{"id":3,"date":"2016-03-31T15:35:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/01\/21\/welcome-to-wordcamp-ottawa\/"},"modified":"2016-05-31T20:58:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:58:20","slug":"welcome-to-wordcamp-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/welcome-to-wordcamp-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to WordCamp Ottawa 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the other organizers, I\u2019d like to welcome you to <strong>WordCamp Ottawa 2016<\/strong>, an evening and a weekend of useful information and networking opportunities focusing on WordPress, right here in the nation&#8217;s capital!<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s event\u00a0takes place at <strong>Carleton University June 18 &#8211; 19, 2016,<\/strong> with the gorgeous\u00a0<strong>River Building<\/strong> as the venue for Saturday&#8217;s Main Camp. We accompany the Main Camp with hands-on Pre-camp workshops on <strong>June 16:<\/strong> &#8220;Introduction to WordPress for Beginners&#8221; and &#8220;Introduction to WordPress for Developers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>During the next few days and weeks\u00a0we&#8217;ll offer more details about this year\u2019s event. For now, we\u2019d like you to know that WordCamp Ottawa 2016 builds on WordCamps held in Ottawa in previous years, and is made by and for the Ottawa, Canada, and Global WordPress communities.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re paying the same attention to your requirements, whether you\u2019re a beginner publishing content or an expert at work on the more complex tasks. WordCamp veterans will find many familiar features, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inexpensive registration<\/li>\n<li>Carefully chosen speakers<\/li>\n<li>Your choice of informative sessions<\/li>\n<li>Friendly experts happy\u00a0to help with technical questions at our Happiness Bar<\/li>\n<li>Coffee\u00a0each day and a lunch on Saturday<\/li>\n<li>Our Networking Get-together on the Saturday night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019re working hard to make this an informative and rewarding WordCamp. Return here for updates on our progress. And <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/register\/\">join us<\/a> in June for the best WordPress event in Ottawa!<\/p>\n<p>Meagan Hanes<br \/>\nLead Organizer<br \/>\nWordCamp Ottawa 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the other organizers, I\u2019d like to welcome you to WordCamp Ottawa 2016, an evening and a weekend of useful information and networking opportunities focusing on WordPress, right here in the nation&#8217;s capital! This year&#8217;s event\u00a0takes place at Carleton University &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/welcome-to-wordcamp-ottawa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to WordCamp Ottawa 2016<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11146216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordcamp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79zQK-3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11146216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}