{"id":624,"date":"2011-09-01T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.portland.wordcamp.org\/?p=624"},"modified":"2011-08-31T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T05:30:12","slug":"wordcamp-awesome-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wordcamp-awesome-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp Awesome in the Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love unconferences because the event dynamic is driven by the attendees &#8211; folks get to choose the agenda and everyone can learn from the experiences of a diverse set of attendees.<\/p>\n<p>As I look at the current state of things, we have <strong>about 135 tickets remaining<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some great discussion going on at the <a href=\"https:\/\/2011.portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/08\/24\/open-thread-for-unconference-topics\/\">open thread for discussion topic ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I browse the <a href=\"https:\/\/2011.portland.wordcamp.org\/attendees\/\" title=\"Attendees\">list of registered attendees<\/a> and look at the names of other sponsors and organizers who aren&#8217;t yet on that page, I see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>multiple WordPress core contributors<\/li>\n<li>WordCamp organizers from across the country<\/li>\n<li>authors who produce great content, developers who write plugins and themes, and designers who make things look and work smoothly<\/li>\n<li>folks like John Hawkins* and Todd Huish who build websites for Chris Brogan<\/li>\n<li>Tantek \u00c7elik, a web standards guru and microformats pioneer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* speaking of Mr. Hawkins, check out his article <a href=\"http:\/\/vegasgeek.com\/wordcamp-portland-round-3\/\">WordCamp Portland &#8211; Round 3<\/a> in which he explains why (as a 20+ WordCamp veteran) he&#8217;s excited to travel 750 miles to come to WordCamp Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love unconferences because the event dynamic is driven by the attendees &#8211; folks get to choose the agenda and everyone can learn from the experiences of a diverse set of attendees. As I look at the current state of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wordcamp-awesome-in-the-making\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WordCamp Awesome in the Making<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4998,11272,4634,11270],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-john-hawkins","tag-tantek-celik","tag-unconference","tag-vegasgeek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1wS71-a4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}