Author: Alexander Gounder

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Remembering Mrs. Pratima Kane

We have been organizing WordPress Meetups and subsequently WordCamp since the last 4-5 years. It has become an integral part of our lives and by that virtue, part of the lives of our close ones. In November 2016 we lost one such extended family member, Mrs. Pratima Kane, mother of Aditya Kane.

She had been supportive of our efforts since the beginning. She tolerated us and even feed us when we worked through the day often till late at night discussing WordPress Meetup and WordCamps in her home. Though she never attended our WordCamp she knew everything and everyone invovled with the WordCamp, which is testimony of the great relationship she had with her kids.

She paid for the White-board we used at WordCamp Mumbai 2014 as our Job board, and continue to use for the following WordCamps here in Mumbai.

An ID card, Aditya made for his mom during the 2014 WordCamp. She was our in-kind Sponsor and this was all we gave her.

25th March is Mrs. Kane’s Birthday and I would like pay homage to her through this post.

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Bluehost have upgraded to Gold!

Bluehost India has been a long time friend and supporter of our Mumbai WordPress Meetup group. The have been venue sponsors from the longest time.

And now extending that support, they have upgraded their Global Sponsorship to a Gold Sponsorship.

Here’s what they told us, about themselves:

Bluehost is part of the Endurance International Group of business. Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI) helps small and medium-sized business owners establish, manage and grow their businesses by harnessing the power and promise of the web.

Endurance International is looking out for talented people to help make the web an awesome place. You can check out all their open positions at https://india.endurance.com/jobs/

Do visit them at their Booth to find out what products they have for WordPress Users. You can also visit their website or follow them on Facebook & Twitter

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Vertoz is our Gold Sponsors

Vertoz a leading programmatic advertising company joins WordCamp Mumbai 2017 as Gold Sponsors. This is the first time sponsoring WordCamp Mumbai, like many others, we have really happy for the support we have got this year.
Here’s a little about Vertoz

Vertoz is a leading programmatic advertising company that offers engaging and innovative advertising and monetization solutions. We ensure that the ad reaches the right audience and are targeted across websites and apps for our advertisers. We monetize inventory from all verticals and geographies to ensure the best ROI for our publishers.

You can follow them on twitter & facebook, or meet them in person at their WordCamp Booth.

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OpenSRS is our Gold Sponsor

OpenSRS is yet another returning sponsor at WordCamp Mumbai, this time as Gold Sponsors. We would like to thank them for their support.

WCMumbai Gold Sponsor Opensrs

OpenSRS enables hosting companies and other Internet service providers to offer domain names, hosted email, SSL and security products. Our network includes over 13,000 resellers in 150 countries with more than 13 million domains and 3.5 million mailboxes under management.

Do catch them at their booth!

 

 

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Still not too late to get your early bird discount or go Pro!

This is the first time we have done Early bird discounts for #WCMumbai and we so far have had an amazing response. We have sold about 110 tickets which is over two-thirds of our early bird tickets on offer.

With just 38 tickets left I would recommend you grab them rightaway!

Additionally, there’s a 15% cash back offer from mobile wallets Freecharge and Ola Money on our payment processor (KDC Pay).

Other than the early bird tickets, we also have pro tickets, for those who’d like to contribute more to the WordCamp Mumbai kitty. Basically WordCamps are not for profit events and sponsor money helps subsidize the tickets which end up being far less than our cost per attendee. Individuals & Businesses who don’t mind paying a little extra can buy a PRO-Ticket.

Another way to look at these 50 Pro-tickets is that it could help discount upto 500 tickets (early bird price for all!!). Imagine the impact where your able to make #WCMumbai more affordable to at least ten people, when you buy a single ticket.

So go for it! let’s make this bigger than that Last WC Mumbai.

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Take the stage at #WCMumbai

It’s been little over a week that we announced WordCamp Mumbai 2017!

This year instead taking things step by step, we put out all calls and tickets sales from the start but that doesn’t mean we don’t put out announcement for each of the calls… So here we have a post announcing 

Our Speaker Call!!

We’d love to hear some newer speakers, or host a different kind of session we are open for suggestions. Checkout our Call for Speaker Page. which has all the information you would need.

If you have any queries feel free to leave them in the comments below.

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Introducing WordCamp Mumbai 2017

Announcing WordCamp Mumbai 2017 on 25th & 26th March 2017.


Our logo contains the iconic Gateway of India, which has name suggests is consider the entry point to Indian Shores. Similarly WordCamp Mumbai which will be in it’s 5th edition now is a Gateway to the WordPress Community here in Mumbai and India at large.

We started out as a small meetup  and now can proudly claim the tag of being one of the oldest running WordCamp in India.

Completely volunteer driven, we look for your support in making this event bigger and better than the last one.

Show us your support by Volunteering, Speaking, Sponsoring and most importantly attending.

WordCamp Mumbai 2017 is over. Check out the next edition!