This talk is in part a celebration of Jill Binder’s 10-year anniversary with WordPress, and in part an “if I can do it, you can do it” moving, inspirational, and sometimes funny set of four short stories.
Many people know Jill as the Leader of the Diverse Speaker Training Group (#WPDiversity), but what people don’t know is this was not overnight.
She will tell the stories of how she went from: 1. Poverty and hopelessness to WordPress developer; 2. to Local WordCamp organizer; 3. to Global Community contributor; 4. and finally, to Leader of the first Community working group.
Jill will show how WordPress has been an empowering space to gain skills, try new things, get mentorship, and grow to become a leader…. all for free, and all one little step at a time. And how you can do this, too.