my contributor story
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CODEKITCHEN
MY CONTRIBUTOR STORY
Marko Heijnen
Marko HeijnenWeb developer @ Plesk
Founder of CodeKitchen
Ex-lead developer of GlotPress
Core contributor for WordPress of 14 releases
On of the organizers for WordCamp Belgrade
Plugin developer of Tabify Edit Screen, Site Manager etc
Today I talk about the trip I made since 2010 within
WordPress
It all started with one fix
I got my first prop on May 25th 2010 for ticket 14869.
WordPress 3.4
The game changer
WordPress 3.4• Started doing focused team
• I joined adding new methods to the XML-RPC
• Worked with Peter Westwood and Max Cutler
• Things like support for CPTs and featured image
• Started adding unit tests
• In total 32 props/commits for this release
Recent rockstar
WordPress 3.5
My best contribution
Started in SF
The road to success• Worked together with Mike Schroder
• All the coding happened on Github
• In the end we got great help from Kurt Payne with creating unit tests
• And obviously getting some great feedback from the WordPress community
• Code got committed on October 1
It was fun
29 props/commits done
Things went
Expectations
The rest of the road• 3.6: 11 (incl 3.5.1)
• 3.7: 2
• 3.8: 7
• 3.9: 1
• 4.0: 3
• 4.1: 5
• 4.2: 2
• 4.3: 1
• 4.4: 6
• 4.5: 2
104 props in total
GlotPress
GlotPress• After WordPress 3.5 I switched my focus a bit
• I ended up looking at GlotPress and wanted to help out there
• Lead of the project for more then 2 years
• 233 commits (with a few props)
• Disagreements let me stop with it
• 20+ contributors because of my work
Currently working on my own Open Source solution
Community
Community• 66 Events visited
• 37 Presentations
• Organiser of this great WordCamp
• Organised meet ups in Amsterdam and Belgrade
WordCamp Norway
Pre WordCamp US
Conclusion
It has been great
Made friends
I made mistakes
But I also learned from them
I wouldn’t have changed it
Thank you for listening
Questions?