UniS building, 8th/9th September 2017
WordCamp Bern has come to an end but evidence of the learning and fun is to be found in plenty of places:
If you have not yet shared your media, don’t forget to add the hashtag so that we can all look through them.
Let’s talk about food. We would like to let our attendees know beforehand what food we will be providing on the day of the conference.
In the morning when you arrive we will have tea and coffee ready for you.
For the morning break (Znüni) there will be different types of croissants and small breads along side tea, coffee and water.
At lunch time we will be providing a warm meal.
[EN] Thin strips of pork cooked with onions, mushrooms and bacon served with Butterspätzli (made out of flour, eggs and water)
[DE] Schweinsgeschnetzeltes Berner Art mit Zwiebeln, Pilzen, Speck und Butterspätzli
For those who have requested a special menu there will be:
[EN] Tofu curry with sesame rice and wok vegetables
[DE] Tofucurry mit Sesamreis und Wokgemüse
In the afternoon break (Zvieri) there will be cakes and mini muffins with an assortment of fruits along side tea and coffee.
After a day full of presentations, you are all invited to the “WordCamp Chillout” to relax, have a drink and some snacks while chatting with old and new friends!
The WordCamp Chillout will take place at the “Restaurant Grosse Schanze” which is just across the road from the venue.
Remember to bring your badge as it is a private event.
Due to the generosity of our great sponsors we will be offering everyone a free drink and will be providing snacks like
The restaurant will open at 6pm and close at midnight.
Restaurant Grosse Schanze
Parkterrasse 10,
3012 Bern
Meet our fourth group of WordCamp Bern speakers – Heike Burch, Pascal Knecht, Zahhar Kirillov, Haeme Ulrich and Marija Zaric
We’d like to present our next group of speakers to you.
Ich bin von Herzen Grafikerin und Softwaretrainerin. Ich gestalte Editorial Designs, erstelle Periodika und gebe Templates den technisch perfekten Schliff. Ich unterrichte und berate die Publishing-Branche. Mein Wissen gebe ich zudem in zahlreichen Fachvorträgen und bei den InDesignUserGroups preis.
Pascal is a Software Engineer based in Thun and currently doing his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He’s been working with WordPress for over 3 years as a full stack developer. He loves to teach WordPress to new developers and to build fancy and usable websites with (but not only) it. Pascal is always looking to learn new technologies and therefore he is also working with the shiny new javascript frameworks.
Hi, I am Zahhar – Design manager and Technology broker from Estonia. After graduating as a Master of IT management from Tallinn University, I was a software developer, lecturer, design manager, CIO, entrepreneur and startup founder. Since 2016 I moved with my family to Switzerland where I joined EPAM as a Technical project manager. Still, part of my soul is forever with small business and web-development. That is why I am helping my wife in her marketing consultancy Blonde.Marketing. There we have a long list of friends and customers asking advice on WordPress – a platform, I have been working with since 2007.
Trainer, Speaker und Consultant bei WeLoveYou.
Haeme Ulrich bezeichnet sich als Publishing Geek. Seit bald 20 Jahren begleitet er als Trainer und Berater Agenturen, Verlage, Marketing-Abteilungen und Publishing-Software-Hersteller. Auch Firmen wie Adobe greifen gerne auf seine Marktkenntnisse zurück.
Meet our third group of WordCamp Bern speakers – Cinzia Gabellini, Stefan Kremer, Boris Baldinger, Gregory Dzemaili and Christian Zumbrunnen
We’d like to present our next group of speakers to you.
Cinzia Gabellini is an e-learning designer and adult trainer interested in online learning, instructional design and open education. She takes care of educational technologies at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, where WordPress is part of the educational infrastructure and used to support digital learning and teaching, such as collaborative writing or course content authoring.
Stefan Kremer: founder of AdminPress.de, WordPress enthusiast, lately ownCloud.org Community Manager, bon vivant and afficionado. Being administrator of several macOS server, PBXs and of course ownCloud and WordPress instances I’m vocally obliged to privacy and security. Evangelist for all on-prem-solutions with a slight propensity for paranoia. Admin by nature so to say.
Father and Business Photographer based in 🇨🇭 | Speaking about social media and photography | Co-Founder of @meetmaker_ch – Influencer Marketing Agency.
Christian ist hauptberuflich bei switchplus tätig, wo er unter anderem dazu beiträgt, dass switchplus ihre eigenen Websites mit WordPress betreibt und zukunftsweisende, WordPress basierte Produkte anbietet. Christian ist stolz darauf, Teil des Teams zu sein, welches kürzlich PRESENCE lancierte, eine (auf WordPress basierende) Komplettlösung für kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen, die im Internet erfolgreich sein wollen.
Sein Engagement für Einsteiger zeigt sich an seinen Kursen zu WordPress/Woocommerce, unter anderem, an der Migros Klubschule.
Meet our second group of WordCamp Bern speakers – Mircea Tihu, Dominik Schilling, Tomaz Zaman, Michael Sebel and Mark Howells-Mead.
Mircea is a Software Engineer from Timisoara, Romania with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and master’s degree in Information Technology. He’s been working with WordPress for the past 6 years and is Dream Production AG‘s Lead WordPress developer. In his spare time he plays bass guitar for Marion Kräutner.
