As part of the international WordPress community, the Montreal meetup group abides by a code of conduct, and members must follow its guidelines.
With WordCamp Montreal coming up, we thought this was a good opportunity to remind everyone that we have a code of conduct, which we take seriously. If you’re part of our community in any way, you need to be aware of the code of conduct and behave accordingly.
Please take a moment to look over the code of conduct, and get familiar with it.
We wanted to highlight these sections in particular:
- Unacceptable behaviors include: intimidating, harassing, abusive, discriminatory, derogatory or demeaning conduct by any members of the Montréal WordPress Community.
- Harassment includes: offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability; inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces (including presentation slides); deliberate intimidation, stalking or following; harassing photography or recording; sustained disruption of talks or other events; inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.
- Unacceptable behavior will not be tolerated, and community organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from an event without warning or refund.
If you are subject to unacceptable behavior, notice that someone else is being subject to unacceptable behavior, or have any other concerns, please let a community organizer know as soon as possible. You can contact us by email at montreal@wordcamp.org, through the contact form, or in person at any event.
Please help make the Montreal WordPress community a safe and comfortable place for all.
Nick Adams is a web developer and the founder of Revault Media, which is an agency operating in the US and Canada, based out of Rochester, New York. He splits his time between London, Ontario and Rochester, New York where he organizes the WordPress London and WordPress Finger Lakes meetups in each city respectively. Nick started Revault Media while attending the University of Hartford where he studied Computer Science and French. He is passionate about making information and learning accessible to all people.
Sasha is a web strategist, front-end developer, and multidisciplinary designer. She runs an interactive design studio in Montreal, Canada that specializes in creating WordPress websites for NPOs, cause-based organizations, and other do-gooders. Her goal is to make a lasting impact through amplifying the voices of those who are working towards meaningful positive changes. She enjoys spreading her passion for coding, design, and social change through public speaking and educational initiatives like Ladies Learning Code and Girls Learning Code.
Mika Ariela Epstein is better known as Ipstenu, the Half-Elf Rogue. Working for DreamHost, specializing in WordPress hosting (aka ‘WordPress Guru’), Mika helps make WordPress and hosting better for everyone. When she isn’t reviewing plugins she’s helping in the support forums and speaking at WordCamps worldwide about code and open source technology. A self-taught guru on Multisite and .htaccess, she has a passion for writing and technology and blogs about them whenever possible.
Tippi Thole is the happy owner of Bright Spot Studio where she does branding, web and print design for freelancers and small businesses across North America. Before starting her own studio, she worked for 15 years as an art director and designer for a variety of U.S. magazines and newspapers. When she’s not helping clients, you’ll find her knee-deep in a home improvement project, playing in her backyard or salsa dancing way past her bedtime.
As a part of gen X, Lynne has been in and out of careers and has more diplomas than she really need. Her education in library studies, and experience in records has made her something of an information junkie. She has great search skills, and loves helping people find what they need. She had a role helping transition to a large multi-site install. At the time her knowledge was very limited, so she found herself spending a lot of time looking for answers, and being a bit scared to commit to doing something. After realizing that mistakes were OK, and asking questions was a good thing she was excited to jump in with both feet.
Shelly Peacock, AKA @Spinbird, has been in sales and graphic design since 2001, moving focus to include Social Media Management and Digital Marketing in 2007. She built her first WordPress site in 2009- as a way to make her designs “do stuff”, and as a portfolio for her art business. Shucked it all to run The SpinBird Group, a WordPress consulting and design agency. She likes short walks on the beach, cabanas, and shooting opossums off her back deck with her shotgun. Daily Mantra: Life is short- GET #FIERCE WITH IT.
Michal Bluma is a Montreal freelance developer who loves WordPress, code, cats and metaphors. He’s been chopping up mockups for quite a while and would love to share some tips, tricks and how to avoid certain gotchas when it comes to the website creation chain. Let’s aim to bridge to designer/developer gap together!
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Chris has been building websites since he was a kid and discovered GeoCities. Now he’s a WordPress engineer with blog contributions, plugin features and more under his belt. He spoke at WordCamp St. Louis, Asheville and WP Campus this year. He loves craft beer, plays in a rock band and his the Director of Digital Technology for Quasar Bio-Tech, Inc.