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Exclusive Offer for WordCamp Nashik Attendees on Hotels

Jupiter
WordCamp Nashik team managed to get a special and exclusive offer from one of the luxurious hotel in Nashik named Meuse Jupiter Business and Luxury Hotel which is a 4-star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ hotel and is very near to the venue.

In an attempt to provide our attendees a good experience at reasonable price, our team bargained the price to Rs. 2,000/- per night, all inclusive for an Executive Room. Both single or double occupancy options are available. It means, if you stay with your friend and share a room, you can get the room at Rs. 1,000/- per person. Or you can choose to stay single and reserve your room at Rs. 2,000/- only, all inclusive.

Please find the details related to reservation and location of the hotel on our dedicated page of Hotels in Nashik. We have also listed other hotels near the venue and mentioned the room prices and ratings too.

For transportation from and to the venue, online taxi booking services like Ola and Uber are available in Nashik.

Purchase WordCamp Nashik 2016 Tickets Offline

WordCamp Nashik 2016 tickets are already live and we have received great response from the community. One can purchase the tickets using Debit or Credit card on our website and reserve a seat for the day of the event i.e. 16’th October 2016. Apart from the online ticket booking system, we are introducing offline ticket purchase option too to make the event available to those who don’t have Credit or Debit cards or feel little uncomfortable with online purchases.

Ticket Sale Points in Nashik

Here are few locations in Nashik city from where you can purchase the ticket physically by paying the ticket amount i.e. Rs. 300/-

Dairy Don, Shop No 5, Padma Sankul,
Wadala Pathardi Road, Indiranagar
Nashik. Contact Person (Harshad Mane) – 9850894525

WebFanzine Media, 304, Shreeji Paradise
Kalpataru Nagar, Ashoka Marg
Nashik – 11. Contact Person (Sanjeev Mishra) – 9730016268

MilesWeb Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
2, Sumant, Near Cricket Ground
Mahatma Nagar, Nashik – 7. Contact Person (Chinmay Dingore) – 9860531230

SARPS Technologies.
4th Floor, Avdhoot Adhar Complex
Opposite Vihar Hotel, Old Gangapur Naka, Nashik – 5. Contact Person (Ashish Kale) – 9028572413

Map View to Locate the Offline Ticket Sale Points for #WCNashik

Please note that while purchasing the ticket offline, you should provide following information to the contact person.

Name
Email Address
Contact Number

Once purchased, you will receive the ticket and other information on your email ID and a notification via SMS within 24 hours.

Kindly note that you need to bring either a printed copy of the ticket or show us the soft copy in your phone at the time of event registration on 16’th Oct. As we have limited tickets for offline purchase, please visit the mentioned locations as soon as possible and reserve your seat before it gets sold out.

Looking forward to meet you all on 16’th October 2016.

Evolution of WordPress Community in Wine Capital

Nashik, renowned for its beautiful surroundings and cool and pleasant climate. This city has a personality of its own due to its mythological, historical, social and cultural importance. Every 12 years, Nashik plays host to the grand Kumbh Mela, the largest religious gathering. More than 100 Million devotees visit the place in Kumbh Mela. Apart from the city of pilgrimage and Vineyards, Nashik is also a well-known education hub having number of good engineering and medical colleges. Presence of core industries such as Mahindra & Mahindra, HAL, Bosch and many more. have also contributed to the growth of the city.

nashik_city

Though the city has not witnessed spectacular growth in IT (Information Technology) sector, 100+ small and medium-sized IT companies are operating in the city.

My name is Sanjeev Mishra and I run a web development company in Nashik, which deals into WordPress plugin development and publishing. Checking the above numbers, I tried to find out the approximate number of web application and mobile application development companies operating in Nashik.

Researching for a year, I realized that the most of the WordPress development companies in Nashik are either involved in Theme/Plugin customization or service based work. There are some good developers as well but they are not focused on WordPress development. I also found the lack of full-fledged WordPress development in the city and it forced me to get things done by hiring people online (either on contract or full-time).

wordcamp_pune Incidentally, in 2015, Pune WordPress community organized WordCamp Pune. My company was one of the sponsor for the event, Along with Tejaswini Deshpande and Sagar Katarnaware, We went to represent our product. We found many Nashikites with whom we met first time. In virtual world, I was meeting many people related to WordPress but this time, I was amazed to see folks from Nashik who are also related to WordPress.

I met Chinmay Dingore, Chetan Mahale, Harshad Mane and Vishal Deshpande also from Nashik who came to attend WordCamp Pune 2015 event and discussed about the lack of WordPress community in our city.

At that moment, we all realized how important it is to have a community in our beloved city. So we decided to start a meetup group and organize monthly meetups, talk about WordPress, discuss ideas, share our experience and help others who are new to WordPress.

Harshad Mane took initiative and created the meetup group in September 2015 and we scheduled our first meetup.

First Meetup of Nashik WordPress Group happening at Cafe Bliss, Nashik. From Left to Right, Sanjeev, Vishal, Deepak, Chinmay & Harshad

As expected, our first meetup had very few people, Harshad, Chinmay, Deepak, Vishal and Myself. Having coffee, We shared our experience at WordCamp Pune and planned to organize atleast one meetup every month.

Second meetup was about Basics of WordPress. 10+ people attended the session and we met other like minded people Himanshu Dani, Akshay Vinchurkar, Swarup Bagul and Jai Bhagchandani.

Facebook and Twitter helped us to spread word about WordPress community in Nashik. More people started showing interest in the community and they joined the Meetup group.

Since January 2016 the group became more active having more WordPress enthusiasts pitching in. By now we hosted more than 5 meetups on different topics at different places.

nashik_meetup_group

As a group, We decided to host WordCamp in Nashik. It was a tough decision as you need to show a very active community and potential sponsors to host WordCamp. Pune and Mumbai WordPress community also helped us in different areas on planning the WordCamp. In meantime we approached few colleges in the city to spread awareness about WordPress and organized workshops. That helped a lot in building a better community and getting new WordPress Enthusiats for the Community.

Finally we have got the approval from WordCamp Central and the event being scheduled for Sunday, October 16, 2016. The call for speaker form is already live and we have reserved some seats for few local speakers as well. If you are interested in speaking on a topic related to WordPress, fill up the form.

With 180+ WordPress lovers in the group, the community is growing day by day. But still there’s much potential in the city and many people are not aware about this group. Through this article, I would appeal everyone to join the meetup group and build even stronger Nashik WordPress community. This platform has helped me a lot in terms of brainstorming and coming up with new ideas, I am sure it will help you in your adventure as well.