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Kathmandu has been the center of Nepal’s history, art, culture and economy. It has a multiethnic population within a Hindu and Buddhist majority. It is also the home of the Newars. Religious and cultural festivities form a major part of the lives of people residing in Kathmandu.
It is the capital city and largest city of Nepal with a population of 1.5 million in the city proper.
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Avinash Kundaliya
React and WordPress sitting in the tree…
Topic Category: Advanced Development
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio: I am a developer with a soft spot for web technologies. Talk to me about front-end engineering, decentralized web or privacy on the web. I like to keep track of hipster tech and sometimes I spend my weekend scratching that itch.
Session Summary: React and WordPress is this hot couple that is the talk of every conference and meetup. This talk takes the audience through a journey. A journey from wanting to build a simple SPA (Single Page Application) using React and WordPress REST API to actually building one. Along the journey, we will learn some basic React concepts and common pitfalls.
Intended Audience: Developers who want to learn React
M Asif Rahman
Marketing Fundamentals to level up your WordPress Business.
Topic Category: WordPress Business/ Panel Discussion
Speaker Type: International
Speaker Bio:
M Asif Rahman has proudly appeared in nearly 100 WordCamps all around the world and delivered speeches in over 20 WordCamps. Interestingly, Mr. Asif has retired last year by the age of 34, announcing his retirement via a 10,000-word semi-autobiography in HeroPress, which you could read here – https://heropress.com/essays/retiring-young-bangladesh-thanks-wordpress/
He is very excited to be part of the panel and be present in WordCamp Kathmandu, which will be his first time in Nepal, as he missed last year because of US Bangla plane crash!
Session Summary:
The journey of product marketing starts with the conception of the product itself. The success and failure of a product is basically determined during its inception – This may sound a bit prophetic, but conception of a product is the very basis of its success. WordPress got traction because of its underlying concept of open source and its ability to fulfill the most acute principles of UX.
So, any WordPress product should have this very traits built into it – they should be built to serve a specific function, should be free (at least the most compelling part of it), and most of it should excel in the basic principles of sustained usability. These are the very elements that determine the scope and extent of the success of a product on WordPress.
Apart from this very foundation marketing question, there are complexities (if you don’t know) and simplicities in marketing a product (if you know) on WordPress. As is in marketing, the real challenge (read life long challenge) remains to continuously scale the product, increase sales, monetise it and make it self sufficient in monetary terms to keep it FREE.
So the questions are, how can a product developer integrate the simple yet complex product marketing principles into actual action? How can they continue to provide the main features of their product for FREE while growing revenue of their paid products?
If you are plugin developer or theme developer and if you are struggling to meet the development cost of these products, then you might definitely be thinking, how did others succeed in marketing their products that are similar to yours? How did they answer the above questions successfully?
We can feel that pain! Believe us, we have been through that. And that’s why we have decided to share what we have learned. So, level up your marketing game, join our WordCamp panel discussion this year as we discuss the above and other relevant questions central to the success of developing and marketing a product on WordPress.
Marketing is prose, and a good one that one!
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Chitra Raj Bhandari
Mainul Kabir Aion
Intended Audience: Everyone
Shrijana Thapa KC
Do the developers need public speaking skills to boost their career?
Topic Category: Analysis/ WordPress Design and Development
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
Shrijana Thapa is a Software Engineer and works as a front-end developer at Mandala IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd, a software company based in Pokhara. She came to WordPress by chance and got hooked since then as an active member of WordPress Pokhara. Having almost a decade long of experience in media, she has given trainings on public speaking and used to work at top radio stations of the city.
When she’s not typing away on a keyboard, you will find her freelancing as an emcee at events around the city. She is an avid reader, has an immense love for travel and wishes to explore different places in her spare time.
Session Summary:
It’s not strange to know the fact that many people suffer from stage fright and mass fear or anxiety when it comes to public speaking. This implies with IT personnel, developers or designers as well. One can have a hard time if you have a problem in delivering your ideas well with your clients or one can find it really difficult to convince his/her colleagues about his project if he doesn’t have good speaking skills resulting in unexpected outcomes. So, lack of public speaking skills can be a great hindrance to your success or career as a whole. But public speaking skills can be a silver lining to the clouds as this will allow you to have a better understanding of the subject matter, motivate you to do lots of preparation, implement the theories practically which is mandatory in IT sector and it will also let you explore new things and do more research which is so much essential in this technology driven world where everything keeps on changing with a blink of an eye. So public speaking skills can be a booster to your IT career and it may take you a long way. So why not enhance it for a better us, for our better tomorrow?
Intended Audience: Developers, Entrepreneurs, Startups
Toby Nieboer
Remote Working – Why You Should (Or Shouldn’t) Embrace It
Topic Category: WordPress Business
Speaker Type: International
Speaker Bio:
Toby is currently responsible for hiring software engineers at Automattic, and was a developer and people leader for nearly a decade before moving into technical recruitment. He is passionate about helping people achieve their goals and dreams, and also about coffee.
