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The OSTraining Podcast

Join us as we chat with open source experts, leaders, and entrepreneurs from around the world — each episode offers news, inspiring stories, and plenty of pro tips.

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The OSTraining Podcast Season 2 Ep #2: Dan Maby of...

The OSTraining Podcast ·

2019/12/02

In this episode, we will be talking to Dan Maby, Director at Blue 37 a Wordpress design firm and CEO of WPandUp, a non-profit designed to support & promote positive mental health within the WordPress community. Dan shares with us more about the origin story and services of WPandUP, as well as, the online event they are hosting on Giving Tuesday called DoSummitGood.

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Season 2 Ep #1: Miguel Balparda on Magento 2

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2019/10/24

In this first episode of season 2, we're happy to welcome Miguel Balparda of Nexcess to talk about Magento 2.Miguel is a globe trotting ambassador for Magento and for Nexcess. If you've been to a Magento event, there's at least a 50/50 chance that you've run into Miguel. He lives in Argentina, but is on an airplane traveling the world for Magento most of the year. We kicked off the podcast by asking Miguel about the changes that he's seen in the Magento community since the purchase by Adobe and -

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Episode #39: April Sides on Lullabot and Georgia.gov

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2019/04/25

In this week's episode, I'm delighted to welcome April Sides. April is a Drupal developer who works for Lullabot, one of the biggest and most reputable Drupal agencies. She's worked on all sorts of fascinating projects, and at the moment she's helping Georgia.gov (the state of Georgia), move many of their Drupal sites over to Drupal 8. We talk about what she's been doing in the Drupal world, about DrupalCon Seattle, which happened the previous week. And, what it's like to be part of such a massive

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Episode #38: Zac Gordon on Yoga, Teaching and React

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2019/04/16

In this week's episode, I'm delighted to welcome back Zac Gordon. If you spend any time in the WordPress world, you've probably come across Zac. He's a really enthusiastic and charming teacher who specializes in JavaScript for WordPress. He's done video classes, online conferences, live talks, podcasts, video casts, you name it. He's been out there trying to teach people how to use JavaScript, particularly in the WordPress context. For the first time, he's written a book, and he did it with

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Episode #37: Jason Coleman and Paid Memberships Pro

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2019/03/18

This episode features Jason Coleman, who runs Paid Memberships Pro, one of the most successful plugins for running a membership site in WordPress. Not only does Jason have his own membership site to sell extra features and support for Paid Memberships Pro, but he's also spent years looking at the membership sites of his customers. So Jason has all sorts of fascinating tips and tricks that he's picked up from his customers and applied to his own site. Hopefully, you'll be able to get some useful

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Episode #36: Ben Pines and Elementor

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2019/02/20

In this episode, we welcome Ben Pines, the Chief Marketing Officer at Elementor. Elementor is a page builder which is technically in the same space as Gutenberg, but does approximately 1,001 extra things. Ben is doing pretty well at his job, because Elementor is probably the fastest growing WordPress plugin around. In the last two and a half years, Elementor has grown from zero installs to close to two million, and Ben has led many of the efforts to get the word out about Elementor and its

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Episode #35: Amanda Gonser and DrupalCon 2019

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2019/02/11

In this episode, we welcome Amanda and Karlyanna from the DrupalCon team. DrupalCon is probably the biggest open-source event that happens in North America every year. And for about the last 10 years, it's been pretty much the same event with pretty much about the same number of attendees. It's been about 3.000 people every year, moving around to different cities. This year, the DrupalCon team are taking a different approach. It's in Seattle in April, but they're changing up the format adding all

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Episode #34: Randy Fay, DDev and Local Development

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2019/02/05

In this episode, I'm talking with Randy Fay. He has been a longtime member of the Drupal community. He's written about 1,001 modules and has worked with whole bunch of leading Drupal companies. After a while, he got burned out from excessive commitment to Drupal. We talk about some of his crazier adventures such as cycling from the northern tip of Canada, all the way down to Argentina over the course of several years. Then we get to the meat of the conversation, which is his work now with a project

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Episode #33: Robby McCullough and Beaver Builder

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2019/01/29

In this episode, I talk with Robby McCullough from Beaver Builder. Robby is from Silicon Valley originally, and with his two co-founders he started the Beaver Builder plugin, which has half a million installs now and is one of the best-loved page builders in WordPress.

