{"id":194,"date":"2017-04-18T13:51:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=140"},"modified":"2019-06-08T19:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T19:45:51","slug":"be-a-speaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speakers\/be-a-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year WordCamp Montreal strives to offer a wide variety of talks and discussions about WordPress. We are looking for people who are excited about WordPress to entertain our attendees and teach them new things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Applications are now closed. Thank you! Stay tuned for our schedule announcement soon.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Why speak?<\/h3>\n<p>Presenting at WordCamp takes some work but is very rewarding. You get to share your passion, convince people you\u2019re worth hiring and help everyone learn about WordPress, all at the same time. Speakers also receive free admission to WordCamp.<\/p>\n<h3>What we\u2019re looking for<\/h3>\n<h4>Presentations<\/h4>\n<p>The ideal speaker has a WordPress-related topic they are passionate about and that they can present in 10 or 45 minutes with attractive slides and\u00a0detailed, coherent explanations. Designers, bloggers, businesses and developers are all welcome to apply! Talks can be in English or French. Your topic should be specific to WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Show us what you\u2019ve made with WordPress and explain how you did it, or what you learned in the process. Give us concrete examples: code snippets, 10 important lessons you learned, specific advice on how to avoid problems, etc. Nothing is too hardcore, advanced, simple or beginner-level. We\u2019re looking for diversity.<\/p>\n<p>We reserve the right to refuse any submissions.<\/p>\n<h4>Unconference Sessions<\/h4>\n<p>Have a great idea for a\u00a0WordPress-related activity that doesn\u2019t fit into the above categories? Unconference sessions should last 45 or 90 minutes. Unconference sessions\u00a0can be in English or French.<\/p>\n<h4>Lightning Talks<\/h4>\n<p>We&#8217;re seeking talk submissions for 10-min short presentations. These are bite-sized formats great for short demos, quick tips, and inspirational stories.<\/p>\n<h3>General Areas<\/h3>\n<p>The general fields we are hoping to cover include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using WordPress to blog and write.<\/li>\n<li>Using WordPress to design and build websites.<\/li>\n<li>WordPress plugin and core development and systems administration.<\/li>\n<li>Primers on underlying web technologies (HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript) that are needed for WordPress development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please view <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.montreal.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/\">last year\u2019s schedule<\/a> for example topics.<\/p>\n<h3>Topic Ideas<\/h3>\n<p>Here\u2019s a list of topics we\u2019d love to see at WordCamp. These are just examples!<\/p>\n<h4>User\/Blogger Track<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Finding the perfect themes\/plugins<\/li>\n<li>HTML for bloggers<\/li>\n<li>Using child themes<\/li>\n<li>Monetizing your website<\/li>\n<li>Attracting readers<\/li>\n<li>Writing for the web<\/li>\n<li>Case studies of large projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Designer\/Developer Track<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating Bilingual sites<\/li>\n<li>Design advice for WordPress<\/li>\n<li>CSS tips for WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Editing themes and using template tags<\/li>\n<li>Creating plugins (intro or in-depth)<\/li>\n<li>Releasing and\/or selling themes<\/li>\n<li>GPL\/Free Software and what it means for WP Plugins and themes<\/li>\n<li>Intro to Apache\/MySQL optimization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year WordCamp Montreal strives to offer a wide variety of talks and discussions about WordPress. We are looking for people who are excited about WordPress to entertain our attendees and teach them new things. Applications are now closed. Thank you! Stay tuned for our schedule announcement soon.\u00a0 Why speak? Presenting at WordCamp takes some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speakers\/be-a-speaker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Be a Speaker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14231116,"featured_media":2935,"parent":191,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-194","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaIveb-38","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14231116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions\/3171"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}