Interview with George Stephanis

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George will be presenting Moving your Plugin to GitHub: Trials, Tribulations, and Testing on Saturday in the Development track

George Stephanis works for Automattic (makers of WordPress.com) as Team Lead for the Jetpack Pit Crew, helping self-hosted WordPress sites take advantage of the WordPress.com cloud.

He is also a frequent core contributor to the WordPress open-source project, a community organizer, regularly presents at WordCamps, and guests on podcasts like the WPWatercooler and the WP Girlie Show.

Interview:

Why do you use WordPress?
It’s free, both in speech and in beer. The ability of anyone to use WordPress as a fulcrum to launch their content into the world is a tremendous win for the open web and democratizing content across the world.

What would you say to convince someone to attend a WordCamp?
If you use WordPress, it’ll be one of your best weekends all year long. If you don’t use WordPress, come. You’ll be one of us soon enough. 🙂

What is your favorite WordPress project you have worked on recently?
Jetpack or Core. Either one will do.

What is your favorite WordPress-related resource?
I hear Google’s pretty awesome.

Tell us something awesome about yourself that is not WordPress related
When not on the computer, I’m a bit of a luddite. I enjoy letterpress printing, carpentry, and pipes.