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Episode #32: Josh Strebel on Pagely and NorthStack

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2019/01/16

In this first episode of 2019, I talk with Josh Strebel from Pagely about his new project, NorthStack. Whereas Pagely was the very first "Managed WordPress" service, NorthStack is best described as a "Managed AWS" service. I talk with Josh about NorthStack and what it tells us about the future of WordPress. I apologize for my audio on this epsiode. I'm a little embarrased at the quality - I should have tested my new microphone more carefully.

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Episode #31: Daniel Bachhuber on a Career in WordPress

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2018/10/31

Daniel has played a key role in Gutenberg, the WP REST API, the WP-CLI project, Co-Authors Plus, Edit Flow, Jetpack, Post Meta Inspector, Publishing Checklist, Rewrite Rules and the list goes on and on. In this episode, Daniel explains how he accidentally stumbled into such a key role in the WordPress world. We spend time talking about how Daniel balances all these duties, including how he moves on when his time is up in a role.

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Episode #30: Andy McIlwain on Growing the GoDaddy...

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2018/10/29

Andy McIlwain is in charge of the WordPress area at The GoDaddy Garage - the official blog for one of the world's biggest hosting companies. Andy explains the tools and strategies he uses to keep such a popular blog running. He also talks how how GoDaddy plans to deal with the rollout of Gutenberg.

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Episode #29: Dusty Davidson on Growing Flywheel on...

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2018/10/08

Dusty Davidson is the co-founder and CEO of Flywheel. Flywheel is a fast-growing WordPress hosting company, Yes, they're in a crowded market, but Flywheel stands out in at least two key ways. First, they're based in Omaha, Nebraska. Second, Flywheel has a unique, colorful and whimsical culture.

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Episode #28: Dwayne McDaniel on Karaoke, Vegan Food,...

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2018/10/01

Dwayne is a developer evangelist for Pantheon. He's also into improv comedy, karaoke, vegan food, crochet and most importantly ... doing all those things with other people. Dwayne's passion in life is collaborating with people. Follow Dwayne on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mcdwayne. This week's sponsor is http://PublishPress.com. PublishPress offers professional publishing tools for WordPress, including an editorial calendar, pre-publishing checklists, and collaboration tools.

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Episode #27: Alex Kuczek, From Poland to Silicon Valley

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2018/08/24

5 years ago, Alex opened a web design agency in Poland. This summer, Perfect Dashboard, his SaaS company, was accepted to Berkeley SkyDeck, one of the most presitigious start-up accelerators in the world. How did Alex travel so far so fast?

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Episode #26: Jason Cohen, WPEngine and Enterprise...

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2018/08/20

Jason is the founder and CTO of WPEngine. Jason and his team recently celebrated WPEngine's inclusion on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the first time. If you don't know what Magic Quadrants are, this is the episode for you! If you do know about Magic Quadrants, you'll still learn a lot! Jason explains why WPEngine deserves to be listed alongside Adobe and Oracle and why WordPress should be pushing into the enterprise world.

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Episode #25: Beka Rice, eCommerce and the GDPR

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2018/06/14

Some people have scanned a few blog posts about the GDPR. Very few people have researched it deeply and really know what they're talking about. Beka Rice is firmly in the latter group. She works for SkyVerge, who develop WooCommerce and Shopify plugins, plus Jilt, which helps stores to recover abandoned carts. I spoke with Beka on the day that the GDPR law launched.

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Episode #24: Jerry Eadeh, the Past and Future of Magento

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2018/06/11

When we scheduled this podcast, I planned to talk about the history of Magento. Jerry works for Nexcess, a hosting company that is famous for their Magento services. They've been there since Day 1. When the original Magento team were getting started, they needed hosting help with their first clients ... they called Nexcess. But, just 2 days before this podcast, the news broke that Adobe was purchasing Magento. The Magento community was in shock. In this episode, we try and digest the Adobe news

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Episode #23: Jen Kramer, Harvard, and Bootstrap 4

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2018/06/05

Jen Kramer describes herself as a "Web Design Teacher" but that barely scratches the surface of what she does. She is a speaker, a teacher, a writer, a video trainer, and much more besides. In this episode, I talk with Jen about teaching web design at Harvard and her upcoming videos for OSTraining. Jen is creating a video series and book all about Bootstrap 4.

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Episode #22: Andrew Embler and Concrete5

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2018/06/01

Andrew is the founder and CTO of Concrete5, an open source CMS that's comparable to WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and others. Concrete5 has been around for over a decade and has introduced some innovations that other projects still haven't managed to equal. For example, for a long time now, Concrete5 users have been able to click on any part of the site to edit items, right there on the page. I talk with Andrew about what it's like to run a large project for many years. He describes the ups-and-downs,

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