Well that\u2019s already a lot. How do you think contributing helped you and others?<\/strong><\/p>\nContributor day is my favourite day at WordCamps because you get to help the WordPress community and you get to learn. You learn a lot about how an open source software works and how everybody is building it together. And then for example if you join specific teams then you learn other skills. When I joined the polyglots team it\u2019s a great opportunity to refresh my Spanish, my English, to learn all the languages you know. And when I joined the Theme Review team – it was really interesting to see how they have their team organised and how everybody was able to contribute. I would say contributing is about learning a lot of things and learning to work in a team.<\/p>\n
Yes I joined the review team once and if you do themes, you learn a lot!<\/strong><\/p>\nYes that\u2019s why I wanted to join that team, but I haven\u2019t been able to be more active in that team since.<\/p>\n
In the Theme Review team you have to be quite good at coding as well. I don\u2019t feel that I\u2019m good enough for reviewing properly.<\/strong><\/p>\nYes \u2014 that\u2019s why joining that team during a contributor day is a great opportunity to see what you are able to do or not. But of course you need to know how to code a theme. That\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n
Sure. Where do you see WordPress is going? What do you think will happen in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\nThat\u2019s a difficult question. I think WordPress keeps on growing and growing and this is amazing. I just hope it doesn\u2019t grow too much. You know there can be a little bit of danger. If it\u2019s too much.<\/p>\n
Then the idiots start showing up.<\/strong><\/p>\nExactly. That\u2019s what I\u2019m a little bit afraid of. But it\u2019s also great to see the community growing. For example I was in Asia last month and it\u2019s incredible to see how WordCamps and WordPress Meetups are popping up there. It\u2019s really good to see that more countries are being involved other than the U.S. and Europe and see new communities coming in. I guess this will bring fresh air like new ideas, new things to WordPress. And this is where I like to see WordPress going. To include new communities, new, different people.<\/p>\n
Yes I also think this is going well with all these new communities popping up. And what are your plans for the future with WordPress? Will you keep on being a digital nomad for long?<\/strong><\/p>\nI don\u2019t know. So far this is what I\u2019m doing. You know digital nomads \u2014 they don\u2019t really have plans. They are just living their life one month ahead of time. One month is like a really long future for a digital nomad. So I keep on blogging and as long as I have clients I keep on doing this. As I was telling you earlier I was in Israel at a new type of conference which was not a WordCamp, the TBEX conference, a travel blogger exchange conference. A lot of people there were using WordPress, but it was not an WordPress conference. So in the future I might diverse this a little bit. Because in one year I was at more than 10 WordCamps and a few meetups, but definitely my future is in blogging. My blog is in WordPress and I want to keep it this way. So I still have a lot to do with WordPress.<\/p>\n
So why do you like visiting WordCamps so much? I mean – you\u2019ve seen a lot now!<\/strong><\/p>\nYes I love it \u2014 and I love it more and more because any WordCamp I go to I meet with other WordCamp friends. So now I have so many friends at every WordCamp I go to and this is just really amazing. I think WordCamps are really great value because they are pretty cheap conferences and you get a lot out of it. For example all of my clients now. 90% I got from visiting WordCamps.<\/p>\n
And the food!<\/strong><\/p>\n[laughs] And the food, and the after party!<\/p>\n
And the hallway track!<\/strong><\/p>\nAnd you travel, it\u2019s a great opportunity to travel. When people say \u201cOh my god, you\u2019re off on the road again!\u201d and you say – \u201cWell I\u2019m sorry I have a WordCamp, I have to go!\u201d<\/p>\n
So will we see you at WordCamp Europe?<\/strong><\/p>\nYes, absolutely! I am on the volunteer team and I would like to be on the Communication team like last year, where I met you, because what I love to do is social media and talking to people and things like that. So we will definitely see each other.<\/p>\n
I have no control over the volunteer team so I don\u2019t know what you will do, but I hope to see you too. And yes \u2013 that was already our little interview. Thank you very much Isabelle!<\/strong><\/p>\nThank you for choosing me! I\u2019m looking forward to reading this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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