The Art of Building Community with WordPress, Keynote
Veteran WordCamp Philly speaker Tessa Kriesel will return this year, this time as keynote speaker. She will present “The Art of Building Community with WordPress”.
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Veteran WordCamp Philly speaker Tessa Kriesel will return this year, this time as keynote speaker. She will present “The Art of Building Community with WordPress”.
Tessa Kriesel, Developer Outreach Manager at Pantheon and expert in several Open Source CMS platforms, joins us to discuss her path from Guitar Hero enthusiast to a career in Open Source development.
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In this episode we get to talk with Tessa Kriesel: Developer Outreach Manager at Pantheon. We discuss how she got her start in the industry via Guitar Hero, and what her day-to-day is like at Pantheon.
We chat about backwards compatibility, Gutenberg, and the WordPress ecosystem with Ryan Welcher, David Hayes, Tessa Kriesel, Adam Silverstein, Jeremy Ward, and Jenny Wong.
Tessa Kriesel is a developer, community advocate, and educator. We get into our approaches to teaching, why it’s important, to give opportunities to underserved areas and groups. We also discuss our “aha” moments – that time where programming suddenly clicked for us.
Tessa Kriesel is an agency and community engineer at Pantheon and she’s been a web developer for over 10 years. She’s the founder of Outspoken Women, she’s passionate about diversity initiatives and teaching people to code and mentoring new developers.
Behat is a PHP tool with extensions for Drupal and WordPress that allows development teams to write testing scenarios in plain English, and then use a simulated web browser to verify the behavior.