Dominik Schilling is a Web Developer at required and a WordPress core developer with a strong passion for WordPress. He led the WordPress 4.6 release, is the technical lead of the Polyglots team and lead developer of GlotPress, a collaborative, web-based software translation tool. Since that’s not enough he also takes part in the WordPress.org meta and security teams to make translate.wordpress.org more awesome and WordPress more secure. Dominik is mostly known as @ocean90.
Born and raised in central Slovenia. After having moved to the most remote part of the country with my family, had to look online for work and found a couple of issues that online outsourcing services have and decided to build my own.
Having 0 experience with WordPress at the time was quite a challenge, but luckily the community is warm and welcoming and the business is growing ever since because there’s a need for a matchmaking service like ours.
When I’m not managing the team of currently 12 people, I like to write JavaScript. I‘m a geek, I know.
Off work, I’m a husband, a father of 4 kids and a passionate Skydiver.
Michael is not really using WordPress. But he’s developing custom solutions on top of it since about seven years. Which is maybe why he doesn’t take the time to actually blog. Nearly three years ago he founded comotive along with his companion Martin Ott and a network of freelancers from all over switzerland. He is very fond of high performance, complex and custom websites, automation, highly available web clusters and therefore the technical lead at his own WordPress agency. For 25 cents he will – decided by mt_rand() – rant or chant about project Gutenberg for a good hour.
Mark has been using WordPress since version 1.0 and is a keen collaborator in the Swiss WordPress community. He moved to the Alps in 2001 and has built a career around CMS-driven websites, with a particular focus on plugin development, frontend development and user interface concept work. Mark has been blogging at permanenttourist.ch since 2004 and is Head of Development at WordPress agency cubetech.
Meet our first group of WordCamp Bern speakers – Maja Benke, Thomas Bruehl, András Guseo, Pascal Birchler and John Mueller.
The WordCamp is taking place in 25 days on the 9th September in the Uni S in Bern. Get your ticket as soon as possible as we are ordering the T-Shirts tomorrow.
We’d like to present our first group of speakers to you.
Maja studied landscape architecture but soon discovered her love for WordPress and traveling the world. Now she works as a web designer with a passion for UX and accessibility and has a blog for WordPress newbies.
Thomas ist hauptberuflich im IT-Bereich einer Versicherung als IT-Security Officer tätig. Nebenbei kümmert er sich um eine steigende Anzahl WordPress Installationen. Mit WordPress angefangen hat er 2004 mit seinem Blog her.ein.de und der WordPress Version 1.2 (Mingus). Seit September 2013 ist er einer der Organisatoren des WordPress Meetup Köln, hat das WordCamp Cologne MMXV mitorganisiert, hilft Plugins zu übersetzen und ist im WordCamp Central Deputy Team.
András has built his first website in 1997 learning HTML in 3 days. Ten years later, while starting up his web design business he discovered WordPress and never looked back. He moved to Switzerland in 2009 and started focusing on SMEs, helping them establish and strengthen their online presence through
WordPress driven websites. He is a promoter of focused work, and clean, efficient designs. He likes to work with the Divi theme and is running a blog at divi-magazine.com since 2015.
He is also proud to be a member of the support team at Modern Tribe – the team behind the plugin The Events Calendar and co. – and loves to help people solve their issues.
Pascal is a student and Core Developer based in Zurich, Switzerland. He’s been working with WordPress for half of his life and passionate about helping other people and cooking. Most recently he’s been improving updates and i18n in WordPress.
Since joining Google in 2007, John has worked closely with many teams around Google’s Web-Search, such as with Search Console / Webmaster Tools, Webmaster Central, Sitemaps, and Search Quality. He’s driven by espresso, as well as the desire to help others to make their content easily accessible & useful through search.
Prior to joining Google, John finished his studies of robotics & business administration at the ETH Zurich and built up a software company. When not on the line, he’s sometimes found hacking on the next generation of 3D-printed robot gizmos that will soon take over the world (or help mow the lawn, whichever comes first).
We’re looking for you!
We’re organizing the WordCamp Bern on September 9th, 2017 and a WordCamp depends on volunteers to be a success. WordCamp Bern is an affordable and independent event because of the important work done by great volunteers like you! You can support WordCamp Bern by becoming a volunteer during a few hours.
Help is needed for many different tasks from:
Whatever you can bring, be part of an amazing experience sign up below.
We know you are excited going to WordCamp Bern and you obviously want to show the world. So, today we are releasing banners you can use to show the world your support for WordCamp Bern. These awesome banners were designed by our designer Stefan Brechbühl. Thank you, Stefan!
Feel free to link to https://2017.bern.wordcamp.org/ and also, please don’t hotlink these files. Download by right clicking on the images and selecting “Download Image As…” and upload to your website! Thank you ❤️
Download an image and put it on your website. Let everyone know you’re attending, volunteering sponsoring or speaking. p.s. keep in mind that we’re still selecting speakers, so you should hear back from us before using this one 😉
We have secured a venue and date for the next Swiss WordCamp in Bern. We need a bit more help to be able to make this a great event. We need help with the following items:
We also need help with organizing the event.
If would like to help out contact us via email or leave a suggestion in via the comments.