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The beauty and importance of WordCamp workshops

WordCamp events are a unique way for anyone involved with WordPress to meet the community, get inspired but also learn something new. As the WordPress community grows and changes, so does the concept of WordCamps. It is not uncommon for organizers to try new and different approaches for the activities that happen during the event. Lately, one very prominent example of this is the workshop format which usually happens on a separate, pre-conference day. Dario at...

October 9, 2017

Dario Jazbec Hrvatin

OTGS’s 5th Annual Conference in Croatia

It’s already been sixteen days since we all split from Split! (I promise it’s the only “split” joke of the article.) Let me take you back to Croatia for a little while... Another Perspective - amazing picture taken by Dimitris with his drone This year, we were 62 people from 28 different countries coming together in one single place: Stobreč Camping near Split, Croatia. The campsite was fringed by the sea on two sides. How beautiful...

October 5, 2017

Laura de Figueiredo

Jan Štětina

Can you guess who he is? Photo taken when visiting my friends A person who spends extra time in learning the tools, frameworks, configurations, and methodology in order to help improve his team’s complex work. Someone, whose discerning comments make you say, “Now why didn’t I think of that?” A friend who is never upset and is always happy and helpful! Not too difficult to guess who if you work closely with… Jan Štětina We have...

September 10, 2017

Amit Kvint, a man of many talents!

Amit tells us about his family background: I was born in Israel, originally from a town close to Tel Aviv and the Mediterranean sea. My younger sister (a lawyer and a Java developer), and my parents (a retired chemist and an aviation engineer) are all based there. Like many, I wrote my first lines of code on my Spectrum Sinclair when I was 8 (Basic) - a computer bought for me by my parents. I live with my family: Limor...

August 17, 2017

Luo Yang

People we value at OTGS are persistent, professional in every aspect of their work and very efficient. Luo Yang is one such person. He works quietly but consistently. A colleague said, “It’s easy to forget the tasks he takes and resolves, but his impact is very positive and it’s nice to acknowledge that.” Luo comes from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province in southwest China. It has a population of 4.3 million. Because of its cool winters and moderate summers...

August 17, 2017

Meet Marine, from our marketing team. See what we’re doing and get ideas for what we can do together with you.

Marine Larmier joined us here at OTGS in July 2016, just over a year ago. Marine comes from France and studied Tourism, European Business Management there, continued her studies in China and the UK and got a Masters degree in Multicultural Web Marketing. Her 4 years of experience in marketing and technology is contributing to establishing our tools, WPML and Toolset, while simultaneously helping out our partners. Marine, would you like to tell us how you try to achieve your...

August 9, 2017

WordCamp Buenos Aires 2017

Saturday July 8th, 9.00 am. Rain. It’s wet and cold. The Argentinian WordPress community is about to hold the 5th WordCamp. A long queue of people slithers out of the venue, Area 3, co-working space in the nice surroundings of Palermo, Buenos Aires City. In spite of the bad weather, there is a lot of enthusiasm. The talks are promising. The organizers have taken care of all details. Everybody is looking forward to it! As we arrive, Laura and I...

July 17, 2017

Mercedes Barreda

OTGS at WordCamp Europe 2017

Get started OTGS having a picnic on the Champ de Mars What all WordPress geeks and fans are excited about around this time every year, is to visit the fantastic WordCamp Europe held somewhere on the old continent. This year was no the exception and we followed the signs to the beautiful city of Paris, France. Did we enjoy it? Well, for some of us our brains think we are still there. :) This year’s event...

July 3, 2017

Vuk Vukovic

Selena Salustri – Dedicated, passionate, cheerful and has ingenious ideas!

Selena, please tell us how did you join OTGS. I was doing some work for a client and my boyfriend suggested using WPML for translations. I was very new to WordPress and so I decided to buy WPML. Everyone said it was the best so I went for it. Sometime after I purchased the plugin, I received an email that OnTheGoSystems was looking for new people to join the company. As at that time I was searching for a real...

June 22, 2017