{"id":1484,"date":"2017-10-11T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:12:13","slug":"wcdfw-speaker-spotlight-aaron-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wcdfw-speaker-spotlight-aaron-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"WCDFW Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Topic:\u00a0The Future: Why Open Matters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aaron is the WordPress Security Team lead, has been a regular contributor to WordPress for more than ten years, and is currently funded by GoDaddy to work full time on the WordPress open source project. He has over seventeen years of web development experience and worked with clients ranging from small local businesses to Google, Yahoo, Disney, and Harvard. He\u2019s been called both a coffee snob and a beer snob, but considers both to be compliments. 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I love the way the community shares, encourages, and trains others rather than just competing against them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you want to speak at WordCamp DFW?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DFW is my local camp since there isn&#8217;t one in Oklahoma and I think that everyone has something to share. Something that they&#8217;ve learned from experience, a perspective they have that others don&#8217;t, or maybe a problem they faced and solved (or didn&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you decide to speak on the open web?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m extremely passionate about the future of the web. I think it&#8217;s effect on the future of mankind is going to be enormous, but only if we can keep it open and accessible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you hope the audience gets from your talk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope they share some of passion and help keep the web open forever.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">Tickets are now on sale<\/a>\u00a0for this year\u2019s WordCamp DFW held on Nov. 11-12. There are also plenty of opportunities to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/call-for-sponsors\/\">sponsor the event<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/call-for-volunteers\/\">help run it<\/a>. We hope to see you there!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic:\u00a0The Future: Why Open Matters Aaron is the WordPress Security Team lead, has been a regular contributor to WordPress for more than ten years, and is currently funded by GoDaddy to work full time on the WordPress open source project. He has over seventeen years of web development experience and worked with clients ranging from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wcdfw-speaker-spotlight-aaron-campbell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WCDFW Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Campbell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8005857,"featured_media":1504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Aaron Campbell","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1158652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordcamp-dfw-speakers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/aaron-campbell.jpg?fit=2000%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheMWK-nW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1363,"url":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wordcamp-dfw-speakers-round-two\/","url_meta":{"origin":1484,"position":0},"title":"WordCamp DFW Speakers: Round Two","author":"Jacob Martella","date":"September 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"With WordCamp DFW just 47 days away, the organizing team is ready to announce the next round of speakers for this year\u2019s event. 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