Who are the three most inspirational people listed in the two articles and why do you find them so inspiring?
- Daniel Espinoza -he was able to pay off a huge debt with the money he made from developing plugins
- Lisa Sabin- left her career and started another career in web design & development
- Jen Mylo -for her role of encouraging more women and diversity in the WordPress community.
Explain the significance/meaning of the following terms:
- Wordcamp– WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress.WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.
- Automattic-links to open source projects such as WordPress.com, VaultPress and Gravatar
- UX-User Experience
- Multisite- the WordPress configuration that lets a user launch several sites off their main site. It’s not something that most users may know
What did you learn from reading the articles?
There are a lot of people doing great things to further WordPress and other spin off projects that work with WordPress. I also like to see that there are a lot of women involved in web development. It’s is not just for computer geeks!