{"id":1669,"date":"2017-08-22T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T08:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.bern.wordcamp.org\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2017-08-24T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T07:57:54","slug":"second-group-of-wcbrn-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bern.wordcamp.org\/2017\/second-group-of-wcbrn-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Second group of #wcbrn speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet our second group of WordCamp Bern speakers \u2013 Mircea Tihu, Dominik Schilling, Tomaz Zaman, Michael Sebel and Mark Howells-Mead.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"wcorg-speakers\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<!-- Organizers note: The id attribute is deprecated and only remains for backwards compatibility, please use the corresponding class to target individual speakers -->\n\t\t\t<div id=\"wcorg-speaker-mircea-tihu\" class=\"wcorg-speaker wcorg-speaker-mircea-tihu wcorg-track-workshop\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bern.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/mircea-tihu\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMircea Tihu\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fdebbb6f0b0369a81b003ced1e2ad3cbf4abeb8f0325354f1c11855d3031b828?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fdebbb6f0b0369a81b003ced1e2ad3cbf4abeb8f0325354f1c11855d3031b828?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>Mircea is a Software Engineer from Timisoara, Romania with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in Computer Science and master&#8217;s degree in Information Technology. He&#8217;s been working with WordPress for the past 6 years and is <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamproduction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dream Production AG<\/a>&#8216;s Lead WordPress developer. In his spare time he plays bass guitar for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aIir8G3wThg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marion Kr\u00e4utner<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<!-- Organizers note: The id attribute is deprecated and only remains for backwards compatibility, please use the corresponding class to target individual speakers -->\n\t\t\t<div id=\"wcorg-speaker-dominik-schilling\" class=\"wcorg-speaker wcorg-speaker-dominik-schilling wcorg-track-workshop wcorg-track-main-track\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bern.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/dominik-schilling\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDominik Schilling\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a970404ea1e4a98dfcebb94e6ab3e9d865889170b6f849deaee09069aed8e931?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a970404ea1e4a98dfcebb94e6ab3e9d865889170b6f849deaee09069aed8e931?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>Dominik Schilling is a Web Developer at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/required.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">required<\/a>\u00a0and 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\u2019s 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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ocean90\">@ocean90<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<!-- Organizers note: The id attribute is deprecated and only remains for backwards compatibility, please use the corresponding class to target individual speakers -->\n\t\t\t<div id=\"wcorg-speaker-tomaz-zaman\" class=\"wcorg-speaker wcorg-speaker-tomaz-zaman wcorg-track-main-track\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bern.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/tomaz-zaman\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tToma\u017e Zaman\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d2f0d6a2bce2c6dac9b6e7236c39e5f41e703dcbcdd33a5020794ee7e51757fb?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d2f0d6a2bce2c6dac9b6e7236c39e5f41e703dcbcdd33a5020794ee7e51757fb?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s a need for a matchmaking service like ours.<\/p>\n<p>When I\u2019m not managing the team of currently 12 people, I like to write JavaScript. I\u2018m a geek, I know.<\/p>\n<p>Off work, I\u2019m a husband, a father of 4 kids and a passionate Skydiver.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<!-- Organizers note: The id attribute is deprecated and only remains for backwards compatibility, please use the corresponding class to target individual speakers -->\n\t\t\t<div id=\"wcorg-speaker-michael-sebel\" class=\"wcorg-speaker wcorg-speaker-michael-sebel wcorg-track-main-track\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bern.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/michael-sebel\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Sebel\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e1795bc8cf4ee50d2c584564b0f710a89402b3cfdb883128ecc516f637cfa8c9?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e1795bc8cf4ee50d2c584564b0f710a89402b3cfdb883128ecc516f637cfa8c9?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>Michael is not really using WordPress. But he&#8217;s developing custom solutions on top of it since about seven years. Which is maybe why he doesn&#8217;t take the time to actually blog. Nearly three years ago he founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comotive.ch\" rel=\"nofollow\">comotive<\/a> 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 &#8211; decided by mt_rand() &#8211; rant or chant about project Gutenberg for a good hour.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<!-- Organizers note: The id attribute is deprecated and only remains for backwards compatibility, please use the corresponding class to target individual speakers -->\n\t\t\t<div id=\"wcorg-speaker-mark-howells-mead\" class=\"wcorg-speaker wcorg-speaker-mark-howells-mead wcorg-track-main-track\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bern.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/mark-howells-mead\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Howells-Mead\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a133e56712d12c4d2add2d1668313203eb3d5a76f41e793a2e7c2012131b6b16?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a133e56712d12c4d2add2d1668313203eb3d5a76f41e793a2e7c2012131b6b16?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>Mark has been using WordPress since version 1.0\u00a0and is a keen collaborator in the Swiss WordPress community. He moved to the Alps in 2001 and has built a\u00a0career around CMS-driven websites, with a particular focus on plugin\u00a0development, frontend development and user interface concept work. 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