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Call for Volunteers

Jai WordPress!

We’ve received several queries on how one can do more than just participate at WordCamp Nagpur. We’re now opening up applications for volunteering at WordCamp Nagpur, that is happening on 24th and 25th June 2017.

Join the WordCamp Nagpur organising committee and help build the next best conference in Nagpur.

WordCamp Nagpur is designed to bring like-minded people together and help you learn new things. Our conferences have several challenges around setting up WiFi, hall management, social media, registration and, more. We’re looking for volunteers to work on these exciting challenges along with the WordCamp organising team.

Further, the experience you would gain from the WordCamp Nagpur will enable you to learn advanced skills such as setting up live WordCamp Nagpur update on social media, set up networking or WiFi for challenging environments, get confidence in managing people and lot more. You would also be actively involved in troubleshooting and management during the conference and will be working closely with the WordPress Nagpur community.
Here’s what you are set to gain by volunteering at WordCamp Nagpur:

– Open up yourself and contribute to WordPress community
– Have the opportunity to meet speakers and WordPress Nagpur community
– Be an essential part of the event on the day
– You will receive an exclusive invite to the conference parties
– Get WordCamp Nagpur and sponsor swag like T-shirts, badges and more
– Have quality time with the WordCamp Nagpur organising committee

If you’re someone who can take initiative while being punctual, responsible, great with people then please submit your application using the following form.

The blurb with information for potential volunteers.

Update: Thank you for your support. We are processing the applications. Will Announce them Shortly.

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Show your Development skills at Plugin Pratiyogita ( प्रतियोगिता )

Plugin Pratiyogita – प्रतियोगिता at WordCamp Nagpur is plugin competition to show off your developer skills and create a plugin that will contribute back to the community.

Plugin Pratiyogita is the desi version of plugin palooza from Orange County to the Orange City of India.

How will it work?

  • You submit an idea for eligible plugin before 20th May 2017 Extended 30th May.
  • Develop and Submit it to WordPress Repository, [if not done] make sure it is published before 10th June. You must build your own plugin!
  • We’ll have room for 10 teams to compete.
  • Shortlisted plugin teams will be informed to present their plugin at WordCamp Nagpur 2017.
  • Selected Team gets 10 minutes to present plugin to Jury on 24th June 2017.
  • Results will be announced on conference day.

Plugin Eligibility

  • Plugin published under GNU General Public License v2 or later.
  • Plugin published WordPress.org Repository.
  • Plugin published after relaunched plugin directory, Published date should be after Submission opens (6th April 2017).

Team Eligibility

  • Develop it alone or with a team, there is no limit on team size.
  • Each team member can only be in one team for this competition.
  • One of your team members has to be at WordCamp Nagpur to present your plugin.
  • There is no geographical limitation to participate in the competition.

Prizes
The winning team and runners up win fabulous prizes! We’ll be announcing prizes shortly.

Submit your Plugin Pratiyogita Entry Below

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Design WordCamp Nagpur’s Mascot! – WC Nagpur Wapuu Contest

Wapuus are the official mascots of WordCamps across the world since 2011.  Wapuus have been used by communities to showcase the event theme and local culture to the attendees. We need your help in designing the mascot for WC Nagpur.

Wapuu Comes to Nagpur

Wapuu has become an important part of the WordCamp experience and somewhat a collector item. This your chance to contribute to one of the cutest aspects of WordCamp Nagpur and win an amazing reward pack!

Some History Behind Wapuu

Wapuu has been used by local communities as a showcase of the local culture and the inspirations behind the WordCamp they are organizing. Kazuko Kaneuchi originally created the first Wapuu in 2011 for WordPress Japan and ever since Wapuu has been used by WordCamps across the world. Just like WordPress, Wapuu is an open-source character letting anyone who wants to remix and high-resolution it the way they want. You can read more about Wapuu’s history, check out this detailed post.

Wapuus In India
Some Recent Wapuu’s from WordCamps in India

Where will we be using Wapuu

We need your ideas on how to we can creatively use your design. Want to create a life-size Wapuu? Or want to make a Wapuu booth?  Go Ahead – send us a mockup! We are also working to finalize on which merchandise are we going print Wapuu on.

These may include:

  • Laptop Stickers
  • Tshirts
  • Mugs

Design Guidelines

Wapuu design guidelines aren’t very strict but eyes, nose, and mouth that are distinctive areas in Wapuus. Please ensure your design follows these general design guidelines.

What are we looking for in the design of Nagpur’s Wapuu:

  • Needs to showcase Nagpur’s culture (duh!)
  • Oranges are not the only thing Nagpur is known for! Come on don’t just make the Wapuu holding an orange!
  • Need to be both print and screen friendly
  • Read our inspiration blog post (to be added soon) to derive more ideas soon.

