Paul will be speaking at WordcampNZ about BuddyPress related topics and about the Achievements Plugin that he has developed.

Paul has previously presented at WordCamp Ireland and WordCamp UK . He was also at  WordCamp New York in Oct 2010.

Inspired by video game achievement systems, Paul has developed Achievements for BuddyPress gives your community fresh impetus by promoting and rewarding social interaction with challenges, badges and points.

For example, you may reward users for commenting on a blog post or uploading a picture to their profile. There are different ways of awarding and rewarding positive contributions to each community.

Achievements has its own website

Robert now focuses entirely on working with cutting edge open source web technologies and commits a percentage of his week to research and development, keeping him as the leading edge of the open source environment. More about Robert over here.

For WordCamp NZ Robert will talk about implementing BuddyPress and other advanced topics.