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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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