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BuddyBoss is our Lake Jai Samand (Gold) Sponsor

Our Lake Jai Samand (Gold) sponsor – BuddyBoss helps you create successful and efficient BuddyPress communities.

They build and sell a suite of products for building social networks, including themes, plugins and packaged solutions for BuddyPress. They have a team of specialized designers and developers who understand BuddyPress inside and out. With their statement of – “If you can think it, we can build it”; you can figure out their expertise in the domain.

With their solutions ranging from Social Marketplace to integrations of BuddyPress with Sensei and LearnDash, BuddyBoss has created their niche in the existing WordPress space.

Nirav Mehta: Why Indian Devs fail and What can be done about this?

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”.

Nirmal Desai: Contributing to WordPress.tv

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?

Vinodh David – Transition into a Product development company

Vinodh is, Co-founder of the popular WordPress management product –  InfiniteWP. At WordCamp Udaipur Vinodh will be sharing his journey of transitioning from a services offering company to a product development company.

Vinodh is always eager to solve problems. Along with his team, he keeps building new products and tools to simplify the life of business owners and developers.

WPTimeCapsule is another great product built by Vinodh and his team. It is a free incremental backup plugin for WordPress and has received a very positive response from the global WordPress community.

Key Points:

In his talk we expect to gather all the golden nuggets of what goes into the business of both product and service driven company and what is ‘right’ thing to do.

Join us: Be a volunteer

We are organizing WordCamp in this beautiful City of Lakes “Udaipur” on January 28th, 2017. It is going to be an interactive and casual event where WordPress experts are going to share their knowledge and it’s going to be a fun-filled experience.

To make WordCamp a perfect event, we want you to be a part of it and be a volunteer with us. As a volunteer, it would be a great opportunity for you to:

  • Check out for the inside actions.
  • Meet new people with same interest.
  • Get the new work opportunity.
  • Learn from experts.
  • Be a part of event and experience teamwork with a lot of fun.
  • Get special perks for being a part of this amazing event.

So, if you want to have fun organizing WordCamp with us, fill out the form below and we will get back to you.

ResellerClub is our Lake Jai Samand (Gold) Sponsor

We would like to thank ResellerClub for making WordCamp Udaipur possible.

ResellerClub provides you with a platform to launch your business with its huge portfolio of domain name registration services, Cloud and shared hosting options, Dedicated Servers & security products.

Whether you are looking for SSL certificates, design advice or resources such as Stock Images, Plugins/Scripts, the folks at ResellerClub have you covered!

ResellerClub is the world’s preferred Wholesale Provider for Hosting and Domain Names. Over 200,000 Web Designers, Developers and Hosts worldwide use our services to run their businesses.!

ResellerClub offers a full-fledged Reseller Program that includes Product Integration’s, Order Management, Billing & Customer management and includes a free eCommerce storefront and API integration too. ResellerClub also organizes SiteWars, the Web Design contest and Ctrl+F5, a multi-city series of summits for Web Designers.

KrishaWeb is our Lake Pichola (Bronze) Sponsor

Our latest Bronze Sponsor, KrishaWeb, is a web development and design agency from Ahmedabad, India. A group of passionate professionals from eclectic backgrounds, the team specializes in creating Brand Identity, Web & Mobile Development, and eCommerce solutions.

About KrishaWeb:

We offer forward-thinking Ideas backed by knowledge and skill. Our team of web experts is here to provide you solutions, whether you are a business big or small.

Our unique solutions, ranging from design to development to SEO, are perfectly adapted to our clients’ needs.

If you are looking for world-standard web solutions without breaking the bank, KrishaWeb Technologies is just what you need.

David Waumsley – How Page Builders are the future for WordPress

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.

Gaurav Pareek – Diversity and inclusion in open source communities: An Indian perspective

Gaurav works as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. He is in the web industry for about 8 years, and have donned a number of hats during this period, including startup founder, developer, designer, business manager, front office, 3d architectural designer, in-house developer etc.

He will be speaking on Diversity and inclusion in open source communities: An Indian perspective

In his words, the key points of the session are:

Diversity and inclusion is a big thing right now, and not only in the tech industry. The problem currently is that the ideas and thoughts about this whole thing are mostly coming out of the west, and from mostly multi-racial, developed countries.

These places have their own issues to deal with, and they are usually different from what we have. The idea of diversity and inclusion in India is very different from that in western cultures, and this is even more pronounced when it comes to how we run communities (because of the transparency involved).

With this talk, I want to explain how I have perceived these issues during my involvement in communities over the years, and want to raise some questions about the current situation, and what can be done to improve (and what exactly do we call improvement in such a case).

Victoria Park – The importance of providing support for your products

Victoria is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, and she provides support for users on WordPress.com sites. She is passionate about traveling and seeing new places, and eventually hope to compile her thoughts and tips into a comprehensive travel blog for future adventurers.

She will be talking about The importance of providing support for your products.

Key points of the session:

  • What it takes to provide a great support experience
  • How to provide support without becoming the user’s personal support person
  • Why it’s worth not just gaining customers but also keeping them around

This talk is intended to bring awareness to the fact that the work is not over once you ship a plugin/product. The value of a plugin/product is not just in the end result, it includes the support that you follow up with, and it’s the support that you provide that induces loyalty towards the user.

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