WordCamp Pune 2019

This talk will be a flash talk for 10 mins in Marathi.

Harshvardhan Pawar is Digital Marketer with 8+ Years of Experience. He is currently working as Freelancer and as a consultant at Campus Times Media, All Angles Software Solutions and Avail Advertising.

He has started the YouTube channel “Digital Marketing Marathi“ to provide information about Digital Marketing to Marathi audience

About Session

Harshvardhan Pawar will speak about the simplicity of WordPress for developing the website, how he is adding WordPress Development Skills in his portfolio with Digital Marketing by developing brand websites as per client requirements and design needs.

Jitesh is a marketeer and a WordPress developer. He will take us through the 3 step process of writing content that creates great experiences for customers or users of a business.

Jitesh has built WordPress themes and plugins both as a freelancer and via his agency. Before joining the WordPress community, Jitesh worked as a software engineer in semiconductor, industrial automation, telecom and consumer domains.

Now he is a Business Manager at Hummingbird Web Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Manage the WordPress division at Hummingbird.

About Session

Creating content that creates magic is a 3 step process:

1. Understanding your audience’s problems
2. Creating unique content that solves your audience’s problems
3. Putting content in front of your audience

During this talk, he will discuss these 3 steps with real life examples.

Connect with Jitesh on Twitter

What is required for a successful project delivery? Prasad, a Punekar will share some tips drawing upon his almost decade long experience delivering WordPress projects.

Prasad works with rtCamp – an enterprise-grade WordPress agency which is also one of WordPress.com VIP partner. In his 9 years journey at rtCamp, he has been involved in different roles such as theme development, plugin development, hiring, firing, project management & project delivery.

His current role at rtCamp is VP – Delivery. Prasad has also contributed to WordPress as a core contributor, plugin developer & translations contributor

About Session

Through this session, Prasad is going to share his experience on how empathy & ownership towards the project helps in successful delivery. Keeping in mind the client success as an end goal, Prasad will explain some important points one should focus on, along with the examples of how it helped him.

First a quick update. Our organizers or volunteers do not find accommodations either for attendees or speakers. We might in our individual capacity as friends help someone out but that is not something we do as a group. But we have a short post on somethings you can do if you are from outside Pune.

Accomodation

For staying in Pune, you could look at any options from either Fabhotels, Oyorooms , Ginger hotels depending upon your budget, convenience. If you are looking to stay near the conference, then would suggest to look for hotels in and around Baner .

If you don’t mind traveling and want to see more of the city, you could look at hotels near ‘Koregaon Park’ , ‘Deccan Gymkhana’ or if you want to experience old world charm then look for hotels near ‘Laxmi Road’ , ‘Shaniwar Peth’ , ‘Kasba Peth’ and surrounding areas.

Pune is also home to YMCA so if you are either a YMCA member or love that atmosphere, ambience that is also possible.

Tourism in Pune

If you are in Pune and you want to explore Pune, there are quite a few options to see Pune in its glory. One option is to go for heritage walks which are organized by quite a few private travel companies and a non-profit. Intach usually does a heritage walk, a stories walk and couple of other walks on the second or third weekend like this.

If you want to explore the city by Bus there are Pune Darshan buses both by Pune Muncipal Corporation and private tour companies. There is also no shortage of things to do in Pune after WordCamp so make sure to get the some idea of what the city is and has to offer after WordCamp is over.

The heritage walk could be organized but needs to have at least 15 odd people who would be interested in that and would cost INR 500/- apart from refreshments and any other expenses. All the proceeds go to intach for their heritage conservation activities.

Our next speaker Sujay, is a local from Pune and has been selling plugins and themes for a long time. At WordCamp Pune, he will be sharing some of that secret sauce, that goes in to marketing those products.

Sujay co-founded Brainstorm Force which is parent company of my several 7 figure online businesses. Their software products collectively power over 2 million websites. His specialities are product development, launch & growth hacking.
Follow him on Twitter @SujayPawar

About Session

Sujay has been involved in development of several successful WordPress products such as Astra theme, Ultimate Addons, Convert Pro, Schema Pro and CartFlows. His WordPress plugins and themes collectively power more than 2 million WordPress websites.
Join us in this session where Sujay has promised us to share his experience and tips. 

As WordCamp Pune is only 2 weeks away, we wanted to shine some light on the open-source friendly places and communities around Pune.

First we want to do a shoutout to Pune WordPress Knowledge Exchange. 

The meetup group behind this WordCamp, we love spreading the word about WordPress as a publishing platform.

Here are some other open source friendly communities around the city of Pune.

• Mozilla Pune – While mozilla is more famously known for its browser, these group of individuals looks into various aspects such as privacy, security, javascript, scalable apps. , front-end and back-end development using foss tools.

• Pune Developer’s Community – Pune Developer’s Society shares technical knowledge about various FOSS tools .

• PythonPune – While there are more than a few groups on and about Python, this is one of the larger communities.

• Reserved-bit hackerspace – It’s a hackerspace so deals in both free software, especially linux kernel meetups, sometimes meetups on gcc or ulibc and has a place where people could hack on electronics using Arduino or Raspberry Pi, beagleboard etc.

• ReactJS and Friends – While there are at the very least 3-4 groups or more about Javascript Technologies on meetup.com.

• Pune Debian Users Group – The group is aimed at people who want to contribute to the Debian Operating System.

• Technowise – The meetup topics are varied and interesting and touches on many interesting and varied foss technologies

• Pune Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning Online – They usually do webinars which means remote streaming so people can learn about H2o.ai an open-source platform about AI and Deep learning to develop products on.

• Agile Testing Alliance – Pune Chapter – While strictly not a foss platform, Agile testing is a methodology increasingly used by many FOSS developers and FOSS teams to give more value to businesses and business solutions. Most of the workshops are around FOSS products .

I am sure there are more and drop them in your comments.

The next speaker being announced is Priyanka Behera, who has spoken at various WordPress meetups around accessibility.

Priyanka is native of Odisha India, currently providing WordPress development through Multidots. She is using and working in the WordPress platform since 2013. She was the Organizer of first WordCamp Ahmedabad 2017. In her free time, she likes to write blogs related to traveling, contributes to the community and photography.

About Session

In this session, you will get to know about the accessibility. All the different terminology related to accessibility. The need and the relation of accessibility in the WordPress. With some contribution experience in her life. The web accessibility rules and different statistics related to it.

For the developers and Quality analysis, she is going to deliver the steps to take when we are creating a site accessible. The HTML and coding rules need to keep in mind to achieve the accessibility. Some of the plugins and tools which are helpful to achieve the accessibility report.