{"id":2995,"date":"2017-07-17T20:58:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T03:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.seattle.wordcamp.org\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2017-07-17T20:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T03:58:59","slug":"wordcamp-2017-whats-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wordcamp-2017-whats-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp Seattle 2017 &#8211; What&#8217;s Happening This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[If you\u2019re seeing this email, it&#8217;s because you signed up to receive updates on the WordCamp Seattle 2016 site and very likely are\u00a0not\u00a0subscribed to get updates on the 2017 site yet.\u00a0<strong>Please take a minute to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.seattle.wordcamp.org\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make sure you\u2019ve also subscribed to 2017 email updates<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had some exciting goings-on with WordCamp Seattle 2017 prep and planning this summer! Here are a few of the things you might want to know about:<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 We&#8217;re still hot into speaker recruiting, but we&#8217;re starting to come down to the wire. There are a few more opportunities to attend Speaker Training Workshops this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.seattle.wordcamp.org\/apply-to-speak\/workshops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out the locations and times<\/a> (they&#8217;re both happening this Thursday, 7\/20) and see if one is happening close to you.<\/p>\n<p>(Be sure to RSVP on the meetup site if you&#8217;re planning to attend one of these. The Bellingham workshop won&#8217;t happen unless at least 5 folks sign up.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 If you missed out on an opportunity to attend one of the awesome speaker workshops we held last month, we&#8217;ve been sharing some of the gems that came out of the sessions. Read about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.seattle.wordcamp.org\/5-myths-speaking-wordcamp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 Myths About Speaking at WordCamp (and Why You Can Ignore Them and Apply Anyway)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 And are you in the mood to feel like a rock star? Find out how you can experience some minor celebrity status in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.seattle.wordcamp.org\/wordcamp-speaker-perks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perks of Being a WordCamp Speaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Applications to be a speaker at this year&#8217;s WordCamp close on Saturday, 8\/5. So don&#8217;t delay &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.seattle.wordcamp.org\/apply-to-speak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get your application in soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[If you\u2019re seeing this email, it&#8217;s because you signed up to receive updates on the WordCamp Seattle 2016 site and very likely are\u00a0not\u00a0subscribed to get updates on the 2017 site yet.\u00a0Please take a minute to\u00a0make sure you\u2019ve also subscribed to 2017 email updates.] We&#8217;ve had some exciting goings-on with WordCamp Seattle 2017 prep and planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11704063,"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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ait7-Mj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11704063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}