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WordPress Developers – Interview with Matt Medeiros

Yesterday we had another great interview for the Google+ WordPress Developers community (over 5200 devs participating), this time with Matt Medeiros: Matt is one of the most active podcast masters in the WordPress community, focusing on the business aspects of our ecosystem, and is also involved in several interesting projects, including Conductor. We chatted about the current state of the podcast field out there, and covered various aspects for the life of the WordPress themes, WP Mentor and the WordPress mentorship support program and much more. Check it out. Continue Reading
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WordCamp San Francisco 2014

WordCamp San Francisco 2014 is in a few days, and I'm excited to joining the largest WordPress community event so far! The great folks at SiteGround are sending me to join the WordPress Core community summit and the contributor team meetups over the next few days and I'm thrilled to meet again the majority of the WordPress contributors from all around the world. After last year's WordCamp San Francisco I managed to get few of my patches in Core, and contributed more than 20 patches since. It's been exciting and incredibly valuable experience. Let me know if you're attending WCSF this weekend and… Continue Reading
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Back from WordCamp San Francisco

I'm back from my WordCamp San Francisco 2014 tour and I'm genuinely excited after meeting close to a thousand WordPress community members over the past few days. The magic of WordCamp San Francisco is impossible to describe unless you've been there at least once, and if you haven't - I'd definitely suggest you to plan for it. However, WCSF with it's scale would not exist in the same form and from 2015 this would be WordCamp US (or USA), hosted somewhere else and ready to accommodate more than 1500 attendees given the growth pace over the past 9 years in San Fran. [caption id="attachment_9688"… Continue Reading
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On Working Remotely, Cofficing And Creativity

I've been an advocate on working remotely for over 15 years now. My first two HTML sites that I built for clients as a student were in 1999. In 2001 I was fixing computers and reinstalling OS and software apps, part of that was done from home or with Remote Desktop. In 2002 I started writing a weekly security bulletin for IDG, and 2003 was my half-time job from home for a media outlet working on two of their websites. Since 2008 I've been working remotely full-time, and I've been through all phases of remote work: freelancer, consultant, part of… Continue Reading
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Speaking at WordCamp Belgrade This Weekend

When Marko came for WordCamp Sofia in 2013, I promised that I'll make it possible to attend the first WordCamp in Serbia as well. Despite of our crazy work weeks lately, I had to make it work so there we go :) So Stanko and I are attending WordCamp Belgrade this weekend. I'll be presenting about Building a WordPress SaaS. Since the talks are 25min long, I will cover: the general aspects of the SaaS solutions what are the popular options for building SaaS in the WordPress context some technical tips for building the right process general ideas of building the marketing or sales… Continue Reading
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The Abusement of Open Source

The Free Software Foundation has a clear and concise definition of free software - which is tightly connected to what we refer to "open source" with some verbal modifications: “Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”. We sometimes call it “libre software” to show we do not mean it is gratis.… Continue Reading
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Ask Me Anything on ManageWP – Sep 14, Open Floor

Since I've been moderately quiet online over the past year, it's about time to get back with some fresh ideas, insight and tricks from my long business journey lately. I delivered a presentation on remote teams at WordCamp Europe in Vienna, but haven't posted a recap yet due to some presentation format issues with both Slideshare and Slide Deck, so it's pending as well. There are a few things planned over the next months, including a slight face lift of the blog here since the homepage is not even usable to me! :) But that will come after we've wrapped up the… Continue Reading
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Why Most Software Engineers Don’t Contribute to Open Source?

People contribute to open source for different reasons and with different agendas in mind. There are different philosophies and theories about open source products. Some claim that there is reciprocity if you use something for free. Others demand a regime similar to socialism and Marx’s slogan - “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” That doesn’t resonate with everyone. People are somewhat selfish by nature and solving global problems isn’t always at the top of their minds. That’s the reality we live in. Some do genuinely support the philosophy and spend a significant amount of… Continue Reading
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Let’s Talk Business and Cash at WordCamp Sofia 2016

Bulgaria is hosting yet another WordCamp this coming Saturday and I'm happy to join the speaker forces (despite having to wake up at abnormal hours on a Saturday) 💤 DevriX will be present at WordCamp Sofia 2016 and our team would be around over the weekend for any questions regarding WordPress development, business growth, remote working or building SaaS solutions. Additionally, we're sponsoring the event and presenting with 3 team members of ours - talking management, sales, and WordPress business market overview. I would cover a sensitive topic for developers who are struggling with finding market opportunities for selling their services. We'll talk about the… Continue Reading
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Building SaaS with WordPress – a WordCamp Netherlands 2016 Talk Slides

WordCamp Netherlands is over now and it was a pleasure giving a talk at the very end of the second day of presentations. Surprisingly the room despite of the three long days of contributing to WordPress and a number of great WordPress talks for developers, designers, bloggers, business owners, marketers and other industry experts and people joining the WordPress community. [caption id="attachment_12131" align="aligncenter" width="906"] Photo credit: https://twitter.com/jmslbam/status/787670505931337729[/caption] That's the spirit and I'm looking forward to attending more events with motivated enthusiastic people eager to learn more about the community, business and technical ecosystem and participating at 100%! Here are the slides… Continue Reading