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Last 48-Hours to Help WordCamp Pune as a Sponsor

WordCamp Pune will be closing “Call for Sponsors” by Thursday, Jan 5, midnight (IST). If you are considering sponsoring WordCamp Pune, please hurry up!

Call for sponsors is now closed. Thank you for your interest. You can consider sponsoring other WordCamps such as WordCamp Udaipur and WordCamp Kochi.

During Last WordCamp Pune, we closed “Call for Sponsor” before the event.

Thanks to all WordCamp Pune sponsors, we manage to reach our minimum sponsorship goal for this WordCamp too.

So we will be closing “Call for Sponsors” by Thursday, Jan 5, midnight (IST).

If you are planning to sponsor WordCamp Pune, please send your Sponsorship requests before deadline.

If you have already sent a request but did not hear back from us, please bump the email thread or contact us.

We have replied to each sponsorship inquiry already. So no sponsor should be waiting to hear from us. In fact, it’s we who are waiting to hear from some of the sponsors! 😉

Why close call for sponsors?

You may wonder why any event needs to close call for sponsorship!

Isn’t more sponsorship better? Why not accept sponsorship even on last day!

The fact takes days for a sponsorship application to full process. Following is a rough overview.

Every Sponsorship Application…

First, every sponsorship application is reviewed manually where we verify if the sponsor is in line with WordCamp guidelines, the key being if they love and respect GPL as we do!

Once it passes moderation, there are emails exchanged; invoices sent and payments wired. See WordCamps has always been cashless!

Finally, approved sponsors get some benefits. Organizers need time to pass on benefits like blog posts, social media mentions, free tickets and much more.

As you see, there is a lot of work to do with sponsorship applications itself! So even fastest application will take minimum two days.

On another end…

A WordCamp needs many things!

The venue being biggest requirement gets sorted first. But things such as food, swags, and wifi are kept open ended.

We as organisers maintain a list of plans/quotes for such things, but the final decision is often based on funds available for the event.

Now as you can imagine, we can’t place orders for everything on last day; we need to make decisions as early as possible.

In our case, we are planning to close all such decisions by this weekend. That would be exactly one week before the WordCamp Pune 2017.

So we are requesting all prospective sponsors to contribute as early as possible, so we can utilize your funds in best possible way!

It’s still not late!

We are yet to place final orders few things including foods & refreshment, wifi plan.

So if you send your sponsorship within next 2-days, it will help WordCamp Pune.

What about the surplus fund?

Yep. There is a possibility that we might end up with the surplus fund. But that will be passed to the next WordCamp in India as per guidelines.

So your sponsorship will help a WordCamp in India and WordPress community as a whole.

Have A Question?

Please get in touch with us via our contact page.

Link: Call for Sponsors (will close on Thursday, Jan 5, midnight – IST)

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Call for sponsors is now closed. Thank you for your interest. You can consider sponsoring other WordCamps such as WordCamp Udaipur and WordCamp Kochi.

Sandeep Raman will help you Speed up your WordPress Websites

Sandeep Raman will help you Speed up your WordPress Websites at WordCamp Pune. The session is intended for both – end users and developer.

Sandeep Raman is Co-Founder of Hummingbird Web Solutions.

He is the Business Lead for WPEka Blog and Products which builds and supports products for Web developers and Web Designers. He is also a WordPress Core Contributor and Plugin Developer.

At WordCamp Pune, Sandeep will help you speed you your WordPress websites.

His session will help end users and developer alike.

So if your WordPress site is slow, stop complaining and use this session as an opportunity to get over with performance issues.

You can read more about this session here and about Sandeep here.

Tyche Softwares is our new Bronze Sponsor

Tyche Softwares is a WordPress plugin development company specializing in plugins for WooCommerce.

They proudly power businesses in over 25 countries with their Booking, Abandon Cart & Delivery Date plugins.

Headquartered in Mumbai, India, their team regularly speaks, sponsors, volunteers at WordCamps throughout India & elsewhere.

Check out their current openings as well. They are expanding their team!

You can read more about Tyche Softwares on their sponsor page.

We thank Tyche Softwares for their Bronze Sponsorship for WordCamp Pune.

Note: If you would like to sponsor WordCamp Pune, please visit this page soon. We will be closing "Call for Sponsors" soon.

Last 48-hours to Contribute to WordCamp Pune as a Volunteer

WordCamp Pune will be closing call for volunteers by Wednesday, Jan 4, 2017, midnight (IST). Please apply before.

