Many thanks to all who registered and have tickets for our 2017 WordCamp. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Registration for 2017 has closed; and we do not accept walk-up registrations during WordCamp.

For those who missed out on tickets – please sign up for our mail list so you will be notified when 2018 tickets are up for sale.  And then sign up early so you don’t miss out!  Even though our tickets are non-refundable – you can transfer them to another person if you find you are no longer able to attend.  See our FAQ page for more details.

Meet Andrés from WPML

Every year we share information about our sponsors. These companies make WordCamps across the nation and in our region possible. Today we want to introduce our Bronze Sponsor WPML, a product of OnTheGoSystems. WMPL supporter and Community leader Andrés Cifuentes shares their story with us and explains how they use WordPress and contribute to the open source community.

Q. What do you do at WPML? 
A. I’m a WPML supporter and Community leader. I work at OnTheGoSystems, the team behind Toolset and WPML, the WordPress Multilingual Plugin.

Q. Why do you do it? What is your mission? 
A. My mission is to coordinate, promote and lead our participation in WordCamps and WordPress Meetups. We are a 100% remote team and all our members are around the world, so it gives us a lot of opportunities to interact with amazing and different kind of WordPress communities. There could be weekends with 2 or 3 WordCamps simultaneously, so we need to join our efforts in order to have the best possible experience.

Q. Why is WordPress important to you? Why do you love it? 
A. WordPress is our living way, it is not only our passion but it also we are a WordPress company. Furthermore, personally talking, WordPress community has made me evolved in a professional way and also as a person. My best friends are part of WordPress community and a lot of my current decisions, like where I live, are the result of being part of this amazing community.

Q. What products and services do you offer? 
A. We have two main products:
First, WPML – The WordPress Multilingual Plugin. Every time you think about WordPress multilingual, you associate it immediately to WPML. Why? Because WPML make it possible to have your WordPress site ready to provide content in different languages quickly and easily. WPML has evolved until becoming the most complete tool to translate your WordPress site. Nowadays, you not only are able to have a site completely translatable, but also you can count on local or external translators to provide the best content for your users. If you are thinking about running a multilingual e-commerce site, WooCommerce Multilingual along with WPML will make your life sweet.Now, we also offer Toolset – the easiest way to add custom types to WordPress sites. With all this experience and the great team built around WPML, we decided to create Toolset. Idea was to leverage on Custom Types to build websites that were easy to manage and maintain. That’s precisely what Toolset does, you can add custom types to the WordPress admin and front-end, using any theme and without writing PHP. For making this possible we have created:

• Types: Create your custom post types, taxonomies, and custom fields. All from within the WordPress GUI and with no coding!
• Views : Easily display custom post types and fields. Display and sort your content for listings and inventory. Add custom searches to allow visitor to filter your contents and find exactly what they are looking for.
• Layouts: Design entire WordPress sites using a drag-and-drop interface.
• CRED: Allow others to edit and add full scale WordPress content using front-end forms. No need to force clients to edit content from the WordPress admin – allow them to use your customized CRED form right from the site. Additionally, allow user registration from the front-end.

Q. Who are your ideal customers? What kind of companies and businesses should contact you for services or products? 
A. Every WordPress user or every person or company thinking about using WordPress are our ideal clients. With globalization and e-commerce becoming a norm, you would need a tool like WPML or Toolset in order to get the job done and bring an amazing experience to your users.

Q. Why do you support WordCamp? What do you hope attendees gain from participating? What suggestions, inspirations, or message do you have to share with attendees in Asheville? 
A. WordCamps are a great opportunity to meet new people from the WordPress community, interact, share and learn from them. It’s a great chance for networking, making connections and friends. WordCamps are vital for making WordPress bigger and better, that’s why we encourage all our OTGSians to attend to a WordCamp every time that is possible.

Q. How can people learn more about what you do?
A. Please visit our main page https://www.onthegosystems.com/, or https://wpml.org/ if you want more information about WPML and https://wp-types.com/ for Toolset. You can also find us on social media at
Facebook.com/WPMLcms
Twitter.com/wpml

Meet DreamHost

Every year we share information about our sponsors. These companies make WordCamps across the nation and in our region possible. Today we want to introduce our Bronze Sponsor DreamHost and share a little bit of their story. Check out our Q & A with this awesome, community-focused hosting company.

Q. What is your name?
A. Cathee Smith

Q. What business/organization do you represent? What is your professional title i.e. Director of Sales, Administrative Assistant, Developer, etc?
A. DreamHost, Marketing Coordinator

Q. What is your company mission?
A. The year was 1997. The scene was a college dorm room. Four friends with a love of technology, open-source software, and a strong desire to help people get online banded together to create DreamHost. Built on open-source technology with a commitment to customer success, DreamHost provides domain registration, web hosting and cloud services to 1.5 million sites, blogs and applications, and supports over 400,000 web designers, developers, content creators, small businesses and entrepreneurs with the power of the Open Web.

Q. What products and/or services do you offer? Please provide detail.
A. Web hosting, VPS (virtual private servers), dedicated servers, and WordPress specific hosting (DreamPress 2). Whether you have a single low-traffic site or a high-traffic store, we have a hosting solution for you!

Q. Why do you love WordPress and why do you work with the WordPress community?
A. We love WordPress simply because it follows a lot of our core values here at DreamHost. WordPress is operated openly and widely, and works for a variety of users. Plus, you can’t beat the community that surrounds WordPress, some of the best people around. 🙂

Q. Why do you support WordCamp? What do you hope attendees gain from participating? What suggestions, inspirations, or message do you have to share with attendees in Asheville?
A. DreamHost is a BIG lover of all things WordPress, and under that umbrella falls WordCamps! We sponsor all western region WordCamps because we want as many users to find and take advantage of these amazing conferences as possible.

Q. How can people keep up to date on what is happening at DreamHost?
A. Check out our website or join our social networks:
Facebook.com/DreamHost
Twitter.com/DreamHost
Instagram.com/DreamHost

Last Call for Volunteers for WordCamp Asheville 2017

We are looking for people who love WordPress and are enthusiastic, organized, and energetic.  You don’t have to be a WordPress expert – you just need a smile and a willingness to help.

We are looking for volunteers to help with registration, to be moderators in sessions, and for a bunch of other roles that help make WordCamp a success.

If you are wondering how to get involved, please click the link below and head on over to our volunteer page loaded with info and a handy form for you to fill out.

There is no guarantee we can give you a certain volunteer task or duty; however, we’ll do our best to match you with the task or duty that best fits your skills, schedule and interests. Volunteer roles will be defined as the event draws closer. Please provide as much information as possible.

Here’s the link to join us:   https://2017.asheville.wordcamp.org/volunteers/

We look forward to having you as a part of the volunteer team!

We are delighted that this year’s keynote speaker will be Jodi Rhoden. Jodi is a local entrepreneur, teacher, and author. Well known in Asheville as “the cake lady,” she is the founder and former owner of the beloved and successful Short Street Cakes.

Jodi offers classes and one-on-one mentoring through Mountain Bizworks and Birds Eye Business Planning and Adventures, where she relishes working with small-scale food producers and farmers, independent artists, healing arts practitioners, and other social entrepreneurs to discover meaning in their work through developing their mission and vision.

Join us Saturday, June 3rd at 9am to hear Jodi inspire us to develop our own vision and mission for our endeavors. Learn how to use your community to help you on your journey. She will share actionable steps  to get us on our way. It all starts by using the community around us to help us, so come prepared to participate and talk to your neighboring attendees. We’re excited to have this local leader guide us on Saturday to an inspiring beginning to the weekend!