Anthony Skelton a freelance theme/plugin developer for local small businesses and entrepreneurs. He also has a professional photography company with his wife.
We’re thrilled Anthony will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Rediscovering Theme Settings With The Customizer!
Continue reading WordCamp Sacramento Speaker Q&A: Anthony Skelton
This is the sixth post in a series to help you get to know our 2016 WordCamp Sacramento organizers a little better! You’ve already met Jose Castaneda, Bill Mead, John Locke, and 2016 Lead Jennifer Bourn, and today we’re introducing you to Jen Meyer.
Jen Meyer is in her final year as a Graphic and Web Design student at The Art Institute of California, Sacramento and is looking forward to graduating. She began using WordPress in a class in 2014 and has since used it for several projects. Jen is excited to once again be part of WordCamp Sacramento, and looks forward to many more opportunities to get involved with the local design community.
Be sure to give Jen at shout out on Twitter and don’t forget to use our hashtag #wcsac.
Continue reading Meet WordCamp Sacramento Organizer Jen Meyer
Carrie spent the first eight years of her career wrangling sales data in the tech industry. While on work assignment in the UK, she attended a blogging workshop where she was introduced to WordPress. After spending several weekends learning about WordPress child themes, Carrie set up her first WordPress site and realized WordPress and front-end development is where her true passion lies.
After moving back to California, Carrie had an opportunity to pursue her passion, and enrolled in the Graphic & Interactive Design program at Foothill College where she learned about the graphic design process, and how to properly write HTML and CSS. Before graduating her program, she created her first theme from scratch on the Genesis framework, and realized that developing on WordPress is what she wanted to do for a living. Carrie currently works as a Front-End Developer for WebDevStudios.
When she’s not developing websites, you can find Carrie at home cuddling with her three cats K2, Whitney, and Minnie, enjoying a latte or cold brew at a nearby coffee shop, or exploring the greater San Francisco Bay Area with her husband Darren.
We’re thrilled Carrie will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Creating Themes with Atomic Design!
Continue reading WordCamp Sacramento Speaker Q&A: Carrie Forde
Austin studied Kinesiology in school, but after discovering web development, he never looked back. For about 3 years it has been an ever-growing passion of his which started as a hobby, turned into an internship, taken him into freelancing, and has now landed him as a full-time, lead developer at an agency in San Diego — Visceral.
We’re thrilled Austin will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Web Performance: Three Stages to Success!
Continue reading WordCamp Sacramento Speaker Q&A: Austin Gil
WordCamp Sacramento 2016, happening October 22-23, 2016 at the Harper Alumni Center at Sacramento State University, is just around the corer. It’s now only about six weeks away and all of the details are coming together to create an event that we’re really proud of — just take a look at the schedule!
The first round of tickets went on sale a couple weeks ago and sold our in only 44 minutes! The second round of tickets went on sale last week and sold out in two days. The third round of WordCamp tickets will go on sale Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 12:00 pm pacific time (noon).
The third round of tickets is the last round of tickets. They will be the last tickets available for the event total. This means no more tickets will go for sale. No tickets will be given away. This is the last chance to grab a ticket for yourself — that is, unless you step up and love on the Sacramento WordPress community by sponsoring the event!
Continue reading WordCamp Sacramento 2016 Schedule Published
Kim Shivler, M.Ed. has worked as a writer, instructor, developer and serial entrepreneur for over 20 years. Her business experience includes computer network and database administration, technical training and writing, project management, web development, and work as an aesthetician and spa owner. She also worked for large corporations including Tivoli, an IBM company, where she was part of the worldwide technical sales and marketing team.
Kim learned HTML in 1995 building help files as a UNIX system administrator and opened her first web development company in 1996. Since then, Kim has worked as a business owner and employee in a variety of fields including a few years as part of an IBM worldwide team. Between 2008 and 2012, she worked with a variety of Content Management Systems and ran an online membership site for skincare professionals using Drupal. In 2012, Kim found WordPress and never looked back at any other CMS. She has been creating online courses in WordPress since 2013 and currently combines her background in education, years of business experience, and WordPress experience to teach others how to build online courses, their first WordPress site, and learning platforms.
As a writer, Kim has worked in a variety of fields including software documentation and instruction, manuals for aesthetic and medical devices, and general health articles.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Master of Education degree in secondary English education from the University of Florida.
We’re thrilled Kim will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Building A Learning Platform With WordPress!
Continue reading WordCamp Sacramento Speaker Q&A: Kim Shivler
Matt is a full stack developer with a primary focus on developing custom WordPress themes based on Photoshop comps. With almost 20 years as a developer in the industry, he has a strong focus on performance and process — always seeking new and better ways to accomplish a task both for the benefit of the developer and of web page visitors.
Matt lives in Nevada City, CA in a home that he and his wife designed and built. He works remotely from that home while enjoying a thriving family life with his wife and their 5 kids.
We’re thrilled Matt will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Building Custom WordPress Themes With Sass!
Continue reading WordCamp Sacramento Speaker Q&A: Matt Vanderpol
WordCamp Sacramento takes hundreds of hours to create, plan, manage, and run — and every bit of time is donated by community volunteers who spend their own time and resources to make WordCamp a reality for our local community. No one associated with WordCamp — not the organizers, not the speakers, and not the event volunteers. No one gets paid in any way.
Planning of the 2016 event began in February with the hunt for a venue. Beginning in May, the organizing team began planning the event and meeting both in person and via a private Slack Channel.
If you’ve been watching WordCamp Sacramento and have ideas, suggestions, opinions, desires for the future events, etc., we encourage you to pay attention to what’s happening with the event, talk to the organizers at the event and ask questions, and check out the information below.
We are ALWAYS looking for new people who would like to help out volunteer their time to enhance our local WordPress community!
I’m a Designer, developer and “WordPress Guy” who is also Husband, Dad and Christian. I love all things technology and constantly look for new ways to improve my skills as a creative. I love to shoot photos and I’m a habitual doodler… I pretty much just love creating. I believe creativity is a gift that will go away if not used. I cherish it too much to let it go. I have the heart of a teacher and love leading others down paths that will make them better creatives and technologists.
I’m currently the lead web designer and developer at Tytanium Ideas, an amazing social media marketing company in Lincoln California. I’m glad to be a part of the Tytanium Ideas family.
We’re thrilled Jon will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on A Full Stack WordPress Project Workflow!
Continue reading WordCamp Sacramento Speaker Q&A: Jon Trujillo
Cat brings her WordPress skills to authors, entrepreneurs, arts organizations, non-profits, scientists, musicians, artists, small businesses, healers and folks working for positive change.
In addition to being a WordPress developer, coach, consultant and a singer-songwriter, Catherine also enjoys being a mother to 2 wonderful children. She lives in the Sierra foothills of Northern California where she builds WordPress sites, coaches her clients on how to use them and writes, records and performs original music.
We’re thrilled Cat will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 and giving us An Introduction To WooCommerce!
Continue reading WordCamp Sacramento Speaker Q&A: Cat Scholz
WordCamp Sacramento 2016 is over. Check out the next edition!