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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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WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/06/09

Posted on Friday, June 9th, 2017 at 12:22 pm by John Parkinson

Several months ago, the WordPress TV Team asked for videos from Meetups and Testimonials. We are very please with the videos that have been submitted!

Testimonials

Meetup Testimonial Costa Rica

http://wordpress.tv/2017/03/09/meetup-testimonial-costa-rica/

 

Ben Meredith – “One of my favorite things about going to a new town is I get to check out what WordPress is doing”

http://wordpress.tv/2017/04/09/ben-meredith-one-of-my-favorite-things-about-going-to-a-new-town-is-i-get-to-check-out-what-wordpress-is-doing/

Meetups

WordPress Meetup Fryslân Aftermovie

An impression video of the WordPress Meetup Fryslân, Netherlands recorded on may 18th 2017.
Generally our meetings start with 2 different talks where we try to keep one talk developer focused with enough tech and code. The other talk is directed to a broader audience with more informative that is also use full without touching a line of code. We always close the evening with socializing, drinks and snacks.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/06/03/wordpress-meetup-fryslan-aftermovie/

Pablo Moratinos: Irun WordPress Meetup – Presentación

Meetup de presentación de la comunidad local de WordPress en Irun (Gipuzkoa).
Definición de objetivos de la comunidad e inquietudes de los participantes

Meetup of the local WordPress community in Irun, Spain.
Definition of community goals and concerns of participants

http://wordpress.tv/2017/05/29/pablo-moratinos-irun-wordpress-meetup-presentacion/

 

 

 

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 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 Isabelle Garcia

Posted on Monday, February 20th, 2017 at 10:28 am by John Parkinson

Isabelle Garcia is a front-end web developer and social media geek. She is a “Digital Nomad” and travels the world working remotely. She has no fixed base, no office. Isabelle likes to frequent local libraries, not to borrow books but to take advantage of the quiet atmosphere. While other digital nomads meet at coffee shops or co-working spaces, she likes to spend entire days and even weekends in the common areas and desks of public libraries.

When I first contacted Isabelle, she was starting a new adventure she called #WCAsiaRoadTrip. She was going to spend 2 or 3 months traveling through Asia and attend WordCamps at Udaipur, Pune and Bangkok.

Isabelle records video interviews at WordCamps which she then uploads to YouTube. She uses the VINUBIS Video Editor Plugin to edit her videos.

She likes to give back to the WordPress Community by taking part in Translation events with the Polyglots Team.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/02/20/wordpress-community-interview-with-isabelle-garcia/

You can see some of her WordPress TV videos HERE.

WordPress Community Interview With Krystal O’Connor

Posted on Monday, January 30th, 2017 at 1:37 am by John Parkinson

Krystal O’Connor lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and works at Libsyn, which is a podcasting hosting service. Libsyn has over 2.6 billion downloads and hosts over 25,000 shows with 44 million monthly audience members. Krystal provides technical support, writes and maintains the Libsyn Knowledge Base, produces the video tutorials, manages the Libsyn Tutor YouTube channel, and co-hosts Libsyn Live.

She spoke at WordCamp Pittsburgh 2016 with a presentation titled WordPress + Podcasting.

Many podcasters turn to WordPress to help build the website that will be the landing page for their podcast show, but did you know there were themes, plugins, and best practices geared directly toward marrying your podcast and your WordPress site?

Krystal is very active in the podcasting community and Podcamp Pittsburgh.

Krystal blogs at https://www.krystaloconnor.com. If you read her About Page, Krystal states that “We were the first house in the neighborhood with a computer (one of the IBM PC’s), and I distinctly remember installing a hard drive into the computer when I was about 7. That’s when I got my start in the tech world, right there on my grandparent’s den floor.”

We talk about podcasting in general, procasters versus podcasters,  audio versus video among other things.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/01/29/wordpress-community-interview-with-krystal-oconnor/

WordPress Community Interview With Dave Loodts

Posted on Monday, January 23rd, 2017 at 10:33 am by John Parkinson

Dave Loodts is a self employed WordPress designer/developer, SEO and marketing consultant at www.davel.be.

He is a big believer in giving back to the WordPress community and is the co-organizer of WordCamp Antwerp as well as WordPress Meetup groups in Antwerp and Hasselt. Dave also is the Global Translation Editor of nl_be team as well as the administrator for the WordPress Dutch Belgium website.

