Last weekend Taco, Karin and I from team Yoast attended a new kind of WordCamp. A WordCamp Retreat. Located in the North of Germany we experienced a very relaxed WordCamp with some interesting differences from your regular WordCamps. I've written a full recap for WP Tavern which was published this morning, and this is one of the things I mentioned there: Most of this was made possible by the location. Hotel Park Soltau is located in the North of Germany surrounded by woods and heath. The hotel was reserved for WordCamp attendees only. Everyone stayed there, ate there, and ... Continue reading »
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WordCamp Europe: For The Greater Good
Back in 2008 when I started to take over and clean up the mess that was the admin side of things of the Dutch WordPress releases, forums and translations, I got to know this one fellow who was helping me out a great deal. Zé and I got to talking —more like slow chatting via Skype & email, but you get the picture ;) We soon realized that the International WordPress Community and all its assets needed a lot of love to get up to get to the same level as WordPress.org. One of the things we talked about was how beneficial a strong European WordPress Community would be and how we could ... Continue reading »
Looking forward to WordCamp Transylvania
I'm very much looking forward to WordCamp Transylvania-where I'll be speaking-this weekend. This will be my first visit to Romania and I'm especially looking forward to roaming where once count Vlad roamed. Also very much looking forward in meeting my WordPress buddies again. Should be fun ;) ... Continue reading »
10 Things you did not know about WordPress
One thing I love equally as much as WordPress is sharing (my) knowledge. If I'm asked to share my knowledge about WordPress then I'm most definitely winning. Big time. Recently I was asked to speak at WordCamp Sevilla in Spain, which I gladly did. WordCamp Sevilla was a two day event and I got to do a presentation on both days. Fun times for sure. This post is about the first presentation I did which I dubbed: 10 Things you did not know about WordPress. I'm assuming a lot here, but just roll with me ;). ... Continue reading »