{"id":392,"date":"2015-06-30T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T12:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.scranton.wordcamp.org\/?p=392"},"modified":"2015-06-25T01:14:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T05:14:02","slug":"get-to-know-your-speakers-cameron-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scranton.wordcamp.org\/2015\/get-to-know-your-speakers-cameron-barrett\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Your Speakers: Cameron Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"1) What do you do for a living (company you work for, official title, daily responsibilities, etc.)<\/b>
\nI’ve has been blogging since you were in grade school (well, some of you). I<\/b> pioneered the blog format in the late 1990s and remember an eager, bright-eyed young man named Ma.tt being excited to meet one of the \u201cfounding fathers of blogging\u201d in 2003. <\/b>
\nI have designed and built web sites for presidential candidates, the U.S. Army, the World Economic Forum, Teach for America and I lead the migration of 70+ web sites from a terrifically-bad, proprietary SaaS to WordPress Multisite for New Jersey\u2019s largest public school district.<\/p>\n

I hail from Northern Michigan, but grew up internationally, and currently live in Northern NJ with my family. I am leading the charge for embracing \u201cWordPress in Schools\u201d and my goal is to eventually have all 14,000+ public school districts in this country using WordPress in some way through a services-based company called SchoolPress.<\/p>\n

2) How did you get into WordPress?<\/b>
\nNow, this is a story about how my site got flipped-turned upside down. I’ll take a minute to just sit right here and tell you how I came to use WordPress. I was born and raised in West Philadelphia where I spent most of my days chilling out online. But then I got all mixed up with 4chan and some guys who were up to no good. They started to make trouble in my online neighborhood. I got into one little Internet fight and my mom got scared. She said, “You’re moving with your aunt and uncle to California.”<\/p>\n

I begged and pleaded with her day after day but she packed up my\u00a0 MacBook Air and sent me on my way. She gave me a kiss and gave me my ticket. I put on my earbuds and said, “I might as well switch it up.” I flew first class, orange juice out of a champagne glass and all. Is this what living in California is going to be like? All right.<\/p>\n

Well, the plane landed and when <\/b>I came out there was a due who looked like a cop standing there with my name on a card. I wasn’t sure what to do, I just got here, so I hightailed it out of there and whistled for a cab. The license plate said Ma.tt and it had dice in the mirror. If anything, I could say this cab was rare. But I thought, “California, take me and my MacBook Air.”<\/p>\n

We pulled up to a house around 7 or 8pm<\/span><\/span> and I yelled to the cabbie, “Yo Ma.tt, see ya later.” I looked at my kingdom. I was finally there. To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel-Air.
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3) What’s a great experience you had at a WordCamp?<\/b>
\nI especially appreciate the willingness and eagerness of WordCamp attendees to help others out, no matter their level of expertise. I spend a lot of time at very technical conferences and the technical vs non-technical cliques are very obvious. WordCamps span the gap quite well.<\/p>\n

4) What are your non-WordPress, non-Computer related hobbies?<\/b>
\nBiking, hiking and travel. About 15 years ago I came very close to starting an adventure travel company in Siberia but the funding fell through and the local Russian mafia advised me against it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5) If you could be any fictional character, who would you be and why?<\/b>
\nWapuu. It’s not every day that you get to be the mascot for every WordCamp in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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