Rachel Cherry & WPCampus

Rachel Cherry is a front end developer and lead organizer of WPCampus, a WordPress conference focused on Higher Education. In this episode, we talk about what goes into putting on this conference, from scouting a location to day-of logistics.
Show Notes

* Rachel Cherry
* WPCampus
* Chris Lema on How I Built It
* Liam Dempsey on How I Built It
* CrowdCast

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Joe: Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of how I built it, the podcast that asks, how did you build that? Today? My guest is Rachel Cherry of WPCampus. Rachel, how are you today?
Rachel: I’m doing wonderful. How are you, Joe?
Joe: I am fantastic. The weather here on the east coast is finally nice as we record this. I know that you just came from California and now you’re back in Alabama, is that right?
Rachel: That’s right. It’s cool. It’s really nice here today. It’s a little warm but not too bad, like high eighties, so it’s a nice day.
Joe: Nice. Yeah, I will definitely take that. have vowed to never complain about the heat because I complained about the cold, so I’m like, you can’t have it both ways, you know, I’ll complain about the snow and when it’s like 100 degrees I’ll be like, whatever. It’s not snow.
Rachel: One thing I will miss about California is the, weather it was always like 70 something degrees, windy, breezy, beautiful. It’s hard to not miss that.
Joe: Yeah, absolutely. Chris Lema always bust my chops about that because he’s, you know, in southern California and San Marcos is near southern California. I’m a New Yorker so I just think it’s like Los Angeles and San Francisco. But he’s always busting my chops about that. He goes, you don’t have to be cold all the time. And I’m like, I know family and stuff. So, Today we’re going to talk about a very cool event/organization. You guys do a few events throughout the year called WPCampus. So why don’t we start off with you telling us who you are and what you do.
Rachel: So hello, I’m Rachel Cherry. Currently I am working for myself. I just kind of started this whole new adventure doing freelance and, and that’s why I moved back to Alabama to be around my family and to start this new career path. So right now a little bit of a limbo space. A lot of my time is going towards WPCampus and our event. But generally I’m a software engineer. I write a lot of software on top of being the director of WPCampus. I kind of get around as far as writing code and organizing events and organizing the community and I try to speak at WordCamps when I can, things like that. So it’s a little bit about me and then. So yeah, if you had, if you want me to dive into WPCampus or not.
Joe: Yeah, absolutely. I heard about WPCampus while I was still at the University of Scranton I think, which is now two jobs ago. But why don’t you tell us a kind of when it started and how you came up with the idea for it.
Rachel: Yeah.