Interview

WordPress Community Interview With Tracy Apps

Posted on Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 at 12:20 pm by John Parkinson

Tracy Apps is a creative problem solver with over 15 years of client experience in all types of projects. She got her start blogging on B2 and followed that transformation to WordPress. She is active in several local Meetups in the Milwaukee area.

Tracy is the co-owner of Corner Market Media, which offers a variety of services including design, custom development, branding and training.

She has spoken at several WordCamps about various aspects of design. Some of her presentations can be seen HERE on WordPress.tv.

Tracy and Shelby Elliott are in the process of launching a podcast titled The Not So Straight and Narrow, which will be available on various podcast platforms soon.

https://wordpress.tv/2017/08/16/wordpress-community-interview-wth-tracy-apps/

WordPress Community Interview With Jose Castaneda

Posted on Monday, July 31st, 2017 at 9:11 am by John Parkinson

Jose Castaneda is a WordPress fanatic, theme reviewer, father, husband and life-lesson learner. He loves to learn new things and loves to share those lessons. He works on open-source projects when he can and try to give back when he is able to.

His interest include but are not limited to type, music, fonts, art, design, PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, CSS, learning, code, hiking, photography, culinary arts, food, Flamenco guitar, music, video editing, HTML

Jose is a member of the Theme Review Team but also spends a lot of time on the support forums helping people with their WordPress issues.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/07/31/wordpress-community-interview-with-jose-castaneda/

To learn more about the Theme Review Team, click HERE. To find out about helping out the Theme Review Team, click HERE.

WordPress Community Interview With Catalina Alvarez

Posted on Monday, June 12th, 2017 at 11:02 am by John Parkinson

Catalina Alvarez in an Occupational Psychologist and resides in Spain. She is involved in the WordPress Community through her husband’s work. She has volunteered at several WordCamps in Spain and will be doing the same at WordCamp Europe 2017.

Catalina is pursuing her Master’s Degree by performing a survey about the Motivation and Burnout in the WordPress Community. She did an internship at HumanMade and found out that there is very little data available concerning a distributed workforce.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/06/12/wordpress-community-interview-with-cate-alvarez/

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WordPress Community Interview With Marco Andrei Kichalowsky, Rodrigo Donini, Gustavo Tagliassuchi and Eduardo Pittol

Posted on Monday, June 5th, 2017 at 10:41 am by John Parkinson

When I first contacted Marco Andre about doing an interview, he stated that he would like to have some of the other organizers sit in and take part in the interview.

I did not realize how lucky I would get to interview the group while they were preparing for their Meetup.

Marco Andrei, Rodrigo, Gustavo and Eduardo were part of the ograinzing team for WordCamp Porto Alegre 2017, which was held on May 6th of this year. WordCamp Porto Alegre has been held three times in the past few years and this group hopes to make this an annual event.

We talk about their involvement in the WordPress Community, as well as being involved in other tech related groups in their area.

In preparation for their evening WordPress Porto Alegre Meetup, Marco Andrei, Rodrigo,  Gustavo and Eduardo had prepared a cake and cupcakes to celebrate the 14th anniversary of WordPress. Here is a short video of that event.

Here is the interview….

http://wordpress.tv/2017/06/05/wordpress-community-interview-with-marco-andrei-kichalowsky-rodrigo-donini-gustavo-tagliassuchi-a/

WordPress Community Interview With Rocio Valdivia and Mathieu Viet – WCEU Contributor Day

Posted on Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 at 12:24 pm by John Parkinson

WordCamp Europe is less than two weeks away, being held on June 16th and 17th. I had the opportunity to talk with two of the people who are involved in the Contributor Day event.

Rocio Valdivia is a Community Wrangler at Automattic. Mathieu Viet builds plugins, has a WordPress French podcast and is a founding member of @wpparis. They are the lead organizers for the WordCamp Europe Contributor day.

Contributor Day will take place on Thursday June 15th at Business Centre of “Les Docks de Paris”. Registration starts at 08:30 am, and opening remarks at 09:15. The Teams that are listed at make.wordpress.org will be represented and will be available to answer questions during the day.

