{"id":324,"date":"2010-01-08T23:50:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T05:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordcampchicago.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2012-10-10T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T14:43:06","slug":"happy-new-year-are-you-ready-for-wcchicago-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/happy-new-year-are-you-ready-for-wcchicago-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year &#8211; Are You Ready for WCChicago &#8217;10?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2011.chicago.wordcamp.org\/files\/2010\/01\/20101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"326\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/happy-new-year-are-you-ready-for-wcchicago-10\/happy-new-year-2010\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/files\/2010\/01\/20101.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"418,287\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Dan Bachman&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00c2\\u00a9 Dan Bachman&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Happy New Year 2010&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Happy New Year 2010\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Happy New Year 2010&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/files\/2010\/01\/20101-300x205.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/files\/2010\/01\/20101.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-326\" src=\"https:\/\/2011.chicago.wordcamp.org\/files\/2010\/01\/20101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/files\/2010\/01\/20101.jpg 418w, https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/files\/2010\/01\/20101-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/briangardner.com\">Brian<\/a> and I would like to give you a warm welcome back to WordCampChicago.com and wish you a very HAPPY new year!  We hope everyone&#8217;s holiday season was fantastic and safe.  We&#8217;re rarin&#8217; to go over here and are already in the planning stages for WordCamp Chicago 2010!  Last year was such a success, and so much fun &#8211; we really hope to see everyone back again &#8211; &#8211; and that you&#8217;ll all bring a friend.  We&#8217;re looking to ramp up the registrant numbers this year and already have a large venue in mind and are close to confirming the location &#8211; &#8211; which will be announced here shortly (soon as i know, you&#8217;ll know!)<\/p>\n<p>Will you do us the kind favor of answering our short little poll on whether or not you&#8217;re planning to attend WordCamp Chicago this year?  We know, and understand, that it&#8217;s a little early in the year &#8211; but if we can get a rough idea on how many people are looking invade the Windy City in June for WordCamp &#8211; that will help us a great deal with our planning and plotting!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2490824\/\">Do you plan to attend WordCamp Chicago 2010?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\">polls<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We are now accepting submissions for speaking and sponsorship opportunities &#8211; if you are interested, please <a href=\"\/contact\">contact us<\/a> with your ideas and proposals!  We have lots in store including (but not limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At least two tracks &#8211; a User track and Development track<\/li>\n<li>A WP Genius table where you can connect with your favorite WP genius for answers to your burning questions<\/li>\n<li>Food and drink<\/li>\n<li>Goodies and such (TBA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As soon as we have the 411, we&#8217;ll post answers to your most burning questions here, including (but not limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Venue\/location<\/li>\n<li>Capacity limitations<\/li>\n<li>Maps<\/li>\n<li>Driving direction and transportation information (planes, trains and automobiles)<\/li>\n<li>Wifi information<\/li>\n<li>Hotel and lodging information<\/li>\n<li>Registration<\/li>\n<li>Check-in details<\/li>\n<li>Before and after party and meetup details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What CAN we tell you right now?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wordcampchicago\">WordCampChicago <\/a>on Twitter for all the latest information<\/li>\n<li>The official hashtag for the event is #wcchicago<\/li>\n<li>There is a WCChicago Twitter Hashtag widget you can install on your WordPress blog to display the latest BUZZ going on about WordCamp Chicago on Twitter &#8211; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/wordcampchicago.com\/twitterhash.php.txt\">download the WCChicago Twitter Hashtag plugin here<\/a> (be sure to rename the file <em>twitterhash.php<\/em>) &#8211; &#8211; courtesy of our good friends over at <a href=\"http:\/\/webdevstudios.com\/\">WebDev Studios<\/a> &#8211; thanks guys!  (download then upload to your \/wp-content\/plugins\/ folder and activate &#8211; then add the widget to your sidebar.  Easy peasy!  <a href=\"http:\/\/wordcampchicago.com\/hash.css\">here is the CSS we use to style it &#8211; feel free to nab and tweak as needed.)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yes, we have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/WordCamp-Chicago\/247114187244\">facebook page<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>We also have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/wordcampchicago\/\">Flickr group<\/a> &#8211; feel free to join and share your photos from &#8217;09 and &#8217;10<\/li>\n<li>Your friendly hosts are <a href=\"http:\/\/briangardner.com\">Brian Gardner<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lisasabin-wilson.com\">Lisa Sabin-Wilson<\/a> &#8211; on behalf of us both, we&#8217;re looking forward to a rockin&#8217; WordCamp in Chicago this year!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I would like to give you a warm welcome back to WordCampChicago.com and wish you a very HAPPY new year! We hope everyone&#8217;s holiday season was fantastic and safe. We&#8217;re rarin&#8217; to go over here and are already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/happy-new-year-are-you-ready-for-wcchicago-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy New Year &#8211; Are You Ready for WCChicago &#8217;10?<\/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":[12,53,5413],"tags":[5431,5522,25],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-blog","category-wcchicago-2010","tag-chicago","tag-wcchicago","tag-wordcamp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1v9vU-5e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","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=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}