Contributions
Recurring Contributions
The WP Community Collective
Active contribution
Amount contributed
$25.00 USD / year
($25 + $0)
Contributed to date
$25.00 USD
Budget
Transparent and open finances.
-$25.00USD
Completed
Contribution #816894
↑ Total contributed
$25.00 USD
↓ Total received with expenses
--.-- USD
About
- Speaker @ WP-Camp Berlin 2013,
- Co-Founder of WP Meetup Franconia/Nuremberg 2013
- Speaker @ WordCamp Hamburg 2014
- Mod @ WordPress.tv 2014
- Speaker and Volunteer @ WordCamp Cologne 2015
- Speaker @ WordCamp Berlin 2015
- LeadOrganizer @ WordCamp Nuremberg 2016
- Founder of WP Meetup Würzburg 2016
- Speaker @ WordCamp Bern 2017
- LeadOrganizer @ WordCamp Würzburg 2018
- Speaker @ WordCamp Osnabrück 2019
- Organizer (LocalTeam) @ WCEU Berlin 2019
- Speaker @ WordCamp Nairobi 2019
- Co-Organizer of WP Meetup Nairobi 2020
- Founder of WP Meetup Diani Beach 2023
- Founder of adminpress.de (2015) - offering maintenance service for WordPress
- Certified Data Protection Officer (Dekra) since 2018
- Founder of KeDe Digital LLP (2019) - offering offshore development service for WordPress
- Founder of Coast Working Diani Beach (2022) - Coworking space
I started in the mid 90's - the early days of web - with static HTML, frames, tables, marquees, »optimized for«-badges, … Luckily I survived the browser wars. First interactive services were build on Perl, later on PHP/MySQL. Trashed old-fashioned frame- and table-layout-paradigms and followed semantic web and CSS around the millenium turn. Tried to have good usability and accessability rather than exact-pix-designs. Had no clue that this would be called »responsive« somewhat later. Also the idea of giving customers an extra value with tipps and tricks on a webpage instead of silly »we do …, we are …, we can …«-pages took place. Some called that content-marketing later on.
As my new business unit »MacSupport« should have a better tool for that, than my handcoded PHP-»blog« used for my webdesign-business WordPress reached me at version two-point-something. At these times I could have spotted WordPress sites just by looking at them, as their design was more or less Kubrick. Or something that looked and was structured like Kubrik, just with other images or colors. No WordPress experience whatsoever, but started to code my own theme. An of course making everything wrong one could do wrong. But hey, I was a completely different »four column high gloss magazin style« layout and the footer »proudly powered by WordPress« was the only hint on the frontend. It was a dramatically different WordPress theme an no one would have spotted WordPress as CMS at first sight.
Getting in contact with the community 2012 @ WPCamp Berlin really switch me on. Real cool and chilled people behind a real cool project. I knew I had to become part of that! Even more as I noticed that I had some experiences that were welcome to be shared.
Struggles with toxic leadership from time to time.