Happy to announce our third round of speakers. Their presentations will focus on everything in-depth technical talks about WordPress multisite, WP-CLI, SASS, typography, caching, content strategy, performance, and more.
- Jeremy Felt: “Behind the Scenes of WordPress Multisite”
- David Ryan: “Take Command with Custom WP-CLI commands”
- Tracy Lay: “Typography Tips and Tricks”
- AmyJune Hineline: “Inclusive Content Strategy”
- Mike Ebert: “Good Web Performance Advice Gone Bad”
- Erin Smith: “Getting Sassy with CSS: An Introduction to Writing CSS with Sass”
- Link Porterfield: “Caching: What is it and why do you need it? “
- Russell Fair: “Hooking In – Understanding How WordPress Actions and Filters Work” and “Welcome to Wonderland – CI/CD for hassle free deployments”
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AmyJune Hineline
AmyJune is an active contributor in the open source world. As the Open Source Community Ambassador at Kanopi Studios, AmyJune helps to ensure her team remains connected to open-source communities.
AmyJune co-organizes various open source camps and conventions throughout North America, all while helping each of the communities be more inclusive. This focus enables others to forge deep community connections that benefit the whole. As a self-described non-coder, she helps communities discover how they can contribute back in more ways than code.
In addition to her work building community connections, AmyJune is an avid geocacher, noted Volkswagen enthusiast, and eats with her elbows on the table.
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David Ryan
Dave Ryan is an Interdisciplinary WordPress Developer at Bluehost, where he focuses on helping build WordPress and supportingthe WordPress community.
In the past Dave has worked for large publishers and
universities, scaling high-traffic WordPress sites by blending his
skills in information design, journalism and web development.Dave lives in Phoenix, loves a good taco and will like every photo of your dog on Instagram.
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Erin Smith
Currently working as a freelance WordPress developer, Erin loves exploring the possibilities of WordPress and pushing it in new directions. When not working, you’ll find Erin spending time with her husband and five kids, playing board games or squeezing a Netflix session in.
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Jeremy Felt
Jeremy Felt is a web developer and co-owner of Happy Prime, a strategic web agency. He created VVV, an open-source development environment for WordPress now led by two (fantastic) lead developers. He has been contributing to WordPress for over seven years and has spent much of that time exploring multisite’s depths, problems, and possibilities.
Jeremy believes in community, sharing your work, and free and open-source software. He enjoys finding ways to solve problems in all three.
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Link Porterfield
Link Porterfield is the Founding Member of epic.network who works with small business owners to lighten their technology burden by providing experienced management and guidance.
Link knows it can be overwhelming to keep up with both the rapidly changing landscape of technology in the workplace and the demanding requirements of its continual upkeep, yet it can be disastrous to ignore either. His business interests keep him immersed in those critical areas and he enjoys being able to implement that knowledge for his customers so they can focus on running their business. Link is a seasoned Linux administrator with two decades of experience in managing online services. He is enthusiastic about open source software and system integration. He is a Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider and a Xero Certified Advisor. He has been a member of the Boise WordPress MeetUp since 2016 and volunteers as a co-organizer. He can also be found serving as an Ambassador for the Caldwell Chamber of Commerce. -
Mike Ebert
Mike Ebert has been developing and marketing websites for 15 years and has been using WordPress since 2009. He has been an agency founder, in-house web developer, consultant, and freelancer. Now he’s co-founder of Luhnar, a company focused on democratizing innovative cloud tech, starting with a smart CDN. When he’s not doing Internet stuff, he enjoys camping in the wilds of Idaho, board games, model rockets, and spending time with his wife and six kids.
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Tracy Lay
Designer, Trekkie, animal lover, and snarky introvert, Tracy Lay is the owner of digiVisual design, a boutique design experience helping entrepreneurs level up their branding to attract their perfect-fit people. Design, when done right, does a lot more than look great. Design conveys meaning on a deep, wordless level, and leads the people you’re dying to work with on a journey from curious to customer to raving fan. With 20+ years of professional experience in design, Tracy has helped all kinds of business owners uplevel their brand presence and do better business with great design.
