Episode 164 – A Chat With Alice Orrù

Show Notes

HeroPress Essay: How I tried, applied, got involved. Realizing one of my childhood dreams.

Contact Info:

* @Alice_Ridice

* WordPress.tv

Episode Transcript

Topher: Hey folks, this is Topher. This week’s episode of Hallway Chats is a little different. This is a live recording from working in Italy last November. Nyasha wasn’t there with me so it’s just me and my guest, Alice. And I hope you enjoy this one because it was really fun to make. We were outside in an atrium sort of place. It was pretty cool. 

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And now on we go with Alice. 

Hey everybody, this is Topher. I’m here at WordCamp Italia in Milano, and I’m here with-

Alice: Alice Orrù.

Topher: What brings you here? Why are you here at WordCamp? 

Alice: Well, I’m here because I’m part of the Italian community even if I’ve been living in Spain for 10 years now. But I’m still Italian and I love joining the Italia community where I entered into 2015, 2016. And since then, I’ve joined the Polyglots team and I’ve been working with them to make WordPress accessible in Italian. I mean I love the Italian community so every time I can, I just join them at WordCamps or other occasions.

Topher: What do you do with WordPress?

Alice: I’m a technical translator. I localize plugins and things from English to Italian. But I also work in UX writing. So sometimes I have clients asking me to write the content of their websites or localize it. But generally speaking, I work on the back end of WordPress in the content side of WordPress. 

Topher: Are you a freelancer?

Alice: Yes, I work as a freelancer. Yeah. 

Topher: How long have you been doing that? 

Alice: 2015. I opened my freelance position in Spain and I joined the WordPress community at the same time. 

Topher: Oh, that’s great. 

Alice: Yeah. 

Topher: I’ve heard that most small businesses fail after three years. So once you pass that you’re doing well. 

Alice: I mean, the WordPress community has been very important for me in this sense because I first joined WP Rocket. I’ve been working with them in-

Topher: Yes, I met them.

Alice: When you were interviewing me for the first time a few years ago, I was working with them. So that job has been very important to me to meet the international community as well- 

Topher: Ah, good.

Alice: …starting to speak at WordCamp Europe. That was amazing because some of my co-workers were already-