Ryan C.

The company I work for, Automattic, is a distributed company. That means our employees live and work all over the world. A few times each year, we meet up to spend time working and having fun together. I’ve just returned from a meetup in Barbados, where we worked on the email subscription feature of WordPress.com and Jetpack.

The Portugese came to Barbados en route to Brazil. It was at this time that the island was named Los Barbados (bearded-ones) by the Portugese explorer Pedro a Campos.
— Barbados.org

We spent most of our days working at the hotel, taking breaks to go swimming, and venturing into town in the evening for dinner. On our last full day, we spent a few hours on a small catamaran and then toured the Mount Gay Rum Distillery. Here are some a ton of photos from the trip!

Sea turtle

Relaxamatticians

Last night

Celebrity onboard

Business meeting

“Are we there yet?”

Twinsies

Miguel in his natural habitat

Oh hai

Fish fry

Diving

Ocean selfie: Success

Diving

Oh hai

Shipwreck

Bridgetown

Catching a wave

Moment of impact

I hope that was “wins”…

TXTing lol jk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

wut.

Tortuga

Until next time…

Onboard

Bridgetown

Fitting in with the locals

The hotel

Stylin’ at BGI

Bajan fish fry

+t +d adorbz

Fish fry festival

Ugh, another meeting

Waves, etc.

Mt. Gay Rum Distillery tour

To Bridgetown

I’m incredibly graceful

Lunch!

The locals

Lunch at MIA

When in Rome…

(poolparty)

Grim reaper

Watching some cricket

Ocean selfie: Failure

Kayakamatticians

Hotel from the sea

Swimatticians

I spy…

Just hanging out here in Canada…

El capitan

Shipwreck

In deep thought

Breakfast

“Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”

O hai.

Oh, Canada….

Pra$ath

Fresh pineapple

Back to the boat

Back at work

Oh hai

Hotel restaurant

La playa

Another Canadian flag…

Clicky en la agua

“Roger, Roger, what’s our vector, Victor?”

Working

Great hat, Kidder!

Sunset

Broken sunglasses

Break time!

Break time

Hose selfie

Bridgetown

Horrendous work conditions

ʇnʍ

Some more waves

Did somebody say, “Rum?”

Exploring

Elegance

Sunset

Back to the hotel

Want to see some more? Check out my coworker/friend Steve’s photos here. Want to be a part of this, and help make the web a better place for more than a billion people each month? We’re hiring.