WordCamp Mumbai 2018

Coworking Spaces near to the venue

Posted on February 10, 2018 February 21, 2018 by Ajay Maurya

A few weeks back, some of your attendees and speakers asked which are the co-working spaces around the venue. So we curated a few co-working spaces closed to the venue.

Update:This really cool map was together by Ulrich

Of10

Distance from the venue: 7.7 KM

Address: Ground Floor, Prudential, Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076

Operational Hours:

Monday	8AM – 11PM
Tuesday	8AM – 11PM
Wednesday	8AM – 11PM
Thursday	8AM – 11PM
Friday	8AM – 11PM
Saturday	10AM – 7PM
Sunday	10AM – 10PM

Phone: 022 6221 5191

Website Directions

Work Square Powai

Distance from the venue: 5.6 KM

Address: Work Square 1st floor, Solaris D, Urmi Corporate Park, Opposite L&T gate no. 6, 400 072, Solaris Complex Rd, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400072

Operational Hours: Open 24 hours

Phone: 098194 87358

Website Directions

91springboard Andheri East

Distance from the venue: 5.2 KM

Address: B wing, 5th floor, Ackruti Trade Centre, MIDC, Andheri East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400093

Operational Hours: Open 24 hours

Phone: 011 3959 5578

Website Directions

Awfis

Distance from the venue: 7.1 KM

Address: 2nd Floor, Heerapanna Business Centre, Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076

Operational Hours:

Monday	9AM – 9PM
Tuesday	9AM – 9PM
Wednesday	9AM – 9PM
Thursday	9AM – 9PM
Friday	9AM – 9PM
Saturday	9AM – 9PM
Sunday	Closed

Phone: 1860 258 6633

Website Directions

The Playce

Distance from the venue: 8.6 KM

Address: 1st Floor, Marathon Maxima, Lal Bahadur Shastri Road, Moti Nagar, Mulund West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400080

Operational Hours:

Monday	9AM – 8PM
Tuesday	9AM – 8PM
Wednesday	9AM – 8PM
Thursday	9AM – 8PM
Friday	9AM – 8PM
Saturday	9AM – 8PM
Sunday	Closed

Phone: 097692 41829

Website Directions

Venture Catalysts’ Coworking Space

Distance from the venue – 6.9 KM

Address: 203-206, B-Wing, Mittal Commercia, Near T2 International Airport Terminal, Asan Pada Road, Marol, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400059

Operational Hours:

Monday	9AM – 9PM
Tuesday	9AM – 9PM
Wednesday	9AM – 9PM
Thursday	9AM – 9PM
Friday	9AM – 9PM
Saturday	9AM – 9PM
Sunday	Closed

Phone: 022 2851 0071

Website Directions

Vorq Space Office Solutions

Distance from the venue: 4.7KM

Address: C-7, 32 Corporate Avenue,, Off. Mahakali Caves Road,, Near Paper Box, Andheri (East), Mumbai, Maharashtra 400093

Operational Hours:

Monday	9AM – 9PM
Tuesday	9AM – 9PM
Wednesday	9AM – 9PM
Thursday	9AM – 9PM
Friday	9AM – 9PM
Saturday	10AM – 8PM
Sunday	Closed

Phone: 022 2687 9933

Website Directions

WeWork Marol

Distance from the venue: 6.5KM

Address: The Masterpiece Marol Metro Station, Sir Mathuradas Vasanji Road, Marol,, Andheri, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400059

Phone: 1800 123 365 365

Website Directions

bluSPACE Coworking Offices

Distance from the venue : 3.4KM

Address: 1001, 10th Floor, Hubtown Viva, Western Express Highway, Above Triumph Bike showroom, Jogeshwari East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400060

Operational Hours:

Monday	9AM – 8PM
Tuesday	9AM – 8PM
Wednesday	9AM – 8PM
Thursday	9AM – 8PM
Friday	9AM – 8PM
Saturday	10AM – 5PM
Sunday	Closed

Phone – 022 6236 3647

Website Directions

Mumbai Coworking

Distance from the venue: 3.0KM

Address: 402 B, Annapurna, Near Adarsh Nagar, Oshiwara, Above Delicacy of China,, Off New Link Road, Andheri (W), Mumbai, Maharashtra 400102

Operational Hours:

Monday	8AM – 11.30PM
Tuesday	8AM – 11.30PM
Wednesday	8AM – 11.30PM
Thursday	8AM – 11.30PM
Friday	8AM – 11.30PM
Saturday	8AM – 11.30PM
Sunday	8AM – 11.30PM

Phone: 092222 13191

Website

Directions

Thanks to Ulrich Pogson for creating the map.

