Meet the Speaker: Maruti Mohanty

Maruti is a Happiness Engineer at GiveWP.com and WordImpress.com. He lives in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. When he is not spreading happiness on the support team, he’s spending time with family, reading books, or binge-watching his favourite series. He loves cricket and has dreams of travelling the world one day.

Maruti will share Harsh Truth To Make You a Better Customer Support Specialist.

Customer support is one of the least appreciated job roles in any business, both by the customers and by the rest of the team. Most of us view customer support as something we “have to” do and never that we “get to” do. Customers can be rude, demanding, and challenging. This talk will discuss what a customer support tech or Happiness Engineer has to go through on a daily basis and how s/he can take all this in stride and continue performing. Far from bashing the customer or whining about how hard the job is, we instead will learn and understand why the customer behaves the way they do, and how as customer support techs we should handle those situations. This talk will discuss the science and psychology behind the communication between customers and support technicians, and how can we use the same to get better at it. Attendees will walk away with concrete steps to put in place to immediately begin seeing happier customers and healthier support technicians.

You can connect with him on twitter @maruti_mohanty

Meet the Speaker: Hardeep Asrani

Hardeep Asrani is a developer and Star Wars fan from Kanpur. He loves contributing to WordPress community in many ways, including support, themes, plugins and more. You can find him on Slack pretty much all the time exploring different parts of WordPress community. Hardeep works for ThemeIsle.com as a support ninja and developer. Hardeep was also part of the organising team of WordCamp Kanpur 2017.

Hardeep will introduce you to Adapting existing plugins for Gutenberg.

For plugin and theme developers on how they can take their current implementation and migrate it to Gutenberg, and future of WordPress. From Gutenberg’s Block API to its Sidebar API, a headless approach with WP Rest API, new tools and ways they can use to make their plugin Gutenberg-compatible.

You can connect with him on twitter @HardeepAsrani

We need Facilitator for WordPress Help Desk & Contributor day

What is WordPress Help Desk

  • For First-timers:
    WordPress Help Desk is a desk at a WordCamp staffed by volunteer WordPress experts where you can ask questions and get help with WordPress.
  • For Serial WordCampers:
    Yes, it’s Happiness Bar. As you may know, I’ve been a volunteer at the Happiness Bar to various WordCamps in the last five years. The experience of interacting with and helping others working with WordPress has been educational, entertaining, and often enlightening. But people don’t understand what “Happiness Bar” is. So just trying changing Name of Happiness bar.

Who is Best Fit for WordPress Help Desk Facilitator?

  • If you have prior experience of Helping People with using WordPress, then you are best fit for this Role.
  • If you are comfortable in communication, Specially Hindi or Marathi that will be Addon as its more comfortable to understand things in Native languages.

What is Contributor Day
Contributor day is to foster the love for Open Source. Learn how you can contribute to WordPress.

On Sunday 22nd, 2018, We have Contributor Day. While Organizing team will be busy with managing logistics, we need your Help to team up and teach various Ways of Contributing to WordPress.

Who is Best Fit for Contributor Day Facilitator?
If you have participated in make.wordpress.org and you can help people understand how to contribute to any team. Then you are the best fit.

Update: Thanks for your support, Will be sharing list of Facilitators shortly.

WordCamp Nagpur 2017 Team was featured in WordPress Jingle

Last year at WordCamp Denver 2017, Zack Katz From GravityView spoke about the future of WordPress in the keynote talk. At the end of his talk, he introduced the music video “WordPress is People (Do The WordPress Wiggle)” the amazing piece of music.

It was a moment of glory for WordCamp Nagpur 2017 Team to be featured in WordPress Jingle, thus can’t stop me from sharing it.

You can spot 2017 WCNagpur Team on 0.30-0.31 seconds.

Wonderful Lyrics as follows:

Behind every line of code
Behind every name, you know
Behind all the Drama and all the success
The hard work, the Failures and all the rest, it’s just people
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
WordPress is People
It’s just people
Many moons ago, it started out as just two
Now it overflow, just look around you
Hey, hey you, hey you do the WordPress wiggle
Say what?
Hey Wapuu, wapuu do the WordPress wiggle
Say what
Hey, hey you, hey you do the WordPress wiggle
Say what?
Hey Wapuu, wapuu do the WordPress wiggle
Say what?
Hey
WordPress is People, Wapuu – Do the WordPress Wiggle
Hey
WordPress is People, Wapuu – Do the WordPress Wiggle
Do the WordPress Wiggle…

All Credits goes to:

 

Join us at WordCamp Nagpur 2018.

grab your tickets or apply as helping hand, WordPress is People.

We need Helping Hands!

No WordCamp is possible without Volunteers. If you are willing to help WCNagpur with your skills. Following are the things we need help with.

Pre-camp

  • Social Media
  • Graphics & Creative
  • Website Content

Camp Day

  • Registration Table
  • Swag Table
  • Speaker Support
  • Sponsor Support
  • Videography Monitoring Team
  • Photography Team
  • Venue Coordinator
  • Room compere (emcee)
  • Social Media Team
  • All-rounders

Contributor Day

  • Sports Coordinator
  • Food Coordinators
  • Helping hand for Contributor day Facilitator

Here’s what you are set to gain by volunteering at WordCamp Nagpur:

  • Have quality time with the WordCamp Nagpur organising committee.
  • Open up yourself and contribute to the 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 free access to WordCamp Nagpur & an exclusive invite to the conference parties and more.

Update: Thanks for your Support, will be publishing list of Localhost shortly.