Dave and I discuss the recent efforts of the local team to translate WordPress into 100% Dutch. I certainly learned a lot about translating as Dave talked about how he made the request, first steps on getting the glossary created, items needing special attention. Also finding others to help to translate, organizing remote and physical meetings, etc. He was very appreciative of the help that Pascal Casier provided. Dave was also inspired by Francesca Morena and the Italian community where the translation efforts resulted in a fresh, more active and broader community.  That’s one of the main reasons that Dave decided to pick up the role as GTE.

After the video was recorded, Dave wanted to say a big thank you to Veerle Verbert:

“Veerle introduced me in 2013 to the WordPress community during the first WordCamp Europe. I was a ‘rookie’ and didn’t knew really anyone in the community.  So, Veerle was a key-figure for me, giving me this opportunity to connect and give back to the WordPress-community. Together we’ve organized over twenty meetups in Antwerp so far and had the first WordCamp ever in Belgium. So proud on that. So, Veerle: thank you! “

Near the end of the interview, I surprised Dave by asking about his photo beer blog and his passion for local beers. You can see this at daveloodts.wordpress.com.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/01/23/wordpress-community-interview-with-dave-loodts/

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WordPress Community Interview With Robert Sather

Posted on Monday, January 9th, 2017 at 9:59 am by John Parkinson

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Sather is a 25 year old web developer with 6 years experience in web development, doing mainly plugin and custom theme development. Robert resides in Sandefjord, Norway and has interests in travelling, urban exploration, hiking in the woods, hamradio and airsoft

Robert enjoys creating custom themes as well as looking into WP security. He spends time in the WordPress Support Forums helping with security issues.

We discuss WordCamp Oslo, the WordPress Community, speaking and touch on ham radio operations.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/01/09/wordpress-community-interview-with-robert-sather/

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WordPress Community Interview With Jeff Chandler and Marcus Couch

Posted on Monday, January 2nd, 2017 at 10:58 am by John Parkinson

Jeff Chandler and Marcus Couch host the WordPress Weekly podcast, which covers all things WordPress. They also interview a variety people who make up the WordPress Community.

Marcus Couch has been a WordPress developer for more than 12 years. Besides being the co-host of WordPress Weekly, he is the cohost of the WordPress Plugins A-Z Podcast with John Overall. Marcus also helps people plan, develop and implement membership sites at Membership Site Coach.

Jeff Chandler launched WordPress Weekly in January of 2008. In that initial episode, Jeff talked about the release of WordPress 2.3.2 and running WordPress locally. He resides in Ohio and has been writing about WordPress since 2007 at the WPTavern. When he attends WordCamps, Jeff can mostly be found taking part in the Hallway Track.

We had a great time talking WordCamps and the WordPress Community.

I do need to apologize to Jeff and Marcus. This is the first time that I had two guest being interviewed. There are times where you can see that Marcus and Jeff’s face are blocked. I did not realize this happened until I was processing the video.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/01/02/wordpress-community-interview-with-jeff-chandler-and-marcus-couch/

WordPress Community Interview With Kathryn Presner

Posted on Monday, December 26th, 2016 at 10:10 am by John Parkinson

Kathryn Presner is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic where she thrives on helping people get the most out of their WordPress experience.

Kathryn gave a presentation at WordCamp US titled “From Shadows to Limelight – How Women Found Their Voice At WordCamp Montreal.” Here she talks about the successful effort to increase the number of women giving presentations at WordCamp.

We talk about being in involved in the WordPress Community and how she first became active in the Support Forums which led to her applying for a position as a Happiness Engineer.

In 2015 Kathryn took part in a brand new WordPress event called Press Publish which made its debut in Portland, Oregon. An initiative of Automattic, the conference mixed advice and inspiration for bloggers with tips on making the most of WordPress.

Kathryn at Press Publish in Portland, Oregon

Kathryn at Press Publish in Portland, Oregon

Kathryn is very active in Ladies Learning Code and Girl Geeks.

Ladies Learning Code is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to be the leading resource for women and youth to become passionate builders – not just consumers – of technology by learning technical skills in a hands-on, social, and collaborative way.

Girl Geeks Dinners whose mission includes:
Break down old fashioned social stereotypes.
Identify routes around barriers to entry for anyone to get into technology.
Encourage and nurture those interested in technology.

https://wordpress.tv/2016/12/26/wordpress-community-interview-with-kathryn-presner/

For more WordPress Community Interviews click HERE.