wordcamp

Winstina Hughes  is a long-term community member and organizer within WordPress. She joins Cory Miller to discuss Support Inclusion in Tech, an effort to increase representation of minority and underrepresented speakers at WordCamp by providing needed financial support. This offers everyone in the WordPress community the chance to share their expertise and to contribute resources, so everyone has the opportunity to engage.

Top Takeaways:

• Creativity is our common bond.: WordPress is the playground where we all came to tinker and build for fun or business. It is the software magic where we discover what new things we can do each day, how to make ideas become reality, and how we might leverage what we learn to create a better world.
• Ripple effect of inclusion: When you provide the ability for a large group of people to participate, travel, and network, the impact extends beyond the WordPress community to create the bigger changes we want to see in the world. This is our community magic.
• Fifth Freedom in WordPress: We are all familiar with The Four Freedoms of WordPress. This is the 5th - full participation. Removing the financial barrier will bring us closer to the reality of being a truly inclusive community.

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🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• SUPPORT INCLUSION IN TECH
• Steve Bruner
• Kevin Cristiano
• WordCamp 
• WPNYC
• WordPro 
• Sustainable New Jersey
• BuddyPress
• GoDaddy 
• Yoast
• Master WP

🐦 You can follow Post Status and our guests on Twitter:

• Winstina Hughes
• Cory Miller (CEO, Post Status)
• Olivia Bisset (Intern, Post Status)

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If [an employer] can't afford not to operate without suspicion and distrust, what does that tell you?

Dan Knauss

Dan and Ny talk about their WordCamp US experiences both good and bad. Their conversation focuses on accessibility and disability. Ny had an experience with Uber at WCUS that made her agree with Dan's preference for traditional and preferably unionized taxi companies or public transit. They both reflect on the accessibility challenges and failures Michelle Frechette shared in Five Days Without a Shower before turning to an important article by Piccia Neri that was published at Post Status this week.

Piccia's article considers the value of salary transparency in hiring and job listings after asking WordPress employers why they don't advertise a salary range in listings. Ny is optimistic pay transparency will soon be the norm in US law. Dan is optimistic the WordPress community can make the changes it needs out of empathy and regard for others plus the motivation to build a high-quality, professional workforce. They both close out this episode by expressing gratitude for the WordCamp organizers and volunteers who made WCUS possible this year.

🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• Post Status Excerpt (No. 63) — Pay Transparency, Mutual Respect, and the Community We Need
• Piccia Neri, Salary Transparency: Why Not?
• Michelle Frechette, Five Days Without a Shower
• Uber Executive Said the Company Would Spend ‘A Million Dollars’ to Shut Me Up
• Uber Says It Was Likely Hacked by Teenage Hacker Gang LAPSUS$

👋 Credits

• Nyasha Green, Editorial Director at MasterWP (Twitter)
• Dan Knauss, Editor for Post Status (Twitter)
• Olivia Bisset, Web Producer intern for Post Status (Twitter)

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There's always new people coming in, being embraced and accepted, [and being] shown the way

Cory Miller

In this episode, Cory and Michelle talk about their takeaways from WordCamp US. The Post Status Huddle ahead of the conference was a great experience for them and many Post Status members. Michelle explains her experience with some accessibility challenges. Cory stresses the need for empathy and awareness about these issues. What everyone agrees on: we love getting together as a community! WordPress is an industry, and it is people. The people come first. Cory also talks about his and Post Status' interest in serving its agency-based and European members.

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🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• WordCamp US 2022
• Post Status Huddle at WCUS 2022 Photo Gallery
• Michelle Frechette: Five Days Without a Shower
• Cory Miller: It's Not the Code, It's the Humans
• Post Status Calendar: Regular Huddles for Europe and the Americas

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• Michelle Frechette (Twitter)
• Cory Miller (Twitter)
• Post Status (Twitter)

The Post Status Draft podcast is geared toward WordPress professionals, with interviews, news, and deep analysis. 📝

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"So it's hard for people in the community to kind of branch out and communicate online. So imagine how hard it is for people who are new" —Nyasha Green

Dan and Ny are looking forward to attending WordCamp US this week, which is a first for them both. In a slightly more casual conversation touching their usual topics — the business of WordPress, careers, and community — they share the things they're looking forward to seeing and doing at WCUS and in San Diego.

Some of the WCUS sessions they're interested in have to do with WordPress security and bug bounty programs, cross-cultural communication, WordPress and performance, and getting young people into WordPress. Other tech and open source conferences also come up, as Ny is planning to attend All Things Open 2022 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Finally, Ny and Dan discover they both have non-tech backgrounds and started reading J.R.R. Tolkien at an early age. Ny talks about learning several languages and reading The Hobbit in Latin.

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👋 Credits

• Nyasha Green, Editorial Director at MasterWP (Twitter)
• Dan Knauss, Editor for Post Status (Twitter)
• Olivia Bisset, Web Producer intern for Post Status (Twitter)

What's it like to enter this WordPress community media space, especially as the editor of a publication with many voices, personalities, and perspectives?

My friend and dialogue partner, Nyasha Green, is six months into her role as Editorial Director at MasterWP, so today we're talking about what that's been like for Ny, what she's learned, and how we look at the WordPress media space we both work in.

Unsurprisingly we talk about conflict, communication, personality, and the importance of in-person events. That brings up WCUS — a first for both of us — where we'll meet each other and a lot of people we've only known remotely. It also sounds like I might get roped into a karaoke duet. (Not if I can help it!)