Need Inspirations? Checkout

Design Resources and original design can be found here: https://jawordpressorg.github.io/wapuu/faq_en.html

Contest Rules:

  1. Follow general Wapuu design guidelines. Share your Wapuu in our facebook group and/or tweet it out to us on Twitter with #WCNagpur
  2. The contest is not restricted to Nagpur residents.
  3. The last date of entry is 20 May 2017 4 June 2017 (extended)
  4. Winner entry will be notified by Email.
  5. Winner would be required to share original source AI/PSD/CDR files of the design (and along you might be required to tweak the design if needed for our print needs)
  6. The design(s) will be published under GNU General Public License v2 or later. It’s same as WordPress software.
  7. Please do not use any copyrighted content in your design(s)

Looking forward to some awesome designs!

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Get your ticket for WordCamp Nagpur

Tickets for WordCamp Nagpur – The First Monsoon WordCamp In Central India, on the 24th & 25th of June, 2017 – at Chitnavis Centre, Civil Lines, Nagpur are now available!

Visit our Tickets page to Get early bird subscriber ticket to conference day.

There is something for everyone in WordCamp Nagpur!

WordCamp Nagpur will have several informative, and entertaining sessions on various topics revolving around WordPress, conducted by WordPress enthusiast. The sessions are not meant for a technical audience – they will be equally useful for you, whether you are a user or a developer.

Remember – we have only limited seats for the event! Book your seat now, before the tickets get sold out!

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About WordPress Community in Nagpur

Origin Story

On 11th July 2009, Nagpur had it first PHP meetup, around 31 people turned up with a variety of background.

First PHP Meetup in Nagpur

Further down the line group continued to cover various topics and activities. Topics like Various PHP Frameworks, various content management systems, Facebook Applications using PHP, Drupal 7 Release Party, WordPress Anniversary party, Git flow, Plugin development, Modules/Components developments and more.

The PHP meetups have been a great boon for the PHP community in Nagpur & has provided a great platform for PHP beginners, enthusiasts & developers to share their knowledge.

Why We forked WordPress User Group From PHP User Group

After attending First WordCamp of life, Abhishek (as an attendee) and Rohit (as a Speaker) at WordCamp Baroda 2013 realised WordPress community is not developers only community, it’s more about users. Further attending WordCamps Pune 2013, Baroda 2014, Mumbai 2014, It took us two years to understand how WordPress community works.

Current Status of WordPress Community in Nagpur

WordPress Community Nagpur has two groups, One on Facebook and one from WordPress Foundation on Meetup.com. There are 332 WPers in the Facebook group and 162 on Meetup group. Facebook group is used for discussions and helping each other, whereas Meetup group for scheduling meetup.

To make sure people could join, contribute and learn, we try to conduct two meetups every Month, Mid-month meetup for hands-on and learning and Month-end Meetup are mostly discussions over coffee.

Here are some glimpse of group activities

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With WordCamp Nagpur 2017, we look forward to organising Annual Conference for our Community that will help the community to grow exponentially.

Image Sources
http://www.adityamooley.net/blogs/2009/07/11/nagpur-php-meetup-overview/
https://www.facebook.com/Nagpurmeetup/

 

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We are Looking for Speakers and Workshop Facilitators!

Jai WordPress!

We are officially accepting applications for sessions and workshops at WordCamp Nagpur.

If you love WordPress, enjoy being a part of the community then join us! WordCamps are fun, community-organized, casual events and it’s a great experience for everyone.

We’re expecting nearly 450 attendees with a wide range of experience and interests. All session will be recorded and posted to WordPress.tv.

Session Overview
Sessions will be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes of Q&A. We’re currently looking for talks related to the topics that people are expecting though other topics are welcome.

Workshop Overview
A workshop will be two hours long. We’re currently looking for workshop related to the topics that people are expecting, though other topics are welcome.

Required Qualifications
You are not expected to be a professional speaker, but you must know what you’re talking about. We’ll be selecting speakers based on how timely, relevant and useful the topic is.

Apply Now! – Deadline is May 5, 2017
Apply Now! – Extended Deadline is 12th May 2017

If you’d like to propose multiple topics, please submit the form multiple times, once for each topic. Please be as detailed as possible.

Update: Thank you for your support. We are processing the applications. Will Announce them Shortly.

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Topics people look forward to explore at Wordcamp Nagpur

Jai WordPress!

Last week, we asked for Topics suggestion for Workshops, Talks and Panel Discussion.

Before we start accepting speaker applications, here is the list of Topic that people are expecting at WordCamp Nagpur.

