My Contributor Story

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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

Marko [email protected]

@markoheijnen

Thank you for listening

Questions?