{"id":12,"date":"2017-03-07T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.bern.wordcamp.org\/organizers\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T08:34:41","slug":"organizers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bern.wordcamp.org\/2017\/organizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This event is made possible by the following amazing organizers.<\/p>\n\t

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Andrew Liyanage<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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WordPress Freelancer | WordPress lover | WordCamp & WordPress MeetUp Zurich<\/a>\u00a0Co-Organiser.<\/p>\n

Andrew is currently working at newhome.ch and took over the project lead on the new blog. Ever since he finished his bachelor thesis on WordPress as an eBusiness solution he spends most of his time learning and developing his skills on WooCommerce projects.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Matthias Kurz<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Fachinformatiker, IT-Projektleiter, mag Pinguine, liebt Berlin und schreibt bei call-a-tux.de<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Patricia Brun Torre<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Patricia is involved in WordPress since 2013, co-organising the popular monthly WordPress meetups in Geneva. Her experience with WordCamps has been speaking and volunteering on previous years. She adores everything related to communities and human-centered projects. In other words, everything open-source allowing everyone to have a voice is dear to her heart. WordPress aligns perfectly with those values<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Pascal Birchler<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Pascal is a student and web developer<\/a>\u00a0based in Zurich, Switzerland. He’s been working with WordPress for half of his life and is passionate about helping other people. As a WordPress core committer he has most recently been improving updates and internationalization features\u00a0in WordPress. As an avid community member he also speaks at various conferences and helps co-organize the local meetup<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Simon B\u00e4rlocher<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Simon first came into contact with WordPress in 2010. At that time, he created his first page with WordPress, which was developed as a side project for school. Later came the creation of themes and plugins for friends and acquaintances. Meanwhile, he manages WordPress pages for customers on his own developed hosting cluster.<\/p>\n

You can find him on https:\/\/sbaerlocher.ch<\/a> or @sbaerlocher<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Marc Wieland<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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I\u2019m a Swiss Web Developer working in a small agency in Chur, the eastern part of Switzerland. I build websites for small and medium-sized enterprises based on WordPress. Besides that I\u2019m working part-time as a multimedia producer. Video is my second passion. Sometimes after or even before work I go out and take landscape photos or time-lapses.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Mark Howells-Mead<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Mark has been using WordPress since before 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<\/a> since 2004.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Ulrich Pogson<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Ulrich is a dedicated WordPress contributor, especially as a Key Code Reviewer for the Theme Review Team. He started the WordPress Meetup in Bern @WPBern<\/a> and has his own multilingual e-commerce store @WPZOO<\/a> selling WordPress Themes and Plugins. Currently employed by required<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can find him on Twitter under @grapplerulrich<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Gerd Zimmermann<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Gerd has been using WordPress since 2009. Starting with the\u00a0administration of the website\u00a0of his company, he now builds websites for small businesses\u00a0and friends & family<\/a>. He has been helping as\u00a0the co-organizer of the WordPress Meetup in Bern for the last two years. Currently Gerd\u00a0is working to build up wp-toolbox.ch<\/a> to support WordPress-Users and take care of the maintenance of a whole series of WordPress sites.<\/p>\n

You can find him on Twitter under @wpgerd<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Rochelle Harwin<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Rochelle is an Interactive Designer and has been designing for the web since 1995. She first encountered WordPress after founding her own design studio in Cape Town, South Africa and loves that WordPress is open source, reliable and global.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Stefan Brechb\u00fchl<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Stefan is a proud husband\u00a0and father of a young boy. About 13 years ago he did an apprenticeship at\u00a0a printing plant. Today he works for the\u00a0federal administration and is responsible for printed materials. He\u00a0currently working on improving the accessibility of PDFs that are published by\u00a0his employer.<\/p>\n

Stefan is passionate about designing things for\u00a0print as well as for the web. He taught himself web design and develops themes for @wpzoo<\/a>. You\u2019ll find him on Twitter as\u00a0@pixelstrolch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Stephan Zurfluh<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Stephan Zurfluh is a travel agent with GuS.Reisen and has created a large number of WordPress websites for them over the last couple of years. He also works on a local platform in the Baden region and organizes a Meetup<\/a> there every eight weeks. Stefan’s hobbies are playing the guitar and swimming.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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