{"id":299,"date":"2019-01-25T02:40:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T02:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.kotakinabalu.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2019-02-15T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T17:56:02","slug":"what-is-wordcamp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kotakinabalu.wordcamp.org\/2019\/what-is-wordcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"What is WordCamp?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>&nbsp;users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.<br><br>Earlier last year&nbsp;The WordCamp Incubator Program has selected&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/community\/2018\/06\/26\/wordcamp-incubator-program-2018-locations-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Montevideo, Uruguay and Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia to host WordCamps in 2018<\/a>. The program provides a jump start for new WordPress communities where meetups have not yet been well-established. Montevideo and Kota Kinabalu were selected from a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/community\/2018\/05\/15\/wordcamp-incubator-program-2018-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">short list of 14 communities<\/a>&nbsp;that had been whittled down from 104 applications for the program.(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wptavern.com\/wordcamp-incubator-program-2018-to-host-events-in-montevideo-uruguay-and-kota-kinabalu-malaysia\" target=\"_blank\">LINK HERE<\/a>).&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After some careful planning WordCamp Kota Kinabalu will finally happen in <strong>March 9th, 2019<\/strong>! It will have onetrack of presentations, with around 10-15 speakers. Ticket price will include access to all presentations, coffee &amp; breakfast, a group lunch, and an event t-shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WordCamp is a global event<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordCamps happen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/central.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/\">all over the world<\/a>! WordCamp Kota Kinabalu is so excited to join the circle this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Run by volunteers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All <strong>WordCamp organizers and speakers are volunteers.<\/strong> Ticket prices help pay for the cost of the event, but the majority of funding is provided by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/2019.kotakinabalu.wordcamp.org\/sponsors\/\">our generous sponsors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by&nbsp;WordPress&nbsp;users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. Earlier last year&nbsp;The WordCamp Incubator Program has selected&nbsp;Montevideo, Uruguay and Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia to host WordCamps in 2018. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10868,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-299","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaqJhl-4P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kotakinabalu.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kotakinabalu.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kotakinabalu.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kotakinabalu.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kotakinabalu.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kotakinabalu.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/kotakinabalu.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kotakinabalu.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}