We would like to introduce WooThemes which is a Gold Sponsor at WordCamp Mumbai 2015.
WooThemes answered our Call for Sponsors and came on board as Gold Sponsor to support the WordCamp in Mumbai.
WooThemes is a leading WordPress theme and plugin provider with tons of free and commercial products available to jumpstart your website.
We would like to introduce WPML which is a WordCamp Accomplice at WordCamp Mumbai 2015 and part of the WordCamp’s Multi-event Sponsor program supporting many other WordCamps like ours.
WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.
WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 400,000 commercial websites from all over the world.
More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org
We announced three lists of speakers for WordCamp Mumbai 2015. Today, I am announcing the final list of speakers.
Here are the seven we are proud to announce.
Roshnikumar is an open-source fundamentalist. He is the founder of Globizs Web Solutions Pvt Ltd
which has been developing websites on WordPress since 2006. They have developed more than 200 WordPress websites along with a few dozen websites for Government of Manipur.
Speaker Session: WordPress Security – OWASP TOP 10 Protection
Akshay discovered WordPress in 2008 and has been in love with it since then. He started moonlighting on small client projects and custom plugin development. He subsequently tried to bootstrap a WordPress services firm just to discover that services is not something that he wants to do for a living.
By day, Akshay is a Human Resources professional and heads HR at the India office of Fab.com
Currently he occasionally freelances on interesting WordPresss projects and supports a couple of WordPress plugins authored by him. He aspires to build a successful WordPress product company some day.
Speaker Session: Embedding and consuming external content in WordPress: Requests, Caching, Parsing
IdeaSmith is the digital doppelgänger of Ramya Pandyan (middle-class Mumbaikar, intrepid train-traveller). As IdeaSmith, she battles obscurity, slays boredom and keeps a lot of people entertained with her stories about Mumbai, men, books and life at large. She blogs, tweets, Insta’s, FB’s, +G’s and Goodreads.
Her verbal performances air at The Idea-smithy and XX Factor. Tweet-bomb her at @ideasmithy.
Speaker Session: The Content Creator’s Life – Challenges, Motivations, Concerns
Raj Mehta is an 18-year-old blogger and designer, who is going through the throes of formal education. He got into web design when he was 15 and has never looked back since.
He blogs at “Raj himself“ about his experiences. When not attending college or working, he spends his time playing the keyboard and hanging out with smart folks.
Speaker Session: Typography for WordPress
Born and raised in Mumbai, Jatin Hariani is a developer and designer with 4 years of experience under his belt. From major web applications to simple corporate websites, WordPress has been a major building block in most of the projects he has worked on.
He tweets about WordPress, Web Development in general and a bunch or random things at @JatinHariani.
Speaker Session: Simple WordPress Troubleshooting
Krishna (aka Adaire) is a 17 year old from Mumbai who blogs at Ink on Pixels. She has been taken part in NaNoWriMo 2014 and is a national level TSEC 2014 debator. She has also written a novel.
Speaker Session: WordPress and the Youth!
Vishal Kothari has been working with WordPress for the last 3 years. He is the founder of Tyche Softwares, a company that develops WordPress plugins. Vishal has been working with PHP since last 14 years.
Speaker Session: WordPress Settings API – Settings, Sections & Fields
Hope you are happy with our finalized list of speakers. You can view the entire list here.
So join us for WordCamp Mumbai, tickets are available!
A couple of days ago, we made our tickets available. Though we shared this information on our social media channels, we have waited for a couple of days to announce it via a blog post. Mainly, we has a few glitches to iron out and more importantly we had not released the final list of speakers for WordCamp Mumbai 2015.
We think it is important that you see who is speaking and what they are speaking about at WordCamp before you buy a ticket. 🙂
So you can see all the speakers, check out who else are attending and then buy your ticket.
The ticket price is INR 500/- only and is non-refundable. We are not rolling out any discounts but some of our volunteers, organizers, speakers and sponsors get a free ticket.
Visit https://2015.mumbai.wordcamp.org/tickets/ and book your tickets.
Thanks to Vachan Kudmule our ticket wrangler and long time WordCamp Mumbai organizer/volunteer. He has written a Camptix plugin that makes it possible for us to process ticket payments from the WordCamp website itself. This plugin can be used by other WordCamps in India using INR currency. So it is good karma for community.
Also special thanks to Ian Dunn for helping us get this plugin working on this website.
Link: Tickets
We would like to introduce Jetpack by Automattic which is a WordCamp Champion at WordCamp Mumbai 2015 and part of the WordCamp’s Multi-event Sponsor program supporting many other WordCamps like ours.
Jetpack can supercharge your self-hosted site with a suite of the most powerful WordPress.com features.
To learn more about Jetpack visit jetpack.me
WordCamp Mumbai wouldn’t be possible (at least not at this scale) without the support of our Sponsors.
We would like to introduce Bluehost which is a WordCamp Champion at WordCamp Mumbai and part of the WordCamp’s Multi-event Sponsor program supporting many other WordCamps like ours.
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.
And if you didn’t already know, Bluehost is now in India, you can also follow them on Facebook and Twitter.
We are announcing a third list of speakers today!
Karthik is Co-Founder and Chief Explorer of Hummingbird Web Solutions, which builds and supports products for Web developers and Web Designers. WordPress is a big part of what Hummingbird does – WPeka
He also teaches Yoga, enjoys solving variants of the Rubik’s Cube and loves Open Source.
