Our New Logo

March 8, 2013 by Rick Radko • Comments Off on Our New Logo

We’ve tallied your votes, and we’re very happy to unveil our WordCamp Ottawa logo!

FP_WordcampOttawa_funWe’d like to offer a big congratulations, and sincere thanks, to Andrew Simons, the artist responsible for this great logo.

We think the logo’s simple yet professional style reflects Ottawa well and the WordPress Community within it.

Aditi Walsh was runner up with entry #3 that included the Ottawa skyline, and Lynn Jatani, entry #2 placed third with her rendition of the peace tower.

Thank you so much to all three entrants for participating in this contest.  For any statisticians out there here are the numbers you can pour over.  See the logos that were submitted for the logo contest!

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Logo Contest Update

March 4, 2013 by Rick Radko • Comments Off on Logo Contest Update

Voting for the logo contest is now open. Thank you, and good luck to each of our three entrants!

Voting will close on March 8th at 6pm (EST).

See the logos and vote for your favourite here!

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WordCamp Ottawa Update – Registration Opens and More!

March 1, 2013 by Rick Radko • Comments Off on WordCamp Ottawa Update – Registration Opens and More!

The WordCamp team has been hard at work these past few weeks, and we’ve got a lot of exciting news to share with you.

Registration

Ticket sales are now open! Tickets are only $23, and include an entire day of WordPress goodness. Buy your ticket on our Register page.

For those of you new to WordPress, we are also offering an “Introduction to WordPress” pre-camp session. It will be held two days before WordCamp and is only $5. Learn more on the Register page.

Logo Contest

The logo contest is now closed. Thank you to our three entrants. Voting for the logo opens March 4th. Stay tuned for details on how you can cast your vote.

Call for Volunteers

Want to contribute to the local Ottawa WordPress Community and make this WordCamp a large success? Become a volunteer! Learn about what opportunities are available on our Volunteers page.

Sponsors

We want to send a big thank you to our first sponsors: Yoast, WPML and Code Poet for their support. We still need more sponsors to join their ranks and help us make this WordCamp epic!

To learn more about being a WordCamp Ottawa sponsor visit our Sponsors page.

As always, you can signup for our newsletter to keep up to date with WordCamp Ottawa news. You can also join our Facebook group, follow us on Twitter, and join us on LinkedIn.

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WordCamp Ottawa Logo Contest

February 8, 2013 by Rick Radko • Comments Off on WordCamp Ottawa Logo Contest

March 1st, 2013 is our deadline for logo submissions!

What are we looking for?

  1. A logo set. We’re looking to get a logo set for WordCamp Ottawa, the Ottawa WordPress Group, and a future Ottawa WordPress Developers Group. We would like some consistency across these different groups – a sense of unity – without being too “corporate”.
  2. A header.We also need a header to be used for the Ottawa 2013 WordCamp site, and on the central.wordcamp.org schedule.

Logos and header images can be submitted individually, you do not need to submit both.  You can submit as many entries for each as you wish.

Eligibility:
This contest is open to Ontario and Quebec residents in approximately a 100km radius of Ottawa.  (Anyone who would be a regular attendee at our Meetups)

Submission Guidelines:
Keep the following in mind when designing your entry:

  1. Logo:
    1. Try to include the WordPress ‘W’ emblem. (Make sure you get the real one from: http://wordpress.org/about/logos/ or http://central.wordcamp.org/about/)
    2. Try to include imagery/iconography that is distinctly Ottawa.
    3. Text used in the logo should be interchangeable for each group’s name. (Look at UWO for inspiration.)
    4. We’ll use the logo on group websites, email newsletters, printed material, and swag.
    5. The logo should be able to scale without negatively affecting readability.  It needs to work for 125px x 125px web badges as well for 2 inch wide print images.
    6. We need something that can work in colour and monochrome. Design accordingly!
  2. Header:
    1. Try to include imagery/iconography that is distinctly Ottawa.
    2. Headers should be 1000 pixels wide by 160 to 200 pixels tall. They’ll be cropped and scaled to some smaller sizes to be used across the sites, so please make sure they don’t contain any text or complex imagery that would be lost at a small size. For examples, see past and upcoming camps at http://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/.
  3. All components of all entries (imagery, fonts) should be GPL compliant and will be licensed under GPL. We’re a WordPress group, after all. :)
  4. We’re a community organization, run by volunteers, and sustained by passionate people from around the area. The logos should reflect that!

How to Enter:
Submit your entries to ottawa@wordcamp.org with the subject “Ottawa Logo Contest”.
Please include:

  • Colour and monochrome examples of the logo(s).
  • SVG file of the logos.
  • Font file(s) used. (Optional, but very useful.)
  • A brief explanation of your design and the thought process behind it. (Optional, and 300 words max, please!)

The winner(s) will get:

  • credit on the group websites and printed schedules.
  • WordCamp registration fee waived for you + 1 friend,
  • Something cool to add to your portfolio.
  • A warm, fuzzy feeling of contributing to the Ottawa WordPress community.

Runner-up entries will get an honourable mention on the WordCamp Ottawa website.

How will submissions be judged?
Everyone will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite submission on the WordCamp Ottawa website, but the organizational team reserves the right to make a final decision on the winning entry. (Just in case folks try to troll the system, or any other unforeseen issues occur)

Key dates:

  • The logo contest is open from February 8th – March 1st 2013.
  • Voting will be open from March 4th – March 8th.
  • A winner will be announced in the following week of March 11th.

Questions? Comments?
You can drop a comment below, or send us your feedback directly via the Contact Us page.

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WordCamp Ottawa 2013 is On!

February 4, 2013 by Richard Martin • Comments Off on WordCamp Ottawa 2013 is On!

We are pleased to announce the date and venue for the first WordCamp Ottawa.

  • Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
  • Time: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM
  • Location: University of Ottawa, Montpetit Hall

Registration

Registration for WordCamp Ottawa 2013 will open March 1st. Stay tuned for the announcement!

We encourage you to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Sponsors

Looking for an effective way to build your business profile with the Ottawa WordPress Community? Why not be one of our WordCamp sponsors? We have several sponsorship levels.

To learn more about being a WordCamp Ottawa sponsor visit our Sponsors page.

Volunteers

Want to contribute to the local Ottawa WordPress Community and make this WordCamp a large success?

Become a volunteer! Learn more at our Volunteers page.

Speakers

If you are interested in being one of our speakers at WordCamp Ottawa visit our Speakers page.

WordCamp Ottawa 2013 Logo Contest

We plan on running a contest for the official WordCamp 2013 Logo. Details will be announced shortly. Stay tuned.

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The Inaugural WordCamp Ottawa!

November 6, 2012 by Rick Radko • Comments Off on The Inaugural WordCamp Ottawa!

We’re still early in the planning stages for the WordCamp.  If you want to learn more about WordPress before the WordCamp, please join The Ottawa WordPress Group.

The plan is to have WordCamp Ottawa in the Spring of 2013, in late April or May.  The final date will be largely dictated by venue availability.

If you are interested in sponsoring WordCamp Ottawa, please see the “Become a Sponsor” page.

Tentative plans:

  • 1 Day
  • 2 Tracks
    • Content Creators: with presentations that will help new users, bloggers & business owners.
    • Code Creators: with presentations about site set-up, theme design, plugin development, best practices for development, and more.
  • “Happiness Bar“.

We will have a volunteers sign-up, speaker sign-up, and more information once we have a venue and a date set.

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