{"id":2037,"date":"2015-07-17T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.pune.wordcamp.org\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2015-07-18T00:21:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:51:11","slug":"find-out-how-wordpress-can-change-learning-and-education-from-mahangu-weerasinghe-of-automattic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/find-out-how-wordpress-can-change-learning-and-education-from-mahangu-weerasinghe-of-automattic\/","title":{"rendered":"Find out How WordPress can Change Education with Mahangu Weerasinghe of Automattic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-grav\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-ad803853cedbc7d7e30a5b0613c72161-0\" class=\"avatar no-grav avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad803853cedbc7d7e30a5b0613c72161?s=320&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/>If you were at WordCamp Mumbai, there&#8217;s no chance that you escaped being mesmerised by Mahangu&#8217;s\u00a0presentation skills. He&#8217;s coming to Pune to discuss\u00a0<strong>Beyond the Blackboard: Building Education Products for South Asia<\/strong>. Whether you are an educator, learner, interested in the social and economic impact of education or education is just your business, he&#8217;ll help you see WordPress in a new light, as a simple but powerful educational tool!<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Colombo, Sri Lanka, <span class=\"lG\">Mahangu<\/span> first found WordPress when he\u00a0stumbled upon 0.70 in the dark recesses of #wordpress on Freenode. He\u00a0has used and provided support for every major release of the software,\u00a0and is excited about the impact the platform can have on South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Though once a high school English teacher, his desire to make online\u00a0publishing more democratic led him to Automattic, where he now works\u00a0as a Happiness Engineer. He sincerely believes that stellar support\u00a0will play a pivotal role in helping WordPress power the next 24% of\u00a0the web!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were at WordCamp Mumbai, there&#8217;s no chance that you escaped being mesmerised by Mahangu&#8217;s\u00a0presentation skills. He&#8217;s coming to Pune to discuss\u00a0Beyond the Blackboard: Building Education Products for South Asia. Whether you are an educator, learner, interested in the social and economic impact of education or education is just your business, he&#8217;ll help you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/find-out-how-wordpress-can-change-learning-and-education-from-mahangu-weerasinghe-of-automattic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Find out How WordPress can Change Education with Mahangu Weerasinghe of Automattic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3953804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers","category-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67dsD-wR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3953804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}