Speaker Session: The Philosophy that drives WordPress
Bigul is from Kozhikode, Kerala. He started his career as PHP developer in 2005. In 2008 he came across WordPress and from 2009 onwards started to develop websites in WordPress for clients.
Since 2012 January he works as a QA Analyst in OnTheGo Systems (The makers of WPML, WCML, Views, Types, CRED and Layout).
In short WordPress is his bread and butter for last 6 years 🙂
Speaker Session: Translate WordPress to Your Language
After living in the same 10km for the first 23 years of his life, Joel Bronkowski decided to take on a new adventure and help launch a non-profit in Cape Town, South Africa.
Towing the line most of his life between non profit and the business world Joel is now enjoying the entrepreneurial challenge of pioneering WooCommerce partnerships with global ecommerce services and the developer community.
He is currently working nomadically in 2015 following his wife around the world as she gets experience in the field of museum studies.
Speaker Session: Empowering global ecommerce: a look into the value of open source ecommerce, globalized product strategy and localization.
Hailing from Colombo, Sri Lanka, Mahangu first found WordPress when he stumbled upon 0.70 in the dark recesses of #wordpress on Freenode. Since then, he has provided support for every
major release of the software.
Though once a high school English teacher, his desire to make online publishing more democratic led him to Automattic, where he now works as a Happiness Engineer. He sincerely believes that stellar support will play a pivotal role in helping WordPress power the next 23% of the web!
Speaker Session: Teaching Happiness: What WordPress Support Can Learn From
the Classroom
We will be announcing a few more local speakers in the 4th and final list of confirmed speakers. We are also in the process of making tickets available inside a week.
Last week we had announced four speakers in our first list of speakers. Now its time to announce the next four speakers who have confirmed participation at WordCamp Mumbai 2015.
A free software fundamentalist and an avid GNU/Linux advocate, Gaurav started his WordPress journey in 2010. He ran a successful design agency from 2009 to 2014, and built more than a hundred websites using WordPress.
Currently, he works as a Senior Software Developer at Digital Vidya and learns things about digital marketing.
Speaker Session: Better WordPress development with Vagrant
Prasad Ajinkya loves to tinker with all things web. He is a co-founder at 13 Llama Studio and works with organizations to solve their business problems through technology.
Speaker Session: WordPress for the Enterprise
Faishal has been in the world of WordPress since past 4 years, and since then has had a great time. WordPress is his hobby, passion and a big part of his profession. He has been contributing to WordPress core along with the handful of plugins released on the official repository.
He is currently working as a Web Engineer at 10up playing full time with WordPress.
Speaker Session: Best Practices for WordPress Development
Bryce is a WooCommerce Ninja at WooThemes, who has spent the last several years travelling around South East Asia while developing WordPress plugins and recently handling WooCommerce support. He’s currently based in Bangkok, Thailand and blogs over on bryceadams.com, talking about nomad life.
Speaker Session: The Settings Experience – Why It Sucks
Hope you are happy with our Speaker List so far. We will announce a few more in a couple of days. 🙂
Note: Speaker Applications are now closed.
We are closing the “Call for Speakers” form on the 25th of January, 2015. We increased the timeframe by a further ten days to allow more local applicants to apply.
So if you think you can talk about WordPress to a bunch of WordPress enthusiasts, do apply. If you know someone who can speak, tell them to apply fast!
We are already in the process of finalizing some speakers and announcing them on the site. All applications will are being jointly handled by a “speaker review team”.
Based on feedback we got from our local meetups and community at large, we will announce a complete and final list of speakers and sessions.
Hopefully by the end of this month itself, we should roll out ticket sales and you will be able to decide better more or less all speakers being listed.
Then through first ten days of February, we are hoping to announce a complete schedule.
As our ‘call for speakers’ enters its final week, we have already confirmed a few speakers. WordCamp Mumbai 2015 should be a great meeting point for local WordPress users, enthusiasts and developers to listen to and interact with many experts from around India and also around the world.
We were lucky to get applications from around the world and also a few locally.
Today we are announcing a first list of four confirmed speakers.
Sam Hotchkiss has been working with WordPress for the last 10 years. Over that time he worked as a freelancer, built a successful agency, raised venture capital and started a product business, BruteProtect, which was acquired by Automattic in 2014.
Sam now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wonderful wife and their three dogs.
Speaker Session: Goodbye to /wp-admin
Amit is a self-taught designer-developer, who runs a development firm by the name of 13 Llama Studio in Mumbai, who specialize in making WordPress do things that you have probably not heard of. Besides development, he likes to spend his time with music, photography or on a road trip.
Speaker Session: WordPress as the backbone of a mobile app
Konstantin is a WordPress developer, and Core contributor based in Southern California. After contributing to Twenty Twelve, he was the backup lead and main developer for Twenty Thirteen and Twenty Fourteen, the most recent default themes.
At Automattic he’s is part of a team that contributes back to WordPress full time. He enjoys craft beers and good food — sometimes so much that he blogs about it.
Speaker Session: Building Themes: Lessons Learned from Contributing to Default Themes
Rahul Bansal is founder & CEO of rtCamp. He is using WordPress from 2007 and developing on WordPress from 2008.
These days he is focused on making WordPress sites faster using Nginx through his EasyEngine project.
Speaker Session: Debugging WordPress Performance using EasyEngine
We have confirmed a few more speakers and some final details are being worked out. We will publish a second and possibly third list over the next week.
The call for speakers is still open and if you plan to speak at WordCamp Mumbai 2015 – I advise you to apply fast!
WordCamp Mumbai 2015 is over. Check out the next edition!