{"id":687,"date":"2015-09-07T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.omaha.wordcamp.org\/?p=687"},"modified":"2015-09-07T09:15:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T14:15:37","slug":"meet-the-wordcamp-omaha-speakers-anthony-burchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2015\/meet-the-wordcamp-omaha-speakers-anthony-burchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the WordCamp Omaha Speakers: Anthony Burchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2015.omaha.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/09\/anthony.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-733 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.omaha.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/09\/anthony.png\" alt=\"anthony\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>I am a designer and a developer. I spend my time creating new and exciting things with WordPress and am a Core Contributor. Since I was 8 years old I have been obsessed with design and programming. I worked in advertising from the age of 15 to 22 and since then I have shifted my focus to the world wide web and am working at WP Engine to make WordPress more awesome!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hometown<\/strong>: Austin, Texas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antpb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">antpb.com<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antpb\" target=\"_blank\">@antpb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session: <a href=\"https:\/\/2015.omaha.wordcamp.org\/session\/helping-core\/\">Helping Core<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This talk will highlight the many different ways to give back to Core WordPress. At a high level I will go over the core trac ticketing system and how to talk within tickets. I will even be diving into Vagrant and show how to set up a development environment and create a patch. 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