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<\/div>\nHow and when did you get started with WordPress?<\/h2>\n
I was an early MovableType user and before that I was hand-rolling HTML archives for my pioneering blog called CamWorld (circa late 1990s). Around 2003-2004 I started working in Drupal and built some fairly large community-driven sites.<\/p>\n
At the Open Source Convention in Portland in July 2004, I met a young Matt Muellenweg, who had just launched WordPress. I didn\u2019t pay much attention to it, but remember how eager, honest and smart he was.<\/p>\n
Several years passed and I noticed that a lot of the blogs I read and follow were moving to WordPress, so I started taking another look and saw how good of a platform it was, not just for blogs but as a robust CMS.<\/p>\n
I stopped doing Drupal development work around 2011 and moved almost all of my professional work, clients and web sites to WordPress and haven\u2019t looked back.<\/p>\n
If you’ve attended WordCamp Lancaster before, what’s your fondest memory of it? If not, what do you like most about WordCamps?<\/h2>\n
WordCamps allow me to connect with other WordPress users, developers and business owners. It also gives me a stage to explain how I’m using WordPress to save taxpayer money, which is a very important issue for me.<\/p>\n
What are you currently learning?<\/h2>\n
I’m mostly a front-end designer working in HTML, CSS and Photoshop. I’ve learned a little bit of PHP and Javascript over the years but I’m trying to become better at it so I don’t have to rely on PHP rockstars all the time.<\/p>\n
Do you know what a stroopie is? No googling.<\/h2>\n
No idea.<\/p>\n
What did you do during the blizzard?<\/h2>\n
Shoveled snow and dug out the cars (twice!) and then built a snow fort with my daughter and her cousins.\u00a0 I hail from Northern Michigan (so am very used to lots of snow), but grew up internationally, and currently live in Northern NJ with my family. I love to go biking, 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.<\/p>\n
Where can we find you online?<\/h2>\n
Twitter: @camworld Cameron Barrett<\/a>‘s session is titled\u00a0WordPress for Non-Profits<\/a>. View the full schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n WordCamp Lancaster will be held on March 5th with Contributor Day<\/a> on March 6th. Get your ticket today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the run up to WordCamp Lancaster, we will be featuring some of our speakers here on the website. How and when did you get started with WordPress? I was an early MovableType user and before that I was hand-rolling HTML archives for my pioneering blog called CamWorld (circa late 1990s). Around 2003-2004 I started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13830219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-interviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xYuZ-hh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancasterpa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancasterpa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancasterpa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancasterpa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13830219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancasterpa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lancasterpa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/lancasterpa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancasterpa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancasterpa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancasterpa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/a>About.Me: http:\/\/about.me\/cam
\n<\/a>WordPress: https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/cameronbarrett\/
\n<\/a>LinkedIn: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/camworld
\n<\/a>Medium: https:\/\/medium.com\/@camworld<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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