{"id":329980,"date":"2014-03-14T11:16:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T11:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.sheffield.wordcamp.org\/?p=329980"},"modified":"2014-03-14T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T11:16:48","slug":"state-of-the-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/state-of-the-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the &#8216;Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp Sheffield is just 5 weeks away and things are coming along nicely \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h2>Right now we&#8217;ve managed to:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sell over <a title=\"Tickets\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.sheffield.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">half of our ticket allocation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Confirmed <a title=\"Speakers\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.sheffield.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/\">15 awesome speakers<\/a> including <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Little\">WordPress co-founder Mike Little<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Released a <a title=\"Schedule\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.sheffield.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/\">packed 2-track schedule<\/a> aimed at general WordPress users and hardcore developers alike<\/li>\n<li>Sold sponsor packages to the wonderful:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hmn.md\/\">Human Made <\/a>&#8211; Stainless Steel sponsors<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/makedo.in\">Make Do<\/a> &#8211; Silver Sponsors (2 slots left)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.connected-uk.com\/\">Connected UK<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elementarydigital.co.uk\/\">Elementary Digital<\/a> &#8211; Bronze sponsors (sold out)<\/li>\n<li>4 of our <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.sheffield.wordcamp.org\/sponsors\/\">Individual Sponsors<\/a> &#8211; aimed at community members and small businesses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What next?<\/h2>\n<p>Over the next month we&#8217;ve got to shift the <a title=\"Tickets\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.sheffield.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">remaining lot of tickets<\/a>, confirm the after-party venue (almost sorted), order the awesome t-shirts (can&#8217;t wait to see these) and get the final catering booked.<\/p>\n<h2>Helping you help us<\/h2>\n<p>All of this awesome stuff will be happening at <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.sheffield.wordcamp.org\/location\/\">Mappin Hall in Sheffield City Center<\/a>. We&#8217;re working with our local buddies to find out the best spots to stay overnight and park. We highly recommend public transport when attending the WordCamp as Sheffield has a great network of trains buses and trams (also, the venue is about 10mins walk from the main train station).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-76820\" alt=\"Mappin Hall\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.sheffield.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/01\/mappinhall-1024x679.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/01\/mappinhall-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/01\/mappinhall-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Staying informed<\/h2>\n<p>The best way to get news on the event is to follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wpsheff\">@wpsheff on twitter<\/a>. We&#8217;ll also be updating this blog in the coming weeks with news and info so keep coming back \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Any ticket holders will receive email updates about the event closer to the time!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much all for now, thanks for reading \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp Sheffield is just 5 weeks away and things are coming along nicely \ud83d\ude42 Right now we&#8217;ve managed to: Sell over half of our ticket allocation Confirmed 15 awesome speakers including WordPress co-founder Mike Little Released a packed 2-track schedule aimed at general WordPress users and hardcore developers alike Sold sponsor packages to the wonderful: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/state-of-the-camp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of the &#8216;Camp<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53061,"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":[29,42,274037,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers","category-sponsors","category-status","category-tickets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329980"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330234,"href":"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329980\/revisions\/330234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheffield.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}