OnTheGoSystems News

Meet our Ambassadors for upcoming WordPress events!

Who will represent OnTheGoSystems at WordCamps in August and September We are delighted to announce that several of our team members have been selected as speakers for upcoming WordCamps in August and September! Denise VanDeCruze was selected for WordCamp Frankfurt, Dat Hoang for WordCamp Singapore and Lauren Jeffcoat twice - for WordCamp Toronto and WordCamp Tampa. Once again, congratulations! Let’s read what are they going to talk about : Dat In the...

August 4, 2016

Peter Materna – marketing specialist

Courteous, forward-thinking, scholarly, well-traveled. You who know Peter well, would you say this describes our man in Marketing? Peter speaks perfect English and perfect Polish. Of course, since he comes from Poland! From Katowice, to be precise, a city in southwestern Poland and the center of the Silesian Metropolis. Katowice is not too far from the Czech Republic and Slovakia , approximately 1-1½ hours by road. Peter, would you like to give us a tour of your city? It is...

July 11, 2016

Przemek Mirota – skilled WordPress developer

A pleasant young man just 23 years old and with 8 years’ experience as a web developer!Can this be? Let’s meet Przemysław Mirota who lives in Central Poland, in a small town called Zwoleń. “For the last 5 months I have been living with my parents in the very small town of Zwoleń. A short walk brings me into the forest. There is no cinema, no swimming pool, in fact nothing to attract visitors, except that the famous Renaissance poet...

July 11, 2016

We love WordPress events – OTGS activity in the WP community in June

What a month! With the number of WordCamps and WordPress meetups increasing all over the world, we barely have time to write about all of them. So, let’s have a review of all events we participated in during this month - besides those where we were WordPress Global Community Sponsors. WordCamp Belgrade 2016 Srdjan attended WordCamp Belgrade 2016 on June 4th, and wrote a detailed summary of this WordCamp. If you missed this WordCamp, you can pretend you were in...

July 11, 2016

WordCamp Europe 2016

WordCamp Europe 2016 is over and it is time to write about it. WCEU is special, but it is even more special for OnTheGoSystems. As the remote working company we are, finding time to meet each other is precious. And WCEU provided the perfect space for that. This year, 25 members of our team were part of the more than 1900 attendees who took over the Museumsquartier in Vienna. We had the opportunity to sponsor this great event, and as it...

July 4, 2016

Attending WordCamp Antwerp 2016: Being a speaker for the first time

For a lot of people this may seem to be a trivial thing: yes, I will see a lot of my WordPress fellows, yes, I will catch up with what they are doing and yes, I’ll get the latest updates from the community... but it’s just another WordCamp, just another talk. For me, it wasn’t anything like that at all. This was my first WordCamp as a speaker, and it wasn’t even in my own native language. It's not easy...

June 28, 2016

Abdallah Deeb – a Systems Development and Maintainance specialist

Beirut, the Paris of the Middle East - fast-paced, fashion-conscious, crowded, almost chaotic, but its friendly hospitality is really irresistible. Beirut is the capital of Lebanon and goes back more than 5,000 years. Abdallah lives in Beirut, still in the same apartment as he grew up in. Beirut downtown He says: The building still has the traces of different wars that have plagued the country ever since I was born. Beautiful place. I love it here....

June 2, 2016

Jakub Milczarek – an UX specialist

Science lectures for kids He’s the biggest handsome man in the company! Who is he? Why, none other than Jakub Milczarek! The day I spoke with Jakub he told me it was 10 °C in Łódź, sunny but windy. This is his city, the third largest in Poland and situated almost in the center of the country. Jakub, what is it like in Łódź? It is very industrial - we have a lot of beautiful old...

May 10, 2016

Mohammed Eisa – a versatile supporter working for WPML and Toolset clients

Mohammed Eisa I am standing on the Corniche (Al-Kurnīsh), the promenade running along the Eastern harbor. Tangy, iodine laden breezes blow inland from the southern Mediterranean. Long waves gently roll in, splashing against the eastern promenade, while above and all around the seagulls cry plaintively. But where am I? I’m living in Alexandria, Egypt, the city that I love so much because of its nature. Just being here makes me feel so happy. However, I was...

April 7, 2016

Bruce Pearson – a senior developer

Rugged in appearance but softly spoken with a distinct Australian drawl – who in the OTGS family immediately comes to mind? Could it be Bruce Pearson from “down under” Geraldton in Western Australia?

March 9, 2016