{"id":240412,"date":"2014-08-22T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=240412"},"modified":"2014-08-22T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:16:24","slug":"planning-updates-new-organizers-logo-site-tweaks-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/planning-updates-new-organizers-logo-site-tweaks-sponsors\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning Updates: New Organizers, Logo, Site Tweaks &amp; Sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve made quite a bit of progress since our last update.<\/p>\n<h3>New Organizers<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jordan Quintal<\/strong> has joined us to spearhead the accessibility initiative for WordCamp Toronto 2014. Jordan is a longtime member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/meetup.com\/wptoronto\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto WordPress Group<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/2013.toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/09\/27\/featured-speaker-jordan-quintal\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamp Toronto presenter<\/a>, and <a title=\"The Genius Web Media Inc.\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/sponsor\/the-genius-web-media-inc\/\">returning sponsor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dejan Markovic<\/strong> will be handling volunteer coordination this year. Dejan is an <a href=\"http:\/\/nytogroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">experienced WordPress developer<\/a> and event organizer with the Toronto WordPress Group. (If you&#8217;re interested in volunteering, <a title=\"Get Involved: Volunteer!\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/get-involved\/\">please sign up<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<h3>WordCamp Toronto 2014 Logo<\/h3>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to unveil the official logo for WordCamp Toronto 2014:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-240413\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/08\/wcto14-logo-black-300x167.png\" alt=\"WordCamp Toronto 2014 Logo - Black\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/08\/wcto14-logo-black-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/08\/wcto14-logo-black-150x83.png 150w, https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/08\/wcto14-logo-black-500x278.png 500w, https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/08\/wcto14-logo-black.png 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was a joint effort between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobayashi.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kobayashi Online<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeitguys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zeitguys Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Site Tweaks<\/h3>\n<p>We&#8217;ve made some adjustments to the site over the last few days. Namely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Switched from WordCamp Base theme to Twenty Thirteen.<\/li>\n<li>Changed font for greater readability (hopefully!)<\/li>\n<li>Added genericons to links that open new tabs or windows.<\/li>\n<li>Replaced the header photo with the beautiful shot by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/9VFdGz\" target=\"_blank\">Anton Bielousov<\/a>. We&#8217;re also using it on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/wcyyz\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wcyyz\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We made these changes in hopes that it would improve our site accessibility and usability. If you run into anything that&#8217;s causing a problem, please drop a comment below. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h3>More Sponsors!<\/h3>\n<p>We&#8217;ve added a bunch of new sponsors &#8211; just take a look at the sidebar! We&#8217;ll be rolling out the spotlight posts and formal announcements over the next 8+ weeks in the leadup to WordCamp Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in sponsoring? <a title=\"Be a Sponsor\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/sponsor\/\">We&#8217;re still accepting applications.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone! We&#8217;ve made quite a bit of progress since our last update. New Organizers Jordan Quintal has joined us to spearhead the accessibility initiative for WordCamp Toronto 2014. Jordan is a longtime member of the Toronto WordPress Group, a WordCamp Toronto presenter, and returning sponsor. Dejan Markovic will be handling volunteer coordination this year. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/planning-updates-new-organizers-logo-site-tweaks-sponsors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planning Updates: New Organizers, Logo, Site Tweaks &amp; Sponsors<\/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":{"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":[4979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240412"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240427,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240412\/revisions\/240427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}