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Panel Discussion III – Voice for the Voiceless with WordPress


After 14 years there are millions of people around the world using WordPress.

WordPress can be a very empowering tool in the hand of the oppressed, minorities and fringe groups, giving them a voice with privacy and anonymity.

It’s very important to use your voice. And we all have it. It has to be a tool of power, honesty, love, respect. We all must use our voices for good. Speak up when you face or see any unfairness. Use your voice to fight evil. Have it express how you feel and what you think. Use your voice to fight for yourself. Let it be a weapon of peace, goodness, and encouragement.

This Panel discussion will be a frank and honest discussion about, How WordPress helped the Panelist to use their Voice with WordPress.

Panelist Includes:

  • Saurabh Shukla (Moderator) – Community Organizer and Educator at BaapWP.me
  • Aditya Kane (Moderator) – Mentor at WordCamp Central
  • Shree Gauri Sawant (Panelist) – Transgender Activist
  • Dhananjay Maharaj More (Panelist) – Kirtankar
  • Harishanker R (Panelist) – Happiness Engineer at Automattic
  • Tushar Bhambare (Panelist) – Journalist
  • Harshad Mane (Panelist) – Co-organizer at WordCamp Nashik
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Panel Discussion II – Every WordPress Hero needs a Solid Web Host


Often overlooked, web hosting is one of the key component of every successful website. Choosing the best WordPress hosting for your needs can improve your SEO and increase sales.

There are various different types of WordPress hosting options available such as Free, Shared, VPS, Dedicated, and managed WordPress hosting.

We know the importance of choosing the best WordPress hosting company. Our goal with this Panel discussion is to offer insights on things you need to consider when choosing a WordPress hosting company.

  • What are the WordPress Hosting Requirements?
  • Things to Consider when Choosing a WordPress Hosting Provider
  • Evaluating Your WordPress Hosting Needs
  • Free WordPress Hosting
  • Shared WordPress Hosting
  • WordPress Dedicated Server Hosting
  • Managed WordPress Hosting
  • Support
  • Security
  • Caching

Hopefully, having attended this Panel discussion, you should get a clearer picture of the different scenarios of choosing a Solid WebHost to become a WordPress Hero ;), and you will be able to make a decision based on your website, requirements and budget!

Panelists include:

  • Deepak Kori (Moderator) – Co-founder & Executive Director – MilesWeb Internet Services Pvt Ltd
  • Ashish Kale (Panelist) – Co-founder & CEO – Hostripples India
  • Chinmay Dingore (Panelist) – Co-founder & Executive Director – MilesWeb Internet Services Pvt Ltd
  • Keith Pinto (Panelist) – Marketing Manager for Bluehost, India
  • Ajay Nair (Panelist) – Managing Director of Mitlag Solutions Pvt Ltd
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Panel Discussion I – Women & WordPress – Together how can we can make a difference?


Let’s have a look at few of the phenomenal women who, against all odds, became pioneers of the technology world. These women are heroes:

  • Ada Lovelace – the first computer programmer.
  • The ENIAC Programmers – a team of 6 women who, during Word War II, helped the US government secretly program the first all-electronic programmable computer.
  • Radia Perlman– the Mother of the Internet

    • Grace Hopper –developed COBOL and other computer languages, which are still in use today.

These women helped to pave the way for future female generations, who desire nothing more than to succeed in the tech world.

There are so many inspiring women in the WordPress ecosystem across the globe, who have stepped into the modern day shoes of predecessors.

  • Ipstenu (Mika) – WordPress support forum contributor
  • Helen Hou-Sandi – WordPress lead developer
  • Sara Cannon – Make/UI blog
  • Rachel Baker – creator of a Bootstrap theme

If we compare Active participation of Women in Global WordPress ecosystem with Indian WordPress ecosystem, Few questions that come to mind:

  • Where are the women in Indian WordPress ecosystem?
  • Why aren’t they participating?
  • And when are they participating? Why don’t we see them?
  • Do we still have problems getting women involved with WordPress?

There are lots of women in Indian WordPress ecosystem, they can still do more, and we think speaking is one of those things.

This Panel discussion will be a frank and honest discussion with women who have been involved for different amounts of time in WordPress – ranging from development to designer to marketer.

Panelists include:

  • Meher Bala (Moderator) – Freelancer and Social Media Marketer
  • Poonam Namdev (Panelist) – Happiness Engineer in Themeisle
  • Khyati Gala (Panelist) – Happiness Engineer Automattic
  • Mrunmai Kulkarni (Panellist) – Blogger
  • Yogita Patil (Panellist) – Blogger
  • Sudesna Banerjee (Panellist) – Digital Marketer
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Tools of trade for WordPress Developer

People call Ajit Bohra a tech geek, fitness enthusiast, wannabe Super Randonneur. He calls himself a humble guy tapping his keyboard, writing custom WordPress implementations for his clients in India & Abroad.

