{"id":1498,"date":"2019-06-11T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2019-08-13T21:11:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T01:11:30","slug":"our-speaker-application-is-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/our-speaker-application-is-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Speaker Application is Now Open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1506\" src=\"https:\/\/2019.philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/files\/2040\/06\/post-speaker-application.jpg\" alt=\"speaker gesturing at a podium in front of an audience at WordCamp Philly 2017\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/files\/2040\/06\/post-speaker-application.jpg 900w, https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/files\/2040\/06\/post-speaker-application-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/files\/2040\/06\/post-speaker-application-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/files\/2040\/06\/post-speaker-application-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Philly is looking for a few good speakers to share their knowledge and stories on October 5. We&#8217;re changing things up this year, doing away with our traditional track structure. All topics WordPress and WP-adjacent are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re accepting applications through<strong> 11:59 pm Eastern Time on Sunday, June 30<\/strong>. Applicants are asked to limit their submissions to three talks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>New Venue, New Format<\/h2>\n<p>For the past few years, we have offered Designer, Developer, Business\/Freelance and WordPress 101 tracks. This year our new venue gives us the space for three tracks, which we plan to open up to any area of interest and level of expertise. We&#8217;ll schedule a mix of talks that we hope will offer something new to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also planning a mix of long talks (up to 30 minutes) and short ones (15-20 minutes) with additional time for Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n<h2>We Welcome Diversity<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Diversity in Background<\/strong>We welcome speakers from all backgrounds and levels of experience with WordPress. Don&#8217;t let gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, age or any other factor discourage you from applying.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diversity in Speaking Experience<\/strong>First-time WordCamp speakers are welcome in Philly. We love to have new voices in the WordPress community at our events.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diversity in Topics<\/strong>Is your background in web development? Design? Content strategy? SEO or analytics? Do you have expertise to share when it comes to freelancing or starting up a new business? Are you working with a new tool or workflow? Do you have insights coming from another CMS or programming language? Then we want to hear your story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Apply Now<\/h2>\n<p>Use the form below to apply. To help us speed up the process, please provide your WordPress.org username, preferred Gravatar email address and Twitter handle (if you have one). This will expedite our review of talks and announcement of speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Please limit the number of submissions to three.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p class=\"pointy\">The speaker application period for WordCamp Philly 2019 closed June 30. Sorry you missed us!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp Philly is looking for a few good speakers to share their knowledge and stories on October 5. We&#8217;re changing things up this year, doing away with our traditional track structure. All topics WordPress and WP-adjacent are welcome. We\u2019re accepting applications through 11:59 pm Eastern Time on Sunday, June 30. Applicants are asked to limit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/our-speaker-application-is-now-open\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Speaker Application is Now Open!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14467842,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1174011],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-speakers-tracks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheMKa-oa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14467842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}