 I know he likes to play tennis. He likes to ride your mountain bike, but only a bit dry weather. I don't like rain. I guess you don't drive it very much either. That's right. That's good. Is it a good practice riding a bike for walking? Not really. It's a total different movement of the body. So stow away your bike for now? It is. It has already stowed away because it's fall. I don't know if you've seen the weather outside this morning. He's not going to ride it very often. He's a very active member of the WordPress community and did the plans about the subject of your talk? Did it start in Belgrade or before that? Before that. Even before that? You knew where the next WordPress camp was going to be? Some people accused me that I knew it was going to be Berlin, but I didn't know. But he has some big plans for next summer and he's going to tell us about it. So give it up for Marcel. Thank you everybody. I have some big plans. As Birgit told in the presentation, if you have big plans you have to take small steps. I'm going to take a lot of small steps in May next year. I will tell you more about this. I'm going to tell a bit about myself. Before I'm going to tell you something about myself, I want you to reach out to your phone and see if you have a QR code scanner on it and try and scan this QR code. It's also on that side. No worries, there's nothing scary going to happen, but if you use that QR code you can donate money to the good cause that I'm going to walk for next year. That QR code will be there during the whole presentation. I only headed up on the last slide before I got up on stage and I thought I'm going to put it on every slide so everybody has time to use that QR code and maybe donate some money. So that's that. As Karen already said, I'm the owner of Nostromo.nl officially. It's a WordPress agency on my own. I work together with a lot of people and build amazing things and support my customers in that. I do everything in that business. I'm a business owner, developer, project manager, treasurer and well every other role you can imagine that there's there in a company. I try to do it myself. For the WordPress community I have done a lot and I'm still doing a lot and sometimes I tend to accept a lot of voluntary business and I want to help out and I know because it gives me energy but taking too much is going to drain your energy. So I had to take some step back at sometimes and then another WordCamp came along and just had to get involved and I helped organize again so I'm very bad in saying no but sometimes I just have to do it because otherwise there's no more time left to do my work for my company and help my clients and that's not going to work in the end. What I do for the community is I moderate the WordPress support forum for the Netherlands and help out of course. I see bad things happen there and moderate that. Translation editor for WordPress in Elements and what that means is that everybody can work on translations for WordPress and there have to be some people or a team who approve the translations to just be sure everything is correct, everything uses the same kind of language and I'm in that team. I was a co-organizer for WordCamp Europe in 2013. It was in Leiden who was there. That's great to see a few people here. I helped out for WordCamp the Netherlands 2014-2015 and also in 2016 which was the last one as we know. It might happen again if you want to join and help organize something like that. Well, please contact me or check us out on Slack and see if you want to help out with that. And I'm lead organizer for WordCamp Rotterdam last year and at the closing of WordCamp Rotterdam last year I announced that I was going to take a step back and do a little less in WordPress community but again I failed and I'm going to be lead for next year in 2019 so keep an eye out if you want to go to Rotterdam somewhere in March, April, maybe beginning of May we still have to set a date and keep an eye out for that. Before I'm going to tell something about my walk to Berlin I'm going to try and tell you how I got to the idea. If I know it because I don't really know where it came from but I think it has something to do with contributing to WordPress. WordPress as a project is big, it's not only the software it's the whole community around it, it's the translating it's the documentation, it's the support, it's the design, everything and everything is done by people like you and me. Most of it happens in spare time or is voluntary some of it is sponsored by companies who hire people to work full-time on the WordPress project which is great because without that sponsoring and without the time that people put into WordPress it could have not been what it is right now. So users like you, people who build WordPress it's everybody. So why would you contribute? Is there anybody here in the room who has not contributed to WordPress right now and don't feel sad or I see a few hands there, excellent. Well, not excellent but there's room for improvement there because contributing to WordPress is not only to make WordPress better of course in the end that's what we all want but it's also to improve yourself and not only to improve yourself in the skills you have but also broaden your skills. If you're a developer, a PHP developer now might be a good time to start looking at some JavaScript or React stuff or help out in the Gutenberg project or test it and report bugs and all those kind of small things is part of contributing to WordPress. You can share your knowledge. Like a lot of people who are here on stage or doing workshops in the other tracks share your knowledge about what you have learned about WordPress and inspire other people to start doing that themselves if they want that, of course. And the last bullet point here what makes it most important for me as a person is have fun and make friends, new friends meet up with people you've met on other WordCams and share your experiences and see what can happen there. I'm not going to talk about how you can contribute to WordPress and what kind of areas you can contribute. There's a lot of information on make.wordpress.org there's a lot of teams, 18 teams if I remember correctly so there's 18 different parts of the WordPress project that you can contribute to. So take a look at that website make.wordpress.org and read along if you're interested in contributing to WordPress. Anyone not familiar with Slack? Everybody knows Slack? Well that's great. So you can find all the teams in Slack you can join the channels and you can well see when they have meetings and see what's happening there and if you might want to be a contributor to that too. So what about the walk to Berlin? This was the original tweet I tweeted out on June 4th of this year it was about two weeks before WorldCamp Europe in Belgrade and I don't know where it came from I had the idea of walking maybe I was looking at the TV at somebody walking I don't know I just had a brain wave which told me maybe I should walk to WorldCamp Europe next time