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Highlights of WordCamp Sacramento 2017

September 27, 2017 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

This entry is part 15 of 17 in the series WordCamps
Laura Steiner, Sallie Goetsch, and Amanda McCoy wearing silly hats at WordCamp Sacramento 2017

It’s been more than a week since WordCamp Sacramento 2017–time spent partly on recovering and partly on work–but thanks to the notes I took and my live-tweeting habit, I can reconstruct enough to produce something of a highlight reel. Here are some of the many things I enjoyed about the event.

Sacramento

A Victorian house called Irene
The house called Irene
Mazda 6 parked on 17th street in Sacramento
Parked on 17th Street across from Irene
carriage house attached to white Victorian house
Victorian outbuilding with cupola
side entrance to enormous white Victorian house
Side entrance to main house
enormous white Victorian house as seen from the bus stop across the street
Three-quarter view
grand front steps of enormous white Victorian house
The grand staircase
Mansion Flats
statue of Poseidon
Replica of Greek bronze statue of Poseidon (or Zeus)
"How Are We Loving" public sculpture outside Sacramento Convention Center
How Are We Loving
"What have we thought" sculpture outside Sacramento Convention Center
What Have We Thought

San Francisco gets most of the tourist attention, but in a lot of ways Sacramento is a much nicer city. For one thing, you can park there. For another, it’s fairly flat, which makes walking easier. It has gracious Victorian neighborhoods, hipster restaurants, several museums, and the Gold Rush-Era Old Town. This year’s event was at the Sacramento Convention Center, bang in the middle of everything, and we rented an Airbnb a short walk away.

Speaker Reception

Sallie Goetsch talking to Ben Byrne, Matt Vanderpol, and other speakers at the WCSAC 2017 speaker reception

At WordCamp Sacramento 2015, we actually had a sit-down speaker dinner at Ten22, a lovely restaurant in Old Town. It’s not practical (or necessarily a good use of WordCamp funds) to have a sit-down dinner when there are 50 speakers, even if not all of them had arrived by Friday night. The 2017 speaker reception took place at a pizza-and-gelato bar called Hot Italian. (Naturally I couldn’t eat anything there, but after the reception my husband and I had a lovely dinner at Orchid Thai up the street.)

This event is where the speakers collect their badges and speaker gifts and have a chance to catch up with the people they know and meet the people they don’t. My favorite new person to meet was Verious B. Smith, a meetup organizer and the winner of the “coolest name” award.

Location

Sacramento Convention Center

The down side to the Sacramento Convention Center is that it’s huge, and if you didn’t pay attention to the email telling you which entrance to use, you had to walk through a lot of musty halls crowded with people going to to take credentialing tests or attend nail expos. The up side is that WordCamp Sacramento had the whole of the 2nd floor. The meeting rooms were neither too dark (as at WCSac 2015) nor too light (as at WCSac 2016). Everything was on one hallway and easy to find–and there were even enough women’s bathrooms.

Sacramento Convention Center 2nd floor plan

In general, though, the place is nicer outside than in, with a sculpture garden populated by replicas of famous works, and a curiously Ozymandian display of public art outside the 13th Street entrance to the west lobby.

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