I’ll be speaking about “Who is WordPress?” at the New Jersey WordPress Meetup down in Asbury Park, NJ next Tuesday, January 28. We’ll take a look at how WordPress is made and grows with the help of an amazing community, and how you’re already a part of it. This is my first time joining this meetup, and I’m really looking forward to it!
I’ll be presenting a flash talk entitled “Redefining Traditional Media Workflows in WordPress” tonight at the December Big Media WordPress Meetup in NYC. The topic is “big media editorial experiences”, and I’ll be joined by professionals from the Washington Post, WordPress.com VIP, and Parade. I’ll offer a quick look inside the editorial experience we built for Global News, serving over 1,000 contributors across 11 localized editions, along with the centralized web-to-print content management workflow we built for Variety. If you’re working in media and New York City, be sure to swing by.
This Saturday I’m hosting a WordPress core hack day here in Jersey City, right outside Manhattan. I’ll be joined by a handful of WordPress developers in the NYC metro area, including lead developers from some of the largest publications, as well as some East Coast 10uppers. Since this particular get-together will be at my home, it’s an intimate group, though I plan to facilitate future hack days at larger venues as we advance our mission to make WordPress a better publishing experience for all.
Tomorrow, Saturday the 12th of October I will be speaking at WordCamp Louisville!
I will be giving a talk on WordPress and the Command Line, which I’ve polished and refined since WordCamp Birmingham back in August. If you’re just starting out building themes and want to learn how command line tools can help improve your process, my talk is for you!
Although I only lived in the Midwest (specifically Wichita) for a brief 11 months, I enjoyed my time there and am very excited to head back to the area on Friday, September 27, to speak at 200 OK, Oklahoma’s premier web conference. I’m excited to be on a roster that includes a fellow WordPress developer from iThemes, as well as representatives of other open source supporters such as Adobe, GitHub, Mozilla, and Etsy. The WordPress Foundation is also proud to be sponsoring the event.
I’ll be talking about Tailoring the WordPress Admin for Workflows; not an uncommon topic for me, but to a non-WordCamp audience and as always, I’ll be similarly tailoring my own presentation. Tickets have sold out, but there’s a waitlist. If you’re in the area, I’d love to meet you there!
10up’s John James Jacoby is the guest for this week’s episode of WordPress Weekly, WP Tavern’s live Friday night podcast (think Wayne’s World for WordPress, but smarter), airing this Friday, September 13th at 9pm EDT. Likely topics of conversation include John’s move from Automattic to 10up and what’s in the cards for BuddyPress and bbPress. Submit your questions for JJJ via a comment on WP Tavern, and be sure to tune into WordPress Weekly this Friday the 13th at 9pm EDT!
WordCamp Chicago starts this Friday, and runs until Sunday, June 30. I had the pleasure of organizing this camp, before starting at 10up. Even before I joined the team, I was eager to invite some of the experts at 10up, and was thrilled to welcome both Senior Web Engineer Carl Danley and Director of Web Engineering Jeremy Felt as speakers. Jeremy will discuss the benefits of using Vagrant as a local development platform; Carl will present JavaScript performance techniques. In addition to organizing, I’ll be co-teaching the HTML & CSS Foundations class and participating in a couple of panels. Hope to see you there!
This weekend I’ll be traveling to Montreal, Canada for the first time to speak at WordCamp Montreal, which is also being sponsored by 10up. I’ll be reprising “What You Missed in Computer Science”, which applies some key Computer Science tools to WordPress. Team 10up has had the pleasure of collaborating with a number of Canadian partners, helping Postmedia launch the new Canada.com and more recently working with Shaw Media to relaunch Global News. We’re proud to give back to the Canadian community through our sponsorship and support. I’m personally looking forward to Matt Mullenweg’s town hall and WordPress.com VIP wrangler Mo Jangda’s presentation.
Documentation teams from some of the web’s largest open source projects have converged in Cincinnati this week to share knowhow at the Open Help Conference and Sprints. Not to be left out, I’ll be attending along with 9 other WordPress docs team contributors.
This conference affords docs team contributors a great opportunity to get a lot of work done in a short period, and a chance to meet-up in person (the first time, for many of us). The WordPress delegation will be holding three, day long sprints, where we’ll tackle a roadmap for the WordPress Codex, analyze survey results and, of course, write much-needed documentation. Big thanks to Siobhan McKeown for bringing all of us together!
This coming Tuesday, June 11, at 10 AM I will be on Sacramento’s 105.5 FM Money 2.0 with Andrew Rogerson. I’m excited to talk about 10up, our distributed business model, and the future of web development. I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with Andrew a few times; he’s an experienced, savvy business thinker who always challenges me to rethink the business of marketing and building websites. I’m eager to tell 10up’s story to a different kind of audience, and to engage with Andrew.
To listen to the show, you can tune into Money 105.5 FM on the radio or online with TuneIn or on iHeartRadio.