{"id":1287,"date":"2017-07-31T18:27:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T22:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2017-07-31T18:27:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T22:27:25","slug":"speaker-spotlight-meagan-hanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker-spotlight-meagan-hanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Meagan Hanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Meagan Hanes is a WordPress expert based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with over 20 years creating websites by hand and over 10 years using WordPress. She creates elegant, high-performance, mobile-optimized web solutions \u2013 front-end, back-end, and everything in between. You may have seen her present talks across a variety of WordPress subjects. She gives back to local communities through organizing WordCamps, running meetups such as the Ottawa WordPress Community, and teaching others to code.<\/p>\n

Meagan will be hosting a panel titled “Contributing to WordPress<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

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What is your favorite improvement to WordPress this past year?<\/h3>\n

The newest change on our wp-admin Dashboard’s Events and News widget that shows nearby WordCamps and WordPress meetups! Now it’s even easier for WordPressers to meet and learn from one another.<\/p>\n

Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?<\/h3>\n

I don’t speak at every WordCamp every year, but when I do, it’s WordCamp Montreal! <\/p>\n

Thanks for having me back as a speaker for the 5th consecutive year <3<\/p>\n

What is your talk going to be about?<\/h3>\n

This year we’re going to have a fun and interactive panel chat about contributing to WordPress. What does this term mean to the range of panelists, the ways and avenues in which we’ve contributed to the WordPress Project, and how you can find your special niche for helping make WordPress the world’s best open source CMS!<\/p>\n

What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<\/h3>\n

Excitement and confidence about WordPress’ future!<\/p>\n

Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?<\/h3>\n

Too many to list! Nowadays I get a lot of inspiration from podcasts like The WP Crowd<\/a> and WPWatercooler<\/a>. <\/p>\n

What new feature would you like to see in the future?<\/h3>\n

My dream world would be spending a few development cycles improving various aspects of Camptix<\/a>, the WordCamp-management integration plugin for WordPress, while others are focusing on Gutenberg UI\/UX developments and advanced REST API & WP-CLI integration \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meagan Hanes is a WordPress expert based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with over 20 years creating websites by hand and over 10 years using WordPress. She creates elegant, high-performance, mobile-optimized web solutions \u2013 front-end, back-end, and everything in between. You may have seen her present talks across a variety of WordPress subjects. She gives back … <\/p>\n

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