{"id":5,"date":"2017-05-04T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=5"},"modified":"2017-06-01T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:40:13","slug":"call-for-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/call-for-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker deadline has been extended to June 8th!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s required\u00a0to be a speaker at WordCamp Ottawa 2017?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knowledge and passion about a WordPress (or WordPress-related) topic<\/li>\n<li>An ability to engage an audience during a <strong>traditional 45-minute<\/strong> or a <strong>lightning 10- to 15-minute<\/strong> talk (or other talk ideas &#8211; like a panel discussion or a workshop!)<\/li>\n<li>Slides that support your talk, or comfort speaking before a live audience (as well as the audience on WordPress.tv!)<\/li>\n<li>A willingness to accept appreciation and feedback from a grateful audience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sharing your knowledge at a WordCamp is very rewarding: you can\u00a0shine before prospective clients or employers, make new acquaintances and network with people grateful for the knowledge and understanding you share. And, provided you don\u2019t mind taking the stage, it\u2019s fun!<\/p>\n<h3>Who we\u2019re looking for<\/h3>\n<p>We\u2019re looking for WordPress users, designers and developers who can deliver talks about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Publishing through a WordPress site<\/li>\n<li>Designing and building a WordPress site<\/li>\n<li>Setting up sites, designing themes, developing plugins, learning about development best practices and more<\/li>\n<li>Other\u00a0WordPress-related topics, such as the business of selling websites\/plugins, providing customers service, and the open source community as a whole<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What we\u2019d like to see<\/h3>\n<p>Often, the more successful talks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explain what you learned as you solved a problem<\/li>\n<li>Share examples &#8211; whether code or graphs, both help paint a picture for the audience<\/li>\n<li>Present a number of important lessons learned, with tips on avoiding problems<\/li>\n<li>Take the form of a case study, or a live or scripted example<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Learn more<\/h3>\n<p>If you can see yourself sharing your WordPress knowledge and expertise with people who are eager to learn, don&#8217;t hesitate!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/become-a-speaker\/\">Become a Speaker<\/a>\u00a0today \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker deadline has been extended to June 8th! 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Knowledge and passion about a WordPress (or WordPress-related) topic An ability to engage an audience during a traditional 45-minute or a lightning 10- &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/call-for-speakers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call for Speakers<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11146216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordcamp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sFoH-5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11146216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}