WordCamp Brisbane is fast approaching – We’ll see you in just 9 sleeps!
That means there’s certain things we need to lock in with our suppliers yesterday, so if you’ve not yet got yourself a ticket, get it ASAP! We’re fast running out of tickets, and while we may increase the number available we’ll be forced to limit sales if we exceed catering capacity!
tl;dr: Get your ticket by August 20th – Next Tuesday to ensure you’re properly catered for an have a nice printed badge.
Many things happen behind the scenes of WordCamp organising, Speaker selection, Venue selection, Vendor choices, talking with sponsors, and many many other things that you know happens, but you don’t actually see.
This year, we’ve locked in a lot of things based on our personal experiences running the event in the past years, but we’re fast approaching two very important deadlines for us, Badge Printing and Final Catering Numbers!
Catering Numbers
Next Tuesday, we’ll be confirming our final numbers with our catering vendor, giving them a heads up on all the dietary needs of attendees and verifying we’ll have enough food to feed everyone.
We generally do order for a few extra people, just to account for those who don’t get their ticket in time, but to avoid wasting good food we only order so much.
If you’ve already purchased a ticket, and have dietary requirements that need to be met (Vegetarian? Vegan? Gluten Free? Dairy Free? Allergic to something? We’ve got you, just make sure your ticket specifies it!), please ensure your ticket is updated with your preferences – You can check by going back to your ticket purchase confirmation email where there’s an edit link or just keep an eye out for an email later today.
Badge Printing
Next Tuesday, we’ll also be finalising and submitting our print order for our Badges – Those things upon the end of the lanyards everyone wears at WordCamp – Check out last years photos to see what they look like.
If you don’t have a ticket by sometime on Tuesday when we do our final export, we’ll have to hand-write you a badge – and trust us, no-one wants that!
Volunteers: If you’ve volunteered and don’t yet have a ticket, we’ll be in touch very soon with details – Don’t worry, we’ve not forgotten about you and will make sure you have a ticket.
Are you running out of tickets?
Strange you should ask that! As of this post our tickets page says we have 36 27 of 360 still tickets available for purchase. We’ve still got some tickets set aside for special people (Sponsors who haven’t yet got their tickets sorted, and our Volunteers) which will be made available for everyone else to purchase as soon as we’re sure they’re all accounted for.
We may also increase the total capacity numbers from 360 to something higher if possible, but we only have so much money for extra Food and Coffee!
What happens if you run out of tickets?
Unfortunately, once we hit our ticket limits, we’ll be forced to close ticket sales and you’ll have to take part in the event remotely, following us on Twitter, Facebook, and keeping an eye out of the Videos afterwards or if you’re lucky, there may even be a #live-stream of some presentations.
So what are you waiting for?
With only a few days until we finalise those orders, get yourself a ticket today.
PS. Really not sure if you’ll be able to make it? Only just found out about WordCamp? That’s okay, like I said, we can hand-write you a badge and we’ll do our best to ensure that there’s enough food to go around, but once Tickets run out, they’ll be gone.