On The Road - WordPress, Travelling and Productivity

As the WordPress ecosystem grows and the demand for high quality professionals grows with it, clients want to hire the best in the field no matter where they are in the world. WordPress companies adapt too, hiring the best professionals no matter where they are. This gives WordPress professionals a unique flexibility and the opportunity to satisfy their passion for travel and adventure and to supplement their everyday life with a lot of awesomeness.

This talk is about the active, "on the go" lifestyle and how it helps you boost creativity & productivity and encourages you to never stop learning, which ultimately affects how you grow as the goal is not to reach a specific place, but to always keep moving.

Transcript

1. Wordpress, traveling & Productivity On The Road
3. What would you do if you had more spare time?
4. SnapShot!
6. #HMRoadtrip
7. Distributed company? Work anywhere focus on results
8. Remote working
9. Creativity thrives online
10. Wordpress completely distributed 23.7%
11. wordpress 100% Distributed
12. company benefits Hire globally 01 Low infrastructure costs 02 Budget friendly 03 higher productivity 04
13. Individual benefits Flexible location 01 kills commute 02 saves time 03 achieve more 04
14. how do you make it work?
15. culture is critical - find the right people
16. Choices matter
17. communication is oxygen 01 02 04 Real time collaboration > Screen Hero email > P2, slack new business meetings > Trello 05 Meetings > video conferences - ZOOM
18. The office
19. We’re still social! 01 02 we go to wordcamps and meet up we gather together to cowork 03 04 we travel together we organise mini meetups
20. The year without pants uhm.... no pants for a year?
21. Burnout
22. The #HMRoadtrip 01 02 share knowledge, learn work on the road 03 fight burnout 04 explore Europe
23. how to get there? get excellent 01 you’ll be hired by trial 02 Best place to start - the wordpress open source project 03
24. http://make.wordpress.org
25. Contributor day!
27. “Sal, we gotta go and never stop going ’till we get there.’ ‘Where we going, man?’ ‘I don’t know but we gotta go.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
28. @petyeah, #wcsk 2015 Thank you!