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Our Buddy supports #WCNashik with Gold like a Boss!

BuddyBoss is a leading provider of WordPress and BuddyPress driven solutions, for online community platforms. The company’s products are used for building E-learning sites, MarketPlaces, and other community type platforms.

BuddyBoss also builds custom developed solutions for startups and established organizations, to address their specific platform requirements.

Their themes, plugins and packaged solutions are used by over 14,000+ sites.

The team is fully distributed, with members in 10 different countries, working remotely and on flexible schedules. Different parts of the team meet in person during WordCamps at different locations. In 2017, the whole team got together in the same country for a team retreat, sparking a new tradition for the coming years.
Interested in joining BuddyBoss ? They’re always hiring at https://www.buddyboss.com/careers/

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How to optimize time, while working on WordPress Websites by Varun Sharma


Varun is the Founder & CEO at Tech Banker – A Premium WordPress Plugin Development Firm based out of Chandigarh – The City Beautiful.

Apart from an entrepreneur, he is a travel enthusiast and loves travelling across theglobe with his family. He loves Punjabi food, and is a proud father of 2 cutest kids.

He started his journey for entrepreneurship in the year 2009 and had a privilege of providing services to Xerox GmbH.

His WordPress journey began in 2010 when he started using WordPress for his own organization’s website.

On a day around 10 th March 2012, he was looking for a gallery plugin to build a portfolio for one of his startup venture and he didn’t find anything which was up to the standards he was expecting!
He started building a gallery plugin for his own needs.

After successfully using it for building his own website portfolio, he decided to publish the plugin over wordpress.org in 2013.

What was next, he jumped in to the WordPress wagon and launched Tech Banker in
2013.

Varun is himself a passionate self-made man and plays an active role in the company’s day to day activities and does everything that the company demands from him, be it business strategy building or Plugin’s Architecture planning.

Varun has also recently spoken at Word Camp Delhi 2017 on the topic "How to make your WordPress Code Super Readable, Safe & Secure!"

He has been an individual sponsor at WordCamp Ahmedabad 2017 and is looking forward to contribute to the WordPress Community in every possible manner.

Topic: How to optimize time while working on WordPress Websites?

In his talk at WordCamp Nashik 2017! Varun will share his experience of how to optimize time while working on
WordPress Websites.
The process of developing a WordPress website from scratch is a lengthily one.
When you’re repeating it on a regular basis for your clients, it soon becomes necessary to re-use certain aspects of this process to save time, reduce repetition and increase profitability!
Anything repetitive is fair game for the Re-usability process.
He will also be uncovering WordPress multisite concept to explain its usefulness for handling your various sites under a roof.

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Dairy Don is our In-Kind Sponsor

Dairy Don a well known brand in the world of 100 % natural and vegetarian ice cream. Dairy Don is a Manufacturer and Retailer of Ice Creams. since its inception the products were overwhelming as customers identified the Brand that is on superior level of ice cream in terms of quality and range of flavors.

Thick shakes & fresh Scoop Ice creams with registered Brand name as “DAIRY DON”. Dairy Don has specialty ice cream providing quality and value to consumers through more than 13 retail shops in Nashik, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Nagpur.

We keep strict focus on quality during our manufacturing processes, and take extreme care on maintaining hygiene of our products, serve you with great warmth at our outlets which has helped us gain something very valuable over the last 34 years of our operations that is your Love and Trust. Dairy Don has reinvented what people expect from their ice cream experience in a parlor. By using only the finest ingredients to make our ice cream, Dairy Don delivers the best tasting ice cream. Rich, Creamy & Original in terms of product range, we are equally diverse and offer you mouth-watering products across all categories of Ice Creams.

We are passionate about innovation and research constantly for new flavours and new ice cream dishes that we can serve you.

Vision

“To emerge as a Leader in ice cream with Global Presence through Business Excellence and ensuring Customer Delight”.

Mission

“To grow continuously, offering value added Products and gain customers’ confidence through Innovative Practices”.

