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Saturday, June 7, 2014: WordPress Presentations

8:00 am — Registration Opens
8:30 am — Welcome Remarks
9:00 am — Sessions Begin
12:30 pm — Lunch
1:45 pm — Sessions Resume
5:00 pm — Closing Remarks
5:30 pm — End

Happy Hour 5:30-7:30
The After Party starts at 7:30 pm.

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Sunday, June 8, 2014: Dev and Contributor Day

1:00 pm — Dev Day Starts
5:00 pm — Dev Day Ends

Why “WordCamp”?

We have an active monthly Meetup-based community here in Philly that gathers folks from all around the metro area towards a single goal: building a local community based on WordPress in all its uses. We feature local WordPress luminaries, each of whom contributes a talk, demonstration, or code for all to share and benefit from. So the question arises: why is “WordCamp Philly” necessary?

What Is It?

WordCamps are different. WordCamp Philly is intended to be the premiere WordPress-related technical conference in Philadelphia. It is a larger, two day event, with a Saturday full of learning opportunities. A total of four tracks, held in incredible, cool facilities at the University of the Arts Gershman Hall will be on offer for attendees:

User
Power User
Designer
Developer

But wait, there’s more! This year, we are delighted that GirlDevelopIt Philadelphia (GDI) will provide sessions on a wide variety of WordPress topics throughout the day!

And that’s still not all! There will also be a Sunday Developer Day held in CityCoHo. This day will be less session based and more hands-on hacking! Don’t think you’re an expert developer? No worries. Dev Day is also for developers who want to learn from some of the most talented people around. The agenda will include: