{"id":1667,"date":"2013-04-11T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2013-04-11T08:55:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:55:40","slug":"speaker-spotlight-shannon-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-shannon-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Shannon Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Shannon Smith<\/a> is the founder of Caf\u00e9 Noir Design<\/a>, a boutique Montreal web design company specializing in multilingual web development. She builds beautiful, functional websites that her clients can update themselves and that are easy for search engines to find. She support things like making the web accessible for everyone, using open source software, helping organizations find greener more sustainable ways to operate through online technology and helping non-profits with online community organizing. Also sewist and mother of four.\u00a0 twitter<\/a> | google+<\/a> | blog<\/a><\/p>\n

Shannon is presenting: Building Multilingual WordPress Themes<\/a> and is hosting our\u00a0unconference session Where are the women?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Why WordPress? Why do you like using WordPress<\/strong>?<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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WordPress is a great web design tool because it can be (almost) anything you want it to be: a blog, a brochure site, a photo portfolio, a business directory, a social network. I love that it is so flexible and easy to customize, but also that it is easy to use. I work with non-profits and they often have volunteers running their website, which often means high staff turnover. WordPress is great because for users, it doesn\u2019t take a huge investment in time and training to get started.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Ottawa?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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WordCamps are a lot of fun, and I love attending. But I think it\u2019s important to contribute to the open source community and to WordPress specifically. WordPress is a great tool and I\u2019m happy to share what I\u2019ve learned. Speaking is one way I do that.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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What is your talk going to be about?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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The first talk I\u2019ll be giving is on how to build multilingual WordPress themes. I\u2019ll cover all the steps needed to get your brand new theme internationalized and localized. You’ll learn about gettext, Poedit, POT files glotpress, and more.\u00a0This talk is for theme developers.<\/div>\n
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My second talk isn\u2019t a talk at all. \u201cWhere are the Women?\u201d is more of an audience participation activity which will look at the role of women in the WordPress community. This isn\u2019t a traditional presentation but a group brainstorming session on increasing diversity. If you don\u2019t like something, change it. Here\u2019s your chance. Audience participation is expected and all are welcome (men too!).<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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What is your favourite WordPress plugin or theme? Why?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Though I haven\u2019t used it much yet, I\u2019m looking forward to playing around with underscores<\/a> (http:\/\/underscores.me<\/a>), a starter theme produced by Automattic. Billed as \u201cultraminimal\u201d, it looks like a great place to start when designing custom themes.<\/div>\n
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I\u2019m also a huge fan of Limit Login Attempts<\/a> (http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/limit-login-attempts\/<\/a>). I design sites for non-profits and community activists, and a couple of the more controversial projects I\u2019ve done attract a lot of hackers. Limit Login Attempts sends me a quick email letting me know whenever it stops a brute-force attack. Every time I get one of those emails, I do a little cheer.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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