Thank you, Sullivan College of Technology and Design

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A big part of any WordCamp’s budget is figuring out where to host the event in the first place. This year that couldn’t have been simpler thanks to Sullivan College of Technology and Design. As our venue sponsor they’ve donated the space for our event this weekend and that’s been invaluable for WordCamp Louisville’s return.

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In particular you may be interested in Sullivan Tech’s curriculum in Dynamic Web Development.

You’ll learn to use web languages to write programs; apply appropriate design principles to create an aesthetically pleasing yet functional sites; explore multimedia design tools to create the newest generation of interactive design; connect to databases and retrieve content efficiently; and much more.

Learn more at https://sctd.edu/ 

Meet Your Fellow Attendees and Spread #wclou on Social Media

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Two new pages are up on the WordCamp Louisville website. A list of event attendees (and their Gravatars) are listed on the Attendees page. See if anyone you know will be joining in, or put a face to a name of folks you’re hoping to meet.

The Social Media Stream page displays tweets and Instagram photos that have the hashtag #wclou . No need to wait for Saturday to share!

Thank You to Our Bronze Sponsors

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Thanks to all of our bronze-level sponsors for this year’s WordCamp Louisville.

Plesk

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Plesk simplifies web management activities to align with the way infrastructure is used today for hosting websites and web applications. A widely used web management solution, Plesk provides everything a web professional needs to set up a website quickly and securely – including a WordPress Toolkit, an easy-to-navigate control panel, server level automation, supportability tools, and complete protection with our server-to-site security core.

Dreamhost

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Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs and developers the world over bring their dreams to life on the Internet. From domain registrations to traditional web hosting and highly-optimized managed WordPress hosting, more than 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. DreamHost supports the WordPress project and community with dedicated resources and a passionate team. Packed with excellent value, DreamHost is a great place to launch a blog, website, or online application into the stratosphere! Learn more at www.DreamHost.com.

WPML

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WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.

WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 500,000 commercial websites from all over the world.

More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org

We are looking for talent. If you are a smart programmer you are welcome to contact us here: http://wpml.org/home/were-hiring/.

Scott Hack of Finish Line Realty

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Finish Line Realty is a locally owned and independent real estate brokerage focused on helping buyers and sellers of residential real estate in the greater Louisville area. The owner, and broker of the company Scott Hack has been leading the monthly WordPress Meetup for the past 4 years and worked diligently to help organize the prior three WordCamps Louisville produced. Scott continues to supported the WordPress community to the best of his abilities. Please consider Finish Line Realty, and Scott for your Louisville Real Estate needs.

WinningWP

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A popular WordPress-focused website, WinningWP offers an excellent selection of helpful tips, tricks and resources for WordPress users everywhere. Site highlights include a number of handy WordPress guides – including one on choosing the best WordPress hosting – and a heap of WordPress-related deals and discounts on a range of different industry-leading brands and services.

Üsterix

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Üsterix is a software engineering firm that specializes in custom WordPress builds for high traffic sites and event level data analytics tracking integrations with an emphasis on helping companies make decisions using data gathered from user interactions.

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findCRA

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findCRA is an innovative, online platform that assists banks and nonprofits in building stronger communities. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, the company offers its unique services to its network of nonprofits and banks throughout the United States. findCRA works to educate nonprofits and promote their community needs which qualify under the Community Reinvestment Act to provide greater access to bank supporters. Learn more about how you can participate at www.findCRA.com.

Nebojsa Djukic from ReleaseDatesAutos.com

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You can drive cars and you can love them. That is why you often have to choose which pages to bookmark and which texts to read. That is why ReleaseDatesAutos.com is one of the first places you should visit. We don’t write our texts only for the hardcore fans, but for occasional drivers too. Those careless drivers, who look under the hood once a year only to check their oil or antifreeze and know nothing about cars. You can all find something suitable because we combine technical data and numbers with most relevant news, rumors, road tests, crash tests, firsthand experience reviews, etc. Moreover, we do that before everyone, and we couldn’t do it without the help of WordPress, the most popular Web platform in the world.

Great Flood Brewing Company

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Great Flood Brewing Company, located in the heart of the Highlands in Louisville, Kentucky, offers a rotating selection of hand-crafted beer. The corner of Douglass & Bardstown was a supply base and refuge in Louisville during the Great Flood of 1937. Great Flood Brewing Company was established in 2014 as a tribute to this historic disaster, The Great Flood of 1937. greatfloodbrewing.com

Tickets are still available for WordCamp Louisville 2016:

https://2016.louisville.wordcamp.org/tickets/

Getting to Sullivan College of Technology and Design

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Some of y’all from Louisville may recognize “Sullivan” and think you know where you’re going. But there are multiple campuses in the Sullivan system! Make sure you’re heading to this address:

Sullivan College of Technology and Design
Energy Technology Building
3901 Atkinson Square Drive
Louisville, KY 40218

Once you’ve exited the Watterson Expressway, make sure to proceed onto Newburg Road southbound. The next available turn will be yours, a right turn onto Bishop Lane. At the next light, just past the Waffle House restaurant, turn right onto Gardiner Lane.

