{"id":182772,"date":"2013-07-02T22:08:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T20:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.europe.wordcamp.org\/?p=182772"},"modified":"2013-07-02T22:08:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T20:08:47","slug":"announcing-our-first-speaker-joost-de-valk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/announcing-our-first-speaker-joost-de-valk\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing our First Speaker: Joost de Valk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2013.europe.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/07\/joost-de-valk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-182774 alignleft\" alt=\"joost-de-valk\" src=\"https:\/\/2013.europe.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/07\/joost-de-valk-300x300.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/07\/joost-de-valk-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/07\/joost-de-valk-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/07\/joost-de-valk.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Our first speaker needs little introduction which makes us even more excited to introduce him.<\/p>\n<p>Joost de Valk is the guy behind <a href=\"http:\/\/yoast.com\/\">Yoast.com<\/a>, the original source for SEO expertise and WordPress. He&#8217;s also the author of the hugely popular <a href=\"http:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/seo\/\">WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Netherlands native, Joost will be joining us to share his presentation &#8220;<strong>The Triumph of the Commons<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what he&#8217;ll be talking about:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u2019re running a business based on open-source software like WordPress, that business depends on the prosperity of the open-source project; its demise could result in the demise of your business, while the project\u2019s growth can result in your business flourishing.<\/p>\n<p>As your business and the project grow, you&#8217;ll find them becoming more and more entwined. This may be an unusual situation for a business but it&#8217;s also a fortuitous one. In this presentation I&#8217;ll explore what it means for your business to be involved with an open source project, and how, by supporting it, you can be part of the triumph of the commons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If your business is built on WordPress, come along to listen to what Joost has to say and to join in with the discussion afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first speaker needs little introduction which makes us even more excited to introduce him. Joost de Valk is the guy behind Yoast.com, the original source for SEO expertise and WordPress. He&#8217;s also the author of the hugely popular WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin. A Netherlands native, Joost will be joining us to share his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7518923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[6543],"tags":[22869,29,22949],"class_list":["post-182772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers-2","tag-joost-de-valk","tag-speakers","tag-yoast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2TJi9-LxW","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7518923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182772"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186281,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182772\/revisions\/186281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}