👋 Your Hosts

• Dan Knauss, Editor for Post Status (Twitter)
• Nyasha Green, Editorial Director at MasterWP (Twitter)
• Olivia Bisset, Web Producer intern for Post Status (Twitter)

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Miriam Schwab is CEO and co-founder of Strattic, the first WordPress hosting company to allow customers to quickly spin up fast static and headless WordPress sites. Strattic was recently acquired by Elementor. In this episode of Post Status Draft, Miriam talks with Post Status Editor Dan Knauss about her WordPress journey as a WordCamp organizer, agency owner, and web host founder.

In this conversation you’ll also learn about:

• WordPress and performance optimization
• Why everyone should embrace regular people building “terrible” websites
• Why WordCamps are special

🙏 Sponsor: Gravity Forms

Gravity Forms is a powerful form builder for WordPress and the #1 choice for businesses and web professionals across the globe. Its vast array of features, intuitive drag-and-drop form editor, and extensive ecosystem of add-ons, ensure customers can design beautiful, intelligent, and accessible forms for any project requirement.

🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• Miriam Schwab (Twitter)
• Dan Knauss (Twitter)
• Post Status (Twitter)

The Post Status Draft podcast is geared toward WordPress professionals, with interviews, news, and deep analysis. 📝

Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧

"We are trying to bring our community to the world." —Eric Chuang

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David chats with two organizers of the upcoming WordCamp Taiwan 2021 — Eric Chuang 莊桓亦 and Hend Chen 陳瀚宇. Learn what the WordPress community is like in Taiwan and how they've dealt with the pandemic and restrictions on in-person events. Crafting a smart “hybrid” approach, they share how they are tackling their upcoming WordCamp and how it will bring together their community. They hope having English sessions will bring more talent and influence to Taiwan's WordPress community.

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🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• WordCamp Taiwan 2021
• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Eric Chuang 莊桓亦 (Twitter)
• Hend Chen 陳瀚宇 (LinkedIn)
• Post Status (Twitter)

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"While WordPress does democratize publishing there are people today that can't take advantage of that."

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory comes back freshly tanned from CaboPress to share his experiences and one big takeaway point that everyone can appreciate. David brings up how Facebook's outage this week made him start to give pause before quipping on Twitter about "owning your own content." He asks if or how WordPress and the open web can help the people for whom Facebook is the internet.

Also covered in this episode: A shout out to WordCamp US 2021 which was held virtually for the first time on October 1st — a fine virtual event after only eight weeks of planning!

Browse past episodes from all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe to them on your favorite players. Post Status' Draft, Comments, and Excerpt podcasts are on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, and Simplecast. (RSS) 🎧

🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• #CaboPress on Twitter
• CaboPress.com
• WordCamp US 2021 Summary (Post Status)
• Thinking First Before Saying "Own Your Own Content!"
• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Cory Miller (Twitter)
• Post Status (Twitter)

🙏 Sponsor: iThemes

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In this episode of Post Status Draft, David Bisset talks with Angela Jin. Angela joined Automattic in 2018 and is one of the community organizers for the WordPress open source project. She has been helping organize, start conversations, and setting policies for WordCamps over the last few years.

David recorded this interview around the time that WordCamp US 2020 would have normally taken place in St. Louis, Missouri. WordCamp US organizers decided to cancel the event months before it would have taken place due to COVID-19. There were questions about what led to that decision. Why didn't it become a virtual conference, like WordCamp Europe? What are organizers planning for future WordCamp US events and WordPress education in general?

David sat down with Angela to get a better understanding of the WordPress community and its needs during a pivotal time of change. Join us as we discuss what the future holds for the conferences, meetups, and other social gatherings we've enjoyed in the past.

Links

• Angela Jin (Twitter)
• WordCamp US 2020 Official Cancellation Notice
• Learn WordPress

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In this week's episode of the Between Two Divs podcast I had William and Aida on the show to discuss the black lives matter movement, racial injustices in this country and how they got involved with WordCamp. 

About Hannah

• Check out Hannah's slides from the talk she gave after this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kg6LWv4hi6qL3ozthPYZbnqPWz8QPhIj/view
• Hannah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hanopcan
• Hannah's website: https://opcan.co.uk/

Show Notes

• Developer who charged the US goverment $220k for hours he didn't work: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/04/developer_nsa_hours_guilty/
• CafePress Hack https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/05/cafebreach_breach_23m_user_records/
• Bristol WordCamp 2019 https://2019.bristol.wordcamp.org/
• Landmrk (Chris's new gig) https://landmrk.it/
• Click Clean: http://www.clickclean.org/
• LAST PASS HACKED AGAIN! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/lastpass-fixes-bug-that-leaked-the-password-of-last-logged-in-account/

James's Picks:

• Tom Holland Does "Umbrella" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0nNTklOKRA
• React Native Animations: https://github.com/wcandillon/can-it-be-done-in-react-native
• William Candillon's React Native Animations Course https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC806fwFWpiLQV5y-qifzHnA
• React Spring https://www.react-spring.io/

Hannah's Pick:

• Electricity Map https://www.electricitymap.org/

Chris's Picks

• NeoWS https://api.nasa.gov/neo/?api_key=DEMO_KEY
• Dark Sky https://darksky.net/dev/docs

Elliot doesn't shy away from making a change in his life. After a string of non-coding jobs, he self-taught himself WordPress and became a freelance developer. From that he built up a successful agency - Raison. But when fatherhood beckoned he stripped back the pressure of being a boss to freelance once more. More flexibility, more time for his family. And plenty more to hear about too...

We chat about the benefits of co-working, meet ups (Elliot organises them including WordCamp Brighton), becoming a specialist, charging day rates, being picky with your clients and experimenting with side projects. Crikey.

Key takeaways:

• Your old skills can lead to new opportunities
• Make your billing make sense, and
• Give speaking a try!

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