{"id":61,"date":"2012-11-08T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2013-03-26T20:52:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T00:52:31","slug":"about-wordcamp-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/about-wordcamp-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"About WordCamp Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"WordCamps\" href=\"http:\/\/central.wordcamp.org\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamps<\/a> are casual, locally-organized conferences focusing on everything related to WordPress.\u00a0Each WordCamp is a little different, but they all share a similar goal: provide an opportunity for people to come together and discuss their common interest in WordPress, learn from each other, network, and have a great time doing it.<\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Ottawa will be held at the University of Ottawa April 27th, 2013.\u00a0 See &#8220;<a href=\"\/venue\">Venue<\/a>&#8221; for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for WordCamp Ottawa will be $23 per person for WordCamp only, or $28 per person for WordCamp and the pre-camp WordPress intro session.\u00a0 <a title=\"Register\" href=\"https:\/\/2013.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/register\/\">Register<\/a> for WordCamp Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsorship is important to fund a WordCamp, it will determine what we can offer in the way of refreshments, lunch, after-party events, T-shirts and WordCamp Ottawa swag.\u00a0 Please see \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/2013.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/become-a-sponsor\">Become a Sponsor<\/a>\u201d if you are interested in sponsoring WordCamp Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>We are planning <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">2 tracks<\/span> <strong>make that 3 tracks<\/strong> of presentations,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cContent Creators\u201d with presentations that will help users that create content in WordPress sites.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSite Creators\u201d with content for those who are more experienced users, but not necessarily designers or developers.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCode Creators\u201d will include presentations for designers or developers about site set-up, theme design, plugin development, best practices for development, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will also have <strong>an unconference session<\/strong> on &#8220;The Role of Women in the WordPress Community&#8221;, <strong>a panel<\/strong> discussing &#8220;Building Your Business, Cause, or Brand using WordPress&#8221;, a <strong>pre-camp<\/strong> &#8220;Introduction to WordPress&#8221; and a the &#8220;<a href=\"\/faq\">Happiness Bar<\/a>&#8221; where you can get one on one help with your WordPress questions,<\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Ottawa originated out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wpottawa.org\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Ottawa WordPress Group<\/a>. WordPress enthusiasts from the Ottawa and surrounding area get together on the first Wednesday of each month to hear a presentation about WordPress, share information and resources, and have a bit of fun. Everyone is welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences focusing on everything related to WordPress.\u00a0Each WordCamp is a little different, but they all share a similar goal: provide an opportunity for people to come together and discuss their common interest in WordPress, learn from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/about-wordcamp-ottawa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About WordCamp Ottawa<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8356622,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2OVcL-Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8356622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}