Giving back (more) to the WordPress Community

For quite a few years I’ve been working with WordPress. Mainly developing and designing sites, but I also like to help out in the mainly the Dutch WordPress Community. I’m the admin of WordPress NL and WordPress Fy, also administrator for the Dutch WordPress forum and doing my part for WordCamp NL. And I love contributing in that fashion. You know, in the spirit of giving back to the WordPress project. Even though that seems like quite a bit already, I really like to contribute more.

I’ve jotted down a few things I’d like to accomplish this year. My list regarding contributing to WordPress consists of the following:Continue reading »

Looking Forward to WordCamp NL 2010

WordCamp NLNext Saturday will be the 2nd edition of WordCamp NL. Just like last year I’m part of the team of volunteers helping out getting it all organized although my main focus is everything about the site, plus I will be one of the speakers. My talk will be about the use of WordPress Theme Frameworks.

Last year was awesome, but I dare say this edition is going to rock just as much, perhaps even more. We’ve got some great speakers and lots of international WordPress guys showing up. I am very excited to meet international speakers like @Adii (who will also bring along @mjepson and @mark_forrester of @woothemes fame), @Nacin, @w3edge and @JohnONolan and also finally meeting some of the local names like @BoweFrankema and @Milanvanbruggen.Continue reading »