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Announcing Schedule for Speaker Session Day (13-14 Feb 2021)

We started this unique experiment with WordCamp India almost 2 weeks ago with Workshop Days. The Workshops were held in multiple local Indian languages. Last weekend, we had the Contributor Day weekend. On both days, several new folks discovered the various ways, one can contribute to the software that runs 40% of the web.

This weekend we Speaker Session which are often the more regular feature of WordCamps.

Saturday Feb 13 2021 (15:45 – 20:00)

Time Track 1 SessionsTrack 2 sessions
15:45 IST (10:15 AM UTC)Introduction and welcome by Hitha and Sudar
16:00 IST (10:30 AM UTC)Designing growth systems with WordPress by Sandeep KelvadiTranslating content in local languages by Fairy Dharawat
16:30 IST (11:00 AM UTC)Live Q&ALive Q&A
16:45 IST (11:15 AM UTC)BreakBreak
17:00 IST (11:30 AM UTC)Panel Discussion: Future of WordPress Translations in India (Bigul M, Nidhi Jain, Chandra Patel, Vaidehi Singh, and Naoko Takano)Remote Working Made more effective and and productive by Monika Muddamshetty
17:30 IST (12:00 PM UTC)Panel discussion continuedLive Q&A
17:45 IST (12:15 PM UTC)BreakBreak
18:00 IST (12:30 PM UTC)A quick preview of WP-CLI by Sudar MuthuDesign to Page – Using the WordPress block editor to implement a landing page design Daisy Olsen and Niharika Sanadhya
18:30 IST (01:00 PM UTC)Live Q&ALive Q&A
18:45 IST (1:15 PM UTC)BreakBreak
19:00 IST (01:30 PM UTC)Launch your WordPress project in 90 days or less! How to overcome the never-ending development cycle by Adrian TobeyWordPress in the time of a Pandemic by Michelle Frechette
19:30 IST (02:00 PM UTC)Live Q&ALive Q&A
19:45 IST (02:15 PM UTC)Closing Remarks by Nidhi and Dhanendran

Sunday Feb 14, 2021 (16:45 – 21:15)

Time Track 1 SessionsTrack 2 Sessions
16:45 IST (11:15 AM UTC)Introduction and welcome by Imran and Hari
17:00 IST (11:30 AM UTC)Outrank your competition with a great content SEO strategy by Marieke van de RaktIntro to the GraphQL API for WordPress by Leonardo Losoviz
17:30 IST (12:00 PM UTC) Live Q&ALive Q&A
17:45 IST (12:15 PM UTC)BreakBreak
18:00 IST (12:30 PM UTC)Agile Development Process by Dhara MasaniHow WordPress TV team works! by Nisha Singh
18:15 IST (12:45 PM UTC)Importance of Color Psychology and Client Testimonials in Marketing by Sumant LoharHow to be a better designer (Specially as a developer) by Siddharth Ashok
18:30 IST (01:00 PM UTC)How I started my Business during the pandemic by Shanta NathwaniBlock Development with scaffolding by Greg Ziółkowski
18:45 IST (01:15 PM UTC)BreakBreak
19:00 IST (01:30 PM UTC)Intro to Decoupled WordPress by Prem TiwariBlocks based themes – The Future of site editing by Imran Sayed
19:30 IST (02:00 PM UTC)Live Q&AQ &A
19:45 IST (02:15 PM UTC)BreakBreak
20:00 IST (02:30 PM UTC)A Fireside chat with Josepha Haden Chomposy and Matt Mullenweg
20:30 IST (03:00 PM UTC)AMA with Josepha Haden Chomposy hosted by Shilpa Shah
21:00 IST (03:30 PM UTC)Closing Remarks by Sheeba and Aditya
Siddharth Ashok

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

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

Announcing Corporate Sponsor: WP Small Fix

We are thankful for the support of WP Small Fix who have come onboard as Corporate Sponsor.

WP Small Fix

About WP Small Fix

WP Small Fix is a service that specializes in WordPress fixes done the right way. Our company was started in 2014. We wanted to bring in better and faster WordPress solutions to people online. We believed that it was very important to bring in front of high-quality services for all customers. As a vetted developer with 8+ years of experience in the industry, we found it easy to bring in front of high standard benefits and ideas at the best prices on the market. In short, WP Small Fix is a dependable WordPress support service that can help you in times of need.

The things we love to do is to help people solve their WordPress problems. Since we are experienced professionals, we can easily handle any sign of problem no matter what happens. These include security enhancement, website speed improvement. We also provide file backups and offer unlimited edits if needed. Our support services make it easy for you to focus on your company, while any WordPress problems in your site get cleared by our experts that you can actively rely on.

At WP Small Fix , we rely on value and quality. We do our best to bring in front new and rewarding solutions all the time, irrespective of the solution. We offer you all the help and support you need so you can rely on our team to be efficient at what you do.

Thanks to us, you can rest assured that everything will run the way you want. We are true professionals, and we deliver on innovative and cutting-edge solutions, even for the most challenging of solutions.

You can read more about us at: https://wpsmallfix.com/ You can also find us on Facebook (where we enjoy glowing reviews) or follow us on Twitter.

Panel Discussion: The Future of WordPress Translation in India

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.