Coming to the annual Online News Association (ONA) conference in New Orleans next month? We’re having the first in a series of WordCamp for Publishers meetups at like minded events to continue our conversations about journalism, advancing the open web, and open source tools for publishers.
Our meetup will take place at 5PM on Friday 9/13 at the AC Hotel Bourbon, which is just a few blocks from ONA 2019. The exact location in the hotel will be provided early next week.
If you’re interested, sign up here to be notified once we have more details. We’ll also be announcing more events in the coming weeks and months, some in person and some virtual. Join our brand new Meetup group to stay informed.
We want to give a huge thank you to all of our speakers, sponsors, organizers, volunteers, and attendees who helped us create yet another successful WordCamp for Publishers.
We’ll have a more detailed recap along with photos, videos, transcripts, slides, and more in the coming days and weeks.
WordCamp for Publishers will return in 2020 – maybe to your city! Unlike most WordCamps, our organizing team is distributed across the US, so it’s important for us to have a local organizer to help facilitate venue coordination, event logistics, swag delivery, and much more.
If you (as an individual, or a group of individuals) are interested in helping with this and have a great suggestion for a city, please fill out the application form. Please note that we do have a preference for cities that are underrepresented media markets so we can bring them an amazing event they might not normally experience.
We’ve left most fields optional, but please fill out as much information as you have. If you have any questions or other supporting materials that don’t fit here, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Tomorrow is an opportunity for you to give back to the community by sharing your expertise, or, learn from our talented attendees. Come join the first ever WordCamp for Publishers Mentorship Day!
We’ll be grouping folks by topic and introducing speed mentorship rounds for attendees to connect with each other. Doors open at 10:00 am on Friday, and we’ll have several rounds of mentorship hours until 1:00 pm.
If you’re still around tomorrow night, don’t forget about our Columbus Clippers baseball game at 7:15pm at Huntington Park. Tickets are first-come, first-serve. We hope to see you there!
If you can’t make this year’s WordCamp for Publishers, don’t worry. Our livestream will be available for free both days starting at 10AM. Just go to our livestream page!
If you’re at the event and need captioning for either or sessions or our workshops, both are available here:
WCPUB 2019 is upon us! We can’t wait to welcome everyone to Columbus for this year’s event. Here is some up-to-the-minute information as you hit the road!
Join the conversation!
Follow us on Twitter and please use the #WCPUB hashtag all week to join the conversation at WordCamp for Publishers 2019!
Check-in and Registration
There will be signs outside the Vue Columbus pointing the way to the check-in table. Registration (and coffee!) opens at 9:30 am. Opening remarks begin at 10:00 am and the first sessions are at 10:30 am. We’re starting a bit later than usual to give folks a chance to show up and have time to schmooze and say hello to our sponsors.
If you have colleagues who still haven’t bought their tickets, they can grab one here. We’ll have enough food and supplies for the latecomers, although they’ll need to hand-write their badge.
Mentorship Day
Friday is Mentorship Day. You can be a mentor or to be mentored. Sign up here and join us Friday to exchange knowledge with the amazing other folks in our publishers community.
Food and Drink
Coffee and soft drinks will be available throughout the day at the Vue. There won’t food provided except lunch, so plan accordingly if you have special needs.
For lunch, we’ll be sampling some of Columbus’s finest gourmet food trucks! On Wednesday, Nazca Peruvian Eats will be on site to hand out tasty Latin American options, and on Thursday we’ll be chowing down on Middle Eastern cuisine from Pitabilities. Vegetarian options will be available both days.
Lunch will be provided on Friday at Mentorship Day as well. We’ll take a headcount on Friday and place an order with a local eatery to be announced!
Social Events
WCPUB is all about getting to know other folks in the community, so we’ll have a plenty of time to kibbitz.
If you’re arriving early enough on Tuesday, feel free to join us for an informal hangout at Arepazo Tapas Bar Grille (515 S High St, Columbus) from 8:00 pm onwards. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
On Wednesday night, join us at Two Dollar Radio Headquarters (1124 Parsons Ave, Columbus) from 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm for a coffee house-style hangout. Light snacks and drinks will be included. Feel free to bring board games, card games, or other activities!
On Thursday night, we’ll be having the usual conference afterparty at Wolf’s Ridge Brewing (215 N 4th St, Columbus) at 7:00 pm. Food and drinks aplenty will be on offer!
And of course, on Friday we’ll continue our WCPUB baseball tradition with an outing to see the Columbus Clippers of the AAA International League take on the Buffalo Bisons. Even if you’re not a big sports fan, it’ll be a fun night out with the community and your ticket is included with your WCPUB registration. The Clippers game is at Huntington Park(330 Huntington Park Ln, Columbus).