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Intellectual Property Rights and Contract Drafting for Tech World


Mridul is a Lawyer by profession, Graphics designer and a developer by heart. He started WordPress on a client request and has never turned back since then. He has more than 5 years of experience with WordPress and 8 years with Graphics and User Interface designing. He has spoken at several conferences including at NLU Delhi and Wordcamp Udaipur-2017. He has done 3 startups and is currently practicing at Rajasthan High Court Jaipur since 2013 and during this time he has also represented State of Rajasthan, Indian Oil Corporation, Country Club India Ltd. and others. Mridul is socially active in the community and impart free computer education to the poor. Mridul loves to write blogs and poems in hindi and english.

Topic: “Intellectual Property Rights and Contract Drafting for Tech World”

  1. What is Intellectual property?
  2. Types of intellectual property:

    • Copyrights b. Trademarks c. Patents
  3. Why to protect your Intellectual Property?
  4. How to Protect your Intellectual Property?
  5. How to avoid Intellectual Property Right breaches while working on your
    projects?
  6. What are Contracts?
  7. What are the basics of contracts for IT World?
  8. How to draft a contract for:

    • Your Clients
    • Employees
    • T&C for your Websites
    • Privacy Policies
  9. How to avoid proceedings at court by effective contract drafting?

How would it help?
It will help people understand the importance of Intellectual property rights in the IT Industry and will help them avoid its breach at different levels. It would further enable individuals and companies to understand as to how they can protect their Intellectual Property.

The talk will also enable the attendees to understand the basics of drafting the contracts whereby understanding on how to avoid difficult situations with clients and employees by use of an effective contract.

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

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#WCNashik stickers by Stickermule our In-kind sponsor

Sticker Mule is the easiest way to buy custom stickers. Thousands of people, startups, bloggers, developers and companies buy our amazing stickers printed with the greatest care and sent in the fastest way possible. Shipping costs are free as well as offering immediate customer support. Sticker Mule is positioned as the favorite place to print your stickers across the network.

Website: https://www.stickermule.com/

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Tejaswini will guide you on how to create Single Page Web Applications with WordPress REST API


Tejaswini Deshpande is a WordPress Developer, working as a co-founder at WebFanzine Media – a WordPress based products company and a Partner at sisme.in – a Video Production and animation studio. She has developed more than 25 WordPress plugins and a couple of custom WordPress themes for certain users. A co-founder of Webfanzine Media where they develop custom functionalities for WordPress users, she is mostly involved with development, maintenance and support to the users. Along with WordPress, she loves working on Vue.js due to its flexibility and ease of use.

Apart from work, she loves playing badminton, cricket and she runs a lot. She has a very adorable Labrador named Ajax and a fierce kitty named Bob, playing with them and talking about them is what she enjoys a lot 😉

Topic: “Single Page Web Applications with WordPress REST API”

At WordCamp Nashik 2017, Tejaswini will shed a light on WordPress REST API, With WordPress rolling out RESTful API in core, the possibilities to create anything on and with WordPress are now infinite. With REST APIs, we can get data out of WordPress and we can post data to our WordPress from outside WordPress.

In her talk, she will cover how the power of WordPress REST APIs can be used to create functional Single Page Applications (SPA). Also, if time permits, she would cover possibilities where else the RESTful APIs can be used.

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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WBComDesigns supports #WCNashik with Gold

WBComDesigns
WBComDesigns is a WordPress agency based in Lucknow, India, With a great zeal for WordPress, we strive hard to grow our client’s business. We have coupled up our technical expertise with 5+ years of strategic work experience to give out our best to the client’s business.

We have some fantastic product lineups containing the 25+ free plugins. With the recent addition of premium themes, we are jumping into premium products domain.

The services offered by Wbcom Designs include maintenance support, updates, backups, and security. Wbcom Designs also provides website designing services along with Custom developing WordPress, E-commerce websites, Learning solution, & BuddyPress solutions.

As the time has flown since we first set our foot in this mammoth developers’ community, we love to contribute to WordPress. Like they say, there is always room for more. But, we want to deliver the better and the best. We want to scale the ‘developer loyalty’ quotient and do our part for the WordPress community.

You can follow WBComDesigns on Facebook and Twitter.

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Increase your Followers on Social Media & Use them Efficiently for your Brand


Chandra Prakash Choudhary is a Aspiring blogger, pledged to make this world a better place with everything he does. Passionately redirecting 25m+ self grown social media fans/followers from first world countries to different blogs and constantly working to improve their social media experience by providing most entertaining and informative content to their news-feed.

