He’s been building, websites, themes and theme-frameworks for six years now and is one of the best front-end developers around.
Looking at his body of work, it’d be hard to believe that Sagar started off as a Photoshop expert and today is a proud core contributor to WordPress 4.2. All because WordPress charmed him and he fell for it!
He loves building modern, user friendly web sites and applications is and hence actively seeks out new technologies that help him stay up to date.
An entrepreneur, blogger and internet addict, after a 12 year stint in the IT Industry across three continents, Arun came back to India to start on his own. His two startups have had mixed success.
He is the founder of Armoks Interactive Labs and the founder-editor at Trak.in. Trak.in is one of the most popular virtual destination for Indian technology news and views. He and a team of passionate writers present insightful and analytical stories on technology, telecom and the startup world.
We have received great response to our call for speakers. However, there are some topics/ domains for which we’re specifically looking for experts. So, if you haven’t applied because you weren’t sure what you’d do, we’ve made it easy for you. Read on and see if you fit the bill. If you do, do hurry up. There are just six days left for closing applications.
We’d love to have you enlighten us about the basic principles of design. So that we may discern good design from bad and never make ghastly websites like the one above. (Ling’s Cars, in case you were wondering!)
There are so many themes and so many designs floating around. There is ample scope of making a mistake and choosing an inappropriate theme. You know how expensive that mistake could turn out to be. We probably don’t. Just head to the application form to evolve our design sensibilities.
There’s one thing about WordPress (and with the open source world) that some people love while others hate. There are too many options in the WordPress ecosystem. For every feature, there are at least 2-3 plugins if you’re lucky or dozens if you’re not. For every business there are hundreds of potential themes. And there are a lot of hosting options, OSes, server software, domain name providers and so on.
You’d be the person who can tell us what’s good and what’s not and why. Maybe you’d tackle the essential and/ or common features or maybe you’d like to take up anything that your audience throws at you. Maybe you just want to select one important and popular product and evaluate it for us. We leave that up to you and we really want you to apply to speak.
You love the stage, you enthrall the crowd and you have the knowledge as well as the tact for moderating discussions and conversations. They can get confusing and haywire faster than you’d spell haywire. Open source is chaotic and we need co-ordinators to bring in some order.
You are either a great blogger or and expert developer. You probably aren’t much interested in the amount of good vibes, karma and connections that come with this role. Quickly fill up our orderly form.
If you love talking about controversial or ambivalent issues and don’t mind debating someone with opposite views, you’d be at home in WordCamp Pune. For a democratic software, difference of opinion is important. Contact us to help the democracy.
In spite of the best efforts of the community, some things are still difficult/ obscure/ slightly complex/ exasperating. At least once in your relationship with WordPress, you’ve needed help and you’ve received help!
As someone with some experience and knowledge about WordPress, it would be great if you could give back to the community by helping your fellow WordPress lovers. The happier people are with WordPress, the more they’d use it. The more people use WordPress, the better it is for business! How about getting in touch to engineer some happiness?
Did we tell you that there are just six days left to apply?
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No more sitting in the same room the whole day, listening to all the speakers, whether or not they are relevant for you. WordCamp Pune 2015 is going to be way more interactive than any conference can be. Oh! We are also going to have a lot of fun. What’s so different about WordCamp Pune?
Three parallel tracks means three things to choose from at any given point. Don’t code and don’t care about it. Why go through a talk on plugin development? Maybe a workshop on writing well may interest you better! Ditto for programmers. You don’t have to sit through talks about what plugins to install.
We have sessions lined up in Marathi and Hindi, as well. Being pragmatic, these will be mixed with each other and English. It’s always more fun to participate in something in our everyday language!
What is better than one expert giving you their opinion? Multiple experts discussing the best ways possible and involving you in the discussions. While we we’ll announce the topic (very useful one, we promise) and the panelists (very interesting ones, we promise) very soon, a panel discussion is always better than a speech, we think.
Who doesn’t love a lively debate? Just throw in a controversy and watch the fun! On a serious note, not everything is black and white. Things are confusing at times. It is always great to have two opposite points of view slug it out and help clarify some important questions. All of us get to participate in a debate, don’t we?
Why listen to someone for hours if they can be done in 5 minutes? Super short, super crisp, lighting talks will allow us to listen to four talks in the time reserved for one! (By the way, we’re really short on good entries, maybe you or your friend would want to present their blog or their product.)
What if you don’t want to attend any of the sessions? You go to the WP Lounge where WordPress lovers and experts will chill out and discuss … what else, WordPress. Very useful if you have questions or need help with WordPress or can help someone else with it. The second best place to catch hold of speakers after their talk (Session Overflow is the first!).
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
– Confucius
True that! Learn by actually doing something rather than listening to people talk about things or looking passively at slides. Experts will conduct workshops on setting up multilingual websites. There are more workshops that we’ll announce in the coming days.
If you have a topic and some people willing to listen to you, we don’t want to stop you. Maybe you were not selected as an official speaker. Maybe you come up with the idea right then. Just get to the main schedule, grab a marker from a volunteer and add your session to the unconference space. Afterall, it’s all about openness and freedom!
The whole WordCamp gets together and then it’s an open house. Any question can be asked by anyone and anybody can answer it. It just has to be about WordPress. Any topic can be discussed, any issues tackled. It’s all open!
