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Putting on WordCamp is a team effort of the select few willing to put in vast amounts of time, energy and spirit. Are you ready to answer the call? Email wordcampboston@gmail.com with “organizing committee” in the subject line. We accept people to the team based on their experience and ability to lead in one of the following areas: sponsorship, A/V, volunteers, collateral, website, communications, accounting, day of management or documentation.
WordCamp Boston 2010 Team
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John Eckman :: is a Sr. Director at Optaros, a professional services firm offering strategy, design, development, and consulting services to enterprises interested in leveraging free and open source software. He is also the primary developer of WPBook, a plugin for integrating your WordPress blog with Facebook, and blogs at Open Parenthesis as well for Optaros Labs. |
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Jake Goldman :: is a web developer and strategist with over a decade of experience. Today, as Director of Client Services at C. Murray Consulting, he is focused on complete Content Management System integration and end user experiences. Jake has overseen more than two dozen highly customized WordPress implementations since mid 2008, two of which are featured on the official showcase. His “WordPress Power Tips” articles for Smashing Magazine consistently make the front page of Delicious. Between supporting clients, Jake has found the time to develop and contribute 9 highly rated WordPress plug-ins to the community. |
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Kurt Eng :: is a biochemist/biomedical engineer by training but is also the official unofficial tech support at a big pharma company in Cambridge. When not researching liver diseases, he can usually be found on either TechNewsMadeSimple or Everything Including the Kitchen Sink, making technology and cooking easier for people who want to learn. After installing and using WordPress “the hard way”, Kurt has become active in the local Boston WordPress MeetUps recording and archiving past topics. |
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Chris Traganos :: is a web developer for Harvard’s Public Affairs & Communications and is responsible for the university’s main webpage and WordPress-powered Harvard Gazette news site. He graduated with a degree in Management of Information Systems from UMass Boston. Chris is the Co-Chair of Harvard’s Web Working group, which connects University developers and designers through web-related workshops, training sessions, and guest speakers. |
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Michael Erlewine :: is a linguist, coder, and teacher in Somerville, MA, whose work lies at the intersection of the internet and human language. He is the developer of the popular Yet Another Related Posts Plugin and HookPress and has spoken at the Boston WordPress meetup and WordCamp Tokyo. His most recent WordPress project has been the MIT Edgerton Digital Collections. He previously worked at Mozilla Labs and has been a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan. He is currently a PhD student in linguistics at MIT. |
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Amanda Blum :: is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, and Creative Director of Howling Zoe Productions, a creative strategy firm involved in design, marketing and public relations. She is one of the three founding partners of Are You Socially Acceptable which teaches social media, technology and marketing classes. Helping microbusinesses, startups and non profits find new ways to reach their target demographic for over 10 years, Amanda bridges the gap between old school techniques and bleeding edge tech. Amanda has been active in community volunteering for almost 20 years and is dedicated to helping non profits utilize social media tools to help further their mission. |
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Daisy Olsen :: has been working with computers since the Commodore 64, with php/MySQL content management systems since 2001 (Anyone remember PostNuke?) and has been dedicated to working with WordPress for the last several years. After starting a WordPress powered hobby blog in 2006 she quickly discovered that her heart was on the backend and developing blogs for others was far more fulfilling than actually blogging. Since then she has worked on many blogs and non-blog websites to create individualized website solutions built on WordPress as both a blogging platform and a CMS. She works as a blog/website development consultant from WP Mama. She is also the Director of Operations for Blissfully Domestic, a web-based magazine powered by WordPress with over 400 contributing authors. |
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Erick Hitter :: is an engineer turned accountant who, since joining the ranks of the unemployed in June, has turned full time to Wordpress development and blogging about whatever catches his interest. Known to his friends and colleagues as that go-to guy for technology questions and suggestions, news and current events, and even, occasionally, tax matters, he turns his inquisitive eye to all manner of topics at disparate.info. He is also the developer of the Tag Dropdown Widget, a Wordpress plugin designed to tame the insanity of the Tag Cloud, and the Simple Facebook Share Button plugin. |
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