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Siddharth Ashok

Speaker announcement: Siddharth Ashok on “How to be a better designer (Specially as a developer)”

Posted on by Hari Shanker R

Siddharth Ashok will be speaking on the topic How to be a better designer (Specially as a developer). This session will be held on the weekend of 13th and 14th February 2021. The schedule will soon be announced – keep following this space!

Bio of Siddharth Ashok

Siddharth Ashok is the co-founder of GrandWorks, a multidisciplinary digital agency, where he helps businesses around the world with outcome-focused design and development. He works as a Front-end developer and thrives in the grey area between design and development. He is passionate about CSS, web performance, clean code, and designing functional UI/UX. He also enjoys building communities and organizing events. The lead organizer for WordPress Goa and Goa Web Folks meetup group, he loves to contribute to the community, by sharing knowledge at events on topics related to Front-End and WordPress.

About the session

Siddharth will speak on the topic How to be a better designer (Specially as a developer). In the session, he will cover;

  • The need to be better at design as a developer, its importance, and how it helps us.
  • Steps and exercises to become a better designer
  • How to take a design language and extend into an aesthetic UI
  • Best tools to use
  • Understanding the use of color, fonts, and general best-practices to make a clean UI
  • Understanding UX

Panel Discussion: The Future of WordPress Translation in India

Posted on by Yogesh Londhe

WordPress Internationalization (i18n) and localization  (l10n)  happens through the Polyglot Project, which is driven by a team of passionate volunteers who take care of the translations for a specific language.

WordPress being an Open Source project, i18n and l10n is very important. Having WordPress available in all possible local languages makes it accessible to everyone.

This panel discussion will focus on the Polyglots team’s efforts in India and possible direction of WordPress translations specifically in a diverse country like India with so many languages with so many varieties of scripts.

The experts on this panel are:

Bigul Malayi

Bigul hails from Kozhikode, Kerala. He started his web development journey as a PHP developer in 2005 and has been working with WordPress since 2008. Bigul credits WordPress for his bread and butter. He is an organizer of WordPress Kochi and Kozhikode communities. He works for OnThGo Systems(the makers of WPML and Toolset) since 2012 January. Currently working in WPML Support Team.

Naoko Takano

Naoko is a community and localization project manager at Automattic. She is a full-time sponsored WordPress volunteer for Polyglots and Community teams, and loves helping users around translation and building local communities.

Vaidehi Singh Sharma

Vaidehi is working at Blazeclan Technologies as a Marketing Manager. She believes she is in love with WordPress as this software has helped her grow professionally and personally. Speaking of her contributions to the WordPress community, she has spoken in a few WordCamps, contributed to Hindi Translations at WordPress.org, provided solutions on WordPress.com forums, and gave free WordPress training to a few colleagues, friends, and students. Because she has learned so much from the community, she believes that now it’s her turn to give back.

Chandra Patel

Chandra is the Director of Engineering at rtCamp and also leads their internal training program. He started his WordPress journey in 2014 as a freelance Web Developer. Since then, Chandra has grown to become a WordPress Core Contributor, Translation Contributor, and has contributed to WordPress Meta projects.

Nidhi Jain

Nidhi Jain is a Developer, and currently, she is working as a Technical Support Specialist at WPBeginner. She’s been working with WordPress since 2014 and started her career with theme development and giving support on WordPress forums. She is passionate about her work and always help around the WP community. Her enthusiasm for the WordPress community has meant she is constantly discovering how she can contribute to the numerous teams.

Speaker Announcement: A Fireside chat with Matt Mullenweg and Josepha Haden

Posted on by Hari Shanker R

Join us for an exclusive fireside chat with Matt Mullenweg (Co-founder of WordPress) and Josepha Haden (Executive Director of the WordPress project) on Sunday 14th February, at 8:00 PM India Standard Time (14:30 UTC)!

About Matt

Matt Mullenweg is co-founder of the open-source publishing platform WordPress, which now powers over one-third of all sites on the web. He is the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, WordPress VIP, and Jetpack. Additionally, Matt runs Audrey Capital, an investment and research company.

Matt is originally from Houston, Texas, where he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied jazz saxophone. In his spare time, Matt is an avid photographer. He currently splits his time between Houston, New York, and San Francisco. Matt blogs at ma.tt and matt.blog. You can follow him on Twitter at: @photomatt.

About Josepha

Josepha is currently Executive Director of the WordPress project, helping to coordinate and guide volunteer efforts across the ecosystem. Since 2015 Josepha has worked behind the scenes as lead of the open-source division at Automattic. Her work includes financial planning, sponsorship relations, volunteer training programs, and several diversity initiatives on a global scale.

She has recently launched an official WordPress podcast titled WP Briefing which is aimed at WordPress users, builders, and contributors of all levels. Josepha blogs at: josepha.blog. You can follow her on Twitter at: @JosephaHaden

About the session

Josepha Haden (Executive director of WordPress) and Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of WordPress) on a fireside chat where they discuss WordPress and its significance and impact in a country like India.

The session will be followed shortly by a live Q&A session with Josepha Haden, moderated by Shilpa Shah.