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The #WCBUC Aftermath

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WordCamp Bucharest 2018 was an amazing experience for us as volunteers and organizers. We really enjoyed all the talks and the buzzing in the networking areas, the Contributor Day where we had an unexpectedly large number of people joining, the After Party and the guided tour through Bucharest.

Seeing all these different people from all over the world come together, to share their knowledge and experience with WordPress, really filled our hearts with joy. We felt that all the speakers delivered on-point and interesting presentations and we were glad to see the room engage with them and ask questions.

Hopefully, everyone who attended had a lot of fun, and from the feedback we got so far, they really did!

We’d like to learn about your experience, what you liked/disliked about the event, what talks you enjoyed most, how was the after party vibe and more. Please take a few moments and share your thoughts about #wcbuc 2018!


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Get to know Vineet Talwar, speaker

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This is our final article in a series dedicated to our speakers. Today is all about Vineet. At WordCamp Bucharest, he will talk about “Progressive Web Apps : The future of Mobile Apps“. Let’s get to know him a bit more.

  • When and how did you start working with WordPress?

I was looking for some better way to manage the content for a website around Dec 2011 during a university project, which was mainly based on a basic frontend stack. Then, one of my friends introduced me to the concept of content management systems and showed me the shiny white backend of WordPress. This intrigued me and led me to learn more about WordPress development. I have been associated with WordPress since then and later on, ended up adopting WordPress to be the core technology to base my startup on.

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Get to know Calin Don, speaker

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Hello friends! Today is all about Calin Don who will be talking about “Automating WordPress Operations with Kubernetes“. Let’s get know him a little bit better.

  • When and how did you start working with WordPress?

It was early 2006 when I’ve built the very first WordPress website. I was a student back then, volunteering for BEST in Timisoara and one of my first challenges was to build presentation websites for various events the NGO was organizing. I remember feeling uncomfortable with the idea of building static websites, which was not an ideal approach to such a fast moving organization. That was the moment when I took the risk and built the website using WordPress 2.0. It convinced me because of it’s easy to use interface, which has significantly sped up the development process even to a newcomer like me. A year later, I was doing it like a pro, as I was already making a living out of my WordPress skills—I co-founded a software development agency called Dream Production, where we were building mainly WordPress websites for a wide array of industries and businesses.

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Get to know Emanuel Blagonic, speaker

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Hello lovely people! This is our new article in a series dedicated to our speakers. Today is all about Emanuel, who will talk about “How to find peace and change the world“. Let’s get to know him a bit more.

  • When and how did you start working with WordPress?

I think it was around 2005. Back then I had a company which developed its own CMS and I was searching for another solution I could use for my personal projects and for blogging. I tried several of them but I fell in love with WordPress on the first sight. What really “bought” me was the Codex which — back then — was just starting up but nevertheless it was light years more advanced than anything else that I’ve seen. As a designer, I finally found a CMS that I could easily integrate and that wasn’t frightening.

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Scala Hosting: Thank you to our Gold Sponsor!

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Big thank you to our new Gold Sponsor: Scala Hosting, for supporting WordCamp Bucharest 2018.

Scala Hosting is a worldwide web hosting provider serving clients from 120 countries and hosting over 700 000 websites. They have developed an innovative web hosting service which allows every website owner to have their own fully managed SSD cloud server with a control panel and daily backups at an affordable price close to shared hosting.

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#wcbuc Contributor Day focused on Gutenberg

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Hello everyone and we really mean everyone :). Not just WordPress developers, but product people, designers, marketers, support staff, business people, everyone is welcome to take part in Contributor Day!

As you already know, WordPress is an open source project. It was and still is created with the help of contributing peers. During WordCamps, when WordPress people get together, we have a chance to give back to the open source project.

This year, we are excited to have Andrei Lupu leading a workshop about building Gutenberg blocks.

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Get to know Andrei Lupu, speaker

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Hello friends! Today we are excited to present to you Andrei Lupu, who will take us “Before and Beyond Gutenberg” on October 27th. Let’s get to know him a bit more.

  • When and how did you start working with WordPress?

Oh, sweet memories. My first contact with WordPress was at my first job interview. I was a Joomla junior developer, and I was tricked by a friend to take a job interview on a Joomla dev position. But the interviewer changed the topic into a full WordPress Homepage to test my adaptation skills. With the help of the WordPress community and of the Codex, I’ve aced the interview.

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WooCart: Thank you to our Gold Sponsor!

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Big thank you to our new Gold Sponsor: WooCart, for supporting WordCamp Bucharest 2018.

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