WordCamp Lancaster 2017 Takes Place On 4 March

The fourth WordCamp Lancaster 2017 takes place on March 4, 2017, at UI13, in downtown Lancaster PA.

Lancaster is a city located in South Central Pennsylvania which serves as the seat of Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County and one of the oldest inland towns in the United States. Located just over an hour west of Philadelphia, Lancaster was named the Google “e-city” of 2014 for its high number of the web and technology-related businesses. Lancaster has an enormous tech presence, and arts community is surrounded by beautiful farm country and contains a thriving downtown area.

Lancaster Is A Beautiful Place

Invitation For The Speakers

Speaker sessions make up the bulk of the WordCamp Lancaster 2017 and are typically 30 minutes each. If you’d like to present, we’d love to hear your ideas! If you’d like to propose multiple topics, please submit this form multiple times. There’s no limit to how many submissions one may submit, but it’s a good idea to limit yourself to five or less.
Speaker Submissions close at midnight on February 3, 2017.

WordCamp Lancaster 2016 Speakers

WordCamp 2016 had some great speakers here is a list of last years speakers and a brief introduction about each one of them.

George Stephanis

George Stephanis is a Squad Lead on the Jetpack Pit Crew at Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com). When not working on Jetpack, he spends his time contributing to Core, helping to run the WordPress Lancaster Meetup Group and WordCamp Lancaster PA, and is a regularon the WP Watercooler podcast.

Ryan Duff

Ryan has been using WordPress for over ten years. He focuses mainly on developing plugins and data migrations. Ryan currently applies this experience full time solving all types of severe problems for clients. He also runs and speaks at the WordPress Harrisburg meetup.

How Carson

How Carson’s career in information services and publishing systems development spans 30 years as a systems analyst and data manager in the graphic arts, automotive and aerospace industries. He learned about the visual arts and digital typography as a young man employed first by his father’s company, Carson Typography, and later at ROCAPPI (Research On Computerized Applications in the Printing and Publishing Industries), the pioneering graphic arts firm founded by printing innovator John Seybold.

Dawn McDougall

Dawn McDougall is a civic tech and open data professional, new leader, and public speaker. She is(whose projects are entirely open-source and based on open data). Dawn also works for an Open-SaaS software company, with their core platform operated as an open-source project.

As Executive Director of Code for Philly, Dawn scopes the vision of the group manages its leadership team and builds strategic partnerships.

Dawn is a civic hacker by way of her love of cities (particularly Philly) and fixation on how public participation can directly improve urban governance. She also loves tasting new beers, exploring city neighborhoods, marathon reading, and other human adult life things.

Courtney O’Callaghan

Who am I? Professional listener, sometimes teacher, vegetarian mom, animal caretaker, people watcher, culture enthusiast, off-hours feminist, book hoarder, designer/coder/other, Chief Digital Officer at Freer and Sackler Galleries, CA native, proud DC resident always in search of an ocean.

Charlie Reisinger

Charlie Reisinger is the IT Director at Penn Manor School District in beautiful Lancaster County Pennsylvania. He leads district instructional technology programs and school enterprise technical operations. An impassioned advocate for empowering students through technology, Charlie, and his team genuinely integrate open source philosophy into classroom teaching and learning. He launched Pennsylvania’s largest 1:1 student laptop learning program using Linux and open source software exclusively. Charlie is a contributing author to opensource.com and is writing a book about his open source school adventures.

Cameron Barrett

Cameron (@camworld) pioneered the blog format in the late 1990s. He’s built websites for presidential candidates, the U.S. Army, the World Economic Forum and led the migration of 70+ websites from a proprietary SaaS to WordPress for NJ’s largest public school district. He’s now migrating all 14,000+ U.S. public school districts to WordPress (via his startup/SaaS — SchoolPress.co), saving millions of taxpayer dollars. He hails from Northern Michigan and currently lives outside of NYC with his family.

