 Hello, everyone, I am Josbelasco and I am really happy to be here and share this English version of my talk that I was able to give at the WordPress World Cams and Jose at Costa Rica. And the name of the talk is how to build your professional career using the WordPress site editor. So I am a WordPress consultant at Dreamhost and I focus on trying to solve complex cases to support or to help the support team on the company that I work. And I have been able to solve some of the complex problems because I used to be a web developer for more than 14 years using WordPress. So you can find my WordPress.org profile, you can have it there and more info at my website. And I wanted to include also my master don't page because I really care a lot about open source lately. So to start with the talk I want to introduce to you my wife, she is a girls woman and WordPress volunteer out of my obligation. She was able to present some of the speakers of the World Cams and Jose. And she has had a website for a long time and there you can find her drawings. And I will say that she is an average WordPress user. She is the one climbing on the photo. And that is something amazing because we can contribute in several ways to WordPress and the WordPress photo directory is one of them. We could say that she does not build her professional career with the WordPress site editor because she is not interested. And that's okay. You know, not everyone has to build his or her professional career with WordPress and in a more profound way with the site editor. So I can or I want to introduce you and the program. If you don't know him, he is a trauma and critical care surgeon. And as a hobby, he updates and installs. No, he's in charge of the update install component. He's a maintainer of that component. He's pushing new cool stuff like the auto updates component, auto updates rollback. And well, I thought that this image would be very fun to illustrate. And Tofer, this photo is by Tofer. He has this amazing website that is Europe Press in which you can find the more interesting people that build their careers using WordPress. And we could say that Andy does not build his professional career with the WordPress site editor because he already does too much for the world. Okay, so my sister-in-law learned to set up discussion forums because there was no community in Spanish for her favorite group tattoo. And sometime later, she also built up this forum or I will say like configured. I think that she used PHPP at that time or something open source for her favorite series, the L word. And she began this journey as a web developer as a hobby. She is not there, but I thought that that photo is really fun by Nilo Vélez that he also contributes a lot to WordPress taking photos of the work camps. And this massive group or family photos sometimes are from him or the Europe or Spain mainly. And then later my sister-in-law from my very young age fell into the clutches of WordPress, helping my father-in-law with an online store that was built with WooCommerce. So that hobby started to transform into something more professional. And I would recommend you if you want to take the path of a web developer to really, really focus on what does you want. If you want to keep your friends and your family happy, you must put very clear what you are going to do. Like maybe those are going to be your first customers, but try to make them like not too seriously because I mean avoid problems at all costs. And that photo is because my father-in-law loves planes. And now she works at a research agency whose projects often require a website to publish their results. So we could say that she doesn't code. She's not too technical. She really likes to find out things and search things. She's really good. And she's a developer because she, at the end of the day, gives their customers, in this case the company that she works for, solid results with WordPress. So that hobby became her job. And that's why I chose that image that with WordPress you can lift heavy stuff, right? And we could say that she builds her professional career without the WordPress site editor because she uses commercial builders. And why is that? That was because she wasn't aware of the native WordPress editor. So that's one kind of a problem, you know, because sometimes when you start using WordPress and you have all your tool sets, you are okay just by repeating, you know, the same steps. And that a lot of the time will work for you, but not so much for the community. Because if you only take from the community and don't give back, then the growth of the, for example, the editor is going to be a little bit slower. Okay, so WordPress meetups and work comes became virtual during the pandemic. And new platforms such as our tools such as live streaming had to be learned. And that's where the community is like really important to share knowledge. And in this picture we can see Garden from Spain. And I mentioned Spain because they were like the first ones to start using a streaming platform to distribute the work comes. And there were people like Frank Calderon. He is full stack developer from Guatemala that he really enjoys making friends at the work comes. So I believe that he reached this Spain people, people from Spain, and learn how to use that tool. And from there he helped with the Mexico work on that was virtual. That's part of that was because he's really interested in also in audio visual production. It's a company that does that. So that's one of a kind of a work hobby I will say like he because he started learning so much. Not only producing videos but also streaming them. And he told me that he has been re investing with those the, you know, at the pandemic. He used to do a lot of social events. But he keeps doing streaming stuff like in the case of the San Jose. He helped with that. Pre recording the talks and for me that's very special thing to do because the case of these work come there were like several talks