The past few weeks have been busy around here! We’ve been trying to find a place in Las Vegas that would provide us with everything we were looking for in a location for WordCamp. With so much conference space in Las Vegas, you’d think it’d be a snap to find a place to host a gathering for 200 people. But the hard work has paid off. The contract has been signed, the location and date are now set!
WordCamp Las Vegas 2010 will be held on October 23rd, 2010 at Palace Station Hotel and Casino!
Initially we were looking to hold the event on the following weekend. Unfortunately, Palace Station was already booked. I made the mistake of trying to find a different hotel to host the event instead of just looking at the calendar and selecting a different date. After nearly a month of research, I went back to the team at Palace Station and they were able to fit us in one week earlier than originally planned. For all the benefits hosting at Palace Station gives us, changing the date became the obvious choice. We are thrilled to be heading back!
We have 20 rooms reserved for our group for out of town guests (or you locals who want a weekend away from home). You can book online using this link or call 800-6-STATIONS and tell them you are with WordCamp Las Vegas to reserve your room.
We’ll be opening registration for WordCamp on 8/23. Until then we are actively looking for both sponsors and speakers! As the time gets closer we’ll also be looking for volunteers to help out on the day of the event! If you are interested in being a part of WordCamp Las Vegas in any capacity, please let us know!
Cheers!
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I wanted to send out a quick note to let you know that we ARE in fact working on WordCamp Las Vegas, even though there isn’t much going on public facing. Here is some of what has been going on:
- I’ve met with a couple different places about potential meeting space. We’ve run in to two different issues; availability and cost. There is a slight chance we may need to change the date for WordCamp Las Vegas in order to take advantage of a reasonably priced location. This should be sorted out by the end of this week.
- With the possibility of a change in dates, I have been reluctant to put up the speaker and sponsor request pages. But, I think that can wait no longer and we’ll be putting those up this week as well.
- We’ve already had some decent interest from people looking to register for the event. AS SOON as we lock down a location, we’ll open registration with a nice early-bird special for those looking to register right away.
You can expect to see a lot of movement over the next 30 days as we get ramped up. Then, a huge push the final few weeks as the event gets closer. We’re excited about WordCamp and it’s nice to know that so many of you are, too.
We are all back from our WordCamp trips and hard at work on the new Las Vegas WordCamp site. Updates should be live within a week or two, but for now you can keep up with what’s going on here and also follow us at @LVWordCamp to keep up to date.
You can also keep up with us on our Facebook page as well.
We have proposals out for venues and have great things in mind for this year’s WordCamp and we will update as often as possible to keep you in the loop of what’s going on!
More to come soon…see you on October 30th!
