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  • Petya Raykovska Joins Human Made

    I’m really excited to welcome Petya Raykovska to Human Made as a full-time Senior Project Manager. Petya brings a huge amount of experience and passion for her work and for the community at large. From her efforts evangelising the use of Open Source in the publishing industry as the co-founder of the OpenMedia Foundation, to her experience leading client…

  • It’s all about the WordCamps

    Wow – it’s February already, 2015 is going very quickly. After a Christmas and New Year break the Humans are out and about again. This weekend is definitely all about the WordCamps and meetups for Human Made. In the UK it’s WordCamp Birmingham. Human Made are a silver sponsor and there will be a good…

  • Rob O’Rourke Joins Human Made

    I’m really excited to welcome Rob O’Rourke to Human Made as a full-time Senior WordPress Engineer. Although I hate buzzwords, Rob really is one of those rare unicorns; a developer who can design (or a maybe he’s a designer who can develop, I’m never sure :-). Rob joins us from long-time friends and UK-based competitors interconnect/it where he…

  • Five for the Future

    At WordCamp Europe, Matt put forward the notion that companies should contribute 5% of their effort back to the WordPress project. The thinking being that by doing so we can ensure the long term success of WordPress itself. I think a good rule of thumb that will scale with the community as it continues to grow is…

  • BackUpWordPress 3.0 released!

    Over the last few months we’ve been working hard to release 3.0 and we’re now delighted to share with everyone the latest iteration of BackUpWordPress, we think it’s the best yet! We learnt a lot from the release of 2.0, and became aware things we could have done a lot better (no more modals!), so…

  • Helping Airbnb tell their Berlin Wall anniversary story

    It’s been a really exciting but intensive couple of weeks, working on a microsite for Airbnb to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. Airbnb commemorated the occasion by releasing a short animated film, “Wall and Chain”, telling the story of two former border guards from East and…