WordCamp Pune

It’s time to start planning your WCPune trip!

WordCamp Pune is less than a month away. If you haven’t made your travel itinerary yet, now’s a great time to start!
Below is a list of hotels around the venue. Booking your stay well in advance is a great way to knock a few bucks off the price. If you are travelling in a group, most hotels will make further allowances for multiple bookings.
You can hit us up on Twitter (@WordCampPune) if you need help planning your stay.

5 star ( ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ )

ST Laurn Hotel (2.5km)

15 A, Koregaon Road
Phone: 020 4000 8000
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 4,500

Vivanta By Taj – Blue Diamond (2.5km)

11, Koregaon Road
Phone: 020 6602 5555
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 5,525

Le Méridien Pune (3.1km)

Raja Bahadur Mill Road
Phone: 020 6641 1111
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 7,140

The O Hotel (2.8km)

North Main Road, Koregaon Park
Phone: 020 4001 1000
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 8,000

Conrad Pune (800m)

7, Mangaldas Rd, Sangamvadi
Phone: 020 6745 6745
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 8,499

4 star ( ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ )

Hotel Sagar Plaza (1.7km)

1, Bund Garden Rd, Sangamvadi
Phone: 096 5772 3858
Rooms start from‎ ( SPECIAL OFFER ): ₹ 2,800

Aurora Towers Hotel (2km)

No.9, Moledina Road
Phone: 020 2613 1818
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 4,000

Royal Orchid Golden Suites (4km)

Golden Nest, Opp. Cerebrum IT Park, Kalyani Nagar
Phone: 020 4000 7000
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 4,000

3 star ( ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ )

Hotel Woodland (2km)

B J Road, Sadhu Vaswani Circle, Near Pune Railway Station
Phone: 020 2621 2121
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 2,500

Hotel Phoenix (5.5km)

Shop No. B1/1,Opp. Satellite Tower, Koregaon Park extension
Phone: 020 6687 2000
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 2,800

The Central Park Hotel (1.5km)

Near Inox Multiplex, Bund Garden Rd, Agarkar Nagar
Phone: 020 4010 4000
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 3,200

Hotel Studio Estique (2km)

Amar Avinash Corporate Plaza, Near Inox Multiplex, Bund Garden Road
Phone: 020 4018 8444
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 3,960

2 star ( ⭐ ⭐ )

Hotel Meru (1.7 km)

Dhole Patil Road, Behind Ruby Hospital, Boat Club
Phone: 020 6560 1616
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 1140

Hotel Sapna (4.7km)

573/7, Jangli Maharaj Road, Next to Sambhaji Park, Opposite Shiv Sagar Restaurant
Phone: 020 6800 1455
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 2,000

1 star ( ⭐ )

Treebo Sahara (6.9km)

Sr No 106/3a, Opp. J W Marriott, Senapati Bapat Road, Shivaji Nagar
Phone: 093 2280 0100
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 2,294

Service Apartments

Hotel Shivam (1.4km)

12, Wilson Garden, Near Pune Railway Station
Phone: 020 2613 7593 For Query
080 3966 4713 For Booking Rooms
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 1,495

Hotel Madhav International (2.5km)

6 A, Ramabai Ambedkar Road, Near Pune Railway, Station Tadiwala Road, Agarkar Nagar
Phone: 020 2605 9118
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 2,000

Valencia Hospitality Service Apartments (5.5km)

Kalyani Nagar

Shree Balaji Service Apartment (5.5km)

Shastrinagar, Yerawada

Apple Tree Apartments (4.3km)

410, Dee Bee Tower, 1st floor, lane, 5, S Main Rd, Koregaon Park
Phone: 098 6036 7777
Rooms start from‎ ₹ 2,000

Other Options

Hotel Sudarshan (5km)

Plot No.18, Lane No.7, HDFC Bank Lane,Kalyani Nagar
Phone: Tel. 020 4004 6273 / 74 / 75
Mob.: 097 6222 2375 / 98 2265 0140

Hotel Lotus (4.2km)

Opp Rajat Rashmi Apartment, Lane No. 5, Koregaon Park
Phone: 098 2265 0141

We are going bananas for CyberChimps, our Silver sponsors

CyberChimps was one of the earliest Theme stores to develop fully-responsive and SEO-friendly WordPress themes. Run by a team of web professionals with extensive WordPress experience, CyberChimps believes in continuous improvement, never resting on their laurels. With over 5 million downloads and 11 million websites launched using a CyberChimps Theme – it is safe to say that they have arrived.

