Michelle Galvez WCLAX Experience
This past weekend the 2014 Word Camp Los Angeles event took place at the beautiful California State University Los Angeles campus. The event brought together over 400 WordPress users and supporters to engage, share, learn, and experience being a part of the WordPress Community. As proud sponsors, we attended both Foundation Friday and Saturday Sessions. On Friday we had Maria Abugan(@Maria_InMotion), Paul Tardiff (@HubPaulT), Ryan Balikian (@RyanBalik), Sunil Saxena (@SunilSaxena), and myself (@IMH_Michelle) attending the awesome workshops provided on the beginner, business, and design workshops.
Saturday at WCLAX was even more exciting! As sponsors, we welcomed and greeted all the attendees at our InMotion Hosting booth. Hanging at the booth were Jerrett Farmer (@JerrettFarmer), William Miles, Sunil Saxena (@SunilSaxena) and myself (@IMH_Michelle). It was such a joy to meet current and potential customers who were excited to hear about all our upgrades to both our hardware and service plans (SSDs!).
We wanted to make sure everyone had a great time and even brought our speed stacking cups game for a shot at our newly designed InMotion Hosting jersey-shirts. To top that off, you could trade your business card for raffle tickets to win a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab 4.
As a first timer to any Word Camp event, my experience was definitely a positive one. I forged new relationships, made people smile, and educated others about our plans and services. It’s a place where you can geek out about WordPress and fit right in. Jerrett Farmer took it one step further and volunteered for the Happiness Bar this year. Below is the recap of his awesome experience.
Jerrett Farmer’s WCLAX Experience
I had the opportunity to serve at the WCLAX Happiness Bar this year. I was very excited to have a slot at such a joyfully named place and couldn’t wait for the good times to flow. What could be better than WordPress and beer? Maybe WordPress and more beer?
{sound of record scratch}…There is no beer. There isn’t wine. There isn’t even soda pop. Turns out, I’m not passing out hard liquor to web masters, I’m giving out tech support to WordPress users…for FREE! I thought this was going to be a nightmare. I would have to use my brain and everything.
I was worried for no reason. I had a blast. I met new people and helped with a few problems. Most importantly I sat beside the great Dave Jesch, https://wordpress.tv/speakers/dave-jesch/, who makes everything better. I really hope to get to serve at another Happiness Bar in the future.
Side note, Dave Jesch is the only human being to successfully order a beer from the Happiness Bar.
