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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

Helena Petridou

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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

Helena Petridou

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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

Helena Petridou

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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

Helena Petridou

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Ahmed Ibrahim – a talented supporter who helps WPML clients

Ahmed is working with the WPML support team and he also supports our Translation Services clients. He enjoys living at the Egypt’s coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Today he tells us more about his life and work.

February 5, 2016

Helena Petridou

Work and Stories

Change is Coming

If you've been following our products and websites, you might have noticed that things are changing. Right now, we are in the middle of a major change in the user interface of WPML and WooCommerce Multilingual. We are also experimenting with a completely new approach to Toolset marketing. These changes are the result of new understandings. Some are coming from our clients, some from our own experience and some from following others. In the last few weeks, I've been reading blogs...

January 6, 2016

Amir Helzer

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Konstantinos Kouratoras – an in-development tester from Greece who proves that big dreams are great to follow

Konstantinos is an in-development tester in Toolset Team living on a small Greek island. In today's interview with Helena he tells us more about himself and his work for OTGS.

December 18, 2015

Helena Petridou

Community and Events, Work and Stories

OnTheGoSystems Third Annual Conference

We all work remotely from homes, from different parts of the world. Once a year we all get together in a nice place. This year we held the  annual company event in the city of Porto, in Portugal. See how it went. On the beach in Porto Day 1. First dinner and ice-breaking games On the arrival day, Thursday evening, we got together in the hotel restaurant to have our first dinner together. Having meals together...

October 30, 2015

Agnes Bury

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Konrad Karpieszuk – a developer who tests WordPress plugins for WPML compatibility

Konrad is a quiet spoken man from Poland. You would be surprised how rich in experiences his life is. He was working as a WordPress freelancer, was a WordCamp speaker twice, he even went to Rwanda, Africa to give computer lessons to the local students and to finally end up as a WordPress developer in OnTheGoSystems. Today he tells us more about his private life and his work in the WPML compatibility project. Where exactly do you live Konrad?

Helena Petridou

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Shane Campbell – a Toolset support expert who traveled for 3 days to meet his colleagues

On an everyday basis he works on the Toolset Support Team, doing his work remotely from home in Jamaica. At the end of September he packed his bag and boarded the plane to fly to Portugal, for the company annual meetup. I met Shane when he first arrived at our hotel  in Porto in the late afternoon of October 1st. He looked a little apprehensive, but this was quite understandable after such a long 3 day journey all the way from Jamaica. Our...

October 19, 2015

Helena Petridou