{"id":679,"date":"2012-08-29T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T17:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=679"},"modified":"2012-08-29T13:17:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T17:17:45","slug":"first-wave-of-speakers-and-sessions-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/first-wave-of-speakers-and-sessions-are-in\/","title":{"rendered":"First wave of speakers and sessions are in!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microphone head by sparetomato, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sparetomato\/2641110677\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3174\/2641110677_6be0c05507_m.jpg\" alt=\"Microphone head\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><strong>We&#8217;ve just added our first batch of confirmed <a title=\"WordCamp Toronto 2012 Speakers\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.toronto.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/\" target=\"_blank\">speakers<\/a> and <a title=\"WordCamp Toronto 2012 Sessions\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.toronto.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/sessions\/\" target=\"_blank\">sessions<\/a> to the site!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>This update includes the vast majority of presenters for September, but we&#8217;re still waiting on some final confirmations to finish things off.<\/p>\n<p>A roundup of what&#8217;s been added today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NEW: <a title=\"Sessions\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.toronto.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/sessions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sessions page<\/a> provides an overview of all presentations.<\/li>\n<li>NEW: <a title=\"Speakers\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.toronto.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Speakers page<\/a> introduces our presenters.<\/li>\n<li>NEW: <a title=\"Session Tracks\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.toronto.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/session-tracks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Session Tracks page<\/a>\u00a0includes updated track descriptions.<\/li>\n<li>UPDATED: <a title=\"Schedule\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.toronto.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">Schedule page<\/a> includes blank mockups of our 2012 itinerary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve taken down the Be A Speaker and Session Suggestions pages. Thanks to everyone that sent in their presentation suggestions, and an extra big thank you to everyone that applied to speak!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Applied to speak, but haven&#8217;t heard from us?<\/h3>\n<p>If you sent in a speaker application but didn&#8217;t hear back from us, it was likely due to a clash of content with other submissions.<\/p>\n<p>We had a good number of people wanting to talk about the same topics (specifically mobile, social media, multi-lingual sites, and backups), so we had to make some tough calls about who to accept and who to pass up on.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be looking for DevCamp speakers in a week or so, though, so you may have another chance to get in. \ud83d\ude42 We&#8217;re also always on the lookout for folks to present at the <a title=\"Toronto WordPress Group\" href=\"http:\/\/meetup.wptoronto.com\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto WordPress Group meetups<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just added our first batch of confirmed speakers and sessions to the site! This update includes the vast majority of presenters for September, but we&#8217;re still waiting on some final confirmations to finish things off. A roundup of what&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/first-wave-of-speakers-and-sessions-are-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First wave of speakers and sessions are in!<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[30513],"tags":[168,29],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-updates","tag-sessions","tag-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2g0ao-aX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}