At WordCamp Pune 2017, be sure to stop by the CyberChimps Desk to meet the team and say Hi !
You can follow CyberChimps on Twitter and Facebook.

Victoria Park will help build business websites with WordPress.com

When we talk about building websites, we usually mean a self hosted WordPress installation from WordPress.org. Have you ever considered that a lot of websites could just be built using the WordPress.com service?

Putting together websites for clients can have a lot of moving parts, and there isn’t always the promise of the websites continuing to remain active in the long run. You can set up successful small business sites on WordPress.com and make it easier for both you and your clients to keep it running. This talk will cover site ownership, support, and what’s possible on a WordPress.com website so you can make the best decision for your client.

OpenSRS is openly our Silver sponsor

OpenSRS enables hosting companies and other Internet service providers to offer domain names, hosted email, SSL and security products. Our network includes over 13,000 resellers in 150 countries with more than 13 million domains and 3.5 million mailboxes under management.

Fairy Dharawat is going to grant your wish and make your blog readable!

Writers carry with them an immodest streak, this beauty to put words into thoughts is no doubt a wonderful skill, but it’s not magic, it’s nothing extraordinary. And that’s what this session is going to be, equipping you with tools to read and write better. It’s going to be about improving your readability quotient. It’s only after reading well is when can you write well for your blog. So if you’re looking to improve your writing, come! Here some handy tools will shared which can drastically affect your writing. It will also cover how to improve your reading speed which is important if you want to become a better writer.

What makes Fairy Dharawat take this session you may ask, humble reader. I say, not much. Honestly, she’s still figuring out how to become a good writer, and she does have depressing doubts over creative blocks, using best words and sentence formation. Even though she has been a writer for around 5 years, there is just so much to learn! Writing is all she knows, and there too she is learning, but she can be sure of one thing, if she was in another profession, she would’ve been fired long back. So she has a tiny bit of knowledge when it comes to putting one word after another. Also, she likes to think, she’s super fun to be around, so come to learn tips to read and write better from this self-confessed fun person.

Call for Volunteers

With 500 participants, 4 tracks and loads of engaging activities, WordCamp Pune 2017 is an ambitious project.

We need a lot of help to pull of an event at this scale and to make sure participants have a great experience. We need you!

What does a volunteer do at WordCamp Pune?

Help with pre-WordCamp events.
Man registration or swag desks.
Time sessions so that everything starts & finishes on time.
Help sponsors set up their tables.
Guide speakers to their sessions.
and a lot of other such micro-tasks. See last year’s call for volunteers.

What does a volunteer get?

Respect & credits in the community.
Heavily discounted tickets to #WCPune (~~₹500~~ ₹100).
Inside view & experience of organising the largest WordCamp in India.
An opportunity to work with and learn from leaders in the Indian WordPress ecosystem.
Special training sessions & workshops.
An opportunity to interact with leaders in the global WordPress ecosystem.

Volunteer Application Form

Call for Volunteers is closed now. Thank you for your interest though. We hope to see you at WordCamp Pune! :-)

Thank you for making the early bird experiment a success

The Organisers’ Problems

One of the problems that we, as organisers, find hard to tackle is ticket sales. For various reasons, ticket sales don’t pick up till the last few days. A lot of vendors can’t be confirmed and a lot of arrangements remain pending because we don’t know how many people will actually end up buying tickets.

Yes, the last WordCamp Pune was houseful but it can be considered a one off incident looking at the history of WordCamps and even this selling out happened very close to the event. It gets very chaotic towards the end and we end up spending more time worrying about how much to arrange instead of actually arranging for things.

In the organiser utopia, all tickets should sell out at least 2-3 weeks before the event so we can make the best arrangements and preparations without falling short or wasting important things like food and other resources.

An Experiment

So, when we went to the orientation hangout with a WordCamp Deputy, we proposed this idea of having discounted early bird tickets. We got a go ahead for this experiment in the hope that if it works out, other WordCamps around the world may try something similar, if they are up for it.

Due to the recent demonetisation and other problems with managing money at WordCamps in India, we ended up starting ticket sales much later than we had planned and our ticketing schedule ended up being tighter than we had hoped for.

Even then, within one week of opening ticket sales, we are happy to announce that we have sold 140 tickets. That’s almost 1/3rd of our total capacity. We’re hoping that this tempo continues and we sell out before the 1st of Jan and every participant gets a t-shirt.