With an experience of over 8 years, have worked on projects ranging from simple CMS websites to complex lead management systems, He runs a boutique agency out of a corner of Mumbai called “LUBUS”. As an active member of local WordPress community, he loves to organize dev meetups & speak at WordCamps. When he is not occupied with WordPress stuff, He explores the nature on his bicycle or by running. He loves tossing his salads.

He can be reached on ajit@lubus.in, followed on www.twitter.com/ajit.bohra and stalked on www.instagram.com/ajit.bohra. His work profile can be seen on http://www.lubus.in, https://github.com/ajitbohra, https://profiles.wordpress.org/ajitbohra

Topic Title: Tools of trade for WordPress Developer

Imagine artist without brush & warrior without weapons! WordPress developer also needs tools to craft code which looks & runs well. It’s common to see some dev being obsessed with certain tools and some simply use none. The talk will shed light on few tools & libraries that can help developer effectively craft their code.

He will be covering the following tools:

  • Version Control
  • VVV / VV
  • Atom / Sublime
  • Linters
  • PHPCS
  • Gulp
  • WP-CLI
  • OhMyZsh (Linux & Mac)

Don’t forget to book your seats here https://2017.nashik.wordcamp.org/tickets/ before they are sold out!

See y’all at WordCamp Nashik 2017!

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How to become a RockStar Freelance WordPress Consultant


Pramod Jodhani is a WordPress Enthusiast. He loves building WordPress themes, plugins and websites. He has co-founded a WordPress service agency in the past but prefers to work as a freelancer.

Pramod believes Freelancing is not just a way to make money, but a better way to live your life. He has completed more than 90 successful projects on Upwork, almost all having 5-star ratings and great customer feedbacks. Pramod not only gives attention to his professional life but also maintains a good work-life balance, thanks to the freedom he gets while being a freelancer.

TOPIC: How to become a RockStar Freelance WordPress Consultant

Many people prefer a Full-time Job because they don’t have enough knowledge about freelancing or they are scared they won’t be able to find regular work when being a freelancer. Pramod is going to share his knowledge and experience he gained while working as freelance WordPress consultant. With the example of his experiences, he will teach:

  • How to find clients
  • Charge the right amount
  • Winning proposals on freelancing sites like Upwork
  • Finding long-term clients
  • Maintain a healthy, long-term relationships with your clients.

Don’t forget to book your seats here https://2017.nashik.wordcamp.org/tickets/ before they are sold out!

See y’all at WordCamp Nashik 2017!

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Working remotely, mental health, and life-hacks


Gaurav Pareek is a web professional and a free software advocate, and has donned many hats in his ~8 year long career in technology. He has experience in running an agency, doing in-house software development, dealing with clients, handling contracts, building WordPress plugins and themes, and doing customer service.

He started using WordPress in 2010, and started contributing to the community in 2012. Gaurav has done small contributions to WordPress core, and has spoken at 3 WordCamps during this time. Currently he works as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic.

Apart from WordPress, he also participates in the Ubuntu and GNOME communities. He spoke at GUADEC in 2016 about the importance of accessibility in software, and in general contributes to multiple other open source projects.

TOPIC: Working remotely, mental health, and life-hacks

This talk is ideally intended for everyone participating, but will be more geared towards people who work remotely, or from a home-office.
This includes freelancers, contractors, parents who work from home to take care of kids, and a lot more people who don’t get to interact a lot with people. However, the hacks I will discuss will be useful for people who work in traditional office environments as well.

Mental health is a taboo in Indian society, and apparently nobody wants to talk about it, especially people who are going through things. In this talk, I will talk about my own struggles about living and working alone, identifying issues that you might have, and some ways to optimize your circumstances to make the most of life.

Don’t forget to book your seats here https://2017.nashik.wordcamp.org/tickets/ before they are sold out!

See y’all at WordCamp Nashik 2017!

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Leadership lessons for Community organisers with the anology of a Tea Bag by Alexander Gounder


Alex is an SEO / SEM, Internet Marketer with a wide variety of work experience across industries and domains like Films, TV Production, Customer Service, Politics, Government Operations, Press Relations, Graphics & Web Design to finally Internet Marketing & SEO. For the last four to five years he has been involved with the Indian WordPress Community which has helped him use WordPress for his clients better. He’s often seen ranting about politics on Twitter.