As WordCamp Pune gets closer by another day, we are wrapping up our volunteer’s team.

We have already received many applications and have more than a dozen volunteers for WordCamp Pune. But it never hurts to have more helping hands when you are planning such a large multitrack/multi-activities event!

Deadline for volunteer application

We will be closing call for volunteers by Wednesday, Jan 4, 2017, midnight (IST). Please apply before in case you like to join.

You no need to volunteer for the full or whole event. You can help for an hour on a task you like.

Existing volunteers (shortlisted)

Most importantly, we have scheduled a Volunteers’ Workshop on coming Saturday (Jan 7). This workshop is very important for all volunteers, including the one who is already shortlisted.

If you are a volunteer, but not from Pune, you can attend the workshop remotely. Please get in touch with Premanshu on the slack team (#volunteers channel). If you do not have access to

If you do not have access to the slack team, then contact us immediately.

Existing volunteers (applied)

If you are awaiting a reply from the organizing team, then it would be better to bump up the email thread.

Look for a mail thread with:

[WC Pune Organisers] [<random-number>] WordCamp Volunteer Application

Ignore <random-number> part. You can search for strings like “[WC Pune Organisers]” or “WordCamp Volunteer Application”.

Have a question?

If you have any other questions, please contact us.

Link: Apply to Volunteer

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Gajanan Sapate will show how to setup and track right KPIs for your business using WordPress

Gajanan will explain why different business should track different KPIs to measure own success. And he will also show how you can use a free service such as Google Tag Manager with WordPress to setup and track KPIs for your business.

Gajanan is a marketing enthusiast and a passionate entrepreneur.

At his work at SocialChamps, a leading digital media agency, he has helped 400+ brands grow with his skills.

Gajanan received an honor of cited among ‘50 Most Influential Digital Leaders‘ by World Marketing Congress in 2016.

At WordCamp Pune, Gajanan will first explain why different business should track different key performance indicator (KPI) to measure own success.

Next, he will show how you can use a free service such as Google Tag Manager using free WordPress plugin to setup and track KPIs for your business.

This might sound like a business-only topic. But WordPress developers and freelancers can benefit from the knowledge of using Google Tag Manager for their client work.

You can read more about the session here and the speaker here.

Last 48-hours to Submit Your Speaker Application for WordCamp Pune

Speaker Application Deadline for WordCamp is Tuesday, Jan 3, 2017 midnight (IST). Last 48 hours left.

We are less than two-weeks away from the WordCamp Pune 2017! ⌛️

There are many things pending on our to-do list. One of the key task is to publish the schedule for the WordCamp.

As WordCamp Pune is a multi-track conference, it will need a lot more efforts to get a right schedule compared to single-track event. We are already planning four main tracks in addition to other activities.

We surely wish to avoid git pull situation in speakers schedule as it happened last time 😐

Looks like #WCPune did a git pull pic.twitter.com/3PhpT5FLUE

— Sanat (@hSanat) September 6, 2015

Last date for speaker application

We need minimum 3-days to process any application, atleast in theory! 😉

As we are planning to publish WordCamp schedule by Friday (Jan 6) evening, we need to close speaker applications by Tuesday midnight.

So please submit speaker application by Tuesday, Jan 3, 2017 midnight (IST).

Already Applied?

If you have already submitted an application, then you can wait for a followup from our side till Friday morning.

If we have sent a followup earlier, asking for more details or a sample video, or anything else, we won’t be sending another followup to followup.

You are free to reach to organiser team by bumping the email thread in your mailbox. The subject line for email should look like:

[WC Pune Organisers] [<random-string>] WordCamp Speaker Request

Please ignore the the random sting part. You can search your mailbox for “[WC Pune Organisers]” or “WordCamp Speaker Request” strings.

If you do not see a mail thread, then you may apply again.

Link: Speaker Application Form

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Start Your New Year with a WordCamp!

New Year’s WP-Resolution – Start the year with a WordCamp! Many WordCamps are happening in India this year, starting with WordCamp Pune on 15th January.

First, a very Happy New Year to all fellow WordCampers. 🙂 🎉

2017 looks like a WordCamp year in India!

There are already four WordCamps announced on the WordCamp Central schedule in for first three months of the year 2017:

WordCamp Pune (Jan 15)
WordCamp Udaipur (Jan 28)
WordCamp Kochi (Feb 19)
WordCamp Mumbai (Mar 25-26)

We hope there would be at least four more WordCamps in the last nine months of this year, making this year have most WordCamps in a year in India! 🇮🇳

As a fresh new year has just started, why not start it with a WordCamp or to be specific WordCamp Pune which would be first WordCamp of this year! Yep, our tickets are on the sale already.

