{"id":850697,"date":"2014-03-24T09:39:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=850697"},"modified":"2014-04-07T14:16:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:16:46","slug":"speaker-lineup-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-lineup-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Lineup News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The response to our call for speakers has been fantastic.<\/p>\n<h3>More talks<\/h3>\n<p>To offer you the most incredible line up we can accommodate, we\u2019ve booked another room and added an hour to the schedule on Saturday, increasing the number of talks from 27 to 40!<\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Ottawa 2014 will now feature <strong>32 sessions<\/strong> in <strong>3 tracks<\/strong> on Saturday, <strong>8 workshops or panels<\/strong> on Sunday, and a <strong>Pre-camp Introduction to WordPress<\/strong> on the preceding Thursday to help new users get a jump start with WordPress.<\/p>\n<h3>Hard decisions<\/h3>\n<p>We\u2019ve had to make some really hard decisions and we are still going to have to turn down talks. It\u2019s not that the ones we\u2019ll have to turn down aren\u2019t good. They are, and this has made the decisions really hard. It\u2019s that we just don\u2019t have space for them all.<\/p>\n<h3>Experts at this event<\/h3>\n<p>Add to the number of speakers the number of experts who will staff the <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/happiness-bar\/\">Happiness Bar<\/a>, where you can get one-on-one help with your WordPress questions, and we\u2019ll have about 50 talented people on hand at this event to present to you the latest and greatest about WordPress.<\/p>\n<h3>Brisk sales<\/h3>\n<p>With six weeks to go, we\u2019ve already sold 3 times as many tickets this year as last year\u2014and with the speakers line-up now being posted we expect tickets will sell fast! So, don\u2019t miss WordCamp Ottawa 2014. <a title=\"Register\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/register\/\">Register<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<h3>Speakers and sessions<\/h3>\n<p>So far, we\u2019ve posted about <del>a quarter<\/del> [Edit March 27th] half of the <a title=\"Our Speakers\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/our-speakers\/\">speakers<\/a> and <a title=\"Sessions\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/sessions\/\">sessions<\/a>. We\u2019re still working on the others. We\u2019ll post as they are confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The response to our call for speakers has been fantastic. More talks To offer you the most incredible line up we can accommodate, we\u2019ve booked another room and added an hour to the schedule on Saturday, increasing the number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-lineup-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Lineup News<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8356622,"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":[284642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordcamp-ottawa-2014"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850697","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\/8356622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850697"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870553,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850697\/revisions\/870553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}