like at the same time. And it was really smart move for the organizers to pre record them the talks and then focus on the actual day on other things. And I gave them the organizing thing on the speakers time to do like a rehearsal. And in that photo that was taking in a coffee of what the mall. We have like, it was by Rita Robles, the main organizer of the work on San Jose. And we could say that Frank yields his professional career without the worker site editor. But he already develops custom blocks like with his job. He's like, like this close to use the full site editing and all the things that the site editor brings. But still they want to have like more, you know, control. So the next person that I want you to meet is C. C is a core representative of the WordPress marketing team. She creates websites for a long time now and is a small business consultant. And that's what I chose that image. She's like always moving. And I will describe her with one word, which is community. And she really cares about the WordPress community and what people. How can they really contribute and how can we as a community. Make sure that our job is recognized. And the direction of WordPress is like very, very important for her. So I recommend you following her job. She builds her professional career sometimes with the WordPress site editor. Because as the previous people that I presented to you, she used another tools to build. And for the small websites, she is now using the WordPress site editor. But one thing that I really like about C is that she is involved in projects that give back to the community that they belong. For example, she has participated in the creation of art directories. So she works for government but also has a direct impact in people and people sometimes thank her. So because there are these small professionals that receive help with these kind of projects that she's involved into. And then I mentioned her before, Rita Robles, the main organizer of the WordPress, San Jose. Welcome San Jose. But she works also for a housing company that uses this commercial WordPress builder. And that's not bad because she's like streamlined her process making these websites or small websites available like real fast. And we could say that she builds her professional career without the WordPress site editor. But for the work and San Jose website, she builds her professional career with the WordPress site editor. Because she has no choice. The thing is that all the work and websites are built with the site editor. So in this case, I don't know if that's a good thing or bad. I think it's a good thing to make people at least know a little bit of what's going on. And then I want you to meet Paul. Paul likes to give feedback. Like that's one of the persons that is always trying to test new products and really enjoys like talking about how to improve them. And he is part of the WordPress site editor testing program. And the official name was something like call for testing. Something like that. And it's like the only person that participated in the 24 editions of these calls for testing. And that's really cool to have. Like he told me that the feedback that he gave sometimes was applied. And it was like a better use of his time. Like not to calls. He's a web developer also. But to test things out. And this testing programs are really interesting because they give you a list of tasks to test and to follow. And then you gather this information, this feedback and try to solve the puzzle. That's why I chose the image. And I believe that this is community work that can also sometimes give you like some projects like in this case, Paul is an actor. So one of the things that he mentions whenever he's acting in the set is that he also makes websites. And that's like really interesting at least for me. So he also organizes part of the like these meetings in Slack in the core editorial channel. I recently saw that those are maybe going to be closed like since the conversations are mostly now on the tickets. But there are some different kind of events that are really important to have. And that people like him are kind of pushing like remembering us that this is like a constant work to be done. And who helps Paul, people like and McCarthy. And is the for me is the bridge between many people in the WordPress community. She creates tickets from the feedback that she receives. Therefore, she builds the builder. She built the site editor. I think I didn't mention but in the case of Paul, I believe that he. We could say that he partially like constructs like his professional career using the site editor because some of the projects that he has inherited are were made in some other, you know, builders. But the he also has a remake some of the websites or using only the site editor. So I will say that he builds his professional career with the site editor. And obviously, and McCarthy does that as well. And Carolina. She develops teams for the WordPress core. And is very heavily involved in the development of the WordPress editor. So not only by creating websites or testing the editor but also suggesting and making patches. A lot of accessibility issues CSS. That's a picture that you can find in the WordPress photo directory from where she is. I don't know how far but yeah. So we could say that in the case of Carolina she builds her professional career with the site WordPress editor. That would that would be it for me. Thank you so much for all the data and I hope you enjoy this little journey. And I'm here to answer all your questions and maybe you want to talk about more people that are involved with the site editor because there are a lot of or many more people. You can do so. So you can follow me there. Yeah, I myself I really enjoy using the site editor. And I really like a little bit of everything that we saw like testing, making websites, not a lot of code, but and performance stuff really excites me. I'm really happy to share with you. Thank you.