Stickers!  If you haven’t seen them yet you need to go take a quick look at the sticker preview post from Velda.  I’m excited to have Sticker Giant on our list of sponsors this year, they are sending us stickers based on those designs.  Be honest, who couldn’t use more stickers?  Want custom stickers for your next event or product?  Go check out Sticker Giant.

Thank you to Sticker Giant for sponsoring WordCamp SLC 2012, I’m looking forward to seeing how the stickers turned out.

Looking for a theme with more options than you can count combined with drag and drop flexibility?  Then you need to checkout PageLines.  Need even more?  Version 2.0 introduced a marketplace where you can purchase plugins to expand the capabilities even further.

PageLines, thank you for sponsoring WordCamp SLC 2012.

Sure Punchline  does web development, with an emphasis on WordPress, but that is just part of what they offer.  They’ll help you produce and manage advertising in print, radio, television, and the web.  I guess that is why they describe themselves as “a full-service advertising agency”.  If you have advertising needs they can help.

Thank you to Punchline for sponsoring WordCamp SLC 2012.

Built right here in Utah, Event Espresso is back for another year of sponsoring WordCamp SLC.  This event registration and management plugin for WordPress aims to provide business and organization leaders with powerful tools to run their event.  In addition to the standard set of features there are optional plugins to provide even more capabilities.

Thanks again to Event Espresso for sponsoring WordCamp SLC 2012!

If you’ve watched any of the WordCamp SCL 2011 videos ( not sure why the site still says WordCamp Utah, we need to ask them to update that ) you have Pole Vault Media to thank for that.  They recorded all of the 2011 sessions and are back again to record the 2012 sessions.  It takes a fair bit of work to record sessions in both rooms and edit the videos afterwards, but the result is great, especially for those who aren’t able to make it out to SLC.

Pole Vault Media is a student run organization right on the University of Utah campus.  In addition to video work they also do web design & development.  I’m also told they eat lots of cereal.

Thanks again to Pole Vault Media for recording all of the sessions again this year so that we can submit them to WordPress.tv for all to enjoy.

CodePoet is an effort by Automattic to provide more resources to people who build WordPress sites.  The site includes articles ranging from HTML & CSS to theme development to security.  No matter your experience level CodePoet improve your WordPress skills and know how.

Getting the word out about these resources includes sponsoring WordCamp SLC 2012, for which we are very grateful.

At WordCamp SLC the word ‘Bluehost‘ has become synonymous with lunch.  This year is no different, with Bluehost picking up the tab for our BBQ lunch.

Lunch at WordCamp SLC is something I consider a vital part of the event.  Not just because we get hungry around that time, but because it a great time for people to sit and talk together.  When we draw up the schedule for the day I make sure we carve out a solid 1.5 hours for lunch, so that everyone has plenty of time to get their food and make new friends.

If you enjoy being able to have lunch included as part of a low cost $20 ticket be sure to thank our friends at Bluehost.  I know many of you already have sites hosted at Bluehost, they’ll have staff members attending WordCamp SLC so this is a good time to ask any questions you may have.

As we enter the last week leading up to WordCamp SLC 2012 it is time to thank our sponsors, they play a large part in making this event come together.

For the third year in a row we are thrilled to be holding WordCamp SLC at the University of Utah. They have been very gracious in letting us use the Skaggs Biology building auditorium rooms. I knew from the first time I saw them then I wanted to use those rooms. The size, the proximity to one another, power outlets every where, projectors and large screens, it all just clicked. I don’t want to jinx it, but the wifi has also worked out great each year.

The campus itself is also wonderful, worth wandering around if you haven’t done that before. Not bad for a place that that has been around for more than 160 years.

A huge thank you to the UoU for welcoming us back for another year!