• A way to take notes: pens/paper, laptop/tablet
•  Lots of questions
• Water and snacks
• Business cards

A way to take notes – a laptop is not required

You will want to take notes. So bring your favorite way to capture what is happening. Notebooks & extra pens. If you use a laptop to capture notes, bring that. However, a laptop is not required at WordCamp.

The sessions are not instructor-led tutorials where you follow them through a lesson using a laptop. They are mostly in presentation format. Each speaker is can post their slides on the WordCamp Kansas City website so that they are available for you. SlideShare is a popular format, although some people may post PDFs.

Internet access will be available via WiFi. However, sometimes WiFi access in crowded locations, where many people are trying to access the resource at the same time, can be problematic.

Lots of questions

Spend some time looking at the session schedule and plan your day. Prepare questions for the speakers. If they cannot address the question during the talk because of time constraints, they will be available during the day.

Business cards

You will meet new people at WordCamp Kansas City. Bring business cards so that they can follow up with you after the event.

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This guest post is by Austin Gunter

If you’ve spent enough time working with WordPress, you’ve come across the ubiquitous “WordCamps” and probably asked the question, “What the heck is a WordCamp?” Hopefully at this point you’re considering attending a local one, and you want to know, “How can I make the most out of my weekend?”

This is a good post to read before you go. It will help you make a conference plan to maximize your weekend. There’s a lot you can get out of a WordCamp, so let’s help you decide what that is!

Continue reading on http://www.wpbeginner.com/events/making-most-wordcamps.

Contributor Day is an opportunity for you to make your own, well, contribution to WordPress. We’re looking forward to having tons of great WordPress users in town for WordCamp Kansas City. Since the community is what makes WordPress so great, why not take advantage of our proximity and get together to add to the awesomeness?

Whether you’re a designer, developer, systems/support specialist, or writer, there’s a way for you to contribute:

• If you’re a programmer, contribute code directly to core!*
• Write or update WordPress documentation and tutorials
• Create visual mockups of new features, or those being modified
• Help out with your knowledge of accessibility or other relevant standards
• Mobile developer? Help out with the apps!
• Answer questions on the forums and help other users or people who are new to WordPress
• Work on the wordpress.org website itself, including the plugin and theme repositories

People who come to Contributor Day will be 1000% focused on contributing to or learning to contribute to the WordPress project — although we have fun, this is a working event. If you’ve been looking for an opening to add your contribution to WordPress, this is the perfect opportunity!

We’ll make sure the WiFi stays strong  and you make sure WordPress stays strong. See you at the there!

What to bring:

• A laptop or tablet is the only thing you really need.
• If you want to bring a power strip and extension cord that could come in handy, but we’ll have some already there too.
• A pair of headphones, if you plan to subtitle WordPress.tv videos.
• If you plan to work on code, you can get a head start by setting up Varying Vagrant Vagrants and the WordPress Meta Environment for a local development environment.
• *CODE CONTRIBUTORS If you’re planning on helping out with WordPress core code (writing patches, testing bugs on trunk, etc), then you’ll need to get set up with a few things. To save time on the day, we strongly recommend that you set WordPress up locally on your laptop (and bring it!). You’ll need to install a local web server and check out a copy of WordPress from Subversion.

BE A PART OF SOMETHING BIG!

Contributor Day takes place on Sunday, 10:30am – 4pm at Sprint Accelerator.
210 West 19th Terrace, Kansas City, MO → Map