Kerch McConlogue

Kerch McConlogue retired ADHD coach, and front end developer has been writing code by hand for 16 years and using WordPress since version 1.5. Her passion is helping WordPress novices to understand the basic care and feeding of their sites and to get past their fears of breaking the internet.

Ellen Amaral

Ellen Amaral is a designer who is excited by the collision of design with content strategy, user experience design, and development. She leverages a BA in Communication Design from the University of Pennsylvania and a General Assembly course in Front End Development to take design out of its silo and into an integrated space where design contributes to interactive problem-solving. Ellen Amaral currently works as a Senior Designer at CHIEF, while exploring the wonderful world of WordPress on her off-time.

Jimmy Smutek

I’m a web developer at Ainsley & Co., an advertising & marketing agency in Baltimore, Maryland. I studied computer graphics and visual communication at CCBC, Baltimore, and then Corporate Communication at the University of Baltimore. I started my career as a designer and slowly made the shift into web design, and eventually into full-time web development.

I’m a fan of skateboards, 80’s music, drum machines, WordPress, the open web, and PHP.

Jay Hoffmann

Jay is a front-end and WordPress developer at Penguin Random House where he works on sites that connect readers all over the U.S. He also founded Tidy Repo, a curated list of WordPress plugins, and frequently works with WordPress tools like Underscores and the REST API.

Sal Ferrarello

Sal is a WordPress developer with a focus on the Genesis theme framework and Bootstrap front-end framework. He is a contributor to the Genesis framework, author of the Bootstrap Genesis Theme, and author of the Stop Emails plugin available on WordPress.org.

Ty Fujimura

Ty Fujimura is a web designer/developer and the founder of Cantilever, a boutique studio based in Ridgewood, NJ. With Cantilever he has worked on multiple WordPress projects: simple blogs, large-scale marketing sites, private social-networking sites, and even an always-on company dashboard. The cantilever has designed and developed for a broad range of clients, always seeking to create digital products that embody “digital hospitality.”

Liam Dempsey

Having started his creative life as a print designer, Liam Dempsey likes to call himself a designer who codes. Working online and in print, Liam runs a small international marketing and design consultancy, LBDesign. Through LBDesign, Liam works with businesses and non-profits across the US, the UK, and Africa. Liam is also the co-founder and organizer of the Philly ‘burbs WordPress Meetup. In 2015, he served on the organizing team for the inaugural WordCamp US.

Beth Soderberg

Beth Soderberg, a developer who is obsessive about clean code, solid design execution, and empowering the user. Her happy place is where code and design intersect, and she, therefore, loves dabbling in user experience and design work. By day, Beth is a senior developer at CHIEF and by night is the community representative for the WordPress Training Team, a co-organizer of the WordPress DC Meetup, and a Hack for a Good organizer with the DCFemTech coalition in Washington, DC.

Corey Salzano

I am a web developer and graphic artist. I’m turning the .NET software company I work for in Ephrata, Pennsylvania into a WordPress shop by launching Inventory Presser, an inventory management system for automobile dealers built on WordPress. I freelance for a local brewery and help organize the annual Lititz Craft Beer Fest by running its website and planning its social media strategy.

Debjit Saha

I assist small businesses with their e-commerce setups and performance optimization using Woocommerce and Shopify. Since I have been involved with both platforms, I have a first-hand experience of which one lacks what and how it can be improved. Having been one of the early adopters of WordPress, I have always helped small businesses solve their day to day needs using WordPress and customized plugins.

Joe Casabona

Casabona is a Front End Developer that works in WordPress. A lot! In 2014, he authored a book called Responsive Design with WordPress and two other books on web development. He’s also a professor at the University of Scranton where he teaches Web Development and Computer Science courses and has developed an accredited course on WordPress theming.

