Speaker Spotlight – Joseph Scott

September 11, 2011 by karenalma • Comments Off on Speaker Spotlight – Joseph Scott
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What is the name of your company and can you tell us something about yourself?
I work for Automattic, currently doing development work for the Akismet anti-spam service.

Can you tell us why you love WordPress?
WordPress makes it easy for just about anyone to get a site and/or blog up and going on the web. And it takes it to the next step by making it easy for people to customize it with themes and plugins.

What is your topic for WordCamp?
Site Performance, From Pinto to Ferrari

What do you hope attendees learn from your session?
Tips for seeing how fast their page loads are now, and what things can be done to make them faster.

How do you use WP in your business?
Automattic runs WordPress.com, so we host millions of WordPress powered sites 🙂

About karenalma

I've been part of the WordPress community since 2010, when I co-founded the Albuquerque WordPress meetup and co-organized the first-ever WordCamp Albuquerque. Over the years I co-organized four WordCamps in Albuquerque and spoke at events from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro to Phoenix, in both English and Spanish, including an early WordPress for Kids session in Albuquerque that I'm still a little proud of. I spent the better part of a decade at Automattic building the company's Talent Acquisition function from the ground up, and somewhere in there, life got full: family, work, etc. Now I'm back, still at Automattic and stepping into the role of Head of Operations and Events for the WordPress Project and genuinely glad to be here. I have a deep love and respect for this community and a lot of energy to pitch in and help make WordPress!
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