{"id":15873,"date":"2013-10-23T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T08:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.mumbai.wordcamp.org\/?p=15873"},"modified":"2014-01-13T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T08:51:14","slug":"wordcamp-volunteer-meetup-october2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wordcamp-volunteer-meetup-october2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Volunteers for WordCamp Mumbai &#8211; Meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago we got approval to start pre-planning WordCamp Mumbai 2014. There are still a lot of things to be discussed like dates, venues, sponsors, speakers and more. <a href=\"http:\/\/central.wordcamp.org\/news\/author\/andreamiddleton\/\">Andrea<\/a> who is the Dot organizer for Automattic, has given <a title=\"@gounder\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gounder\" target=\"_blank\">Alex<\/a> good pointers on how to go about the pre-planning phase of the event and more importantly what are the expectations.<\/p>\n<p>We have been organizing WordPress meetups in Mumbai every month for a while now, primarily using our Facebook group for announcements. Now since most of the meetups feature discussions around organizing <a href=\"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\"><strong>WordCamp Mumbai<\/strong><\/a>, we will be using this website itself to announce future meet-ups and agendas around it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are the details of the monthly meetup to discuss WordCamp Mumbai<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: 27th October 2013 at 11.30 AM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only About Dreams &#8211; Office<br \/>\nB\/601, Samajdeep CHS,<br \/>\nNear Balbharti College,<br \/>\nKandivali (West),<br \/>\nMumbai \u2013 400067<\/p>\n<p>Here is a short list of things we plan to discuss and organize.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Venues and dates suitable for WordCamp Mumbai<\/li>\n<li>Drawing up a initial list of suggestions and expectations of the community<\/li>\n<li>Chalking out a preliminary list of venue suggestions, budgets and sponsors<\/li>\n<li>Discussing how to choose speakers and how to encourage more local speakers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So basically this is a call for volunteers. We already have a few regulars at the meet-ups who have promised to get involved, but we want involvement to get truly get a bigger push.<\/p>\n<p>We want to makes this into a truly community driven movement and want loads of feedback, suggestions and help.<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t be shy leave something back in your comments. We also have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WordCampMum\">Facebook Page<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WordCampMum\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/114463929868287795633\/posts\">Google+<\/a> page put up.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ronak Thakkar to volunteering his place for the meetup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago we got approval to start pre-planning WordCamp Mumbai 2014. There are still a lot of things to be discussed like dates, venues, sponsors, speakers and more. 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