Author: Vajrasar Goswami

Ayushdeep Singh is Senior Developer at BudyBoos and hails from Delhi NCR. In his words –  he is in love with WordPress and BuddyPress!

At WordCamp Udaipur, Ayushdeep will be covering the interesting niche of WP REST API. He will make his debut as a speaker with the topic – What can we do with WP REST API v2 & Why.

Key Points:

We asked a few questions to know about the depth of the session. This will give you a glimpse of what you can expect from the talk:

Will it be completely developer oriented? or will users be able to relate with it as well?

Yes it will be developer-oriented talk, but WordPress end users will also be able to relate with it.

Will you be presenting any code examples or live demo?

Yes, I’ll be providing expert and intermediate code samples.

How do you plan to make this session interesting for everyone?

I believe it’s a topic yet to be stored and hence the developers will find it interesting for sure.

Saurabh is the Chief Strategist and co-founder of Yapapaya and the lead organizer of the WP community in Pune. He writes, codes, thinks and speaks about WordPress all day. 🙂

At WordCamp Udaipur 2017, Saurabh will be speaking about Contribution-Oriented Development

Key Points:

If you release open source software, one of the things that you want to happen is that a community of users and developers should grow around it and contribute to it. So that your software can grow more than you could have done it yourself.

In his words, “In this session, we look at how some such open source projects have successfully oriented themselves to getting contributions and building a community around them. We analyze their strategies and learn from them so that we may use it for our own projects”.

Nirav is referred to as an Entrepreneur Geek. One who likes technology as much as businesses. Nirav has built a rather impressive track record over the last 17 years whilst which he launched India’s first electronic magazine at the age of 18, started a thriving web agency at 19, and was asked to exit the company he started at 30.

From that low, he made a return and went on to create a string of seven businesses. In his words, he is not a serial entrepreneur, but a parallel entrepreneur.

Nirav and his team have created some of the most popular WooCommerce plugins. And they also have a lot of plugins on the WordPress plugins repo – with over 100,000 active installs collectively. Over the years, he’s worked with more than 500 developers in his own businesses and elsewhere.

With a large experience of speaking at events in the niche, Nirav will be speaking at WordCamp Udaipur on – Why Indian Devs fail and what can be done about this?

Key Points:

In his words, “We are Indian Developers. For most people, what China is to manufacturing, India is to software development. Cheap, Bulk, Inferior Quality. And let’s face the truth, for a large part, that argument is not wrong. Consider other people you’ve worked with so far. Do you think they have great talent? Are they very good developers?

The sad thing is that we did not design ourselves for mediocrity and failures. It’s the way our brains are wired. In most cases, we don’t even know we are lousy. Let’s take this opportunity to look within and uncover the deepest sources of our biggest limitations. Let’s dig to the roots of our reality. Because awareness precedes change!

While we’ll look at some painful things about ourselves, I promise you will walk out with a lot more power”.

Having earned the moderator level on WordPress.tv, Nirmal works as a Business Manager at Multidots. His passion lies in contributing to WordPress and in his words – he loves increasing the fan base of WordPress.

Nirmal will be marking his WordCamp speaking debut at WordCamp Udaipur and will speak on – How to contribute with WordPress.tv?

Key Points:

WordPress.tv published 26% more talks this year than the previous year, and now there is an official WordPress channel on YouTube, so more and more videos will begin to be available wherever people want to watch them.

In words of Nirmal – “In India and around Asia, we have very few contributors. As we know that, WordPress.tv is the only platform to publish the official WordPress videos. As moderator at WordPress.tv from India, I feel that if we have more and more contributors from India then we can have more larger community of WordPress.tv too”.

Topic will cover broadly the following:

• What is WordPress.tv?
• How to contribute with WordPress.tv? ( Steps and Procedures)
• What are the tools, you can utilise while doing WordCamp Videos editing?
• What are the things need to be taken care while editing any WordCamp videos?
• How to submit videos to WordPress.tv?
• What are the standard to approve videos on WordPress.tv?

Using WordPress for nearly a decade, David turned to WordPress as the main source of income three years back. Since then, it’s been a happy journey.

In last 5 months, David started producing video content for WordPress users (mainly for Beaver Builder users) on his Youtube channel.

His session would be revolving around the question of How Page Builders are the future for WordPress.

In his words, Key points in the session:

WordPress (and open source in general) has been important in democratizing the web. Now with the likes of Wix, Weebly, and SquareSpace we probably need to turn our attention more towards User Experience.

We can expect to see the user experience side of Page Builders and how they can be useful for quick turnaround of the project.