Aditya Kane on ‘why choose a career in open source’

A major topic that should be addressed at every WordCamp where all the tech lovers are present.

aditya kaneAditya Kane in his talk will speak about What is open-source.OSS impact on the world Free and open web.Why we need to protect it? Why WordPress GPL, Software as philosophy, career prospects and What should you be doing for a career in open source.

About Aditya

Aditya loves open source projects and discuss them with passion.He has been involved in WordPress ecosystem for over seven years now.

Aditya was also the co-organiser of WordCamp mumbai for the year 2014-15-16. He now works as chief cultural officer at Yapapaya.

“Stop coding, Start assembling websites” says Amit

One could write the history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements also one can assemble their website by simply attending Amit Singh’s session.

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  • What it means to “assemble a website”?
  • Identifying Various components of a website required to assemble them.
  • Tools available to enable assembling of –Websites Themes Make Layers Divi Headway.
  • Pro and Cons of using themes to assemble websites Page Builder Plugins Divi plugin Beaver Builder Velocity pages.
  • Pros and Cons of using Page Builder Shortcode Platforms Toolset Plugins Awesome Studio Platform
  • Pros and Cons of Shortcode Platforms
  • Can we truly Assemble a website?
  • What is future of developing websites.

About Amit

Amit Singh is a founder and CEO of WPoets technology. He been working with WordPress since 2007, and contributed his first WordPress plugin to WordPress.org repository in 2008. He is very active with WordPress community in pune, and regularly speaks at WordCamps in India.

MilesWeb is a supporter as a Silver Sponsor

MilesWeb

MilesWeb is a rapidly growing web hosting company based in India. Web hosting services offered by MilesWeb comprises of technology, uptime and 24x7x365 exclusive customer support. The company offers standard and custom made hosting solutions for all types of websites and businesses. The array of  their product range features Docker based WordPress hostingcPanel hosting,Reseller hostingVPS hosting, Email hosting, Dedicated Servers, Cloud hosting, eCommerce hosting, SSL certificates, Domain Name, CMS hosting etc. this is not all, they are constantly working towards adding new features and improvements to our product range. They have servers in multiple datacenters in India, UK, US and Romania.

The MilesWeb team carries over a decade’s experience in the web hosting industry. The team possesses excellent hosting knowledge and are always at your service to help and advise you. Customer service is the backbone of their business and this is where they really strive hard to make a difference.

If you are attending WordCamp Bhopal 2016 please be sure to stop by MilesWeb desk to say: Hello!

Alexander will state the ways of Contributing to WordPress

WordPress acquires 26℅ of web providing people free, open source and a very easy way for showcasing there talents, so now it’s time to show some gratitude to WordPress.

Alexander Gounder will dig into the ways through which one could contribute to WordPress.

 

About Alexander12193615_10153600766360851_2378812982057533163_n

Alex is an SEO / SEM & Internet Marketer with a wide variety of work experience across industries and domains like Films, TV Production, Customer Service, Politics, Government Operations, Press Relations, Video Games, Casual Gaming, Mobile, Graphic & Web Design.

He runs a digital agency in Mumbai called Ink my web, Other than Inbound Marketing it focuses on developing websites using WordPress. He is an Organiser for WordCamp Mumbai and Volunteer with WordCamp Central.

About Bhopal

The City of Lakes,Bhopal capital of Madhya Pradesh, is a fascinating amalgam of scenic beauty, old historic city and modern urban planning. It consist of various natural as well as artificial lakes and is also one of the greenest cities in India, Paving its way to future city.

Bhopal has been selected as one of the first twenty Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under PM Narendra Modi’s flagship Smart Cities Mission and will be the first smart city of India in coming years.

scenic view of Bhopal

How to reach Bhopal

Bhopal by Air

Bhopal Airport is well connected with rest of the major cities and towns such as Mumbai, Indore, Gwalior and Delhi. The airport is located at a distance of 15 km from the heart of the city.You can easily book flights to Bhopal. Tourists may hire a taxi or a cab from the airport to reach the place smoothly.
Nearest Airport : Raja Bhoj Airport, Bhopal

Bhopal Airport
Raja Bhoj Airport, Bhopal

Bhopal by railways

Their are two major railway station in the city. The Bhopal Junction Railway Station (BPL) and Habibganj Railway Station (HBJ) which both are well connected with all major railheads of the country.

