Naoko Takano will tell us how WordPress became successful in Japan despite language barriers

According to W3Techs research, WordPress is the most popular CMS among the Japanese with a 78% market share.

Naoko’s talk will show you important key factors that made this happen. You will not only learn how to flourish your local WordPress community, but also get inspired to spread the word for your own product or service that you love.

A Globalizer at Automattic Naoko Takano is a part of Team Global, which facilitates internationalization and localization of WordPress.com and other products.

She has been involved in the Japanese WordPress community since 2003,
contributing in the areas of translation, documentation, community including  meetup and WordCamp organization.

You can follow her on Twitter @naokomc

Watch WordCamp Videos Online

I have been to every WordCamp in India since Oct 2012, that’s a total of about eight WordCamps – four of which were in Mumbai (Proud to be an organizer in three of them). And when you spend so much time at WordCamps you tend to know what to expect at a WordCamp – the fun, the networking and most importantly the learning.

But the downside of this, especially when we fill the shoes of an Organizer is that we become ignorant to the needs of those who are just discovering WordCamps for the first time. Many have asked us what should they expect at WordCamp Mumbai 2016.

So here’s the first of a series of post which would help explain what to expect at WordCamp Mumbai 2016.

As I don’t really believe in keeping the best for the last, I’ll start with speaker sessions. We just announced about a third of the speakers at this year’s WordCamp but they and the other dozen yet to be announced will be as good as the speakers at previous WordCamps.

So here’s a few places where you can watch previous WordCamp videos.

Now that you know what to expect… Go ahead Register for WordCamp Mumbai 2016

 

Kshitij Patil will explain how to sell your web designing skills

Kshitij-patilWeb designing skills are easier to learn than to sell, is what one could say. A lot of people struggle to sell their skills. Learn from insights Kshitij will offer about how to sell your web designing skills in the Indian context.

Kshitij is a self made entrepreneur who started his journey by selling computer parts during the first year of his college for pocket money. From there he went on to form Zetabyte Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a Web Development Company along with his school mate. He has recently diversified into starting a News Media website kshitijpatil.com to provide daily content from multiple verticals.

Being a salesman at his core, he boasts that he can sell anything to anyone (as long as it’s legal, ofcourse).

You can tweet to him @thekshitijpatil

Learn how to scale WooCommerce with Rahul Bansal

Rahul Bansal
Rahul Bansal

WooCommerce is a very powerful plugin. But businesses who build online stores using it face problems when the number of people accessing the store increases.

Rahul Bansal will tell us about specific techniques which can be used to serve huge number of users efficiently. You’ll be able to apply many of his recommendations to other WordPress sites as well, where logged-in users make a bulk of traffic.

About Rahul

Rahul Bansal is the founder & CEO of rtCamp.

Starting his WordPress journey in 2007, he evolved into multiple roles with WordPress — blogger, developer, designer, entrepreneur, translator and also a WordCamp speaker & organizer.

In the last 8 years, Rahul has been part of many WordPress projects. His current favorite is EasyEngine which makes managing WordPress sites on Nginx easy.

You can connect with Rahul @rahul286 on Twitter.

Store Apps is our first Bronze sponsor

Give it up for Store Apps who join us for the first time as Bronze Sponsors.

A little about Store Apps

32,000+ WooCommerce and WordPress users swear by Store Apps‘ frustration-free products to manage their stores, sell more and make their customers happier. If you are using WooCommerce, come and explore our solutions to see how they’ll help you achieve your dreams. Store Apps is also behind Putler, Icegram and Klawoo.

Follow Storeapps on Twitter

OpenSRS is our latest Silver Sponsor

OpenSRS joins our long list of Sponsors. We are glad to have them as Silver Sponsors.

OpenSRS is the wholesale unit of Tucows, exclusively focused on the needs of resellers. Through a network of over 13,000 web hosts, Internet service providers and Web companies, OpenSRS manages domain names, mailboxes and digital security products for millions of end users worldwide. We offer white-label, brandable end-user interfaces, easy-to-use management tools, extensive technical documentation, reliable systems, competitive pricing and outstanding customer support.

Do follow them on Twitter

Say hello to our Silver Sponsor Cyberchimps

We are happy  to introduce Cyberchimps as our next Silver Sponsor at WordCamp Mumbai 2016

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 Mumbai 2016, be sure to stop by the CyberChimps Desk to meet the team and say Hi !

You can follow CyberChimps on Twitter and Facebook.

Learning about building Freemium plugins with Bryce Adams

bryce-adamsWhat is a Freemium plugin? How to go about building a Freemium plugin? Get key insights from Bryce Adams. He is in a great place to talk about this topic because he is working for Automattic on the biggest WooCommerce store in the world –WooThemes.com.

A nomadic coder, he has spoken about WordPress at several events, including WordCamp Europe, WordCamp Kansai & WordCamp Mumbai 2015 and WordCamp Nepal. He loves open source software, building useful products and interacting with the community! In his spare time, he’s either traveling the world and attending WordPress events or building small products that try to push the boundaries of everyday development.

That apart, Bryce is very approachable to have a chat with regarding all things WordPress. He spoke last year at Mumbai and is now travelling back to the big city, for yet another WordCamp.

You can follow him on Twitter @bryceadams.

Look who’s attending #WCMumbai

Curiosity is part of human nature and when ever I attend an event, I wonder who I would meet there. So for WordCamp Mumbai we made it a little easier.

We took our ticketing live a couple of days back and we also put up a page showing attendees. This page lists registered attendees with their websites and twitter profiles (if they shared those details). This will help you plan ahead who you’d like to meet with at the WordCamp and may be reach out to them on twitter or through their website.

attendees page

We also plan on selling tickets at our next meetup, for those who can’t make online payments.

For those who don’t really like the idea on being shown on the attendee page, yes we have a way of hiding you, so do let us know if you’d like to not be shown on the attendee page.

WordCamp Mumbai 2016 is over. Check out the next edition!