Call for Sponsors

Posted on January 30, 2018 February 1, 2018 by Alexander Gounder

WordCamps are volunteer driven not for profit events around our favorite CMS – WordPress. Tickets are priced low to make it accessible to all WordPress Users.

Most of the funding required to organize a WordCamp comes from Sponsors. Sponsoring our WordCamp comes with all the perks mentioned on our Call for Sponsors page, but the most important is being a contributor to this event.

WordCamp Mumbai 2018 is a two day event to be held on 17th and 18th March 2018, at IIT Bombay’s Victor Menezes Convention Center. This Multi track event will speaker sessions, lightening talks, Workshops, Panel Discussions and more. The Auditorium and Classrooms have a large foyer in both the ground and first floor which will used for networking, meals and have the sponsor stalls.

Expected Participants are WordPress Users including Enthusiasts, Developers, Web Designers, bloggers and open source software supporters. Last year we saw over 600 registrations and we are hoping for the same if not a bigger crowd.

So do checkout our Call for Sponsors

Introducing the Gutenberg Track at WordCamp Mumbai

Posted on January 28, 2018 January 30, 2018 by Aditya Kane

If you have been following developments around WordPress, chances are you have heard about the Gutenberg project. The Gutenberg project, will be using blocks that support all types of content. It will start with reimagining the editor with WordPress 5.0.

Gutenberg is scheduled to be introduced into WordPress core after April sometime. Since WordCamp Mumbai is now multi-track, we thought it would be best to have one track dedicated to learn, share and understand what is in store for developers, users, writers, designers with Gutenberg.

So we are putting out a call for anyone with ideas around Gutenberg to apply as speakers! The Gutenberg track is waiting for you! 🙂

Fill in this speaker form for to apply

Book your tickets now

Posted on January 26, 2018 January 30, 2018 by Alexander Gounder

Happy Republic Day friends!

After some hiccups, we have finally managed to set up our ticketing for WordCamp Mumbai 2018.

Book your Tickets Now

And for those booking right now we have a 50% off on those early bird tickets. We don’t have an end date, for these early bird tickets haven’t yet decided on exact quantity. so grab them while they last!

Offline tickets at WCUdaipur and meetups.

We will also be selling tickets offline for those attending WC Udaipur this weekend and then at our meetups.

Fruit of our labor

A few months back there was a raging debate about which Indian payment gateway plugin should go on WordCamp. Rather than picking one, some of us decided that a new plugin with various gateways merged into it one would be a nice alternative. The developers of these various plugins collaborated to make this plugin happen and it is available on Github allows others to work on it as well. I am happy to say that two of the three main developers behind this plugin are part of our Mumbai WordPress Community.

Book Your Seat!

Thank you WooCommerce for being Global Gold Sponsor

Posted on January 24, 2018 March 12, 2018 by Ratnesh Sonar

WooCommerce is the fastest growing eCommerce software/platform, powering over 30% of all eCommerce stores with over 1 million active installations. It is built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, making it the obvious eCommerce choice for existing WordPress users and connects you to the fast-growing WordPress ecosystem which now powers over 29% of all websites on the internet.

With WooCommerce you can start with all the basic tools that any small business would need to start selling online, including product setup, payments, shipping options, and sales reports and as your business grows to choose from over 300 premium add-ons available including additional payment processors, shipping methods, inventory systems and marketing tools anyone to sell anything, anywhere from real products and digital downloads to subscriptions, content and even your time.

In July 2015, WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month and also the creators of other popular WordPress services including Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress. We look forward to growing WooCommerce to achieve even greater things together with Automattic.

WordCamp Mumbai has a new venue thanks to FOSSEE.in

Posted on January 23, 2018 February 18, 2018 by Aditya Kane

The past four editions of WordCamp Mumbai took place at the same venue. The venue unfortunately is undergoing reconstruction for this year. The organisers started to look around for new venues and we were lucky to have some interesting candidates.

Our old venue, really afforded us a single track. Last year we sold more than 600 tickets. It is difficult to have a single track that 600 people might find useful. The number of attendees this year will probably be more than 600 (700?) and hence we thought it was time Mumbai went multi-track.

We came across Victor Menezes Convention Centre at IIT Bombay. The venue allows us use of 5 class rooms and a main auditorium with over 350 seats.

The best part was we had FOSSEE.in who graciously became venue sponsors. This means our venue does not cost us anything!