Bhopal by road-transport

City has passage of NH No.12, NH 86 and NH no. 17 which connects it to all major city. It also has very well connectivity to nearby places.

Places to Explore.

  • The 10th biggest mall in India, the DB City Mall, that happens to be the largest mall in whole of the Central India.
  • The second largest mosque in India, the Taj-ul-Masajid.
  • Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya – National Museum of Mankind.
  • Many dams in and around Bhopal. Kerwa Dam, Kolar Dam, Halali Dam etc.
  • The Upper Lake. Sheer beauty. Yeah, the lower lake too.
  • Van Vihar National Park.
  • Bharat Bhawan : for the performing and visual arts.
  • The Birla Mandir.
  • Manua Bhan ki Tekri.
  • Gauhar Mahal if you are an art lover.
  • Gufa Mandir.
  • Islamnagar.
    Around the city,

    The Sanchi Stupa
    Bheembetika Rock shelters.
    Bhojpur Temple.

 

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Picture Shows Manua Bhan ki Tekri and Taj-ul-Masajid

 

Place to Check-in

Bhopali’s are not just good at welcoming but also good at providing a luxurious experience of comfort stay. These few hotels are enchanting on which anyone can count on anytime.

High Range Hotels:

  • Jeha Numa Palace
  • Sayaji Hotel
  • Courtyard Marriott
  • Noor-Us-Sabah Palace
  • Jeha Numa Retreat
  • Ashoka Lakeview
  • Hotel Amer Greens
  • The Residency Bhopal

Medium Range Hotels:

  • Hotel Rajhans Regent
  • Jains Hotel Rajhans, MP Nagar
  • Hotel Shree Vatika
  • Hotel Sarthak New Market
  • HOTEL ALANKAR PALACE
  • Hotel Shree Vinayak Palace
  • Hotel Reshumrao
  • Hotel K International
  • Hotel Shagun

These hotels are good and have good amenities, We will add more in the list as we explore some more good hotels.

If you are a foodie, roam around in the streets of the old city and they’ll serve your taste buds really well.

People of Bhopal: 

Bhopal the city of nawabs welcomes people from all around the world it is home for people from all backgrounds and these people are called as Bhopali. People are well educated and simple. City has ebullience of tech-freak students. Lifestyle of its inhabitant posses both western and traditional essence.

Saurabh Shukla is going to speak over Collaboration Oriented Development

Saurabh Shukla is going to discuss and speak over Collaboration oriented development , I.e. on introducing contribution sockets in an open source project with lessons from the WordPress project and other WordPress related projects like Contribution and contributor oriented development vs maintainer oriented development, key contributor recruitment tool, Hand-holding new contributors to independence mainly. 11951869_10153686638874015_3345017375654456343_n

Saurabh Shukla is the Chief Strategist at Yapapya and the Chief Mentor at BaapWP.me. He is a guy , who believes that freedom is right and everyone has control over it, ans is thereby fascinated by GPL.  According to him , the open source and morality and Internet can provide solutions to most of the problems of Indians,mainly education and livelihood.

WordPress being an open source , democratic and self controlled publishing system is the first choice of Saurabh always and therefore he writes, talk, teaches and inspires about WordPress whenever, wherever possible .

CybroGeek is supporting us as a bronze Sponsor

CybroGeek Corporation is in to the business of IT Resourcing from past 6 years. Having its HQ in Daman UT, an IN Territory it has its consequtive branches in Mumbai , California US, Lagos Nigeria providing development services & may more addons in it .

Know more about CybroGeek:

We are global provider of end-to-end Information Technology Services, based in India. And it was started by a group of entrepreneurs with a sole mission of establishing a dedicated Research & Development Cell and bringing the findings to the benefit of budding Engineers.

CybroGeek Corporation provides Web Designing, App Development, Digital Forensic, Cyber Forensic, learning & hosting Services.