    • Scalability of WordPress, how WordPress can be used other than traditional blog, website, eCommerce sites. The versatility of WordPress.
    • Best Code practices for developers
    • Topics related to project management/mentorship/WordPress training
    • WordPress for the upliftment of people who are yet to join IT revolution.
    • AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages
    • Workshop for designers, how to get started with WordPress. Design and code for WP
    • How to manage continuous delivery with WordPress
    • Design systems in WordPress
    • Teaching WordPress to kids
    • Common publisher problems and how to resolve them
    • How to Create Content Marketing Strategy and reports using WordPress
    • WordPress Dev Ops for Beginners
    • WordPress of Things – WordPress for IOT
    • WordPress Rest API
    • WordPress Caching
    • Parent and Child themes
    • Best Encryption practices – SSL and beyond it.
    • Security Checklist for WordPress Site
    • Career in WordPress
    • Podcasting with WordPress
    • Designing for Accessibility
    • Utilities to use along with WordPress
    • WordPress Multitenancy
    • WordPress as headless CMS
    • Unit Testing your Plugins
    • WordPress theme development with perspective to UI Development
    • How to contribute to WordPress, bloggers perspective.
    • WordPress Troubleshooting
    • WordPress plugin development with Composer
    • Creating themes with Underscores
    • Building Mobile apps with WordPress
    • WordPress and Javascript (React, Angular, Backbone)
    • WordPress CLI
    • Good Practices to manage images in WordPress
    • Flexbox – future of CSS
    • WooCommerce – adventures of eCommerce
    • Tools to automate marketing with WordPress
    • A/B testing in WordPress
    • Scaling WordPress with Load Testing
    • Using WordPress as a productivity tool.

Thank you for sharing your expectations from WordCamp Nagpur. If you want to add a topic to above list, feel free to suggest, We will try to incorporate those in WordCamp Schedule.

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Call for Sponsors

WordCamp Nagpur is the first WordCamp in India in the monsoon of the year 2017 and is the first one for WordPress Nagpur community. Your sponsorship will enable us to conduct a better event, a better experience for attendees.

Sponsoring WordCamp highlights you in front of attendees that include developers, bloggers, users, entrepreneurs, service providers, enterprises and newbies getting started with the WordPress.

We have different sponsorship options and advantages along with them mentioned as follows

Admin level Sponsor
INR 50,000 / USD 1000

  • Blogpost Introducing you as Admin
  • Multiple Social Media Mentions
  • Large size Sitewide Logo
  • Three Standees Spaces for your Standees
  • Exhibition Desk for Interactions on Conference Day
  • 4 Reserved Tickets for your representatives
  • You can add swags/flyers to Camps Swag kit.

Editor Level Sponsor
INR 30,000 / USD 500

  • Blogpost Introducing you as Editor
  • Multiple Social Media Mentions
  • Medium size Sitewide Logo
  • One Standees Spaces for your Standees
  • Exhibition Desk for Interactions on Conference Day
  • 3 Reserved Tickets for your representatives
  • You can add swags/flyers to Camps Swag kit.

Author Level Sponsor
INR 15,000 / USD 250

  • Consolidated Blog Post along with all Author level sponsors
  • Multiple Social Media Mentions
  • Small size Sitewide Logo
  • 2 Reserved Tickets for your representatives
  • You can add swags/flyers to Camps Swag kit.

Beyond Sponsorship levels, following is common for all

  • All Sponsors get access to Pre-Conference Dinner.
  • And Thanking mentions in opening or closing remarks on Conference day.

If you are interested in any of these packages then please fill up the form below and we will be in contact.









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Here’s the action blueprint for WordCamp Nagpur

Jai WordPress Mandali,

At WordCamp Nagpur, we are planning for two days of action. Day 1 for workshops and day 2 for talks.

Day 1. Workshop day will have three tracks for users, developers, community. Around 4 workshops a track.
Day 2. Conference day will have two tracks for users/business and development. Around 8 talks each track. and a couple of panel discussions.

We look forward making this camp an awesome experience. Please suggest us topics for workshops, talks and panel discussion in the following form.

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Tell us what are you expecting from WordCamp Nagpur

Jai WordPress Mandali (Peoples)!

Learning and networking are the two core interest of peoples at any WordCamp. Before we open Speaker’s Application, We want you to tell us what are you expecting from WordCamp Nagpur.

Two days of WordCamp Nagpur is planned to have various workshops, bi-directional talks, panel discussions and experience sharing.

We plan to publish a list of expected Topics next Monday, so people planning to speak can select the topics to apply as speaker.

Feel Free to share your thoughts, topics you want to explore at WordCamp Nagpur.

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