TOPIC: Leadership lessons for Community organisers with the anology of a Tea Bag.

Alex is an organiser of one of the oldest WordPress Meetup Groups in the Country. He has seen how the community has grown here in India. Through this talk, he would like to share some leadership lessons which fellow community organisers can learn from a simple tea bag.

Don’t forget to book your seats here https://2017.nashik.wordcamp.org/tickets/ before they are sold out!

See y’all at WordCamp Nashik 2017!

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Stories From Growth of WordCamps in India as Witnessed by Us


Abhishek and Amit are serial WordCampers. Both are using WordPress for their Bread and Butter for more than 6+ years. Amit owns WordPress agency called WPoets Technology LLP started in 2009 at Pune while Abhishek runs digital agency named Peenak Solutions since 2011 in his hometown Nagpur.

Both of them share a common passion of Interacting with and knowing as many WordPress Folks as possible. Most of the regular WordCampers would recognize Abhishek from his photography and Amit from his crafted Tweets about WordCamps. Amit has been part of 21 WordCamps right from WordCamp Jabalpur 2011, while Abhishek is not far behind with 17 WordCamp presence to his name from WordCamp Baroda 2013 onwards. Both of them have not missed a single WordCamp in India since they started their WordCamp Journey. Amit was Organizer for WordCamp Pune 2013, 2015, 2017 and Abhishek organized his maiden WordCamp this year at Nagpur.

TOPIC: “Stories From Growth of WordCamps in India as Witnessed by Us”

Both of them have Amazing stories and Experiences to share from their excursions at the numerous WordCamps they have attended. Talk will cover following various aspects from there WordCamp journey

  • Changes in perspective about WordPress
  • Growth of Local communities
  • Benefits to attendees
  • Types of Learning at WordCamps
  • Impacts of WordCamps on Local Business
  • Swags, giveaways at WordCamps
  • Food 😛
  • and What hasn’t changed in so many camps
  • What we expect in 2018

Don’t forget to book your seats here https://2017.nashik.wordcamp.org/tickets/ before they are sold out!

See y’all at WordCamp Nashik 2017!

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Importance of Design for Plugin Developers


Experienced Designer who has spent a decade of designing experiences, He is a go-to guy for a lot of startups and agencies in the city of dreams, Mumbai.

He has served as a Design Head at companies like Mumbai Educational Trust, Zee TV, Indigo Consulting (A LeoBurnett company), Ziffi and UX consultant for 8 startups in Mumbai Startup scene. Currently am working on projects for Mahindra, JCB, Godrej & ICICI.

He intends to bring a change in developers approach towards Experience & Visual Design.

TOPIC: Importance of Design for Plugin Developers

Design Thinking is a methodology that takes a solution based approach to solve problems that are ill-defined or unknown. It understands the underlying needs by re-phrasing the problem in a more human-centric way.

If applied, Design Thinking can enable plugin/theme developers decide which new plugin/theme is best to be made so that it can reach out to as many people as it can. It also helps define an action plan to increase the sales/awareness of existing theme/plugin.

Design Thinking uses a 6-step non-linear process that helps solve complex problems coming in way of products. It is a formalized framework of applying the creative design process to traditional business problems.

Don’t forget to book your seats here https://2017.nashik.wordcamp.org/tickets/ before they are sold out!

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How to make your Websites Multilingual by Siddharth Ashok


Siddharth Ashok is a Front-End and WordPress developer. He have been using WordPress for almost a decade and has followed its journey from being just a blogging platform to CMS.

Operating from Goa he works with several Scandinavian clients developing custom themes and plugins.

Organiser of WordPress Goa meetup group, he is also a volunteer for IndiaStack, where he contributes in taking India digitally forward.

Previously he has spoken on different topics at several small and big events. He was speaker different WordCamps at

  • WordCamp Mumbai 2014
  • WordCamp Pune 2015
  • WordCamp Kathmandu 2017
  • WordCamp Kanpur 2017

Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siddharthashok/ and Twitter: https://twitter.com/siddharthashok

Topic: How to make your Websites Multilingual?

At WordCamp Nashik Siddharth will share the importance of having your site Multilingual, He will be discussing Why having a site in local language important, how language is one’s identify and he can communicate better in his native language resulting a better user experience.

How you can have site in multiple languages, discussing popular multilingual plugins. Comparing few popular once and quick demo on how to use them.

Save the Date 05.11.2017, to listen more such awesome talks at #WCNashik!
Book your seats here https://2017.nashik.wordcamp.org/tickets/
See y’all at WordCamp Nashik!

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