Are you a potentially new speaker to WordCamp Miami, WordCamps in general, or any conference? Then we would love for you to submit your applications to speak! But we realize sometimes that some level of fear, uncertainty, and/or shyness can prevent someone from trying. Sometimes it’s just a thought of not having enough time to even write a proposal.

Proposals don’t have to be extremely detailed and those submitting applications don’t need to be considered “experts” by some establishment, popular on social media, or have an established track record at conferences. Race, religious, and other aspects don’t factor into it either. Age doesn’t either – we’ve had speakers as young as 10 (and on the other end some with grey hair and a bit up in years!).

To help make sure we can reach as many people as possible – especially those new to the experience… we are having OPEN OFFICE HOURS for two time periods before speaker applications close. We have also provided a DEDICATED SLACK CHANNEL for anyone to ask questions to the community, a channel that’s monitored by WordCamp Miami volunteers and organizers.

Even if you don’t want to communicate questions via Slack, you still must join to send a direct message David Bisset (@David Bisset). Read this page to lear how you can join Slack. Open available times (15 min slots) are available:

Sunday Jan 6th – 5pm to 7pm EST.
Wednesday Jan 9th – 8am to 8:30am and 5pm to 8pm EST.

Again, to request a time please directly ping David Bisset on Slack.

The dedicated speaker submission Q&A channel is #speaker-submission-qa in Slack. Here’s a screenshot of the channel that was just created: