April 24, 2019 — Lightning Talk
The good, bad and the ugly of contributing to open source.

Ulrich has been contributing to open source for the last 6 years in different ways, from support to documentation to bug fixes, and organising events.

He will talk about how this has helped him but also about the challenges involved to contributing to open source.

April 17, 2019 — Doing manual code reviews is boring. People keep on making the same mistakes.

Ulrich will be showing how you can improve your code by using automated tools and what the positive effects of it are.

We will be looking at a few different examples how automation has improved the code quality in a team, and also in open source projects.

October 9, 2018 — Ulrich is a dedicated WordPress contributor, especially as a senior reviewer for the Theme Review Team. He started the WordPress Meetup in Bern @WPBern was the lead organisers for WordCamp Bern in 2017.

He works for required, a remote WordPress agency from Switzerland & Germany, as a WordPress developer.

April 12, 2018 — I was about 20 when I started to contribute. I only quickly touched on what my motivation was. It is important to know what your motivation is to contribute. You do not get any financial gain from contributing.

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April 6, 2018 — WordPress Meetup Organizer Roundtables are an opportunity for Meetup organizers to connect and discuss challenges and opportunities for their local groups.

April 9, 2017 — Let’s learn together how to contribute to the Theme team.

December 4, 2016 — I recently built wpzoo.ch to sell a few WordPress products. It is available in English and German.
I would cover the challenges and decisions that I needed to make and how it has worked out for us.

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September 19, 2016 — Ulrich will be sharing the successes and challenges that we face while contributing to an open source project. He will be talking from his experience of contributing to different areas in the WordPress project, from answering theme support questions to becoming a key theme reviewer.

オープンソースプロジェクトに貢献する時に直面する成功、困難への挑戦についてお伝えします。WordPress プロジェクトのさまざまな分野にコントリビュートしてきた経験や、テーマサポートの質問に答えながらキーレビュアーになっていった経験からお話します。

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July 3, 2016 — How can you make sure that the themes and plugins do not clash? This talk will be covering the best practices so that your themes and plugins work in harmony. Ulrich will be taking code examples from reviewing themes on WordPress.org and explaining what the adverse effects can be and how to fix them.

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May 22, 2014 — In this short talk, Ulrich Pogson explains how to manage translations of WordPress themes and plugins.