{"id":764726,"date":"2014-03-08T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T12:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=764726"},"modified":"2014-04-07T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:19:07","slug":"speakers-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speakers-step-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers, Step Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019d like to share your WordPress expertise with a receptive and motivated WordCamp Ottawa audience now is the time to step forward.<\/p>\n<p>The WordCamp Ottawa 2014 speaker application deadline\u20146:00 p.m. (EST), Friday, March 21, 2014\u2014is fast approaching.<\/p>\n<h3>A successful presentation<\/h3>\n<p>Picture yourself on stage. You\u2019ve been introduced. Your title slide is up. You\u2019re fully prepared to share WordPress knowledge you know well and care about. Your audience of about 300 includes colleagues and prospective clients.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re looking forward to making new acquaintances and networking with people who are grateful for the knowledge you\u2019ve shared\u2014and to seeing your presentation when it\u2019s broadcast on the web.<\/p>\n<h3>Who we\u2019re looking for<\/h3>\n<p>Now is a good time to step forward if you\u2019re a WordPress user, designer or developer who can speak with authority about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Publishing through a WordPress site<\/li>\n<li>Designing and building a WordPress site<\/li>\n<li>Developing WordPress plugins and the core, and system administration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You\u2019ll receive a particularly warm reception if your strong technical background enables you to address the more involved and complex WordPress topics. There are good opportunities to speak on these topics on Saturday and the Sunday afternoon in-depth sessions and panels.<\/p>\n<h3>Learn more<\/h3>\n<p>To learn more about speaking at WordCamp Ottawa 2014 take a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/become-a-speaker\/\">Become a Speaker<\/a> page and apply to be a speaker through our <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/contact-speaker\/\">Speaker Application<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019d like to share your WordPress expertise with a receptive and motivated WordCamp Ottawa audience now is the time to step forward. The WordCamp Ottawa 2014 speaker application deadline\u20146:00 p.m. (EST), Friday, March 21, 2014\u2014is fast approaching. A successful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speakers-step-forward\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speakers, Step Forward<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13274311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[22813],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volunteering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13274311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764727,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764726\/revisions\/764727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}