Dimitrie GitLab Digital Nomad Blogpost

As promised, I will create a blogpost which describes my incentive, experience and what I have learned on my trip sponsored by GitLab in order to visit colleagues in India, Cambodia and Taiwan.

link to google spreadsheet that I used

Todo

• add photos
• link every city name to its google map
• link every team member name to their profiles on the team page
• "working abroad" handbook page
• make google spreadsheet plan template available
• Ping every team member mentioned checking if they're okay with your text/photo ;)
• Let the theme be mobile optimised
• look into converting image links to carousel
• check all gitlab mentions to be with a capital G and L
• Compress images with tinypng
• finalise blogpost content after reviews
• check if blogpost date is correct

Review app links:

• https://dimitrie-travel-blog-post.about.gitlab.com/2017/06/20/there-and-back-again-in-one-release/
• https://dimitrie-travel-blog-post.about.gitlab.com/handbook/working-remotely#tips-on-working-remotely-while-abroad
• https://dimitrie-travel-blog-post.about.gitlab.com/handbook/incentives/#work-remotely-travel-grant

source/posts/2017-06-09-there-and-back-again-in-one-release.html.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Inspired by [Robert][robert] and [Douwe][douwe] and their trip called [Around th
 ## The incentive
-This year has been an amazing journey for me, with one of the highlights being the GitLab summit in [Cancun, Mexico][cancun]. This event, at which I could bring along my "significant other" to the other side of the world was an amazing opportunity. Meeting people you already know online for the first time is a strange, but wonderful experience.
+This year has been an amazing journey for me, with one of the highlights being the [GitLab summit][summit] in [Cancun, Mexico][cancun]. This event, at which I could bring along my "significant other" to the other side of the world was an amazing opportunity. Meeting people you already know online for the first time is a strange, but wonderful experience.
 ![foto van mexico met iedereen](/images/8_16/pic.jpg)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ This brings me to meeting [Arihant][arihant], which is one of our support engine
 Thinking about going and actually making it real for yourself, is something else. Who will I meet, where can I go? As a bonus, two of my best friends were and are still backpacking the world. Meeting them so far away from home would be awesome.
-Being one of the UX designers at GitLab, I remembered that one person of the UX team couldn't make it to the summit back in January. [Hazel][hazel], who resides in [Taipei, Taiwan][taipei], was the only one which I didn't meet in real life yet. So I reached out to see if I could visit her. She loved the idea!
+Being one of the UX designers at GitLab, I remembered that one person of the UX team couldn't make it to the [summit][summit] back in January. [Hazel][hazel], who resides in [Taipei, Taiwan][taipei], was the only one which I didn't meet in real life yet. So I reached out to see if I could visit her. She loved the idea!
 Meanwhile [Collen][collen], another support engineer living in [Kampot, Cambodia][kampot], made my eyes roll out of their sockets with pictures of [Angkor Wat][angkorwat].
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ Find it [here][handbook-workingabroad]
 [jen-shin]: https://about.gitlab.com/team/#godfat
 [6-releases]: https://about.gitlab.com/2017/01/31/around-the-world-in-6-releases/
+[summit]: https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/08/gitlab-mexico-summit-2017/
 [travel-policy]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/spending-company-money/#travel-to-visit-team-members
 [travel-grant]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/incentives/#work-remotely-travel-grant