Working with a team of 30 people who understand common language that is WordPress and a partner from the other side of border, everything backed by a cluster of plugin and a platform back that is not just a platform but a way to communicate.

Glimpse of Chandra’s FB network

https://www.facebook.com/Tina-656855064426076/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=560611517383649
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1241183025989025&ref=br_rs (Official page for rearfront.com)
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTBOCAH/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/tumblrping/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=561436387281425&ref=br_rs

Topic: Increase your Followers on Social Media & Use them Efficiently for your Brand

At WordCamp Nashik 2017, Chandra will talk about how instant articles by Facebook works and how different WordPress plugins help everything easy.

  • How stories works on facebook and how different plugins can save your time.
  • How in 3 months he has increased viewership of his content all over the social media.
  • How he jumped to 14m pageviews/sessions from 3m using my social media assets.
  • How he made 3 brands successful in last 8 months and how social media is helping their content to be read/seen by over 15m+ unique visitors every month.
  • Why it’s important to focus on your social properties, how it can help your business grow faster and how to convert most out of it.
  • How WordPress connected him with various people and behaved as the best platform to do so.

So Save the Date 05.11.2017, if you want to grow your followers and to listen to this amazing talk!

See y’all at WordCamp Nashik!

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Kinsta is our Gold Sponsor

WordCamp Nashik 2017 Kinsta

Kinsta is one of the fastest growing managed WordPress hosts on the market with a focus on providing high-performance, scalability, and availability. Their infrastructure is powered by Google Cloud Platform, which is one of the largest, fastest, and most secure networks on the planet. They work with some of the biggest names in the industry, such as GE, Intuit, Drift, AdEspresso, Mint, and Swagway.

They also specialize in optimized WooCommerce hosting for large ecommerce sites that need superior uptime. Utilizing orchestrated LXD containers allows them to completely isolate each WordPress site and autoscale for sudden traffic surges.

Kinsta features the latest and greatest technologies such as HTTP/2, PHP 7.1, MariaDB, HHVM, WP-CLI, one-click staging, Let’s Encrypt, Git, and premium DNS via Amazon Route 53. Their support team is second to none, and is made up of knowledgeable WordPress developers which are available 24×7 for assistance.

Kinsta consistently shows that blazing fast performance and great support can be achieved by a hosting provider, as they have been awarded Top Tier Performance 3 years in a row by ReviewSignal and were named the most reliable host by Codeinwp.

Connect with Kinsta on Twitter and Facebook.

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Our first local speaker – Akshay Sonavance will conduct a Workshop on Git Workflow

Akshay is a artistic visionist, the professional photographer, creative animator, elight programmer, effective hacker, magnificent mechatronic and interactive game developer.

He is a senior software developer and have the position of regnal coordinator and club captain in Mozilla.

He has a experience in the field of programming more than last 6 years and working as the freelancer in the field of information technology, electrical and electronic,mechanical, and one of my favourite interior and architectural designer.

He is also expertise in 3d graphic designing and have an experienced in various programming language that is more than 43 languages, and also developed many robots which use open-source hardware.

Workshop: Git + Github = Easy(SCM + Collaboration)

As Git is a distributed version control system, it can be used as a server out of the box. Dedicated Git server software helps, amongst other features, to add access control, display the contents of a Git repository via the web, and help managing multiple repositories.

May people still confused about Git & Github since its a wild area of open source. His Workshop will be based on 3 questions, What? How? & Why?

In this Workshop, He will demonstrate how to configure Git and use it for your WordPress Projects, covering most of the Git commands.

Glimpse of Git Workshop:

  • What is a version control system, why should I care?
  • What are diffs?
  • A word on the data model of Git
  • What are branches? Why do I need them?
  • What does “distributed” mean with regards to Git?
  • The merge concept of Git
  • What are reflogs?
  • What is the stash?

and many more.

If you want to be a part of this amazing Workshop, then book your seats here https://2017.nashik.wordcamp.org/tickets/

Note: For attending Workshops, we request you to carry your Laptops with you. Internet and Charging slots will be available at the Venue

See y’all at WordCamp Nashik!

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