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Sjoerd Blom

Chef! 👨🏼‍🍳

@vertizio Leeuwarden, NL joined Mar 2014

Slack: @vertizio
    Teams Community Polyglots
    Languages nl_NL

    Bio

    Enjoying WordPress daily.

    WordCamp Mentor.

    Organiser: WordCamp Europe 2026
    Global Lead: WordCamp Europe 2023
    WordCamp Lead Organiser: WordCamp Europe 2022
    WordCamp Lead Organiser: WordCamp Europe 2021 Online
    WordCamp Co-Organiser: WordCamp Europe 2020 Online
    WordCamp Co-Organiser: WordCamp Europe 2020
    WordCamp Co-Organiser: WordCamp Europe 2019
    WordCamp Lead Organiser: WordCamp Utrecht 2017
    WordCamp Lead Organiser: WordCamp Utrecht 2018

    As a polyglot I translate WordPress core, plugins, themes, etc.
    As a volunteer I help to organize WordCamp events.
    As a supporter I assist people in solving their issues with WordPress stuff.
    As a WordCamp organizer I bring people and knowledge together.

    Badges

    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Photo Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    4 badges
    Community Contributor '24 WordCamp Organizer '17 WordCamp Speaker '17 WordCamp Volunteer '25
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '15

    Current Job

    Chef! 👨🏼‍🍳
    Present

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    1contribution
    high1
    medium0
    score3
    Last 90 days
    1contribution
    high1
    medium0
    score3
    Last 12 months
    3contributions
    high3
    medium0
    score9

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 23 Wed · 08:52
    Meta high
    Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Europe 2027
    December 2025
    Dec 16 Tue · 11:20
    Meta high
    Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Slovenia
    Dec 04 Thu · 18:26
    Meta high
    Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Europe 2026
    April 2025
    Apr 03 Thu · 08:58
    Meta high
    Started mentoring WordCamp Netherlands 2025
    June 2024
    Jun 04 Tue · 06:45
    Polyglots high
    Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    May 2024
    May 16 Thu · 11:32
    Meta high
    Started mentoring WordCamp Netherlands 2024
    April 2024
    Apr 03 Wed · 08:06
    Polyglots high
    Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
    July 2023
    Jul 03 Mon · 12:37
    Meta high
    Started mentoring WordCamp Whitley Bay
    May 2023
    May 17 Wed · 18:12
    Polyglots high
    Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
    April 2023
    Apr 06 Thu · 12:23
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Personalised Coupon Codes for WordCamps, on the site Make WordPress Community:
    When you organise a WordCamp you get to a point where you need to issue…

    Photos

    2 contributions

    View all 2 photos in the Photo Directory

    Completed courses

    3 completed

    Browse courses on Learn WordPress

    Plugins

    8 favorites

    Translations

    1 locale
    nl_NL Nederlands (Dutch) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 12 projects.

    WordPress Plugin Directory WordCamp.org WP Super Cache WordPress 4.6.x WordPress 4.7.x WordPress 4.8.x WordPress 4.9.x WordPress 5.0.x WordPress 5.1.x WordPress 5.2.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 7.1.x - Development

    View all on translate.wordpress.org