Cami Kaos
Cami lives, works, and parents in the rainy city of Portland, Oregon. She’s had a love of WordPress and WordCamps since the last century, when she happened to stumble upon the first WordCamp Portland. Since 2013, she has worked at Automattic, as a community organizer for the WordPress open source project. In that role, she gets to work with WordCamps and their organizers from around the world, every day.
She continues to write on an irregular basis at camikaos.com where she explores concepts from the plight of modern parents to mental health to marveling at the seemingly mundane. Cami is active on a number of social platforms but can be most readily found as @camikaos on Twitter.
Collaboration and Communication: Success in Community and Business
Not everything is as it seems in the world of distributed work. Cami will draw upon her more than eight years of experience working remotely for multiple companies, including six years of acting as a community manager for a global project, to serve as your guide to unravel the myths and mysteries of leading collaboration across time zones. By comparing and contrasting the communication techniques and organizational structures for large remote teams and communities, she will reveal how we can better cultivate strategy and efficiency in our communities, and inclusivity and transparency within our businesses.
While contributing to the WordPress open source project Cami has picked up a thing or two about both leading and participating in remote teamwork. Let her share her favorite team-tested tools and platforms with you. Revel in her triumphs, laugh with her at her failures, and learn from the collective wisdom of other remote workers and WordPress contributors whom she’s met along the way.