{"id":10,"date":"2015-06-16T21:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T21:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.portland.wordcamp.org\/organizers\/"},"modified":"2015-09-30T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T22:00:47","slug":"organizers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2015\/organizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Liz Karaffa<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Liz Karaffa is an employee at Zao, an agency based near Portland, Oregon. She spends half her time project managing and the other half contributing to the docs team for WordPress. When not working for the Zao empire, Liz can be found caring for her toddler and preparing for her second child due any day.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Justin Sainton<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Justin Sainton is the founder of Zao, an agency based near Portland, Oregon. As a core contributor to WordPress and lead developer for the WP eCommerce project, Justin believes passionately in the philosophy of open source software. Working exclusively with WordPress and an array of other open-source technologies, Justin and Zao have provided creative and effective solutions for a wide variety of companies and associations ranging from Amazon to PayPal to Pitney Bowes. When not building the Zao empire or spending time with his beautiful wife and three incredible kids, Justin can be found enjoying the best espresso in Portland<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Matthew Eppelsheimer<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Matthew is a WordPress core contributor and the principal of\u00a0Rocket Lift<\/a>, a Portland-based digital marketing agency. He\u00a0started\u00a0Rocket Lift to offer \u201cgee whiz the-future-is-now\u201d communication and information technology to organizations that make a difference. He is a seasoned management consultant with experience supporting multimillion dollar government projects, non-profit development campaigns, and private sector ventures.<\/p>\n

Matthew\u00a0has got WordCamps mixed up with\u00a0vacations. He’s\u00a0attended them\u00a0for four years\u00a0all around\u00a0the world, including most recently in\u00a0Vancouver, British Columbia and Sevilla, Spain. This year, he’s\u00a0our\u00a0volunteer coordinator, in a reprisal of his role during\u00a0WordCamp Portland 2013, when he\u00a0was also one of our speakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Matthew\u00a0cares deeply about sustainable food systems and the Portland Timbers<\/a> soccer club.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Robert Lilly<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Robert created his first website in 1993 and has been at ever since. He is currently the Business \/ Marketing \/ DevOps Manager at Debbie A Taylor LLC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Faddah Wolf<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf, a man with just too damn many names, is a 60s\/70s throw back, ever posing the question to Porpsters, \u201cwhy all the hating on the hippies?\u201d Though he has a Performing Arts BFA degree, he has been tinkering with computers, software and gadgets since 1987. He has done tech support, QA and various forms of software development\/engineering. An early beta version of his name appears in the \u201cthank yous\u201d to the Yes mid-90s album, \u201cTalk,\u201d<\/a> for assisting in pulling the midi info on their hard drive back from the depths. Whether he should be thanked or damned for doing so depends on how you feel about the band\/album. He also has practiced zen meditation since 1996, which is partly responsible for the growth of his name, and in the last five years has become quite the yoga junkie, preferring his prawna deep fried. He also loves bicycling about everywhere, and has done the Seattle to Portland bicycle ride in 2015<\/a> and has done the Portland Providence Bridge Pedal<\/a> the last three years.<\/p>\n

He has been a Burning Man<\/a> Black Rock Ranger<\/a> and led meditation sessions out there at the \u201cplaya zendo.\u201d He also is quite a fan of the music Django Reinhardt<\/a> (the French Gypsy Jazz Guitar Player, not the web programming framework<\/a>), and gave a talk on Gypsy Jazz, as well as music performance, at Portland\u2019s Ignite 9<\/a>. Thankfully, no one in that audience seems to have been harmed by this experience. His writing can also be found on the blog, ialsowent.com<\/a>, and he keeps threatening to do something with 140moviereview.com<\/a>, the latter based on the twitter account<\/a>. He is also a guest contributor of local Theatre reviews at Portland Stage Reviews<\/a>. His musings can also be seen at various comedy Open Mics and Showcases around greater Portland. He also refers to himself as \u201cpleasure activist\u201d and \u201cbeer snob.\u201d Oh, and he has fallen deeply in love with Portland as a transplant; for it\u2019s strong coffee, stronger women, tasteful micro-crafted beer, and it\u2019s wild, Open Source Heart.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1428991,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6lVqu-a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1428991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}