If you can’t make it to the WordCamp Pune, maybe you can start your year with WordCamp Udaipur. Their ticket is also available for the purchase.

Apart from WordCamps, you can interact with fellow WordPress community, in-person, via different meetup groups.

Last date for speaker/sponsor applications

If you wish to attend WordCamp Pune as a speaker or sponsor, you better to do it today! We will close call for speakers and call for sponsors in few days.

Already Applied?

If you have already sent your application for speaker or sponsorship, and not clear about your application status, we request you to bump email thread in your mailbox by sending it to pune@wordcamp.org.

If you did not get any email, you may send a fresh application or get in touch with us through our contact form.

We wish you happy new year once again and hope to see you at WordCamp Pune! 🙂

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Last day to Purchase WordCamp Pune Regular Ticket with T-shirt

If you haven’t purchased your WordCamp Pune ticket, then please consider doing it today.

Because today is last day for our “regular tickets” sale. From tomorrow, there will be only “T-shirt less” tickets available; that’s too subject to availability!

What’s the difference between T-shirt less and Regular Ticket?

As the name suggest, T-shirt less tickets will not have free T-shirt that regular tickets come with!

Apart from this, you will be able to attend WordCamp and get access to everything else that regular or early-bird ticket holder will get.

Why can’t all ticket holders gets t-shirts?

As we are just 15-days away from the WordCamp Pune 2017, we need to give a formal T-shirt printing order to our vendor.

For that, we need your t-shirt size before 31st Dec 2016 i.e. today!

How it affects speaker/sponsor/organiser/<anyone-with-free-ticket>?

You should have registered your free ticket by using coupon code by now.

If you haven’t used coupon code yet, please use today to get a regular ticket.

From tomorrow, all tickets, including the one redeemed via coupon code will become T-shirtless tickets.

If you have misplaced your coupon or did not get one, please get in touch with us using the contact form.

How can I verify/change my T-shirt size?

If you have already purchased a ticket, please check confirmation email for information edit link.

The link starts with https://2017.pune.wordcamp.org/tickets/?tix_action=access_tickets&tix_access_token=

The email looks like below:

What can I wear if I end up with T-shirt less ticket?

You are free to wear anything that is in line with WordCamp’s code of conduct. 🙂

But we would love to see you in the nice T-shirts we are printing for the event!

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Makarand Mane, our first Marathi speaker, will talk about contributing to WordPress translation

A WordCamp in Pune without a Marathi session doesn’t feel like Puneri WordCamp!

So here comes Makarand Mane, our first Marathi speaker. Makarand is freelancer and WordPress enthusiast, earning his bread and butter using WordPress from more than five years.

Makarand is a General Translation Editor (GTE) of Marathi language polyglot team. He will be speaking about contributing to WordPress Marathi translation. His session will cover the actual process of contribution and also reasons to contribute.

You can read more about his session in detail here.

We hope this session will inspire you to contribute back to the WordPress!

वर्डकॅम्प पुणे मराठी सत्रा शिवाय पुणेरी वर्ड कॅम्प कसा!

सादर करीत आहोत मकरंद माने, आमचे पहिले मराठी वक्ता. मकरंद फ्रीलान्सर आहेत व वर्डप्रेस चे एक उत्साही वापरकर्ते पण. ते ५ वर्षांपासून आपल्या उपजीविकेसाठी वर्डप्रेस चा वापर करीत आहेत .

मकरंद हे मराठी पॉलीग्लोट (polygot) टीमचे सामान्य भाषांतर संपादक (General Translation Editor) आहेत. ते वर्डप्रेस मराठी अनुवादा आपण कसे योगदान करू शकतात याबद्दल बोलणार आहेत. त्यांच्या सत्रामध्ये प्रत्यक्ष योगदान देण्याची पद्धत आणि कारणेही समाविष्ट असतील.

आपण या सत्राबद्दल अधिक माहिती इथे बघू शकता.

आमहि आशा करतो की हे सत्र आपल्याया वर्डप्रेस मध्ये योगदान करण्यासाठी प्रेरित करेल.

(Credits – Thanks Ashish and Milind for Marathi Translation)

HostRipples India is our Silver Sponsor at WordCamp Pune 2017

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