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Siobhan is the lead organiser of WordCamp Whitley Bay, her hometown in the North-East of England where she spends a lot of time on the beach with her dog and kids. When she's not organising WC Whitley Bay she's the COO of Human Made and runs WP Includes.
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Introducing another group of WCSF speakers

Just when you thought WCSF couldn’t get any better, we’ve got another nine speakers to introduce you to. There’s some familiar ones and some unfamiliar, but we think you’ll love hearing what they’ve all got to say:

  • Lyza Danger Gardner is the the co-founder of Cloud Four where she leads mobile development. She’s the author of Head First Mobile Web.
  • Joseph O’Connor is a member of the WordPress accessibility team. He leads Cities, a world-wide effort to build free accessible themes.
  • Sam Hotchkiss is the creator of BruteProtect, a WordPress security plugin acquired by Automattic in August 2014.
  • Josepha Haden is an Analyst at Haden Interactive with nearly a decade of experience managing web analytics, behavioral analysis, and overall site performance.
  • Erick Hitter is a web developer, WordPress contributor, Automattician, former accountant, and occasional audio engineer.
  • Davide Casali is an experience director at Automattic with 11+ years of experience and a hybrid background in design, psychology and technology.
  • Andrea Rennick started out as a volunteer in the WordPress.org forums and now works for Copyblogger Media in customer support for all products.
  • Aaron Hockley is the founder of both WP Photographers and WordCamp Portland.
  • Dave Martin is the Creative Director at Automattic, and WordPress core contributor.

 

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Say hello to more WordCamp San Francisco speakers!

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WordPress 4.0 was released today! To celebrate we’re doing our own release – the next group of WordCamp San Francisco speakers. Say hello to them all!

  • Rachel Baker is a Senior Strategic Engineer at 10up, contributor to WordPress Core, and a mentor at Dev Bootcamp.
  • Mickey Kay is a senior WordPress developer at MIGHTYminnow Web Studio & School in Oakland, CA.
  • Michael Arestad is a designer at Automattic, and contributor to WordPress Core, Jetpack, VaultPress, and WordPress.com.
  • Mel Choyce is a designer at Automattic and contributor to WordPress Core.
  • Taylor Aldridge  the Creative Director at 10up where he is responsible for branding, design, and strategy.
  •  M. Asif Rahman is the founder CEO  Of A. R. Communications, a WordPress enthusiast, web entrepreneur,  and workaholic.

Just a few more speakers to go and they’ll all be announced. Watch this space!

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Even More WordCamp San Francisco Speakers

We’re excited to introduce you to another six WordCamp San Francisco speakers. You’ll be able to hear these fine folks share their knowledge at the Mission Bay Conference Conference Center on 25th & 26th October.

  • Jenny Lawson is a journalist and author of The Bloggess. Her autobiography, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, is a New York Times bestseller.
  • Luke Wroblewski is the CEO and Co-Founder of Input Factory Inc. He’s the author of three popular web design books, (Mobile First, Web Form Design, and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability).
  • Joe Dolson is a WordPress plug-in developer and accessibility consultant.
  • Zack Tollman is a web developer at the Theme Foundry. He writes regularly about WordPress performance.
  • Jenny Wong is a web developer at Human Made. She organises WordCamp Manchester and PHP Northwest.
  • Paul Clark is a TEDx speaker, WordPress core contributor, and Director of Recruiting at 10up.com
  • Morten Rand-Hendriksen is a staff author at lynda.com and the Director of Pink & Yellow Media Inc. – a digital media company based in Burnaby, BC.
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Added to the WCSF Line-up are….

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Today we get to introduce you to six more speakers who’re joining the line-up at WordCamp San Francisco. We’ve got bloggers, developers, and writers ready to share their knowledge with you.

  • Kathy Cano-Murillo is a writer/novelist, artist and founder of the award-winning site, CraftyChica.com.
  • Brennen Byrne is the CEO and co-founder of Clef, a security plugin for WordPress.
  • Ben Dunkle is a designer, professor and artist from Buffalo, NY.  Ben is the designer of most of WordPress’ icons.
  • K. Adam White is a Javascript developer at Bocoup and helps organize the Boston WordPress community.
  • Jennifer Bourn is a co-organizer of the Sacramento WordPress meetup and the Creative Director of Bourn Creative.
  • John Eckman is the CEO of 10up, a digital agency focused on WordPress.
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Welcome our next group of WCSF speakers

We couldn’t let the week pass without introducing you to another handful of WordCamp San Francisco speakers. We hope that you’re as excited to see them speak as we are.

  • Boone Gorges is an independent consultant specializing development services for colleges and universities. He is a lead developer of BuddyPress.
  • Jenn Schiffer is an open web engineer at Bocoup where she writes code to build web apps using open web technologies.
  • Cody Brown is the founder of Scroll Kit, a tool to help people tell dramatic visual stories on the web.
  • Christine Harkin is a writing and editing consultant. She’s been blogging at EditorPlease.com since 2011 and at the award-winning Naptimewriting.com since 2006.

Watch the blog and our Twitter account for more announcements and your email inbox for news because we’re still working on speaker selection!

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Our second group of WordCamp San Francisco speakers

It’s Thursday! And what better day to introduce another group of WordCamp San Francisco speakers to you? The selection process is still ongoing, so if you haven’t heard anything, don’t count yourself out just yet. With that in mind, say hello to our second group of WordCamp speakers!

  • Guillermo Rauch was the founder of CloudUp is the author of several popular WordPress plugins, and the author of popular framework socket.io
  • Kel Santiago is Japan-based writer and product evangelist for Digital Cube, a WordPress Consultant company (pending visa approval).
  • Jeremy Felt is a developer at Washington State University and is a contributor to WordPress core.
  • Cory Miller is a former journalist turned full-time entrepreneur. He is the co-author of WordPress All-in-One for Dummies and founder of iThemes.

More speakers will be announced soon!

 

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Say hello to the first group of WordCamp San Francisco speakers!

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WordCamp San Francisco is getting closer, and we’re working our way through all of your nominations and proposals. While the selection process is still active, we’re excited to have confirmed our first group of speakers.

You’ll recognise many of the names from around the WordPress community; they speak at WordCamps, blog about WordPress, build WordPress websites, and create the software that we all know and love. It’s just a few months until they take the stage at WCSF.

    • Mark Jaquith is a Lead Developer of WordPress. He has been using WordPress since 2004 and offers freelance consulting services.
    • Helen Hou-Sandí is a WordPress core committer, release lead for WordPress 4.0 and Director of Platform Experience at 10up.
    • Chris Lema writes a daily blog covering the WordPress ecosystem from a business perspective.
    • Kathleen Vignos is a full stack engineer and leads the engineering team at WIRED.
    • Tracy Levesque is a co-owner of YIKES, Inc. and a WordPress instructor for Girl Develop It Philly.
    • Andrew Nacin is a Lead Developer of WordPress. He works at Audrey Capital.
    • Sara Cannon is a Partner and Creative Director at Range. She loves design, typography, user experience, and art.

Watch this space for more speaker announcements over the coming weeks!