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Become a WordCamp expert in a few months: in Lauren’s words

Lauren at WordCamp Tampa She speaks fast and takes action fast. She has stepped out of her comfort zone to get involved in the WordPress community and is now on fire. She claims she can be shy at times, but it’s hard to imagine her in a hesitant attitude. Meet Lauren (from the US, WPML support), who has gone from no experience at a WordCamp or a Meetup at all to being selected as a speaker...

November 2, 2016

Mercedes Barreda

Community and Events, Work and Stories

WordCamp Gdynia

Being selected as a speaker at WordCamps is not easy. There are so many talented people with years of experience that every WordCamp becomes harder and harder to be selected as a speaker. That’s we are happy to announce every time a OTGSian is selected. But it is even more rare to have two speakers at the same WordCamp! That’s why we want to make a short mention of Jakub Milczarek and Kasia Janoska. WordCamp Gdynia was held on September...

October 28, 2016

Andrés Cifuentes

Community and Events, Work and Stories

WordPress Meetup Zagreb, in Croatia. Impressions by Dario and Serhii

On Sept 30th Dario (from Slovenia, Documentation team) and Serhii (from Slovenia, Toolset development team) went to WordPress Meetup Zagreb. It was the first time for Serhii at a WordPress event. For Dario it was the first time at a meetup, although he has attended several WordCamps before, including 2 WordCamps Europe. I had a nice talk with them about the meetup and this is what they said. 13 WordPress Meetup in Zagreb, Croatia. How many...

October 21, 2016

Mercedes Barreda

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Otto Wald – a detective looking for clues to catch the bug

Otto lives in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. He tells us: Buenos Aires is a big crowded city, 3m inhabitants, very cosmopolitan and full of cultural and sports events. It’s the home of the Tango and the famous “parillas” (steakhouses ) but here you can also find Indian, French, Vietnamese, Lebanese, Thai, Scandinavian, Mexican, Brazilian, Peruvian, Armenian or American food. Buenos Aires never sleeps! Restaurants open at 9pm, bars at midnight and clubs at 2am so you can dance until...

October 20, 2016

Helena Petridou

Community and Events, Work and Stories

Best shots from Cyprus – and the winner is…

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This was the motto of our company meeting this year. We asked everybody from the company attending the event to take some photos which would reflect this great quote. Next, we asked all OTGS folks to vote for the best one. Time to announce the winners…….. Best shot in the Single picture category The best picture in the “single picture” category is this one...

October 14, 2016

Agnes Bury

Community and Events, Work and Stories

OTGS WordPress fever!

September has been the most active month of this year. We can say that our OTGSians were active almost all over the world: Lauren, as always, leading in US, Adriano in Brazil, Dat in Asia, and many other WordCamp events in Europe where we were speaking, attending as sponsors or even just attending for the first time! WordCamp Raleigh and Tampa I’ll start with Lauren Jeffcoat. This month Lauren was juggling her time between support and her other passion, speaking...

October 14, 2016

Andrés Cifuentes

Community and Events, Work and Stories

OnTheGoSystems, Fourth Annual Conference September 2016. Paphos, Cyprus

We all work remotely and get together once a year to meet in person. We invite you to read below about our last Annual Conference, in Cyprus. Here you can see me, Mercedes, at work. I will tell you the story Monday 7.30 AM. Argentina - I leave home, together with my colleagues Laura (COO & HHRR) and Otto (WPML support). Tuesday 9.30 PM - 32 hours later. Cyprus - we arrive at the hotel, at...

October 12, 2016

Mercedes Barreda

Meet our team

Juan de Paco – Toolset lead developer

Does this quote from a recent Toolset Development tech report remind you of someone? “I am entangled in the middle of a task that keeps growing :-P……..  there is no clean upgrade path,….. While working on it, I rescued another request …….So I added it to the mix……And finally, we had another bug…..It all is related and entangled, but makes perfect sense.” A colleague was prompted to say:  "He is doing some crazy Toolset Dev stuff for as long as...

September 8, 2016

Helena Petridou

Community and Events, Work and Stories

Summer WordPress events

WordPress events all over the world never stop, not even in the summer time. More and more OTGSians are becoming involved in the WordPress community. In August, Lauren Jeffcoat spoke at WordCamp Toronto and OTGS members from Argentina organized the next WordPress Meetup in La Plata. WordCamp Toronto 2016 As previously posted, Lauren Jeffcoat was selected as speaker for WordCamp Toronto held August 6-7. Here she talked about the “The power of having a video library on your website”. It...

September 6, 2016

Andrés Cifuentes

Meet our team

Adriano Ferreira – Toolset Support Team Leader

Me and my middle brother Brazil 2016. A very special country. No, not because of the Olympics, but because Adriano Ferreira our Employee of the Month comes from Brazil. Adriano, tell us something about yourself ….. As you said, I am from Brazil. I was born in Rio and currently live in the small town of Cataguases, in the state Minas Gerais in the southeast. It is a nice, quiet place, with a population of 74.000,...

August 19, 2016

Helena Petridou