{"id":144,"date":"2013-05-02T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.vancouver.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2013-08-01T14:16:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T21:16:53","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vancouver.wordcamp.org\/2013\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress.<\/h2>\n<p>WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. <a href=\"http:\/\/central.wordcamp.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about WordCamps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Date &amp; Time<\/h2>\n<p>WordCamp Vancouver 2013 will take place on August 17th 2013 from 8a (registration from 8a to 9a) to 5p. There will be presentations throughout the day, as well as opportunities for networking and breakout sessions. Lunch will be served (complimentary with your ticket) at 12p. Please see the <a title=\"Schedule\" href=\"https:\/\/2013.vancouver.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/\">full schedule<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<h2>Venue<\/h2>\n<p>The venue is\u00a0BCIT Downtown Campus located at\u00a0555 Seymour Street<br \/>\nVancouver, V6B 3H6.<\/p>\n<p>Additional venue information, including directions is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcit.ca\/about\/downtown.shtml\">available here<\/a>. Please note that the BCIT parking lot will be closed on August 17th. We recommend using public transit to get to the venue, but if you are using a car, there are other public parking lots nearby, notably on Seymour St.<\/p>\n<p>Please see <a title=\"Accommodations &amp; Transportation\" href=\"https:\/\/2013.vancouver.wordcamp.org\/2013\/08\/01\/accommodations-transportation\/\">this post on accomodation &amp; transporation<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<h2>Organizers<\/h2>\n<p>WordCamp Vancouver 2013 is organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jkudish\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Kudish<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jillbinder\" target=\"_blank\">Jill Binder<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thoronas\" target=\"_blank\">Flynn O&#8217;Connor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Special Thanks<\/h2>\n<p>To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcit.ca\/cas\/htp\/\">BCIT&#8217;s High Tech Professional Program<\/a> for sponsoring WordCamp with the venue for this year; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anom.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ally Noormohamed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluelimemedia.com\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Rondeau<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thrivewire.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Tzaddi Gordon<\/a>\u00a0for their help with the website;\u00a0to Andrea Middleton and everyone else over at <a href=\"http:\/\/central.wordcamp.org\">WordCamp Central<\/a> for their invaluable help with all things planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. Read more about WordCamps. Date &amp; Time WordCamp Vancouver 2013 will take place on August 17th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3703476,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3mtXn-2k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancouver.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancouver.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancouver.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vancouver.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3703476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vancouver.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/vancouver.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163242,"href":"https:\/\/vancouver.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/163242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancouver.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}