Please join me in thanking 10up for their Platinum sponsorship of WordCamp Boston 2013. Without their support, our event wouldn’t be possible.

From Jake Goldman, president of 10up:

Here at 10up, WordCamp Boston holds a special place in our heart.

I helped organize Boston’s very first WordCamp in early 2010. Although I’d touched on WordPress as far back as 2006, Boston was my second WordCamp and one of a series of community engagements that led to me to focus on WordPress. One year after that conference, I founded 10up with a vision of an elite agency that would leverage open source in pursuit of a simple mission: make online publishing simple and fun.

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Jossey-Bass, publishers of Scott Berkun’s The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work, is a proud sponsor of WordCamp Boston.

The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work is a behind-the-scenes look at the firm behind WordPress.com and the unique work culture that contributes to its phenomenal success.

“The underlying concept—an ‘expert’ putting himself on the line as an employee—is just fantastic. And then the book gets better from there! I wish I had the balls to do this.” – Guy Kawasaki, author, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, and former chief evangelist, Apple.

Read a sample chapter of The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work.

Hello WordCamp Boston 2013, and thanks for letting our SendPress team invade your city over the next few days. As fellow New Englanders (New Hampshire to be exact), we are excited to share our “wicked” easy WordPress newsletter plugin with you as sponsors at this years event.

SendPress is a powerful, professional and of course easy-to-use, WordPress email newsletter solution with all the functionality you’d expect from a third party provider, without ever having to leave your WordPress site or recreate content. SendPress Pro has some exciting features to share, including:

• Advanced reports
• Custom SMTP – Including SendGrid, Mandrill, Amazon SES, MailJet, & many more.
• Spam Score Checking
• Post notifications (Fall 2013)
• Bounce handling (Fall 2013)
• AutoResponders (Fall 2013)
• Superb support (if we do say so ourselves)

Best of all, we always give you unlimited subscribers, even if you decide you are only ready to dip a toe into this awesomeness with our Free Version available from http://sendpress.com.

Hey Boston!

WP Engine is rolling into town this October, and we’re pumped about getting to hang out with you all. We’re sending a crew of amazing folks, all of whom have years of WordPress experience, to the WordCamp. We can’t wait to meet you all and hear about the amazing things you and your companies are building with WordPress.

WP Engine believes in supporting the local WordPress Community, and this marks the second year we’ve come out to WordCamp Boston. We’re bringing and all-new batch of amazingly soft t-shirts and WP Engine stickers to hand out.

What is WP Engine?
WP Engine is the one of the most mature premium managed hosting platforms for websites and apps built with WordPress, powering tens of thousands of websites, delivering the fastest, most reliable, and most secure web experience. Businesses large and small like Bonarroo, Soundcloud, HTC, VM Ware, and Atlassian rely on WP Engine’s exceptional customer service team of WordPress Experts.

Developers love WP Engine because they know that the ‘WP Engineers’ understand the challenges of developing WordPress sites, and have built an entire development toolkit with features like the one-click staging area, push from staging to production with a click, and .git for version control and deployment.

See you all this weekend!

PS: We want so say a quick thank you to the WordCamp Boston Organizers for all their hard work putting the event together.