{"id":852,"date":"2011-10-25T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.philly.wordcamp.org\/?p=852"},"modified":"2011-10-17T21:08:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T02:08:55","slug":"speaker-spotlight-andrew-spittle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-andrew-spittle\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Andrew Spittle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew is a Happiness Engineer at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/automattic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Automattic<\/a>\u00a0where he replies to support requests for WordPress.com users every day. He&#8217;s also involved in developing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/editflow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edit Flow<\/a>, which he spoke about at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2010.philly.wordcamp.org\/2010\/09\/24\/andrew-spittle-and-edit-flow\/\">WordCamp Philly 2010<\/a>. He&#8217;s been in customer service jobs for the last 9 years in various industries.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew will be giving a presentation in the Developer Track titled:\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2011.philly.wordcamp.org\/session\/getting-support-in-an-open-source-world\/\">Getting Support in an Open Source World<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you speaking about at WordCamp Philly?<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m speaking about how to find and get the best support possible with open source software. Working as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic I help people with WordPress all day long so I see a lot of really great support requests but also some that need more information, clarification, and direction.<br \/>\nMy talk will help answer the question of &#8220;If I need to get help with ___ in WordPress where should I ask and what should I do?&#8221; Sort of tips and tricks to getting the best support possible.<br \/>\n<strong>What is your favorite thing about the city of Philadelphia?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe history and its ties to early self-publishing in the U.S.<br \/>\n<strong>Why do you love WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt allows millions of people to publish freely on the web in an easy to use way that can be seen by anyone. It has a fantastic community of people around it who are friendly, caring, and genuinely want to do great things for the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew is a Happiness Engineer at\u00a0Automattic\u00a0where he replies to support requests for WordPress.com users every day. He&#8217;s also involved in developing\u00a0Edit Flow, which he spoke about at\u00a0WordCamp Philly 2010. He&#8217;s been in customer service jobs for the last 9 years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-andrew-spittle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Andrew Spittle<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":811778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":[6543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheN0r-dK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/811778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}