Your next turn will be a right onto Atkinson Square Drive, the Sullivan campus for our event.

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As you enter the campus, use the parking lot on the right. You may notice the “permit parking only” sign, but you will not need a permit for our Saturday event. The Energy Technology Building is on the first building on the right. Enter through the front door pictured here.

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We’ll have some signage up when you get to the event, but it’s hard to get lost once you’re in the building. Can’t wait to see you!

Thank You, GoDaddy!

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Thank you, GoDaddy, for being a silver-level sponsor of this year’s WordCamp Louisville.

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GoDaddy’s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 12 million customers worldwide and 57 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business.

Tickets are still available for WordCamp Louisville 2016:

https://2016.louisville.wordcamp.org/tickets/

Thank You, Pantheon!

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Thank you, Pantheon, for being a silver-level sponsor of this year’s WordCamp Louisville.

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Pantheon puts the power of the Internet in the hands of developers and DevOps teams, delivering rock solid hosting along with the most complete platform for professional website creation. We’ve built the world’s best website management platform—one that gives web teams all of the developer tools, hosting, scaling, performance, workflow, and automation they need to build the best websites in the world. Pantheon powers 150,000 websites, serving billions of page views per month.

For more information, visit www.pantheon.io.

Tickets are still available for WordCamp Louisville 2016:

https://2016.louisville.wordcamp.org/tickets/

Thank You, Composable Systems!

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Thank you, Composable Systems, for being a silver-level sponsor of this year’s WordCamp Louisville.

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Interesting story: At any point in time there are only fifty Microsoft SharePoint MVPs in the world. In 2007, there were 2 in Louisville, Jeremy Sublett and Bryan Phillips. They met, they brainstormed, and decided to combine talents and develop a high-quality, custom software solution company. It didn’t matter that their “office” was a kitchen table; they had the knowledge and expertise to make it work.

We’ve come a long way since the kitchen table in 2007. Though we are dedicated to Louisville, we now have clients all across the country. Last year we were named a Fast 50 Company by Business First and have grown our team to 25 to include a marketing effort as well as expand our service offerings.

http://www.composablesystems.com/

Tickets are still available for WordCamp Louisville 2016:

https://2016.louisville.wordcamp.org/tickets/

Thank You, BoldGrid!

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Thank you, BoldGrid, for being a gold-level sponsor of this year’s WordCamp Louisville.

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BoldGrid is a website builder powered by WordPress. It is a free set of WordPress plugins, themes, and other content that allows site creation and management similar to non-WordPress web builders. Created for both design professionals and corporate webmasters, BoldGrid is also being used by DIYers getting started with WordPress.

Plugin features include full starter sites, simplified photo acquisition and editing, prebuilt pages, and a Drag and Drop Page Editor.

Themes include easy Customizer navigation, full font control, built in widgets, and, among others, infinite color palette control.

Experience WordPress as a website builder with BoldGrid.

Tickets are still available for WordCamp Louisville 2016:

https://2016.louisville.wordcamp.org/tickets/

Thank You, Bluehost!

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Thank you, Bluehost, for being a gold-level sponsor of this year’s WordCamp Louisville.

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Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.

Tickets are still available for WordCamp Louisville 2016:

https://2016.louisville.wordcamp.org/tickets/

Thank You, WooCommerce!

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Thank you, WooCommerce, for being a gold-level sponsor of this year’s WordCamp Louisville.

WooCommerce is the fastest growing eCommerce software/platform, powering over 30% of all eCommerce stores with over 1 million active installations. It is is built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, making it the obvious eCommerce choice for existing WordPress users and connects you to the fast-growing WordPress ecosystem which now powers over 25% of all websites on the internet.

With WooCommerce you can start with all the basic tools that any small business would need to start selling online, including product setup, payments, shipping options, and sales reports and as your business grows choose from over 300 premium add-ons available including additional payment processors, shipping methods, inventory systems and marketing tools anyone to sell anything, anywhere from real products and digital downloads to subscriptions, content and even your time.

In July 2015, WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month and also the creators of other popular WordPress services including Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress. We look forward to growing WooCommerce to achieve even greater things together with Automattic.

Tickets are still available for WordCamp Louisville 2016:

https://2016.louisville.wordcamp.org/tickets/