{"id":710,"date":"2012-08-13T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?p=710"},"modified":"2012-08-13T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:13:13","slug":"the-happiness-bar-needs-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/the-happiness-bar-needs-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happiness Bar needs you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a WordPress expert? Do you like helping others and contributing to the open source community? Well here&#8217;s your chance!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the Happiness Bar?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Happiness Bar is a special activity at WordCamp where local and visiting WordPress experts offer help and advice to other attendees who come up to the \u201cbar\u201d with their questions. Help a beginners just starting out, solve a tricky configuration problem or a plugin issue, or help an enterprise figure out how WordPress can fit into their plans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much time do I have to commit to?<\/strong><br \/>\nAs a Happiness Bar volunteer you need to commit to one-hour blocks of time. Choose one block or many!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the benefits?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s a lot of fun and a great way to meet new people and show them how much you know (maybe they\u2019ll hire you!). Happiness Bar volunteers don\u2019t get free attendance because it\u2019s a fun and rewarding activity on it\u2019s own. It&#8217;s also a great way to give back to the open source community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How can I get involved?<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you\u2019re better at answering questions than asking please come to the bar and help out! You can sign up to be an official happiness barista on the <a title=\"Volunteer\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.montreal.wordcamp.org\/volunteer\/\">volunteering page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a WordPress expert? Do you like helping others and contributing to the open source community? Well here&#8217;s your chance! What is the Happiness Bar? The Happiness Bar is a special activity at WordCamp where local and visiting WordPress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/the-happiness-bar-needs-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Happiness Bar needs you!<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2g1ot-bs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}