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!

Great hat, Kidder!

Oh hai

Just hanging out here in Canada…

Hotel from the sea

Working

Diving

Waves, etc.

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

I’m incredibly graceful

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

Grim reaper

Bajan fish fry

Pra$ath

In deep thought

Clicky en la agua

Catching a wave

O hai.

Horrendous work conditions

Twinsies

Celebrity onboard

Tortuga

Elegance

Oh hai

Exploring

The hotel

Shipwreck

Swimatticians

Did somebody say, “Rum?”

Shipwreck

Oh hai

Ocean selfie: Failure

Break time

Lunch!

Business meeting

Broken sunglasses

Bridgetown

Relaxamatticians

Last night

When in Rome…

Sea turtle

ʇnʍ

Watching some cricket

Another Canadian flag…

I hope that was “wins”…

Oh, Canada….

Ocean selfie: Success

Fish fry

Lunch at MIA

Bridgetown

Stylin’ at BGI

The locals

Moment of impact

Sunset

Diving

“Are we there yet?”

Some more waves

(poolparty)

Back to the boat

Back at work

To Bridgetown

Break time!

Hotel restaurant

La playa

Fish fry festival

Onboard

+t +d adorbz

TXTing lol jk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sunset

Hose selfie

Kayakamatticians

Fresh pineapple

Back to the hotel

Breakfast

Mt. Gay Rum Distillery tour

Bridgetown

El capitan

Fitting in with the locals

wut.

Until next time…

Miguel in his natural habitat

I spy…

Ugh, another meeting

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