{"id":81,"date":"2009-01-14T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T18:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordcampchicago.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2011-05-17T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T00:16:46","slug":"wordcamp-chicago-registration-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wordcamp-chicago-registration-open\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp Chicago Registration Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GOOD news is that we&#8217;ve opened registration for WordCamp Chicago.  I&#8217;ve been working pretty hard at securing a venue and have several options available for the event.  The venues are all in the downtown Chicago area &#8211; however; the venue we choose all depends on the number of people attending.  Since the venues give us restrictions on capacity &#8211; we need a pretty good estimate on numbers before we confirm.<\/p>\n<p>But there is time!  We have opened registration for WordCamp and will plan to confirm the venue by March 1, when we have a better picture of the numbers.  I have four venues on hold right now that can handle between 100 &#8211; 400 people.  Because we want to open this event up to as many people that are interested &#8211; we&#8217;re leaving the venue confirmation open, for the moment.  You&#8217;ll just have to trust us that we know what we&#8217;re doing over here \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Each of the venue locations will also provide us with decent hotel room discounts for the WordCamp group, and those details will also be announced when we&#8217;ve secured the location.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime &#8211; go sign up!  Brian Gardner has already confirmed some great speakers such as: <a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\">Matt Mullenweg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ensight.com\">Jeremy Wright<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogtoolscollection.com\">Mark Ghosh<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/whoorl.com\/\">Sarah James<\/a> and I happen to know he&#8217;s hard at work organizing more, as I write this.  Brian and I hopped on the phone today and are planning some great stuff for WordCamp Chicago and we&#8217;re pretty excited about bringing WordCamp to the Windy City.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers?  Absolutely! <a href=\"\/contact\">Contact us<\/a> &#8211; we&#8217;re currently looking for some folks happy to assist us with organizing at the event with things such as: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manning the registration table<\/li>\n<li>Handing out name badges and schwag bags<\/li>\n<li>Anyone with video talents interested in helping us screencast some WordCamp Chicago highlights?  Drop us a line!<\/li>\n<li>Likewise &#8211; any podcast shows or internet radio shows interested in doing on-the-spot interviews and grabbing some cool audio snippets from WordCamp Chicago?  Now&#8217;s the time to get in touch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I suppose you&#8217;d like to know where you can register?  That&#8217;s easy:  <a href=\"http:\/\/wordcampchicago.eventbrite.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/static\/images\/button_ext\/click_and_register.gif\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are also looking for interested sponsors to help us sponsor the event and cover the costs associated with bringing WordCamp to Chicago &#8211; &#8211; contact me directly here:  sponsorships AT wordcampchicago DOT com and let&#8217;s discuss!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOOD news is that we&#8217;ve opened registration for WordCamp Chicago. I&#8217;ve been working pretty hard at securing a venue and have several options available for the event. The venues are all in the downtown Chicago area &#8211; however; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wordcamp-chicago-registration-open\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WordCamp Chicago Registration Open<\/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":[12,53,57,5412,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-blog","category-registration","category-wcchicago-2009","category-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1v9vU-1j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}