{"id":2323,"date":"2016-06-07T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T09:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2016-06-16T18:30:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T16:30:26","slug":"that-was-wordcamp-antwerp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/that-was-wordcamp-antwerp\/","title":{"rendered":"That was WordCamp Antwerp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a journey and what a weekend. You can re-live the WordCamp via our <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/pictures-articles\/\">picture page<\/a>\u00a0and we&#8217;ll try to publish all slides and videos as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re so proud on what we have achieved this weekend, it&#8217;s beyond our expectations.\u00a0Thank you all for the very nice feedback.<\/p>\n<p>And Z\u00e9 and Remkus, for all the nagging of having\u00a0the first WordCamp in Belgium; this feedback\u00a0touched\u00a0our WP-hearts:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1st WordCamp organizers take good note of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wordcampant\">@wordcampant<\/a>. This is how you start with a bang.  I&#39;m just happy I was there to witness it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wcant?src=hash\">#wcant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Z\u00e9 (@zedejose) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zedejose\/status\/739477858284929025\">June 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you want to give some\u00a0feedback, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/wordcamp.be\/forms\/d\/17XqG025ykZxd7mRd59MllHjJhKPn9wPNRcMxizdDl00\/viewform\">please fill in this survey<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Volunteers: thank you<\/strong><br \/>\nIn this post we would like to give an extra thanks to our volunteers.<br \/>\nEveryone in the organization team was touched about their pro-activeness and willingness to make this event a succes. Volunteers, you totally rocked.<\/p>\n<p>We have a <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/thank-yous\/\"><strong>dedicated thank you-page<\/strong><\/a> for all the people who made this all possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The mission of WordCamp Antwerp<\/strong><br \/>\nWe had a <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/our-mission\/\">mission<\/a> to get more connections and meetup groups.<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ve got something moving here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Liege-WordPress-Meetup\/\">Meetup Liege is having its first meetup scheduled on 7 july!<\/a>\u00a0(thanks Cedric &amp; Benjamin)<\/li>\n<li>Meetup Ghent will be scheduling their first one after the summer holiday. (thanks Brecht)<\/li>\n<li>Meetup Hasselt will be launched in September (thanks Kristof, you&#8217;ve got my word that i will get you started)<\/li>\n<li>Other cities interested: Ieper, the sea-side area, Luxembourg city<\/li>\n<li>The nl-be translation is really set up to get started (thanks Taco for guiding us)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve questions about running a meetup group, talk to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveloodts\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Loodts<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/veerleverbert\" target=\"_blank\">Veerle Verbert<\/a>. If you want to talk about it in french, talk to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ssstofff\" target=\"_blank\">Kristof Bernaert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to stay in touch?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile we&#8217;re in the flow of a successful WordCamp, staying\u00a0in touch is important. So, please visit or start a meetup.<br \/>\nBut you don&#8217;t have to wait for a meetup to chat, just <a href=\"http:\/\/wpbrussels.be\/join-slack\/\" target=\"_blank\">join WordPress Belgium on Slack<\/a>\u00a0(Slack is a communication tool with already +200 members).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a journey and what a weekend. You can re-live the WordCamp via our picture page\u00a0and we&#8217;ll try to publish all slides and videos as soon as possible. We&#8217;re so proud on what we have achieved this weekend, it&#8217;s beyond our expectations.\u00a0Thank you all for the very nice feedback. And Z\u00e9 and Remkus, for all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/that-was-wordcamp-antwerp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That was WordCamp Antwerp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8414446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71xj8-Bt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8414446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}