{"id":1181,"date":"2018-06-09T15:17:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T18:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.halifax.wordcamp.org\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2018-06-08T16:18:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:18:41","slug":"speaker-spotlight-alanna-macnevin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-alanna-macnevin\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight &#8211; Alanna MacNevin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1186\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.halifax.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/06\/Speakers-Spotlight-Alanna-MacNevin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/06\/Speakers-Spotlight-Alanna-MacNevin.jpg 700w, https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/06\/Speakers-Spotlight-Alanna-MacNevin-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/06\/Speakers-Spotlight-Alanna-MacNevin-500x247.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adventurer, coder, and dog-owner.<\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s been your best experience with WordPress?<\/h3>\n<p>I worked as a WordPress developer with a radio station in Lima<\/p>\n<h3><!--more--><br \/>\nTell us a bit about your WordCamp Halifax talk.<\/h3>\n<p>The use of WordPress, and other php-based CMSs, and Agile methodologies in unfamiliar work environments, planning for the unexpected, and being flexible yet firm with clients\/co-workers<\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s your favourite thing about WordCamps, or if your first one&#8230; what are you looking forward to?<\/h3>\n<p>Collaborating with other developers<\/p>\n<h3>Let&#8217;s get philosophical&#8230; what are you most proud of?<\/h3>\n<p>My running time in my last relay<\/p>\n<h2>Session Details<\/h2>\n<p>Working with WordPress (and other similar CMS platforms) to assist small organizations increase their visibiliy. Trying to use agile methodolies in non-technical small teams with changing priorities and still having a definition of success that can be achieved. Designing and planning in unfamiliar environments. Training non-technical teams.<\/p>\n<p>Alanna worked as a software developer (developing with WordPress and Drupal) with an NGO in South America. The talk will cover how WordPress is a great tool for non-technical teams, how to plan in unfamiliar environments and defining success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Adventurer, coder, and dog-owner. What\u2019s been your best experience with WordPress? I worked as a WordPress developer with a radio station in Lima<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16035181,"featured_media":1186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1243254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-speakers-sessions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/06\/Speakers-Spotlight-Alanna-MacNevin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9nIuU-j3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16035181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}