We’re postponing the WordPress Celebration. I had big plans for it that haven’t worked out and rather than put together a half-baked event, I’ve decided to postpone it and make sure we get this thing done right.

If you’ve already made plans to be in Seattle, please let me know. If there’s interest, we can pick a location and do a tweetup-style meetup for WordPress folks.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

- Cal (@calvinf)

WordCamp Seattle is putting on a WordPress Celebration event to allow you and everyone in the Seattle area who loves WordPress to celebrate it together.

This event is for anyone who blogs on WordPress, designs for WordPress, develops WordPress (or its plugins or themes), runs their business and website on WordPress, or loves it for any other reason. If you don’t know what WordPress is or haven’t used it yourself, come anyway and ask other people why they use it and what they think.

The event will take place the evening of Thursday, May 6. Venue details are still being finalized, but we wanted to give you advance notice so you can plan to come. We’re planning to provide food and drinks at the event, a short talk, WordPress site demos, and more importantly a chance for you to meet and mingle.

Hope to see you there! We’ll post on the blog and on Twitter more details as they come. Follow WordCamp Seattle on Twitter here.

The videos in order of appearance at WordCamp:

• Chris Pirillo: Community
• Jane Wells: WordPress Questions
• Aaron Hockley: After Launching a Couple Dozen Blogs
• Scott Porad: WordPress at the Cheezburger Factory
• Mark Jacquith: BuddyPress and the Future of WordPress Plugins
• Martin Buckley: Self-Hosting Multiple WordPress Blogs
• Eric Amundson: 5 Free Ways to Bulletproof your WordPress Site
• Chris Molitor: Finding the Perfect Theme for Your Business
• Donald DeSantis: Create Your Own WordPress Theme
• Mark McLaren: WordPress and the Social Web
• Liz Strauss: Context, Campaigns, and the U Community
• Josh Harrison: wp-config Tips & Tricks

If you have questions about parking, please check our FAQ: http://www.wordcampseattle.com/faq/

Be sure to view the agenda if you haven’t had a chance to check it out, it’s been updated with the latest speaker information available.

Waitlist Update: We contacted a number of people on the wait list on Friday — if you have not yet heard from us, unfortunately we aren’t able to open any more seats. There may still be a few people who can’t make it to the event or who are looking to sell their tickets — please feel free to coordinate in the comments or on Twitter for anyone still looking to buy or sell a ticket. Due to time constraints we won’t be able to facilitate these transactions directly on late notice.

Thanks and I look forward to seeing you at the event!

If you have already purchased a ticket…
Please consider donating your ticket to somebody on the wait list. Please email us (contact form) to let us know and we’ll make sure somebody on the wait list gets in. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources necessary to refund tickets. I’m sure many people on the wait list would be willing to pay for a ticket and we can try to accommodate this, but payment will need to be handled between yourself and the other person.

If you do not have a ticket and are on the wait list…
If we have room for additional people due to ticket-holders not being able to attend the event, we will contact you by email this week to let you know.

Additional WordCamp Weekend activities
We will be having a pre-party at Jillian’s (Friday, 9/25, 7:00 PM) and an after-party following the event (Saturday, 9/26). The pre-party and after-party will be open to anyone!

Another option for getting a ticket to the event is through sponsorship — any sponsor who contributes $100 or more receives admission to the event for one person. This is a great opportunity for small or large businesses alike as your name and business will be exposed to over 200 event attendees. Read more about WordCamp Seattle Sponsorship Opportunities.

Update (9/21/2009): The Wait List is full.

We still need additional sponsors to help cover the costs of the event. If you’re able to contribute $50, $100, or more, read about our sponsorship opportunities. We’re also looking for in-kind sponsorships of food for morning and afternoon breaks and lunch if you’d rather contribute in that way. If interested, contact wordcampseattle@gmail.com.

If you’ve written a book, your business sells a product or service, or if you work at a fancy restaurant, we’re also looking for door prizes to give away at the event in order to involve the local community and help introduce our attendees to new places in Seattle.

Update: The additional 50 tickets sold out in less than 10 hours! We’re going to set up a wait list for anybody that wasn’t able to get one and we’ll provide more details on how that’s going to work in an upcoming blog post.

Register now: http://wordcampseattle.eventbrite.com/

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Press75 – Professional WordPress Themes

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Additional thanks to:
- Seattle Underground Travel
- StudioPress for donating the Metro Theme for WordPress.

We are looking for additional sponsors to help make this a successful event. Please visit the Sponsorship Opportunities page.