T-shirts and T-shirtless Tickets

Any tickets bought after 31st December are not going to get a t-shirt because it takes at least 15 days to print and deliver t-shirts. 🙁

We want all our participants to go back with a wonderful WordCamp Pune t-shirt that reminds them of their experience and memories of this WordCamp for years to come!

So, this is a thank you to all of you who helped us organise things better by buying tickets in advance and not waiting till the last minute.

Special Thanks to Individual Sponsors

Alexander Gounder & Amit Patekar are two awesome community members who decided to go for tickets priced way above the regular tickets, just to support WordCamp Pune 2017 and help the organisers out. This idea of micro-sponsoring is something that we borrowed from WCUS and we hope more community members give as much value to the event as these two do.

More sponsors like them make sure that we cover costs and still manage to give scholarships and discounts to people who at times can’t afford a regular ticket or need a little extra encouragement/ help in attending a WordCamp. If you happen to bump into them at WordCamp Pune 2017, do give them a high-five on our behalf! 🙂

MilesWeb goes another mile as our Silver Sponsors

“Customer service is the backbone of our business and this is where we really strive hard to make a difference.” – say MilesWeb Co-Founders.

The people at MilesWeb have been in the web hosting industry for years, they are well aware of the functioning of the web hosting industry and they deliver their best. They are committed to provide services for all skill levels, no matter whether you are a beginner or completely web savvy.

They empower their customers to unlock the full potential of the web and get the best out of it. Considering the fact that customers want value for money, they have bundled their services with industry leading features and 24/7 pro-active customer support which is available throughout the year to ensure that everything is perfect with their customers website.

Headquartered in India, with tier 3 and 4 data centers in India, UK, USA and Romania, the company offers web hosting, domain registrations, standard and custom made hosting solutions for all types of websites and businesses.

The array of their product range features WordPress hosting, Domain name, Sharedhosting, Reseller hosting, VPS, Cloud, Dedicated servers, SSL certificates, eCommerce hosting etc.

They are constantly working towards adding new features and improving their product range. Their passion of keeping the products up to date has helped them to keep an edge over the competition. This can be perfectly depicted through the range of their webhosting products.

The MilesWeb technical and support team carries over a decade’s experience in the hosting industry. The team possesses excellent knowledge and they are always at your service to help and advise you. The experience and knowledge possessed by their staff helps them to succeed and prosper in the Industry.

Packed with excellent value, MilesWeb is a great place to launch a blog, website or online application into the stratosphere!

Follow MilesWeb on Twitter and Facebook.

Learn more at: MilesWeb.com

QualiSpace is the Gold Sponsor of our quality space!

QualiSpace, an ICANN-Accredited organisation, has been successfully catering to the demands of the Web Hosting and Cloud Industry since the past 18 years. They are the hub of all the great web services that you would require to bring and establish your business online successfully! Every Cloud product is designed with precision and meant for everyone, right from industry experts to laymen, and for any kind of assistance, you would have our highly-efficient Technical Support Team to guide you through the situation.

Their Web Hosting & Cloud offerings are high on quality and go easy on everyone’s wallet!

They are-

Domains, your online identity is registered by them and it would be solely yours!

Their Hosting Services would assure you a QUALIty SPACE on the web!

The Cloud, is made available to you for vigorously promoting your business!

Their Email Solutions would let you carve your own identity with the help of personalized emails.

Their Security Solutions are available for keeping your website safe because your business security is as imperative as your business itself! They help you secure your website’s perimeters.

QualiSpace is the ultimate hub of all web products and they help you bring your business online right from the scratch!

WBComDesigns designs match ours as a Bronze Sponsor

WBComDesigns is a WordPress based agency situated in Lucknow, India. With a great zeal for WordPress, the folks at WBComDesigns have coupled their technical expertise with 5+ years of strategic work experience to give the best to their client’s business. You can find WBComDesigns on WordPress freelancer platforms like Upwork.

The Services offered by WBComDesigns include WordPress core, theme and plugin updates along with around the clock site maintenance to ensure that the clients’ sites grow their business traffic. Automated site backups, prevention of site hacks and bounce rate, and boosting the site’s conversion are WBComDesigns’ other approaches as a sepcialised WordPress development firm. WBComDesigns also provides website designing services along with developing WordPress, E-commerce websites, and BuddyPress solutions.

Connect with WBComDesigns on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.