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I attended my first WordCamp in 2012. It was overpriced, badly managed and barely had anything to do with WordPress. What caught my attention was that some folks who sponsored or mentored the event were sole to blame for the mess. There was a need for a stronger WordPress community.

Over the next year, we started meetups and got together like minded people. In 2014 we organized our first WordCamp by a Meetup Group rather than an individual in India. Continue reading “Alexander Gounder: How I broke WordCamps in India”

• When: 8th of July, around 5pm.
• Where: Allies Interactive, The Mall, Kanpur
• RSVP at Kanpur WordPress Community

WordPress Kanpur 2017 will have a Contributor Day on 8th of July, a day prior to WordCamp, which will consist of attendees contributing back to WordPress community in many ways, including translating, support & many more.

Contributor Day are for everyone, regardless your experience with WordPress. Attendees break up into different teams and focus on a particular segment of WordPress. All the teams will be led by someone who will help the attendees. Continue reading “Call for Contributor Day Team Leads”

Thank you ExonHost for sponsoring WordCamp Kanpur as a Bronze Sponsor!

ExonHost is a domain & hosting provider in Bangladesh located in Dhaka. ExonHost started the journey in 2009 and providing domain & hosting service globally from 2011.
Continue reading “ExonHost is our Bronze Sponsor”

This talk has been cancelled. Please check our blog for the updated list of speakers.

Divyadeep will discuss how inclusion of open-source can benefit the education. He will be sharing his ideas about how educators, educational institutions & learners can get benefit from existing open-source tools, technologies & communities.

He will talk about how WordPress is the best open-source alternative to begin with the implementation of this ideology. Continue reading “Divyadeep Sawhney: Merging Open-Source Into Education Using WordPress”

Thank you w3mg designs for sponsoring WordCamp Kanpur as a Bronze Sponsor!

Founded in January 2010, w3mg designs always had a vision to deliver top-notch, highest performance websites and applications built on WordPress. Continue reading “w3mg designs is our Bronze Sponsor”

Suyogya will talk about how to contribute in making an overall better experience for your customers when it comes to support. He will share his own experiences, tips and the tools he uses.

He will show why it’s important to treat your customers like humans and make them feel like one when they are looking for support related to your products.

About Suyogya

I am Suyogya Shukla. I’m a WordPress designer & developer. I love everything about the web, french fries & Sci-Fi Movies. I’m a Happiness Engineer at ThemeIsle where I make sure users are always happy with the products. And by the way, did I tell you I’m just 18?

Now that you have planned on visiting Kanpur for WordCamp, here’s what you can do (apart from attending WordCamp) to enjoy the city to the fullest. We’ve collated the top sights to explore and activities to try in this gorgeous city. Continue reading “What to do when you are in Kanpur”