Big Apple’s WordCamp Just Got Bigger
This year’s WordCamp in New York City is positioned to be one of the largest WordCamp’s ever. With the local, national and international WordPress communities planning to attend WordCampNYC, we realized we needed a larger venue.
Today, we are very pleased to announce that Baruch College of the City University of New York will be the new venue for WordCampNYC, and will be donating a significant amount of classrooms, as well as their Mason Hall Auditorium, to our event. This generous venue sponsorship from Baruch enables us to cater to a wider range of WordPress users by allowing us to simultaneously hold multiple tracks and cover all topics WordPress.
Blogs@Baruch, a program overseen by the College’s Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, is the largest WordPress project at CUNY. It is built on WordPress MU and enables members of the Baruch academic community to create individual, group or course blogs in just a few clicks. Baruch College is an advocate of WordPress and other open-source technology, making it a perfect fit for WordCampNYC.
Now that our venue is solidified, we can start selling some tickets! Look for registration to open this week.
Thank you for your patience… it will be worth it.
That is great news!
Can’t wait to purchase tickets and go!
Awesome to hear that! Go Wordcamp NYC!
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Can’t wait. Hoping to make this my first WordCamp!
When will the schedule be available? I can’t attend most of Sat due to the jewish sabbath, but would likely want to get tickets to the rest, if possible. What’s the capacity on the space- I’ve got to get mgmt to sign off on this for some of our other devs, and i’m not sure how fast I can manage that…
Saturday’s event will likely be somewhere around 600-800 people, while Sunday’s auditorium will hold 1000 people. The hour-by-hour schedule will be posted in a week or so, as we finalize additional speakers. The general tracks and breakdown of what’s going to happen on Sunday are outlined in the recent post announcing the opening of registration.