About me
Hi! My name is Marcel Bootsman. This is my personal site on which I share some of my thoughts and experiences about my work, private life and everything in between. And possibly some stuff about WordPress.
My latest posts
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A winter walk around my town
Read about my 30.5km winter walk around my town, Berkel en Rodenrijs. I made a lot of pictures, so come and take a look.
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The Bitcoin Whitepaper
Bitcoin (₿) is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Stepping down as lead organizer for WordCamp The Netherlands
I’m stepping down as lead organizer for WordCamp The Netherlands. Not an easy decision, but one I had to make. For myself.
WordPress and me
What do I do now?
- Owner nostromo.nl (WordPress support, maintenance, consultancy)
- Marketing Manager Dutch Market at Kinsta – Managed WordPress Hosting
Contributions to WordPress
- GTE for nl_NL
- WordPress NL Slack co-administrator
- WordPress forum administrator for The Netherlands
Co-organizer
- WordCamp Europe 2013
- WordCamp Europe 2015
- WordCamp The Netherlands 2014
- WordCamp The Netherlands 2015
- WPNL Live!
- WordCamp The Netherlands 2022
Lead organizer
- WordCamp The Netherlands 2016
WordCamp The Netherlands 2020- WordCamp Rotterdam 2018
- WordCamp Rotterdam 2019
Speaker
- WordCamp Utrecht 2018
Raising funds for the community while walking to Berlin (short talk)
Video - WordCamp Antwerp 2018
Meet Gutenberg, the future of WordPress publishing.
Video - WordCamp Osnabrück 2019
Walk to WCEU
Video - WordCamp Europe 2019
Why I walked more than 700km to Berlin, and survived
Video
Connect with me
Here are some of my online profiles. Please feel free to reach out to me for a talk about WordPress, hosting, or any other topic.