UniS building, 8th/9th September 2017
WordCamp Bern has come to an end but evidence of the learning and fun is to be found in plenty of places:
If you have not yet shared your media, don’t forget to add the hashtag so that we can all look through them.
Today we would like to thank our Bronze sponsors for being an important part of WordCamp Bern. Thank you to WPML, AlpHosting, required, FreshJobs, Dream Production, SiteGround, WebKinder, cubetech, cyon, Inpsyde, Infomaniak and Yoast.
Let’s talk about food. We would like to let our attendees know beforehand what food we will be providing on the day of the conference.
In the morning when you arrive we will have tea and coffee ready for you.
For the morning break (Znüni) there will be different types of croissants and small breads along side tea, coffee and water.
At lunch time we will be providing a warm meal.
[EN] Thin strips of pork cooked with onions, mushrooms and bacon served with Butterspätzli (made out of flour, eggs and water)
[DE] Schweinsgeschnetzeltes Berner Art mit Zwiebeln, Pilzen, Speck und Butterspätzli
For those who have requested a special menu there will be:
[EN] Tofu curry with sesame rice and wok vegetables
[DE] Tofucurry mit Sesamreis und Wokgemüse
In the afternoon break (Zvieri) there will be cakes and mini muffins with an assortment of fruits along side tea and coffee.
After a day full of presentations, you are all invited to the “WordCamp Chillout” to relax, have a drink and some snacks while chatting with old and new friends!
The WordCamp Chillout will take place at the “Restaurant Grosse Schanze” which is just across the road from the venue.
Remember to bring your badge as it is a private event.
Due to the generosity of our great sponsors we will be offering everyone a free drink and will be providing snacks like
The restaurant will open at 6pm and close at midnight.
Restaurant Grosse Schanze
Parkterrasse 10,
3012 Bern
Today we welcome Gold Sponsor, @Hostpoint. As the largest Swiss web hosting provider, Hostpoint hosts more than 225,000 websites and maintains one of the most modern and stable infrastructures available. Hostpoint experts advise and assist private individuals and SMEs on a daily basis and all data is stored in Switzerland. This means your platform is effective and secure. 
Thank you to Hostpoint for sponsoring WordCamp Bern 2017 and please drop by their booth to check out their services.
Sponsors are one of the most important parts of WordCamp Bern. With their help, we keep the ticket price low, and the conference open to everyone. While in Bern, visit their booths, say hello to them, and talk with them about their products and services. Wondering who these companies are? Visit our sponsors page.
At the next Swiss WordCamp in Bern on Saturday 9th September, every attendee will get a T-shirt which is included in the ticket price. To guarantee you’ll get your shirt in the right size, we ask you to buy your ticket before the 15th August. At the checkout page, you’ll be asked for your shirt size.
At this point we want to say thank you to our shirt supplier Shirthouse. The friendly and small company operates from Schönbühl near Bern. They supported us by giving us a really good offer.
The shirts are going to be in a dark grey tone. At the WordCamp, Volunteers will wear a green shirt. The imprint will be made with the negative logo in white and red. It will be silk-screen printed at a big size on the front of the shirt.
We are looking forward to getting our shirts. We hope you are too.
When we began organising our WordCamp, I agreed to adopt some design tasks including to design the logo.
On 9.9.2017, the fifth WordCamp will take place in Switzerland. After last year’s WordCamp in Geneva, it will be the second time the Swiss WordCamp is named after the host city instead. This is why we couldn’t take the former WordCamp Switzerland logo and needed a new one.
I started to collect ideas and made sketches. I was able to show these to my teammates and which we used as a base to make a decision. Obviously, the aim was to create a logo which presents the city of Bern as well as the WordPress community.
Ulrich had the idea to include the towns landmark “Zitgloggeturm” (a clock tower) or its artistic clock face. I tried this in sketch 1 and 4. As other WordCamps did it before, I tried to combine the WordPress logo and the panorama of the city (see sketch 2). For idea 3 I was inspired by the photo of Hurni Christoph. The image shows the Kirchenfeldbrücke bridge and the Bundeshaus (government building) and was taken down from the river Aare.
We decided to take the idea no. 3 further.
At the same time, I refreshed a former logo I made a few years ago for a Google+ group. Mark liked it and used it for the WordPress Slack and Github group. For this reason, I also included it in our WordCamp logo.
Once the decision was made, I started to make the idea an reality in Illustrator. The team liked the result. There were only a few corrections to made to do with the position of the Swiss cross. In addition, we had a few discussions about the colours.
The final logo consists of the shade of greys #495057 and #868E96, the red #f03e3e for the Swiss cross and the green #50AFA0. There are also two negative versions in white or in white and the mentioned red.
Mark suggested the green which matches the colour of the river Aare. Moreover, the shape of the green represents the river, which loops round the beautiful old town.
I had a lot of fun designing the logo and design concept for our WordCamp. With this post, I hope I could show you that as well and that we accomplished it as a team.
We also have made a new PDF factsheet to explain to our potential sponsors what this event is all about.
We know you are excited going to WordCamp Bern and you obviously want to show the world. So, today we are releasing banners you can use to show the world your support for WordCamp Bern. These awesome banners were designed by our designer Stefan Brechbühl. Thank you, Stefan!
Feel free to link to https://2017.bern.wordcamp.org/ and also, please don’t hotlink these files. Download by right clicking on the images and selecting “Download Image As…” and upload to your website! Thank you ❤️
Download an image and put it on your website. Let everyone know you’re attending, volunteering sponsoring or speaking. p.s. keep in mind that we’re still selecting speakers, so you should hear back from us before using this one 😉
We’re happy to announce that the next Swiss WordCamp is going to be held in Bern this autumn! The organizers have been able to secure the UniS conference location, near Bern’s main train station, and we’d love it if you could join us on Saturday 9th September.
This website will be regularly updated as more details are confirmed over the coming months, including speaker submissions, ticket sales and more! We’re also arranging a Contributor Day for Friday 8th September: more details are here.
If you’d like to keep up-to-date via social media, you can follow us @wordcampbern, on Facebook, or in the WordPress Switzerland Slack channel. Stay tuned for details!