Following this we have 4 sister concerns namely O9L Networks, Imhosts, Cybrogeek IT Academy and ZamZam Computers running under one roof.

You will be glad to know, we are hiring! Spot us at WordCamp to share some happy talks.

LNCT is our venue Sponsor

We are delighted to announce that Lakshmi Narain College of Technology Bhopal is our Venue Sponsor.
LNCT Group of Colleges is one of the oldest and largest education group in central India. Founded in 1994 Lakshmi Narain College of Technology,  Bhopal has the privilege of being the First Private institute of M.P.

LNCT Group offers courses from Diploma, Bachelor, Master’s to Doctorate-level, with campuses in 5 locations in MP & Chhattisgarh including the cities of Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur and Bilaspur. LNCT Group of Colleges has very efficiently stood upto the current demands in higher education.

LNCT Group stands among those institutes in India which offer program in 5 varied field of study: Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Medical, Homeopathy, Dental and recurring and professional studies.

All group institutions have the finest relations among the industry and academics. Today, prospective students have 58 undergraduate, graduate as well as post graduate programs to chose from.
Education is not the only area we work in. We also take responsibility for the improvement of community around us for which we offer our sudents various clubs of his/her interests.This instils in the students a feeling of responsibility and concern and makes them comprehend the world a bit better. Each one is better endowed to face the world and the satisfaction of having fulfilled their social responsibility is an added bonus.

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LNCT Group appears as an innovator in the world of higher education helping to create a better today & better tomorrow for the people of India and the universe. We continuously strive forward to our aim – Working Towards Being The Best.

We are really grateful to Mr Anuj Garg, Training and Placement Officer LNCT, for all his valuable time and efforts in helping us with the venue.

WordCamp Bhopal Introduces its awesome Bronze Sponsor TechLila

TechLila is one of the leading blogs from India, especially in Technology niche. Drawing attention and traffic from global users, it has been a popular source of Tech-based knowledge and resources for many enthusiasts. To keep that ball rolling, we at TechLila try to come up with innovative ideas and resourceful content. Our main strategy is to create a web space that is helpful for normal users as well as Pro enthusiasts. Founded in 2012 February, TechLila has been letting users have an impressive Tech Life for more than 4 Years. As of now, TechLila has more than 10 Lakh subscribers when we do combine all the Social Media and Email platforms. Also, we are one of the most-followed Google+ Pages in Tech Section in India.

In TechLila Blog, we cover articles from different topics and sub-topics. For years, we have been covering topics like Tech, Blogging, Consumer Electronics, Social Media and Mobility etc. Our current focus is on Tech and we try to come up with useful content in different forms. For instance, we cover in-depth How-To Tutorial articles, Tips & Tricks, Top-x List Posts and several Analysis-based articles. Our latest addition is the Tech News Recap — where we introduce a crispy summary of the Techy happenings in the past week. In such articles, we cover launches, announcements, rumours and whatnot. To make all these possible, we keep some values in every aspect of TechLila.

Quality and Integrity are never compromised in TechLila articles. Our articles are written by authors who have a great level of expertise in what they write. Many of our authors have been in the industry for a while and have in-depth knowledge on domain. For instance, our editorial team consists of experienced programmers, tech geeks and professional bloggers, who try to bring top-notch content to our readers. TechLila was started as a single-author blog by Rajesh Namase in 2012, but now has a fully-fledged team to brew fresh tech content for our worldwide readers’ community.

TechLila Blog is built on WordPress, which we consider is the best Blogging Platform and CMS in the World. And, we feel proud and happy to be a sponsor of WordCamp Bhopal.

 

ThemeIsle is our Bronze Sponsor

Need a WordPress theme that’s actually easy to use and to customize? Great, that’s what we’re here for! WordPress themes are our bread, butter, and rum! We know them. We live them.

We’re ThemeIsle. But hey, don’t take my word for it. Here’s something that never lies – raw numbers:

  • ThemeIsle has one of the top 10 most popular themes released last year in the theme directory.
  • ThemeIsle’s plugins have been downloaded more than 500,000 times.

Follow: @ThemeIsle

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WordCamp Bhopal is over. Check out the next edition!