WordCamp Scranton (original) (raw)
Our Volt Sponsors helped provide some great services leading up to, and on the day of the event. Be sure to check them out – we couldn’t have done it without them!
Our incredible sponsors helped make WordCamp Scranton a great event. Be sure to show them some love!
We had a lot of great sponsors, all helping to make WordCamp Scranton a HUGE success. Show them some love and check them out 🙂
Our sponsors helped us put on a great event! Be sure to check them out!
WordCamp Scranton was a HUGE success, in part thanks to our sponsors. This week we will be thanking them with blog posts and social media mentions. If you enjoyed yourself, check them out. They made it possible!
Friend and Sponsor Colin Devroe wrote a great post today about Why WordCamp Scranton is Important for our area.
Careers can be started and bolstered at WordCamps. I’ve heard many stories of people attending WordCamps for the first time and that being the starting point of them changing careers and becoming WordPress developers or designers. A WordPress developer or designer is capable of earning $80,000 or more per year and are in high demand. There are not that many jobs the Scranton area that can promise that.
I will say that I deeply appreciate WNEP’s coverage, understand why they do things the way they do (it was explicitly explained to me), and couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out. We are nearly sold out thanks to them!
Colin makes some incredible points about the technology scene in our area and everyone involved is hoping this will help bring that community closer together! We are really looking forward to a great event.
We can’t believe WordCamp Scranton is just a few days away, but it is! This week we will be thanking all of our sponsors, but first we wanted to get some things settled.
First, did you get your tickets yet? We still have a bunch left, but they are going fast!
Second, if you haven’t heard, Matt Mullenweg will be there answering your questions! Thanks Matt!
The schedule is now posted. Registration starts at 8am with our keynote speaker, Zach LeBar, going on at 8:45am. This is bound to be a great talk, so don’t miss it! Matt will be closing out the day.
The after party is at Backyard Alehouse at 7pm. There will be some food and a cash bar. It’s going to be a blast!
Finally, some new news! We are going to have a Contributor Day at Coalwork on Sunday July 19th! It will start at 9:30am and go as long as everyone can stay! There will be coffee, wifi, and maybe some food. If you’ve been working on something or what to finally contribute to WordPress Core, that’s the day to do it!
I’m an associate professor at Canisius College, in the Digital Media Arts program. I teach students about the web, and graphic design, and typography, and illustration, and user interface, and print design. I research the heck out of digital icon technology. I consult for Field 2 Design, a WordPress design and development studio in Buffalo, NY.
2) How did you get into WordPress?
I’ve been aware of it since b2. Around 2006, one of my students showed me a website done in WP, and it looked just like the ones I was making with plain old html. I thought, to that point, it was just a blogging app. That’s when I saw that these platforms (WP, drupal, Moveable Type, Joomla, etc.) could power entire sites and take away the pain of heavy programming. I played around with everything and it became clear that WP was by far the best one. Then in 2008, the WP open source community had a contest to design the icons for vs. 2.7, which featured a dramatic overhaul of the wp-admin. I won. After that, I was permanently listed on wordpress.org/about as a core designer. Hooray!
3) What’s a great experience you had at a WordCamp?
Matt Mullenweg added me to his state of the word address in 2013, talking about the mp8 plugin we worked on that lead to the current WP admin. I got to stand up and people cheered for me. Hooray!
4) What are your non-WordPress, non-Computer related hobbies?
Drawing (because you need to draw constantly in this business), printmaking (I have an MFA in printmaking, focused on artist books and intaglio, from SUNY Buffalo), chess (3 minutes or less only), swimming (ex-Jones Beach lifeguard for 7 years), surfing (Lake Erie, where I live, get some nice swells in the fall–search youtube!), yoga (I do something called Ashtanga yoga to try to stay in shape), sci-fi movies (particularly anything with Ethan Hawke or Ewan McGregor).
5) If you could be any fictional character, who would you be and why?
Spiderman. No other superhero comes close.
We have a big announcement today: Matt Mullenweg will be closing out WordCamp Scranton with a Town Hall Q&A!
Matt is the founding developer of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic. He hosts regular Town Hall-style meetings within the company, where employees have the opportunity to ask him anything. To get an idea of the format and how his session will work, you can see the Q&A he did for WordCamp Europe.
We could not be more excited and humbled that Matt would take time out of his busy schedule to come out and christen the first WordCamp Scranton by answering any questions the NEPA WordPress community might have. We are truly looking forward to a fantastic event!