Anthony D Paul

I help build great digital experiences and software through usability research, IA concepts, and prototypes. Outside the office, you’ll find me spread across local meetups and conferences — evangelizing IA/UX, accessibility, and a variety of open source dev projects. When I’m not doing responsible adult things, I grow the world’s hottest chili peppers and bottle my hot sauce. I’d divulge something funny from my past, but these days the Internet does a better job of surfacing our embarrassing moments; find me anywhere by Googling “Anthony DePaul.”

Jason Coleman

Jason is the founder and Lead Developer of Paid Memberships Pro and co-author of Building Web Apps with WordPress. He has been a WordPress consultant for many years and now makes his living selling software and support for the Paid Memberships Pro platform. Jason works out of his home in Reading, Pennsylvania where he lives with his business partner and wife Kimberly Coleman and their two small children.

Reed Gustow

I’ve been working with WordPress since 2009. My one-person company, Delta Angel (deltaangel.com), makes websites for small businesses and individuals. I also teach WordPress, mostly to people, and that’s one of my favorite things to do. Much of my work involves site maintenance or repairs.

I’m very active in the Philadelphia tech community, as a co-organizer of the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup, WordCamp Philly and WordCamp US, a board member of the Philadelphia Area New Media Association (panma.org), the WordPress Special Interest Group leader and board member of the Philadelphia Area Computer Society (pacsnet.org), and a member of IndyHall, a coworking group. I have also presented on WordPress at WordCamps, BarCamps, and PodCamps.

Russell Heimlich

Senior developer at Forum One. A Lover of minimal bios.

Nicole Kohler

As the Content Creator for WooCommerce, Nicole spends most of her time writing blog posts and creating additional educational resources for store owners and developers. When she’s not staring at that familiar WordPress admin screen, you can find her playing tabletop games with her husband, chasing her dog around the backyard, or trying to catch yet another shiny Pokemon.

Bryan Nelson

I’m 18 years old going on 19 in January. I currently am the editor of the TIME Inc, owned FanSided site newcastletoons.com. I also run agorans.org. I graduated high school in 2015 and had since been working on getting a degree in English.

Sarah Moyer

I’m a native of Lancaster County, PA, and build custom websites using WordPress + Genesis for RedX and others. Web dev is exciting for me because I love to imitate God’s creative work in nature. There’s something insanely cool about combining intricate design, harmonious colors, and eye-catching aesthetics, then wrapping in all up into a lean, efficient bundle of code. Off work, I spend time with family & friends, romp with my dog Texas, and help non-verbal people communicate using eye-gaze technology.

Some Images From WordCamp Lancaster 2016

Calling Out For Sponsors For WordCamp Lancaster, PA 2017

Since WordCamp Lancaster 2017 is a nonprofit conference, it is highly dependent on volunteers, speakers, and sponsors to invest their time and money to make it successful and engaging for the audience.

WordCamp Lancaster 2017 has three sponsorship levels available for businesses that are interested in getting involved.

Maple, $1,500

• Your name or logo in the WCLancaster sidebar and printed in the program.
• A link to your homepage on the WCLancaster sidebar.
• Public thanks during opening/closing remarks.
• A post thanking your business on the WCLancaster blog.
• Up to 4 complimentary tickets to WordCamp Lancaster!
• A company representative is welcome to join us for the Speakers Dinner on Friday, March 3rd.
• One table of approximately 3’W x 6’L or equivalent floor-space in the sponsors’ area.

Cherry, $750

• Your name or logo in the WCLancaster sidebar and printed in the program.
• A link to your homepage on the WCLancaster sidebar.
• Public thanks during opening/closing remarks.
• Up to 2 complimentary tickets to WordCamp Lancaster!
• Up to 1’W x 3’L of swag table space for promotional products (one or two tables on which you may place products along with other sponsors.

Oak, $500

• Your name on our WCLancaster sidebar and in the program.
• A link to the social media account of your choice on the WCLancaster sidebar.
• A complimentary ticket to WordCamp Lancaster!

More information on WordCamp Lancaster, PA 2017 can be found on the official website.

Originally published at Uneebox.