An hour long lunch break, two tea breaks (20 mins & 30 mins) and seven 10 mins breaks between sessions. That’s ten breaks of total three hours; enough time to make personal and business relationships or just take a break between heavy duty sessions!
A real WordPress treasure hunt with a lot of fun. We’ll be announcing details a few days before the WordCamp. Otherwise, the fun gets spoilt!
There are other fun contests that you’ll hear about in the coming days. Sorry, can’t divulge any more information at this point; can’t spoil the surprise!
You, I and everyone at WordCamp Pune 2015 will party at the end!
Think we’re missing something? Do you have a great idea? Why not let us know!
Photo Credit: 25.365 by Romana Klee is licensed under CC BY SA 2.0.
An Intense Discussion by Shaun Dunphy is licensed under CC BY SA 2.0.
Unconference by JD Lasica is licensed under CC BY NC 2.0.
Flex Get Together_Sudoeste by Casa Thomas Jefferson is licensed under CC BY NC ND 2.0.
Treasure 014-1 by leigh49137 is licensed under CC BY NC 2.0.
Were you wondering what this tweet was all about?
Aunty police bula legi…
— WordCamp Pune (@WordCampPune) June 28, 2015
What do you do after the WordCamp? Go home? Go back to your hotel room? Go out for a drink or two with your friends?
Why not go to a party where everyone can hang out, chat, and have even more fun together? I mean how cool would it be for participants, speakers and organisers to socialise at the same place and at the same time.
The after-party will be somewhere close to the venue. The party venue will be decided depending on the number of people.
We will make some sort of arrangements for discounts but you’d have to pay the remaining amount for your food and drinks. Nothing will be completely free.
There are no separate tickets. Your WordCamp ticket is your entry pass. However, you have to pre-register for the party.
The party will start at about 7:00 in the evening and go on till the legal permissible time (usually between 11:00 to 12:00 depending on the venue).
You can dance, as long as you don’t dance like this:
Cool, neither do half the organisers. You can still come to the party, sip some juice, mocktails or Thums Up on the rocks and watch drunk people. It’s a lot of fun!
No issues, half the organisers are vegetarian (including myself); we even have Jains amongst us. We’ll eat our veggies and paneer.
The tickets go on sale in a couple of days. In the form, there’ll be a field asking if you want to attend the after party. Just say yes/ tick mark it and we’ll add you to our guest list for the after-party!
We’ll see you at the WordCamp and after it, as well.
Originally from San Francisco, Joe is a Bangkok based WordPress developer. He spends about half the year on the road, often working with limited internet connectivity and a distributed team. Coding from airplanes, buses, boats, and cafes around the world, he quickly felt the need for a robust local/remote workflow.
Joe wears many hats, including project management, development, and lead customer support roles for Soflyy, running a small WordPress studio, and co-organising the WordPress Bangkok Meetup group. In his free time he enjoys SCUBA diving, travelling, long walks on the beach, and harassing his roommate’s cat.
A Web developer, UI/UX hacker, free software activist, Doctor Who fan and all round geek. Gaurav discovered WordPress in 2009 and fell in love. He even ran a web development services company for 5 years completely revolving around WordPress.
Primarily a theme developer, he also dabbles in non-traditional uses of WordPress. When not doing his job as a web developer or geeking out on science fiction stuff, he dabbles in accessibility tech, bash, python, Linux desktop software, 3D design, music, and cooking. He aspires to start a social enterprise for accessibility related technology someday.
Speaking anywhere for the first time is harrowing enough. However, a WordCamp is a bigger deal for most of us because it comes with a whole lot of professional cred. The stakes are a little higher and so is our apprehension.
So, if you’ve been nursing ideas of speaking at WordCamp Pune but otherwise are not sure what to do, worry not, we’ve got you covered. We’re hosting a Workshop on Speaking at a WordCamp. While primarily meant for the first timers, experienced speakers may also pick up a technique or two to sharpen their game.
So, if you are in Pune on the 4th of July, you might want to attend this one: Workshop on Speaking at a WordCamp.
Sudar has been programming for more than a decade and is a polyglot. He has written production code in more than half a dozen programming languages – and most of it was using Vim!
Sudar first discovered WordPress in late 2005 while searching for a self hosted blogging platform for his migration away from Blogger. After tinkering with WordPress for his blog, he published his first WordPress plugin in late 2007 and has since continued to release more than 20 plugins with a total of nearly half a million downloads. He blogs about WordPress and web development at http://sudarmuthu.com.
We are kicked to announce a multilingual workshop on building multilingual websites by a multilingual team from WPML at the multilingual WordCamp Pune 2015.
Oh yes, you read that right. The team from WPML consists of Bigul Malayi, Harshad Mane, Ankit Gade, Minesh Shah and Sumit Singh. Each of them speaks a different native tongue, making the team multilingual as well! 🙂 These experts are going to conduct a hands-on workshop on building multilingual WordPress websites.
The workshop titled “Let your site speak multilingual!”, will be conducted in three languages at the same time: Hindi, Marathi and English. Now it’s up to you to make use of this opportunity and learn how to make all content and meta content of your WordPress site multilingual!
Photo Credit: A bad cross between Hindi and Marathi by Meghana Kulkarni is licensed under CC BY NC 2.0.
WordCamp Pune 2015 is over. Check out the next edition!