didn't know that it was going to be in Berlin yet and first we had to go to Belgrade for WorldCamp Europe in 2018 about a week after this tweet I got an injury on my knee from out of nowhere as if it was a sign from somewhere, whatever you believe in telling me you're not going to walk to Berlin that's crazy, don't do this stuff so I was in bed for a week and a half trying, well I couldn't walk with my leg I had medicine for it and I got cured and I can stand and I can walk again so that healed perfectly and then at WorldCamp Belgrade was announced which I couldn't attend I had to cancel all the travel plans I was going to go there with my wife and she was going to do some sightseeing I was going to do well WordPress things couldn't go there, I had to cancel everything which was pretty sad in the end I got a strong feeling that this whole walking to the next WorldCamp I didn't know it was going to be in Berlin then was going to be something I had to pursue not just for myself but maybe I could do something more for the WordPress community so I was going to think why would I want to go to Berlin and because of the attention it might give me which I'm already very happy with with the attention I'm getting also with all you guys here in the room I'm going to raise awareness for a good cause because that's a perfect idea to raise awareness and tell people about my walk and raise awareness for a good cause and I'm going to raise funds for that and the good cause is DonateWC and DonateWC is a foundation which has 4 crew members right now 5 crew members right now and the DonateWC foundation helps people go to WorldCamps and support them financially so if people want to go to a WorldCamp and be an attendee, be an organizer, be a speaker and they don't have any financial means to do that the DonateWC foundation can help people with that and of course they need money to help those people and I'm going to raise money for that good cause also why I'm doing it is rearrange my comfort zone because looking at this picture your comfort zone is a defined space and a lot of cool stuff happens outside of that comfort zone one of the things also was speaking for me I like to share my knowledge in a small group of people on a table in a small space and being on stage I might look natural and relaxed here but actually this heart is going pretty fast inside and every time I go on stage I'm nervous, I have the feeling if everything is going to go alright but wait, let's just do it take small steps and you'll get there and of course I'm going to meet new people I need places to sleep on my walk to Berlin because that's going to take me 30 days in a few stages and I need places to sleep this is my route to Berlin you can see here it might not be readable for everybody but I have Rotterdam and a small place called Berkel and Rotorice is up there, that's where I live and I'm going to leave there on May 19th and I'm going to go all the way to the Netherlands to the beautiful Velu all the way to Eastern Netherlands and all the way back to Germany a piece of the hearts how they call it and in the end I'm going to Berlin this map is on my website also and you can see little beds on the route those are the places where I'm already staying at people who from the community who told me okay you can sleep at my place I was actually featured on a radio show last Saturday on 3FM where people picked up my tweet and they sent me a message and asked if I want to be in their broadcast to help find the last 3 places in the Netherlands and within an hour people have sent their details and that was all covered and the Netherlands is now 100% complete for the places where I'm going to sleep the next challenge is Germany so if people know radio stations in Germany please give me a call and we're going to try and get on the radio right there to get some more places so how can you help of course use the QR code that's there you can donate money and all the money that has been raised is going to go directly to the WC Foundation you can follow my hashtag which is on my shirt also on Twitter you can go to my website which is build and WordPress surprise which is walk2wc.eu you can donate there or you can donate directly on the link that's here on the slide another thing I need is sponsors because I'm going to leave my company my laptop and I'm going to walk 35 kilometers a day and then try and work along the side that's not going to work and I have to tell my customers I have multiple, thank God you cannot call me before 4pm because I'm walking the whole day and after that you can call me if there's anything wrong that's not going to work, my clients are not going to like that so I need someone to help me support my company so if you have any ideas about that what kind of company you would like to sponsor me in return for some nice perks on the website and on Twitter and in my daily vlogs I'm going to do please contact me and the last slide is of course the slide that people always have on the last of their presentations are there any questions about this crazy adventure I'm going to do there are late between walking and also boats booths now there is the question was there was a link between Marcel Bootsman and walking but now there is and I think I like it walking has been something I've been doing we have a dog at home so I tend to walk one and a half, two hours a day with him and I like being outside it clears your mind and if I'm developing stuff and I'm stuck in something I just close my laptop and I go outside with the dog sometimes within four or five minutes outside I have a bright idea and how I should solve those kind of things so walking is something therapeutic and I hope those 30 days are going to show me who I am what I'm going to do in the next years and maybe it's going to be a big change let's first try this challenge thank you for the question other questions about my adventure or about contributing to WordPress right in the back Anton but okay I'm going to repeat the question in English the question of Antonis is asking is what am I going to do to keep or to be mentally challenged during walking because it might be very, I don't know for failing what's the English word I'm never bored so I don't know the word in English sorry I've been training for about four or five times five times now and been walking about 30 kilometers that takes me about five and a half, six hours and I'm not bored a moment during walking I see new things you discover all kinds of new things that you haven't seen even around your house and in your own town or you go in the car and you drive off and you never see those things so I don't think I'm going to get bored and I will meet people along the way I will meet people in the afternoon or in the evening when I arrive at the places where I sleep so I don't see that as a problem okay any other questions great great timing I was just about to jump on stage time applause for myself there's going to be a very short break now just to get the next speaker ready and we'll be off