Prices are stunningly low, as always: only $30 for the whole event, including sessions all day on Saturday and all afternoon on Sunday.  Your ticket includes lunch on Saturday and a limited edition WordCamp Portland 2011 t-shirt.

We’re taking a leap of faith and selling this year’s tickets at a low, low price. To cover our expenses, we still need cash or in-kind sponsors. The organizing team has been pounding the pavement, but I bet you know at least one person that we don’t!

If you have clients with WordPress sites, or if you make money building WordPress websites, or if you met your beloved and attentive spouse through your WordPress blog, or if you just sold a charming little craftsman bungalow from your WordPress real estate site… how about contributing back to the free & open source software that made it all possible by sponsoring WordCamp Portland? According to the Dalai Lama, “it’s the karmic version of a hot fudge sundae.”[1]

Sponsorship comes at all levels, and we’ve tried to price a bridge to appeal to anyone’s budget.  If you can’t give, we’d be totally grateful if you could email or call 3 people on our behalf. Thanks, you’re amazing.

Less talk, more tickets, right? Register now!

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I’m a native Portlander and a graduate of PSU.  I left Portland in 1995 to travel the world (Mexico City, St. Thomas USVI, and Austin TX) and am now super-excited to be moving my family to my beloved hometown in August.  I also work for Automattic as the coordinator at WordCamp Central, which means I work with WordCamp organizers all over the world to make their events successful and stunning and happy.

We’ve recently posted a call for volunteers for WCPDX 2011; regardless of your level of involvement in the Portland WordPress community heretofore, I encourage you to get involved in organizing WordCamp Portland!  We have need of your expertise, special talents, and enthusiasm.  Please join Aaron, me and all the other people who have already reached out to help us create a superlative event.  If you have any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out by emailing portland@wordcamp.org.