Nicholas Garofalo (@eidolonnight) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: August 18th, 2007
Location: Batavia, NY
Website: nicholasgarofalo.com
GitHub: eidolonnight
Job Title: Marketing Lead
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

In college, I wrote poetry in two languages: English and BASH. I quickly learned to submit my work to the right professors.

Communication amongst humans and machines has intrigued me. My focus on community and communication naturally led me to open source projects, and I have been actively involved in various FOSS projects over the years. The agility and flexibility of open source software matches my agile marketing focus, and has enabled me to tackle growth in unique ways.

Interests

cooking, vinyl records, photography, tarot, 3D printing, drones

WordPress Origin Story

I found WordPress in late 2004, as editor of the school newspaper, and used it to bring our tiny publication online. I fell in love with open source, grabbed a degree in computer science and English, and went on to build a web services agency. We built several hundred WordPress sites, but when agency life got me down I moved on to startups before eventually landing at Automattic.

Translation Day 2021 Organizer
State of the Word 2021 Organizer
WordCamp EU 2022 Organizer
WordCamp US 2022 Organizer

Contributions Sponsored

Automattic sponsors Nicholas Garofalo to contribute 40 hours per week to the Marketing team.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Marketing Contributor
Marketing Team
Photo Contributor
WordCamp Organizer

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Closed issue #65 on the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
2022/05/18 Global Marketing Team Meeting & Planning
3 days ago
Closed issue #57 on the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
WordPress.org content audit & SEO
3 weeks ago
Closed issue #58 on the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
Content audit: micro task
3 weeks ago
Closed issue #44 on the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
Instructions for sharing event info from WPDiversity
3 weeks ago
Mentioned in [53339] on Core SVN:
Help/About: Update the About section for 6.0.
4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Design Share: Apr 11–22, on the site Make WordPress Design:
All of these designs look SO nice. <3
4 weeks ago
Closed issue #61 on the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
Documentation Sprint: Friday 22 April 2022
1 month ago
Created issue #63 in the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
Documentation Sprint: Wednesday 25 May 2022
1 month ago
Received props from @santanainniss in Slack:
Props to @eidolonnight for setting up a docs day water cooler space!
1 month ago
Created issue #61 in the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
Documentation Sprint: Friday 22 April 2022
1 month ago
Created issue #56 in the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
Team Reps access to update WordPress.org calendar
2 months ago
Closed issue #11 on the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
Meeting: 2 March 2022
2 months ago
Closed issue #22 on the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
2022/03/30 Global Marketing Team Meeting
2 months ago
Closed issue #12 on the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
Polyglots Newsletter - March 2022
2 months ago
Closed issue #13 on the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
Marketing Team Meeting 2022-02-23
2 months ago
Created issue #47 in the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
March 2022 Make Marketing Handbook Review
2 months ago
Created issue #23 in the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
Facilitate Make Team Coffee Break
2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal to Start a News blog on developer.WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the cross-post @nalininonstopnewsuk! @bph I think this is an excellent idea, and makes…
3 months ago
Created issue #7 in the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
WordPress Social Media Amplification
3 months ago
Wrote a new post, Agenda – Global Marketing meeting, 2 February 2022, on the site Make WordPress.org Marketing:
The following is our agenda for the meeting to be held on 2 February 2022…
4 months ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Europe 2022
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Make Marketing Workshop: Contributor Ladder, on the site Make WordPress.org Marketing:
Update The latest screenshot and PDF from our December 1st collaboration have been added to…
6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post 2022 Team Nominations for Marketing, on the site Make WordPress.org Marketing:
I would like to nominate @vimes1984 specifically for his experience in github. I think we'll…
6 months ago
Wrote a new post, Make Marketing Workshop: Contributor Ladder, on the site Make WordPress.org Marketing:
On Tuesday, 13 October 2021, a collection of Marketing Team reps attended a workshop with…
7 months ago
Wrote a new post, The 6 Best Things About Online Conferences, on the site WordCamp US 2021:
Let’s take a moment to celebrate all of the wonderful things about online conferences with…
8 months ago

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