One of WP Engine’s core values is aspiring to lead and committed to giving back. Part of this includes being leaders within the WordPress community through valuable contributions, sharing expertise, and active participation. In honor of this, here’s a recap of what our company has been doing this month to give back to the WordPress community:
Shayda Torabi, Market Intelligence Manager, continues to support WordPress’ marketing subgroup. She has been assisting with the “marketing to developers” efforts to explain how, when, and why to use WordPress when developing websites.
Jason Stallings, Software Engineer, is making great waves as part of WordPress.org’s dedicated hosting group. He has been involved with a project around distributed unit tests for hosts testing WordPress core. It will allow hosting providers to test WordPress as part of a routine process as a way to have better environment coverage. We’ll be running it on our platform as soon as he gets WPE alpha SSH access.
Steven Word, Software Engineer, has continued his gardening/leadership efforts on RSS and has expanded to the multisite effort. He’ll also be co-hosting/facilitating the “New Contributor’s” weekly meetings.
Word also was featured this week in our first “Press This” podcast. You can check out the recording here: cranberry.fm/shows/pressthis. In addition, last week at WordCamp Boston Word gave a presentation on Enterprise-Grade WordPress Development: Building Bulletproof Software that is Ready for the Masses.
wordcamp news
WordCamp Boston – #WCBOS occurred this past week and we had a blast! Check out our photo blog for what went down this year.
WordCamp Austin – October 21-22: It’s back! We’re excited to have WordCamp Austin return this year to our hometown. A call for speakers closes on Monday, July 31.
WordCamp US – December 1-3: This year WCUS is trading in Philly cheesesteaks for Nashville’s hot chicken. It is reported that WCUS 2017 will include a “bazaar” where local meetups can do a “show and tell” style booth.
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