This weekend, the annual WordPress conference known as WordCamp San Francisco will take place. It’s the only conference to feature “The State of the Word” presented by Matt Mullenweg. If you can’t make it to the event, there are still plenty of live stream tickets available.
Live stream tickets cost $10 and allow you to enjoy the conference from the comfort of your home. However, if you buy a Live Stream Plus T-Shirt ticket for $18, you’ll receive a T-Shirt immediately following the event. When purchasing tickets, make sure you log into your WordPress.org account.
An alternative to purchasing a live stream ticket is to check your local WordPress meetup as several of them are having live stream watch parties. If you’re a meetup organizer having a viewing party, please add the event in the comments. You can also follow the event by monitoring the #wcsf and #wcsf14 hashtags on Twitter.
Sarah Gooding and I will be in attendance during the weekend of festivities so if you see us, stop and say hi.
6 responses to “Tickets Still Available to Watch The WordCamp San Francisco Live Stream”
would the stream ticket allow for on demand playback later? Im super busy this weekend and I will not have time to watch it live.
thanks!
No, but the videos will also be recorded and posted to WordPress.tv, probably within a few weeks.
Yes, for anyone in or near Seattle, we will be having a live stream WCSF meetup. http://www.meetup.com/SeattleWordPressMeetup/events/212215622/
For folks in the midwest, we’re having a livestream both days in Columbus, OH. http://www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/events/215010672/ Columbus is less than a four hour drive for many in OH, KY, MI, WV, PA, IN – come on over!
Charging people for the livestream is lame. It should be open to everyone.
Hi Jaiden, the sessions will be available for free on WordPress.tv over the next few weeks — the keynote is already there — but charging to watch it live helps offset the costs associated with the stream and the conference itself, which are substantial.
There were also free viewing parties around the world hosted by local WordPress meetups.
Regardless of those free options, the ticket prices for WCSF (and WordCamps in general) are intentionally kept at a fraction of normal tech industry conferences, with the specific goal of making them open to as many people as possible.
For more insight into the costs associated with putting on WCSF and the philosophy behind ticket prices, check out these pages:
* http://2013.sf.wordcamp.org/2013/04/07/the-wordcamp-san-francisco-budget-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-spreadsheet/
* http://plan.wordcamp.org/planning-details/selling-tickets/