{"id":12,"date":"2017-01-18T12:29:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T12:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.capetown.wordcamp.org\/organizers\/"},"modified":"2017-07-14T22:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T22:39:25","slug":"organisers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2017\/organisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Organisers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Linda Baker<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Jonathan Bossenger<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Self employed WordPress developer, born and bred Capetonian. Husband, father and Gracie Jiu Jitsu practitioner. Once couch jumped at WordCamp and never lets anyone forget.<\/p>\n

Job Title:<\/strong> Open source software developer
\nWebsite:<\/strong> jonathanbossenger.com<\/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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Job Thomas<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Job is the only Belgian in the WooCommerce team at Automattic. He leads one of the WooCommerce support teams. He\u2019s been working with WordPress for about 10 years, and mostly enjoys just breaking things in order to learn. Since 2013, he\u2019s been living in Cape Town, but misses Westvleteren 12 and Belgian mayo a lot.<\/p>\n

Job Title:<\/strong> WooCommerce Happiness Lead
\nWebsite:<\/strong>\u00a0job.blog<\/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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Adrian Barnes<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Loves the Innovation and Tech space, Social Media, Mobile, WordPress. Facilitator. Enjoys exploring and learning new things. Fan of Liverpool FC and Formula 1.<\/p>\n

Job Title:<\/strong> Innovation Lead, RLabs Innovation Lab
\nWebsite:<\/strong> adrianbarnes.co.za<\/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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Brendan Cupido<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Junior Software Developer at RLabs, Founder Of TrackGrab a music uploading, download and sharing platform. Artist manager @SPIROH.64. WordPress Co-Facilitator<\/p>\n

Job Title:<\/strong> Junior Software Developer, RLabs
\nWebsite:<\/strong> trackgrab.com<\/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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Travis Lima<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Self Taught Graphic Designer who stumbled across WordPress and got totally hooked! I help people make their WordPress sites great over at Paid Memberships Pro and love it!<\/p>\n

Job Title:<\/strong> Customer Service Engineer, Paid Memberships Pro
\nWebsite:<\/strong> paidmembershipspro.com<\/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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Matt Royal<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Self-taught Developer & Designer with a passion for all things web & an absolute lover of WordPress. I live for adventure & my beautiful daughter, I am a Former MMA fighter with a passion for Brazilian Jui-jitsu. My aim is to find more time to give back to the community that has given so much to me!<\/p>\n

Job Title:<\/strong> WordPress specialist
\nWebsite:\u00a0<\/strong>mattroyal.co.za<\/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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Matty Cohen<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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I’m a WordPress enthusiast, born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. I spend my time working on developing WooCommerce at Automattic, and helping our engineering teams be successful.<\/p>\n

Job Title:<\/strong> WooCommerce Product Engineering Lead at Automattic
\nWebsite:<\/strong> matty.blog<\/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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Hugh Lashbrooke<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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I\u2019ve been kicking around in WordPress for a good few years now and I absolutely love working with it. At Automattic I work on the WordPress community team where I assist and support WordPress community organisers from all over the world. I\u2019m totally passionate about WordPress, the community and all that it represents.<\/p>\n

Job Title:<\/strong> Community Manager at Automattic
\nWebsite:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0hugh.blog<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Mechiel Couvaras<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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I work on the Partners team at WooCommerce but have a background in Web Hosting. I first discovered WordPress in 2009 and have been tinkering ever since. I love Open Source and love how WordPress makes powerful technology available to ordinary people like me.<\/p>\n

Job Title:<\/strong> Business Development Manager
\nWebsite:\u00a0<\/strong>sultare.com<\/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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Leo Gopal<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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User of WordPress before it was cool. I love working with clients to find and develop the best solutions for their problem. My favorite pokemon is obviously Pikachu.<\/p>\n

Job Title:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Solutions Developer with WordPress
\nWebsite:<\/strong>\u00a0 leogopal.com<\/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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Bruce Lunnis<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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South African Businessman. Lover of parrots, cars, food, wine, whisky, coffee, sunsets, music, movies, traveling & WordPress.
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Andrew Lima<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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I have been using WordPress since 2012 and started developing for WordPress specific projects since 2015. Coffee enthusiast, Walking Dead fanboy and Han shot first.<\/p>\n

Job Title:<\/strong> Lead Developer in Training, Paid Memberships Pro
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