Fairy Dharawat is a professional blogger who’s been a writer for more than 4 years. She chose humour as a chosen topic for WordCamp as in her personal experience, her humour posts have worked well in connecting with her readers.
She performs stories at Katha Kosa and poetries at open mics. Some of her stories and poems are published in online e-books.
You can connect with her on her twitter id @dharawatf.
Stay tuned for more announcements.
As the date for WordCamp Mumbai 2016 comes closer you are now likely to see a burst of blog posts, ideas and views about the event.
One question most frequently asked is when are we going to make tickets available? We are carrying out some last minute experiments and ironing out details before we go live!
So all things going right, we will be going live with our tickets by 1st February, 2016 (fingers crossed).
Our ticket Wrangler Vachan Kudmule is busy trying to figure out what would be the best way to get people the most access to tickets.
As organisers we try to get reach out to as many as we can and as diverse a group we can. So stay tuned for some more experiments with ticketing we might announce.
Last but not the least wishing everyone a Happy Republic Day and remember the date, tickets go live on 1st February, 2016.
Sam has been developing sites with WordPress for over 10 years. He built and ran an enterprise-level agency, then built a plugin business around BruteProtect, a security plugin which was acquired by Automattic in August of 2014. Sam now leads the Jetpack development team, working on the Jetpack plugin in use on millions of WordPress sites across the internet.
Sam Hotchkiss travelled to Mumbai, India for last years WordCamp and is keen to travel again.
He will speak on Best Practices in Plugin Development!
He is very approachable and friendly and you can discuss all things WordPress with him, be it things like blogging, photography, cutting edge tech issues or even building a business around WordPress.
You can connect with him on Twitter @HotchkissWeb
We are announcing our first speaker for WordCamp Mumbai today! Shilpa Shah will speak on “What do customers want?”
Shilpa will tell us how to get inside the head of customers who use WordPress products. This session makes sense towards a whole range of WordPress users – from full stack developers to casual bloggers to people who are new to WordPress.
While Shilpa can’t help you develop super-natural powers, she is definitely going to try – by sharing her learnings, explaining how to read and understand customer expectations, tune yourself to receiving feedback (often times it is disguised !) , act on it and delight your customer.
Shilpa joined the WordPress party a little late but has been completely enamoured by the WordPress community since then. Shilpa co-founded Hummingbird Web Solutions in 2011 which nurtures a number of popular WordPress products ( SlideDeck, CyberChimps , WPeka Club, WPAuctionSoftware and SurveyFunnel amongst others)
She was bitten by the travel bug pretty early on and was lucky enough to have a job (in her earlier corporate avatar) that took her to various countries , meeting some truly wonderful people everywhere !
Connect with her on Twitter @IdleGazer
Stay tuned for another speaker who will be announced tomorrow!
So who is going to speak at WordCamp Mumbai 2016? That is a question which we will soon answer piece by piece. Yes, we will be announcing every single speaker in a dedicated blog post! Some of the names will be new, some will be familiar in the WordPress scene from India and some also will be travelling from other shores for this WordCamp.
Based on the applications we have received and confirmed at this point of time, we are coming up with a rough idea on the three types of sessions we will have. The three are Developer, Business, User/Community.
These won’t be parallel tracks as the venue does not have this facility. So these tracks will follow one after another. All this is still a rough idea and after we announce our speakers, we will release a more formal schedule of sessions.
If you think you want to speak at WordCamp or if you know someone go ahead and fill in the Speaker application form.
And keep in touch, we will start announcing our speakers from tomorrow onwards.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. – Mark Twain
The major activity at any WordCamp are speaker sessions. There is no WordCamp without speakers, without new speakers stepping up and speaking in front an audience for the first time in their life.
Many of the speakers are obviously experts in WordPress and technology around it. But there are many speakers who speak not as experts but as someone who have something unique to share.
It could be a unique WordPress story, a unique perspective that challenges how things are viewed in the WordPress community, a unique way at looking at customer support. As long as it’s unique there is a good chance conversations can be had around it.
Today we are announcing “Call for Speakers” for WordCamp Mumbai 2016.
Fill in the speaker form and our speaker review team will get in touch with you. Some quick pointers before you apply.
May the source be with you. ~ unknown
Just like our favourite software “WordPress” which is open source and hence its source of awesomeness is usually the WordPress community.
Community of volunteers who fix bugs and submit patches to keep making WordPress better with every version. WordCamps are a lot like the software. It might be an event but its open for people to get involved. Actually at its heart is the idea of getting involved.
The biggest source of strength of any WordCamp are the volunteers!
Fill in the form below (or this link) and we will get back to you with more details on how to get involved. You can also participate in the local meetups we have in Mumbai.
We will also be writing a lot about this topic so subscribe to the updates of this website.
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In 2016, if all things go right, Mumbai will be the first city in India to host WordCamps three years in a row. We missed a year in 2013 but it will also be the only city in India to host four WordCamps overall.
So it is safe to say, Mumbai has fallen for WordPress and the community is very vibrant just like the city.
It is a very unique city with an unique attitude, unique culture and life is often lived in the fast lane. For visitors who visit Mumbai and get astounded by the sheer humanity they see on the roads, wait till you get into a local train. 😉
Mumbai houses probably the largest film industry in the world, it is the commercial capital of India and the state capital of Maharashtra. It has a national park inside the city, ancient Buddhist caves from almost two millennia ago and people from several dozen ethnicities call it home .
We have food, culture and lore that will fascinate and inspire you. It can be fast, intimidating, crowded and hot along with humid, but we Mumbaikars love it. Though everyone loves their own city, we often call our Mumbai, the most unique city in the world!
The WordPress community in Mumbai is also unique. It has college students, big and small publishers, journalists, writers, social activists, freelancers and more in huge numbers and many of them using WordPress.
Hence we need your help! To make Mumbai WordCamp 2016 a lot like the city. The most unique in the world!
Are you from Mumbai or visiting Mumbai frequently? You can start by attending a WordPress Meetup.
We will be rolling out call for sponsors, volunteers and speakers soon. You can subscribe to our blog where we will make these announcements.
Subscribe to WordCamp Mumbai updates. You can also follow updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Or simply say hello to us via the contact form and ask any questions you have about WordCamp Mumbai 2016.
WordCamp Mumbai 2016 is over. Check out the next edition!
