Author Archives: Andy Stratton

About Andy Stratton

Andy is a freelance WordPress developer currently living in Baltimore, MD. WordCamp speaker, WordCamp Baltimore organizer, Baltimore WordPress Meetup Group organizer. Founder of Sizeable Interactive, a UX design and WordPress development agency cooperative of solid professionals.Founder of WP Maintainer a WordPress update & maintenance service.

Happy WordCamp!

Hey Attendees!

Today is the big day, we’ll see you as early as 8:15am to begin registration and t-shirt pickup.

Our camp starts at 9:00am with speakers in each of our tracks. Remember, the Downtown and Station North tracks are both rooms in the Thumel Business Center. We’ll have signage to direct you.

* Parking *
The university suggests parking at the Fitzgerald Garage (paid), details at http://fitzparking.com. The garage address is: 80 W. Oliver St., Baltimore, MD 21217 (http://goo.gl/maps/pCqa1)

* Wifi *
Here are the wifi credentials:

Network: ubalt-guest
Username: auxsvc7
Password: Pb735873

Wifi access at these events is always complimentary and a challenge, please bare with us. We will be verifying these details provided by the venue this morning.

* Lunch *
Lunch will be from 12pm–1pm and catered by Biddle St. Catering. We will serve lunch in the main atrium (where you come into the building) and you’re free to take it into the track rooms, outside, at the tables in the atrium or if you need to step out to lunch, you’re welcome to group up and grab lunch.

* After Party *
Our event should wrap around 5:30pm after Aaron Jorbin’s closing remarks. You’re free to grab dinner, take a nap, or whatever you like but if you’re sticking around the city we’re having an after party at The Water Front Hotel Bar on Thames St in Fell’s Point from 7:30–10:00.

Waterfront Hotel
1710 Thames St, Baltimore, MD ‎
(410) 537-5055 ‎
http://goo.gl/maps/gedrB

Fell’s Point’s Thames St is full of restaurants and bars and entertainment – we recommend dinner in this area, Harbor East or the Inner Harbor.

See you at the Camp!

Toolset sponsors WordCamp Baltimore!

A big thank you to Toolset, from WPML.org, for sponsoring our event!

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DreamHost sponsors WC Baltimore as a WordCamp Champion!

DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites and apps hosted. The company offers a wide spectrum of Web hosting and cloud services including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects, and the cloud computing service DreamCompute. Please visit DreamHost.com for more information.

Meet WPML.org, Our WordPress Accomplice Sponsor!

WPML makes it easy to build and run multilingual WordPress websites. You’ll be able to translate everything in the site, including content, navigation, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 150,000 commercial websites from all over the world. Want to go multilingual? Visit them and get the plugin at WPML.org.

We’d like to thank WPML for making this event happen!

Bluehost is our Pillar Sponsor

Huge thank you to BlueHost for being a Pillar Sponsor. For those of you that may not know, Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.

Find out more at bluehost.com!