{"id":21,"date":"2008-10-04T21:17:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T03:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordcampchicago.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-05-17T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T00:16:46","slug":"wordcamp-chicago-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wordcamp-chicago-is-on\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp Chicago is ON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We decided <a href=\"http:\/\/wordcamp.org\">WordCamp<\/a> needed to come to the Upper MidWest of the United States &#8211; so here we are, all geared up to organize the event and bring together WordPress fans who are local to the Chicago area (and even those who aren&#8217;t, but are willing to travel!).  &#8220;We&#8221; are:  <a href=\"http:\/\/briangardner.com\">Brian Gardner<\/a> author of the insanely popular <a href=\"http:\/\/revolutiontheme.com\">Revolution Theme<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/corymiller.com\">Cory Miller<\/a> of the fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/ithemes.com\">iThemes<\/a>, Wendy Piersall, CEO and founder of the popular and fast-growing <a href=\"http:\/\/sparkplugging.com\">SparkPlugging<\/a> community and <a href=\"http:\/\/justagirlintheworld.com\">Lisa Sabin-Wilson<\/a>, owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/ewebscapes.com\">E.Webscapes<\/a> and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2448c6\">WordPress For Dummies<\/a>.  We are all from the Chicago, or surrounding areas, and are all passionate users of <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are still in the planning stages of the event &#8211; so the time, date and location of WordCamp Chicago is still to be determined.  We are working quickly and have a pretty decent team put together to organize the event..so I suspect it will not be long before we are updating here with more specifics.  <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/WordCampChicago\">Subscribe to our RSS Feed<\/a> to receive updates when we make them!  You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WordCampChicago\">follow us on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are interested in hearing from folks in the WordPress community who might be interested in speaking\/presenting at the WordCamp Chicago event, or sponsoring the event to help us defray some of the costs involved in putting on a fantastic event.  <a href=\"\/contact\">Contact us<\/a> for more information, if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p>On a personal note, I have to say that I&#8217;m honored and feel priviledged to work with such a talented group of people for this event and I know we&#8217;re all looking forward at working hard to put on an event that everyone will enjoy and benefit from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We decided WordCamp needed to come to the Upper MidWest of the United States &#8211; so here we are, all geared up to organize the event and bring together WordPress fans who are local to the Chicago area (and even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wordcamp-chicago-is-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WordCamp Chicago is ON<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3037239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,53,29,42,5412,14],"tags":[5427,5431,5437,223,5522,5524,25,418478],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-blog","category-speakers","category-sponsors","category-wcchicago-2009","category-wordpress","tag-brian-gardner","tag-chicago","tag-cory-miller","tag-lisa-sabin-wilson","tag-wcchicago","tag-wendy-piersall","tag-wordcamp","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1v9vU-l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3037239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}