away and things are coming along nicely 🙂

Right now we’ve managed to:

What next?

Over the next month we’ve got to shift the remaining lot of tickets, confirm the after-party venue (almost sorted), order the awesome t-shirts (can’t wait to see these) and get the final catering booked.

Helping you help us

All of this awesome stuff will be happening at Mappin Hall in Sheffield City Center. We’re working with our local buddies to find out the best spots to stay overnight and park. We highly recommend public transport when attending the WordCamp as Sheffield has a great network of trains buses and trams (also, the venue is about 10mins walk from the main train station).

Mappin Hall

Staying informed

The best way to get news on the event is to follow @wpsheff on twitter. We’ll also be updating this blog in the coming weeks with news and info so keep coming back 🙂

Any ticket holders will receive email updates about the event closer to the time!

That’s pretty much all for now, thanks for reading 🙂