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The Morning After!

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If you were looking for a restful morning to follow the busy-ness of WordCamp Glasgow 2020, Storm Ciara is doing its best to disrupt that with rain, floods and winds over 70 mph.

Ah. A peaceful Sunday morning in Glasgow!

But we did it! Thanks to everyone pulling together: team; speakers; volunteers; sponsors; and you fantastic delegates. We had a cracking day.

We managed 2 tracks, thirteen talks plus an excellent ‘Question Time’ panel who were quizzed on all things WordPress and nailed it. We were fed some exceptional food from the Soul Food Sisters and the caffeine addicts were appeased by the lovely folk from Spoons Cafe.

Jeremy opens proceedings at WCGla

We managed to tolerate the ‘Prat in the Hat’ at the start, after which everyone kept to schedule and everyone was lovely to one another. And those still with energy to spare spent a fascinating hour in the Britannia Music Hall / Panopticon next door, where Judith unfolded a tale of one of Glasgow’s hidden gems.

And after that we partied.

Thank you for supporting our first ever WordCamp. Thank you for telling us how much you enjoyed it and thank you for turning up in such great numbers. For those of you safely home, well done. For those of you still struggling to beat the weather and the travel restrictions, please take care, be safe and thank you for coming.

#WCGla is sold out!

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A huge thank you to everyone who has signed up for WordCamp Glasgow 2020. It’s official. We’ve sold out.

We’re looking forward to seeing you all. See you on Saturday.

Only 10 tickets left!

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Firstly a great big THANK YOU to those of you who have registered for WordCamp Glasgow 2020. We’re adding the finishing touches to make sure you have a cracking day.

As for the rest of you, time is running out. And so are the tickets. There are only TEN left.

WordCamp Glasgow 8th February 2020

Can you afford to miss out? This is Glasgow’s first ever WordCamp and we’ve assembled some experienced WordPress whiz kids to tell you what they know. Get your ticket now and make sure you’re there to hear it.

WordCamp Glasgow 2020 — less than a week to go

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Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? Erm, we’ll let you know when it does! There’s less than a week to go before the first ever WordCamp Glasgow and the organising team is busy with all the preparations.

  • Venue? Check.
  • Speakers? Check.
  • Food? Check.
  • Swag? Check.
  • After party? Check.
  • Delegates? Check… but there are fewer than 15 tickets available if you haven’t signed up yet.

So there’s plenty to do but it’s all coming together and we are looking forward to greeting everyone to Project Ability in the centre of Glasgow.

We have a varied selection of talks for you plus the chance to meet up with fellow WordPressers — from beginners to experts. What a great opportunity to indulge yourself with WordPress for a day. And with other WordPress people. Please support our WordCamp… tickets are selling fast.

SpinupWP — our latest sponsor

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Please welcome our latest sponsor for WordCamp Glasgow 2020.

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SpinupWP is a modern, Cloud-Based Server Control Panel that helps you implement best practices for every server you spin up. And designed for WordPress.

As one of their Twitter fans put it, SpinupWP

“bridges the gap between scary self-hosting and expensive managed hosting.”

Think of it like a control panel for servers, but modern & with a ton of helpful guidance along the way, much of it specific to hosting WordPress sites.

Setting up and managing a server yourself can mean a lot of manual work for a developer. Now out of beta, SpinupWP has handled a total of 648,220 tasks for its users since it first opened up for beta in November 2018. That’s at least 13 million keystrokes saved!

Weglot — a 'Bird' sponsor

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We are delighted to welcome Weglot as a sponsor to WordCamp Glasgow 2020.

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Created to simplify your translation process – the Weglot plugin is a reliable and easy way to make any website multilingual in minutes.

Quick, seamless installation – with no coding required and no developer time needed.

Use Weglot’s simplified interface to manage your translations and order additional manual translation where required. And, say hello to new audiences, as with Weglot all your translated pages are automatically indexed on Google.

Trusted by more than 50,000 websites owners and developers, Weglot is a translation plugin that works.

Why come to Glasgow?

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Those of us who are lucky enough to live in, or near, Glasgow in Scotland, know that it is a vibrant place and home to world renowned architecture, music, museums, bars, restaurants and sport.

This year it will also be the host city for the UK’s first WordCamp of 2020.

For those of you from further afield who are wondering why someone would want to visit Glasgow in February, let me reassure you that this is one of the driest and clearest months of the year in Glasgow.

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Call for Sponsors

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WordCamp Glasgow will be the city’s first WordCamp. As a not-for-profit, volunteer run event, we are seeking sponsors to help us put on a brilliant day. Sponsors cover the costs of venue hire, catering, swag, printing, the speaker and volunteer dinner, and the afterparty.

WordCamps are not-for-profit, which means that we only accept funding that is needed to put on the event and no more. We close the call for sponsors when our projected operating costs are fully funded, so get in while you can!

By sponsoring WordCamp Glasgow, you show your support for the WordPress project, you also contribute to the growth of our local WordPress community. As a sponsor, you’ll also gain unique visibility in a global diverse tech community.

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