{"id":806984,"date":"2014-05-16T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.seattle.wordcamp.org\/?p=806984"},"modified":"2014-05-16T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:23:03","slug":"keynote-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/keynote-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re happy to announce that we&#8217;ve confirmed two great speakers to keynote\u00a0WordCamp Seattle this year. <strong>Siobhan McKeown<\/strong> will be kicking things off in the morning, and <strong>Andrew Nacin<\/strong> will close us out at the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Siobhan McKeown<\/strong> is a Word Ninja at Audrey Capital where she writes about WordPress, deals with documentation, and has nightmares about the Codex. She\u2019s currently working on an open source book about the history of WordPress. She spends her days delving into the brains of its early developers and community members. When she\u2019s not worrying about the finer details of forking and the GPL, she\u2019s helping out with the project\u2019s future by wrangling WordPress\u2019 documentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Nacin<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0a Lead Developer of WordPress, squashing bugs, mentoring contributors, and spearheading new development \u2014 including leading the 3.5, 3.7, and 3.9 releases. He has strong feelings about the core philosophies of WordPress, among them \u201cdecisions, not options\u201d and \u201cdesigning for the majority\u201d \u2014 software should be opinionated in lieu of burdening the user. In his first appearance at WordCamp Seattle since 2011, he&#8217;ll be sharing what the community has been working on, where we are headed, and how we&#8217;re going to get there. Bring your questions as there will be plenty of time for discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re happy to announce that we&#8217;ve confirmed two great speakers to keynote\u00a0WordCamp Seattle this year. Siobhan McKeown will be kicking things off in the morning, and Andrew Nacin will close us out at the end of the day. Siobhan McKeown is a Word Ninja at Audrey Capital where she writes about WordPress, deals with documentation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33690,"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":[12,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806984"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807266,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806984\/revisions\/807266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}