About FOSSEE

FOSSEE (Free and Open Source Software in Education) project promotes the use of FOSS tools to improve the quality of education in our country. We aim to reduce dependency on proprietary software in educational institutions. We encourage the use of FOSS tools through various activities to ensure commercial software is replaced by equivalent FOSS tools. We also develop new FOSS tools and upgrade existing tools to meet requirements in academia and research.

The FOSSEE project is part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India.

Credits: Prof. Kannan M Moudgalya who guided us around facilitating the venue with FOSSEE as sponsors.

Catch #WCUdaipur this weekend!

Posted on January 22, 2018 January 22, 2018 by Alexander Gounder

WordCamp Udaipur is happening this weekend.

This is the first WordCamp in India this year, which is one of the many reasons why you shouldn’t miss it. Also, they have a great speaker line-up, and Rajasthan is lovely this time of the year. Need I say more!

On the sidelines of this WordCamp, Automattic is organising a cool WooCommerce Workshop for Women on at Udaipur and Mumbai. For the folks in Mumbai, we also have regular Meetup cum Workshop with speakers from Automattic.

This week is a special time for me as well with my birthday and wedding anniversary both in it, So I will be giving this one a miss to spend some quality time with my family. But, do catch some of the people who make WC Mumbai awesome, Speak and attend.

We have a surprise for those attending and/or following WC Udaipur, so watch out for @WCMumbai on #WCUdaipur on Twitter.

Thank You Jetpack for being Global Gold Sponsor

Posted on January 20, 2018 March 12, 2018 by Ratnesh Sonar

Jetpack is our first Gold Global Sponsor. We are glad to have their support in making this WordCamp and much more across the globe happen.

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites. This single plugin enables Photon (a global CDN for images), up time monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, Single Sign-On, multiple-site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look and feel of your site without installing other tools. More information can be found at jetpack.me.

Stay tuned Our Call for Sponsor will be released soon, if you are curious about Global Sponsorship Program click here.

The WordCamp Mumbai Team
Keep up with #WCMumbai on Twitter @WordCamp Mumbai and Facebook .

#WCMumbai ’18 Speaker Application Now Open

Posted on January 12, 2018 February 18, 2018 by Meher Bala

It’s been little over a week that we announced WordCamp Mumbai 2018!

We are thrilled to announce that WordCamp Mumbai 2018 is officially accepting speaker applications.

But before you rush to submit, keep reading…

As you know, this is the fifth consecutive WordCamp organized by WordPress Mumbai Meetup group. For our fifth anniversary, we’re altering our track format.

We’d been following Single track mantra since last 4 Years. This year #WCMumbai team has decided to experiment something different. We’ve planned to go with the Multitrack which includes workshops, Group Discussion, General Talk and Product Demo.

We’d love to hear some newer speakers or host a different kind of session we are open to suggestions.

Apply Now

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

The WordCamp Mumbai Team
Keep up with #WCMumbai on Twitter @WordCamp Mumbai, Facebook.

WordCamp Mumbai Needs Supporting Hands: Call for Volunteer

Posted on January 11, 2018 February 18, 2018 by Ratnesh Sonar

WordCamp Mumbai is looking for kickass volunteers to help in making WordCamp Mumbai 2018 event bigger, better and awesome than ever before.

We are looking for Help with pre-WordCamp events and other such micro-tasks who have the zing and the passion for helping us make this year the best year in the WordCamp Community.

So What are WordCamps?

WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. So come!

Why should you apply to become a volunteer?

It’s because WordCamp Mumbai is completely volunteer driven where you meet smart dedicated and hard working people with a single aim of ensuring the WordCamp community thrives.

You also get to meet interesting people from all over the world with a common love for the WordCamp community.

As a community, we are a welcoming bunch who love a good joke here and there while giving a helping hand to those who may need it.

Who can apply?

Anyone! Even you, the one reading this right now!

What are you waiting for?

If we find that you fit the bill, we will open our arms and welcome you to our huge WordCamp family where you get to learn while meeting people expert in their field which will not only broaden your horizon but also help you to make new interesting friends.

In short, we’re looking for enthusiastic people who are willing to give up their time and expertise to help plan and deliver the event to make it memorable.

So if you would you like to get involved in our huge WordCamp community, then fill up required details and we will get right back to you at the soonest. Look forward to seeing you 🙂

What does a volunteer do at WordCamp?

Pre-WordCamp events
Manage registration desks
Ensure sessions finish on time
Set up Sponsor’s table
Guide speakers to their sessions

Apply Now!

The WordCamp Mumbai Team
Keep up with #WCMumbai on Twitter @WordCamp Mumbai, Facebook.