August 14, 2015
We are so lucky to have such a bounty of sponsorship opportunities and community events to support. This week's Sponsorship update is a little road trip of sorts that starts in British Columbia, heads down the Pacific Coast to northern California and finishes in Republic of Texas.
WordCamp Vancouver 2015
Let's start in the north, where we find sponsored WordCamp Vacncouver stickers sheets in the province of British Columbia, Canada. This year's edition features speakers covering a wide range of topics, from beginner coding to SEO to content management. This year also offers a Contributor day on Sunday the 16th from 10am to 4pm.
What we love most about WordCamps is that these events are a team effort, andwe wanted to send a big StickerGiant shout out to the community of organizers behind WordCamp Vancouver 2015: Jill Binder, Joey Kudish, Flynn O’Connor, Kirk Wight, Enej Bajgoric, Andrina Fawcett, and Charlene Tessier. That's quite a crew. This year's venue sponsor is the Technical Web Design Program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
#wcyvr Tweets
&:conf 2015
Now we head south to the woods of western Sonoma County, California, for &:conf — pronounced "and conf." This event is a code retreat unconference for intersectional feminist programmers. Here's a quick summary of the weekend's schedule from their site:
Saturday’s code retreat will be a day of pair programming on one kata where each hour we throw our code away and work with a new person. Sunday’s unconference will have two tracks: yak and hack, where we'll talk about technologies, programming, careers, and culture.&:conf will take place at St. Dorothy's Rest camp and retreat center, which seems like quite the bucolic setting and reminds us of the forest moon of Endor from Return of the Jedi. Check it out on Google Maps and look around for yourself at pictures on their site.
Startup Weekend Education Austin 2015
This weekend in the capital of Texas, the folks at Austin Startup Weekend Education will take an idea and put it into action in just 54 hours. This community of entrepreneurs, developers, designers and innovators want to change the world, one startup at a time. Follow them on Twitter at @SWeduATX, and check out the #SWeduATX tweets below.
#sweduatx Tweets