He knew as soon as he started working with Java middleware developers he never wanted to work outside of open source ever again. He first started building in Drupal and WordPress when he needed to build projects for the San Francisco Improv scene. He fell in the love the community of developers and then found my position at Pantheon at the end of 2013.
As a Community and Agency Success Manager, he has had the privilege of presenting at MidCamp (Drupal), WordCamp Milwaukee, WordCamp Baltimore, Drupal Northern Lights (Iceland), Stanford DrupalCamp and other conferences.
Outside of tech I love producing and performing improv theater. I also love comic books and karaoke!!!
Dwayne will be giving a workshop titled “Let’s learn git. No more excuses.“.
What is your favorite improvement to WordPress this past year?
The inclusion of the WP-CLI as part of the core project. While this didn’t directly add any additional new functionality immediately it paved the path for many more improvements by getting more folks involved from the make.wordpress.org community.
Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?
I love speaking in public and sharing what I have learned over the years from this awesome community. I see it as a way of giving back.
What is your talk going to be about?
Git, which is version control for not only code, but anything. It is really the best revisioning system we have invented yet and has a lot of practical applications.
What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?
How to do the basics and understand conceptually what Git can do.
Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?
Wow, this would be a long list if I listed everyone. Bridget Willard (@YouTooCanBeGuru) jumps to mind as well as Adam Warner (@wpmodder) and Matt Cromwell (@learnwithmattc) and Rachel Cherry (@bamadesigner). Leaving out a lot, the whole dang community is pretty inspirational.
What new feature would you like to see in the future?
I would like to see better role management in core, with the ability to change capabilities for a role or invent a new role directly within the admin. There are plugins and you can accomplish this with tools like WP-CLI but having a way in core to do this would allow for larger publishing organizations to more easily adopt WP as their enterprise solution.
Oh my gosh, Dwayne. You made my day!