What inspired or motivated you to give this talk at WordCamp?
As I work with more and more code and documentation, I have found it necessary to adopt version control. Once understood it made a great deal of difference in how I could organize information and collaborate with it. I have talked to freelancers and agencies who know they need to learn this, but are not sure where to start, this session is meant to be a crash course on the basics and hopefully encourage folks to give it a try.
Do you have any advice or words of encouragement for those who are thinking about getting involved in the WordPress community?
Absolutely. JUST DO IT! The benefits are vast and the people are amazing.
If you could make one improvement to WordPress today, what would it be?
I think there would be more encouragement to move to a more collaborative model for plugins and themes, inviting others to review and suggest edits via a system like Github.
Who do you most admire and why?
This is a hard question since I admire so many people. I am inspired by almost everyone I meet and I learn from each person, so to single one out would be impossible.
What’s your favorite quote from a book or movie?
“We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations.
If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. ‘Talent’ or ‘lack of talent’ have little to do with it.”
–Viola Spolin: Improvisation for the theater