{"id":4640,"date":"2016-04-11T12:53:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T11:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2016-04-11T14:11:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T13:11:18","slug":"say-hello-to-our-first-two-wceu-speakers-mike-little-and-matt-mullenweg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/say-hello-to-our-first-two-wceu-speakers-mike-little-and-matt-mullenweg\/","title":{"rendered":"Say hello to our first two #WCEU speakers &#8211; Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time. The WordCamp Europe team is delighted to announce our fist two speakers &#8211; the founders of WordPress &#8211; Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.<\/p>\n<h2>Matt Mullenweg<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4750\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/say-hello-to-our-first-two-wceu-speakers-mike-little-and-matt-mullenweg\/matt-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/matt.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"578,578\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"matt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/matt-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/matt-550x550.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4750 size-large alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/04\/matt-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"matt\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/matt-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/matt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/matt-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/matt.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform, WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/automattic.com\/\">Automattic<\/a>, the company behind\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/jetpack\/\">Jetpack<\/a>. Additionally, Matt is a principal and founder of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/audrey.co\/\">Audrey Capital<\/a>, an investment and research company.<\/p>\n<p>Matt is originally from Houston, Texas, where he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied jazz saxophone. In his spare time, Matt is an avid photographer. Matt splits time between Houston, New York, and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re extremely happy Matt is joining us again on the #WCEU stage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Mike Little<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4751\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/say-hello-to-our-first-two-wceu-speakers-mike-little-and-matt-mullenweg\/mike-2016-bw-1000_720\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mike-2016-bw-1000_720.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Siobhan McMinn&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mike-2016-bw-1000_720\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mike-2016-bw-1000_720-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mike-2016-bw-1000_720-550x550.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4751 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/04\/mike-2016-bw-1000_720-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"mike-2016-bw-1000_720\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mike-2016-bw-1000_720-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mike-2016-bw-1000_720-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mike-2016-bw-1000_720-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/mike-2016-bw-1000_720.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mike Little is the co-founder of WordPress. After he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg\u2019s blog about forking their blogging tool in 2003, he paved the way for WordPress\u2019 success today. 13 years on and it powers more than 26% of the web. Mike now runs <a href=\"http:\/\/zed1.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Zed1.com<\/span><\/a>, his WordPress consultancy, training, and web development company. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He\u2019s an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and the original b2. <\/span><span class=\"s3\">He has helped organize 9 or 10 WordCamps and attended a few more. He has run a WordPress meetup in Manchester, England for the last 7 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">WordCamp Europe 2016 will be his first WordCamp outside of the UK and we&#8217;re delighted he accepted our invitation to join us in Vienna and share the early story\u00a0about the early years of WordPress.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">We&#8217;ve got an incredible line-up prepared for you for the fourth WordCamp Europe. In the next two weeks, we&#8217;ll announce all of our speakers and the full schedule will be posted by the end of April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Follow #WCEU on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wceurope\">Twitter<\/a> and Facebook to keep up with all event announcements and to share the love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We wish you a wonderful Monday!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Your WCEU team<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time. The WordCamp Europe team is delighted to announce our fist two speakers &#8211; the founders of WordPress &#8211; Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. Matt Mullenweg Matt is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform, WordPress, the most popular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/say-hello-to-our-first-two-wceu-speakers-mike-little-and-matt-mullenweg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Say hello to our first two #WCEU speakers &#8211; Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9920888,"featured_media":4758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Screenshot-2016-04-11-12.56.28.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NYKL-1cQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9920888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4763,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions\/4763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}