{"id":3116,"date":"2017-09-27T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.seattle.wordcamp.org\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2017-09-26T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:36:54","slug":"the-value-of-community-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/the-value-of-community-sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Community Sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been wondering what the heck a Community Sponsorship is when you go to <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.seattle.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">purchase your WordCamp Seattle ticket<\/a> (and why on earth would anyone pay $250 when they can get their ticket for just $40)?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3122\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/the-value-of-community-sponsorship\/community-sponsorship\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/community-sponsorship.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,630\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Value of Community Sponsorship\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/community-sponsorship-1024x538.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/2017.seattle.wordcamp.org\/files\/2017\/09\/community-sponsorship.jpg\" alt=\"The Value of Community Sponsorship\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/community-sponsorship.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/community-sponsorship-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/community-sponsorship-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/community-sponsorship-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/community-sponsorship-500x263.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you may know, <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.seattle.wordcamp.org\/sponsors\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">our sponsors are what really make WordCamp possible<\/a> and allow us to put on this incredible, professional-grade conference for just $20\/day.  <\/p>\n<p>In years past, we&#8217;ve had a lot of smaller companies and solo shops also express an interest in helping to sponsor WordCamp and participate in a more meaningful way, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.seattle.wordcamp.org\/sponsorship\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">$1000 Bronze Level<\/a> may have been a bit too steep for them. <\/p>\n<p>So this year, we wanted to offer a way to let those folks give back and participate as a sponsor even though they might not have the deep pockets.<\/p>\n<p>Listen below as the veritable Bob Dunn and our astonishing WordCamp Sponsor Wrangler, Eric Amundson discuss Community Sponsorship opportunities at WordCamp Seattle 2017.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/vimeo.com\/234551391<\/p>\n<p>At just $250, Community Sponsorships are an extremely affordable way to attend WordCamp, contribute back to the WordPress community, and improve your WordPress Karma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;margin: 60px auto\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/2017.seattle.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">BECOME A COMMUNITY SPONSOR TODAY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/users\/VivitoArt-235608\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VivitoArt<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been wondering what the heck a Community Sponsorship is when you go to purchase your WordCamp Seattle ticket (and why on earth would anyone pay $250 when they can get their ticket for just $40)? As you may know, our sponsors are what really make WordCamp possible and allow us to put on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/the-value-of-community-sponsorship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Value of Community Sponsorship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11704063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tickets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheMRw-Og","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11704063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}