You can read more about Contributor Day and what to expect HERE.

To see the talks and workshop schedule, click HERE.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/05/30/wordpress-community-interview-with-rocio-valdivia-and-mathieu-viet-wceu-contributor-day/

 

WordPress Community Interview With Rachael Dines

Posted on Monday, May 22nd, 2017 at 8:22 am by John Parkinson

Racheal Dines is a Chartered Marketer (marketing professional) for Shake It Up Creative near London England.

Rachael attended and spoke at WordCamp London 2017. She brought her 10-month-old son to the event and was able to take advantage of the Crèche that was being offered for the second year at WordCamp London.

A Crèche is a nursery where babies and young children are cared for by registered professionals. At WordCamp London, this service was provided by Nipperbout Ltd., a mobile crèche company that has been in business for over 27 years.

We talk about the services they provided and how Rachael was able to enjoy WordCamp, assured that her child was being well cared for.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/05/22/wordpress-community-interview-with-rachael-dines/

WordPress Community Interview With Cate DeRosia

Posted on Monday, May 8th, 2017 at 10:27 am by John Parkinson

Wow! Just wow!

When I first started to consider asking Cate DeRosia if she would be interested in being interviewed, I thought she might have something interesting to say to the WordPress world. This interview far exceeded any expectations I had.

This interview was done at WordCamp Jackson, where we were able to find a quite place in between sessions.

Cate talks about being the spouse of a remote WordPress developer. She discusses attending WordCamps and getting to know people in the Community she had only heard about and building her own relationships.

We discuss raising children in the digital age, the steps taken to protect them and letting children find their own way. Cate talks about taking their children to WordCamps and how they forged their own relationships in the WordPress Community.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/05/08/wordpress-community-interview-with-cate-derosia/

WordPress Community Interview With Dustin Hartzler

Posted on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017 at 10:21 am by John Parkinson

Dustin Hartzler is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic and lives in the western Ohio area with his wife and two small children.

Dustin has been a Happiness Engineer since 2013. He is currently with the Woo Commerce Team where he enjoys helping people debug and troubleshoot their Woo Commerce issues. He finds it challenging because of all of the different variables that come into play, hosting, themes, plugins, etc.

He is also the creator of the podcast Your Website Engineer, which has over 330 weekly episodes.

We talk about WordCamps, the WordPress Community and his experiences working with the Woo Commerce Team.

Dustin reminds us to check out the “Work With Us” page on the Automattic.com website

http://wordpress.tv/2017/05/02/wordpress-community-interview-with-dustin-hartzler/

WordPress Community Interview With Titus & Stephanie Brinley

Posted on Monday, April 24th, 2017 at 9:35 am by John Parkinson

When I interviewed Sandy Edwards in February this year, we talked about Kid Camp and WordCamp for Kids. Ever since that interview, I have been searching for a child to interview and talk about Kid Camp.

I happened to see this Tweet by Titus Brinley on March 23rd.

ThetaCreative Tweet

ThetaCreative Tweet

I reached out to Titus and asked if I could contact one of his parents. His mother, Stephanie, replied to my Tweet and we were able to schedule this interview.

Titus Brinley is an 8-year-old serial entrepreneur who uses WordPress. He loves Legos and takes Karate lessons. You can see his website at Theta Creative.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/04/24/wordpress-community-interview-with-titus-stephanie-brinley/

 

 

WordPress Community Interview With Ngaire Ackerley

Posted on Monday, April 17th, 2017 at 12:16 am by John Parkinson

Ngaire Ackerley returned to her native New Zealand after spending several years working and traveling abroad. She has presented at several WordCamps and was a co-organizer of the WordPress London Meetup Group.

Ngaire presented “Designing For Website Users” at WordCamp Auckland 2017 which was held in March. Slides of her presentation can be seen HERE.

She is active in the WordPress Auckland Meetup and the local Community.

We talk about her ‘Overseas Experience’ otherwise known as ‘OE’ – which is a right of passage for many Kiwis and Australians, traveling and working their way around the world. She blogs about her travels and experiences at Kiwi Footprints.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/04/16/wordpress-community-interview-with-ngaire-ackerley/