Bring your ID if you’d like to partake in a brew.

Plan to stick around after sessions conclude on Saturday for some tasty Full Sail beer, light snacks and all the fun you can handle.  Festivities start at the end of sessions and continue until about 7:30pm.

It’s just a Saturday night.

*because, of course, there is a half-day of WP fun awaiting you on Sunday afternoon.

The short version is that we’re starting half an hour later, with doors opening at 1:30pm. See the schedule page for the full weekend schedule. Sorry for any inconvenience this change might bring.

We still need some help to make this the most amazing possible event, and we’d love your help.

We have been offered the donation of some tasty soda pop from Jones Soda, but the product is in Seattle, and we have no way to get it to Portland.  If any of our Seattle attendees have room in their vehicles for 15 cases of soda, we’d crown you Monarch of Soda for the duration of the event.  If you can help, please email us at portland@wordcamp.org as soon as you can, or we’re going to have to go with generic from Freddies.

Also, we need a few more OLCC-licensed volunteers to serve beer.  Full Sail Brewing has been kind enough to sponsor our event as a Vista Bridge sponsor, and we’ll be pouring two of their tasty brews… but we need more people to help keep us legal (and to keep the current volunteers from fainting in exhaustion, thereby cutting off our access to tasty beer).  If you or anyone you know (who might be available to volunteer on Sat/Sun) has an OLCC servers license, please email us at portland@wordcamp.org as soon as you can.

Lastly, we could totally use more volunteers.  We’re not able to comp tickets for volunteers this year due to budget restrictions, but it’s a proven fact that volunteering – even for 2-3 hours – at a WordCamp brings you good WordPress luck throughout the year.  Plus, we’ll be really grateful.  And you’ll be even amazinger than you were before.  Leave a comment in this section if you can give us some of your time on Saturday or Sunday.

Thanks, everybody!  Looking forward to a great time being had by all.

Scott Berkun will start us off right at 9 am on Saturday, and unconference sessions will follow. After our delicious lunch, Andrew Nacin will present “something awesome” at 1:15 pm, as is his wont. Then more unconferences will roll in, bringing with them a 93% chance of inspiration and new ideas for all attendees present.

Your Not-After Party high jinks will get started after we wrap up at 5:15, at a location to be disclosed soon.

After you sleep in/go to church/play with kittens on Sunday, you won’t want to forget to come back to the Eliot Center to hear Jane Wells speak at 1:30. The final round of unconference sessions will be held, and we’ll bring the WordPress fun to a close (just for the day) at 5:15pm.

Also on the schedule page, we have compiled a list of the (many!) great ideas for unconference sessions that have been suggested or proposed.  If you think there’s something missing, please hustle on over and propose a session or suggest a topic you want to learn more about.

We can’t wait until this weekend!  See you there!

We’re still ironing out the exact topic for Jane’s talk and will update this post once we have it finalized, but I can pretty much guarantee it will be interesting.

I’ve seen Scott speak previously, he’s an engaging and informative speaker and I’m really looking forward to hearing him share with our Portland audience.

Learn more about Scott on his website, or follow him on Twitter.

T-shirts, my friends – there will also be limited edition WordCamp Portland t-shirts that you can only get if you attend WordCamp Portland.  (Did I mention recently that you should look at all the amazing people you’ll be rubbing shoulders with at wcpdx? Because you really should.)

Oh, the heads you will turn!  This graphic is specifically designed to make your complexion clearer, your hair shinier, and your WPM faster. Plus, you can test people’s knowledge of Portland bridges by asking them to name all eight pictured.  Amaze your friends and astound your neighbors!

IMPORTANT: we’re going with Canvas brand shirts for men and Bella brand shirts for women.  These are a truer fit than you might be used to if you are accustomed to a more gym-style event shirt.  Check out the sizing charts if you’re unsure – you’re going to want to wear this shirt everywhere.

The final t-shirt order goes in tomorrow. Buy your ticket now to join in the high-jinks.  If you want to change your shirt size, you can do so by changing your registration information (that link you followed to tell us your name, rank, and Twitter handle).

As I look at the current state of things, we have about 135 tickets remaining.

There’s some great discussion going on at the open thread for discussion topic ideas.

As I browse the list of registered attendees and look at the names of other sponsors and organizers who aren’t yet on that page, I see:

• multiple WordPress core contributors
• WordCamp organizers from across the country
• authors who produce great content, developers who write plugins and themes, and designers who make things look and work smoothly
• folks like John Hawkins* and Todd Huish who build websites for Chris Brogan
• Tantek Çelik, a web standards guru and microformats pioneer

* speaking of Mr. Hawkins, check out his article WordCamp Portland – Round 3 in which he explains why (as a 20+ WordCamp veteran) he’s excited to travel 750 miles to come to WordCamp Portland.

This workshop is designed for people who have never blogged before, on any blogging platform.  You’ll start at zero and end up a hero with your very own, free WordPress.com blog! You’ll publish content and learn about themes and widgets, as well as other useful WordPress.com features.

Taught by actual WordPress.com Happiness Engineers, this workshop costs just $25 and includes lunch.  Register today!  There are only 25 spots available, and they’re likely to fly.

Special thanks to Digital Trends, yet again, for providing the conference space for us to hold the workshop.  Amazing sponsors FTW!