Anything else?
Check out the schedule which has all the great sessions, workshops, and social events in store for you this week! If you signed up for the conference, you should have also received a link to join our Slack.
Got questions? Please free to reach out to the organizing team at publishers@wordcamp.org and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!
A big thanks goes out to our Silver sponsors for supporting us this year!
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If you’re flying in, you’re most likely landing at John Glenn International Airport, KCMH, formerly known as Port Columbus International Airport. The airport’s own ground-transportation guide is posted on their website.
Take the COTA AirConnect bus from the Ground Transportation level of the airport to the COTA Transit Terminal on Main Street. Step across Main Street, take a few steps south on High Street, and you’ll be at the front door of the Westin. Cost: $2.75
You can take a taxi, Lyft, or Uber from the airport. Cost: $25-40
Walk three blocks south and one block west, then from Front Street walk west on Liberty Street. It’s a half-mile walk. Keep an eye out for construction traffic at the intersection of Front and Liberty. 🚧
Ride the COTA 5, 8, or CBUS lines. From the stop at South High Street and West Main Street, ride the bus south for two stops, getting off at South High Street and West Blenkner Street. Walk one block west on Blenker Street, turn south on Front Street for half a block, then walk west on Liberty Street. Cost: Freeif you take the CBUS, $2 if you take the 5 or 8
Ride a CoGo bike from the dock at South High Street and West Mound Street to the dock at West Beck Street and South Front Street, then walk the rest of the way. Cost: $8 for a one-day pass, or $18 for a three-day pass
Ride a dockless scooter. At last count, Columbus has Lyft, Bird, Spin and Lime scooters. Cost: Varies
Take a taxi, Lyft, or Uber. Cost: $10
To get from the Vue to Two Dollar Radio Club at 1124 Parsons Ave, the location of our Wednesday evening activity, there are a few options:
Walk, bicycle, or scoot south on Front Street to East Deshler Avenue, then west on East Deshler Avenue to Parsons Avenue. Two Collar Radio Club is just north of Deshler, at the intersection of Parsons Avenue and Cline Street. Cost: Varies
Walk to back to the Westin at South High Street and Mound Street, then take the COTA bus lines 4 or 8 to Parsons Avenue and Thurman Avenue. Walk a couple blocks north to the intersection of Parsons Avenue and Cline Street. Cost: $2
Taxi, Lyft, or Uber works, too. Cost: $10
To get from the Vue to Wolf’s Ridge Brewing at 215 N 4th Street, the location of the Thursday evening afterparty:
Walk about 1.5 miles, following your preferred mapping app’s best guidance. Depending on routing, you may pass by Columbus Commons, the Ohio Theatre, the Ohio statehouse, and many eateries and entertainment venues.
Take the Cota 8, 7, 11, or CBUS routes, depending on timing and walking distance desired. Consult your preferred mapping app. Cost: $2
Bicyclists and scooters will want to take 4th Street for as much of the route as possible; it has a reserved lane for northbound cyclists. Southbound cyclists must take Summit Street or 3rd Street. Cost: Varies
Taxi, Lyft, or Uber works, too. Cost: $10
Parking at the Vue
Park at the Grange Parking Garage, 600 S. Front St. Columbus, OH 43215
Bring your parking garage ticket to the conference. You can get a sticker that validates your parking, giving you a discount. Upon leaving the garage, insert your discounted ticket into the box. You will not receive discounted parking without Vue’s sticker on your ticket.
If you require onsite parking for accessibility reasons, there are a very limited number of spaces available in the front driveway at the Vue. Please contact us ahead of time if you need one of these spaces.
Parking at the Grange Parking Garage:
Please take a ticket upon entry from the ticket box
Park in any open, numbered space. (most public availability begins on the 3rd level of the garage)
The garage closes at 7pm. You must retrieve your vehicle before 7 p.m.
Walking directions to the Vue:
Exit garage using stairs on the Front St. side of Garage (west)
Exit through glass doors on ground level and turn right (north) on Front Street to head towards the Vue.
Please use the crosswalk at Beck Street to cross Front Street (about half a block from the garage)
Turn left (west) onto Liberty Street and Vue will will be half a block down on your left, at 95 Liberty Street.
In-person events like WordCamp for Publishers are a great way to build skills and connect with people who truly understand the projects and problems you’re working on every day. But we know that conference travel costs can be a burden, particularly for people just starting out in publishing or working for an organization where training dollars are scarce.
Thanks to Pantheon for sponsoring our travel scholarships again this year. Because of their generosity, seven people are now able to attend the conference for whom it otherwise would have been difficult or impossible. They’re able to use the funds to cover whatever helps them the most: ticket and registration, lodging, meals, airfare and transit, or any other travel costs.
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