Session Summary:
Good software engineers can be found anywhere, and embracing remote working enables you to tap into that global pool. But just because you *can*… does that mean you *should*? In this talk I’ll go through some dos and don’ts, talk about some pitfalls, and hopefully guide you towards doing remote the right way. I’ll include some stories that draw on my experience working in technical recruitment for clients who have been on both sides of the do/don’t scale, as well as Automattic’s decade-plus experience as a fully-distributed company.
Intended Audience:Business owners, Developers
Vishal Deshpande
Setting Up WordPress on Amazon EC2 in minutes
Topic Category: Advanced Development/Workshop
Speaker Type: International
Speaker Bio:
Vishal is the Co-Founder & Product Head at Nestify – A Managed WordPress Hosting Company based out of Texas US. Vishal is an entrepreneur by Brain and Doer by heart. He has 13+ years of experience in Product Development, Web Development, Digital Marketing across various domains. WordPress, product development, growth strategies are the topics he is surrounded with.
Session Summary:
In this session, we will go through step by step process to Install and Configure WordPress on Amazon AWS EC2. I’ll cover basic Linux commands, how to setup EC2 servers and how to secure them properly, how to install and configure Apache, PHP, and MySql and how to point a domain to your configured EC2.
Intended Audience: Intermediate
Yoav Farhi
Your First Gutenberg Block
Topic Category: Trending
Speaker Type: International
Speaker Bio:
Yoav Farhi is an Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiønër at Automattic, who works on everything related i18n (that’s internationalization) and l10n (localization) and of course, translation. A core contributor to WordPress for 10 years now, Yoav works hard to make the web a better place.
Session Summary:
If you haven’t jumped in yet, this quick presentation will teach you the basics of Gutenberg block creation.
Learn how blocks can improve workflows for you and your customers, and start taking advantage of everything the new WordPress editor has to offer.
Intended Audience: Developers
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Abhishek Rijal
Team: Support
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Abhishek Rijal is a Sr. WordPress developer, currently working as a Team Lead at Nirmal Web Studio. His expertise and experience include WordPress themes and plugin development along with Web applications development in PHP and Laravel framework. He is also an instructor for WordPress development at Halftone Designs.
A frequent speaker and contributor to WordCamps and regular WordPress meet-ups in Nepal, Abhishek believes in giving back to the community.
While not sipping coffee and writing code, he loves to travel around and explore new things. Additionally, he engages himself in different social service projects in Nepal as a member of Lions Club International.
Biplav Subedi
Team: Theme Review
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Biplav Subedi is the founder of WP Drizzle and has been working on WordPress for quite a while now. He is also a Theme Moderator on WP Theme Review team and loves to review themes as it was his first step to getting involved in the community. Now, Biplav looks to grow on Gutenberg and React and start developing future-proof products.
Biplav started getting involved on WordCamp from 2016 and fell in love with it ever since. He has since then attended every WordCamp held all around the country. He has tried to support the community event with everything he can and now he would like to take a step further and be on the organizing committee of WCKTM2019.
Other than that Biplav is an outgoing person, who loves to do anything and everything. He is your go-to friend to do anything exciting together from touring the country to watching movies, playing football, e-sports anything you name, he’s up for it. He also occasionally posts his Cover songs on Soundcloud, go give it a listen.
Regan Khadgi
Team: Support
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
A Senior Lead WordPress Plugin Developer at AccessPress Themes, Regan Khadgi is a programmer by choice and passion.
Today, he has had almost a decade of experience working with WordPress, and has developed more than 20 plugins. He also leads, manages, and guides a team of 6 programmers. A team that has developed over 100 plugins and has achieved the title of “Elite Author” in Envato in a surprisingly short time.
Also, over the years, Regan has been committed to not only learning from WordPress, but for giving back to the community too. He shared his programming knowledge as a speaker in WordCamp Nepal 2015, and in WordCamp Kathmandu 2016. In the year 2017, he contributed as a volunteer in WordCamp Kathmandu. Again in the year 2018, he spoke at WordCamp Biratnagar. And this year of course, he has been working as a speaker wrangler in WordCamp Kathmandu.
For someone who has worked so long in the field, Regan still goes to work with the same energy he had 8 years ago while he had just started. And when at times he is away from the computer, you can see him singing with a guitar in his hands or lifting weights at the gym.
Sandilya Kafle
Team: Theme Review
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Mr. Kafle is the Co-Founder and theme review team lead at one of the fast growing WordPress themes marketplace – Template Sell based in Nepal.
In addition, he works for WPEntire and leads theme review team. Besides this, he volunteers as a team lead in the WordPress Theme Review team. He has contributed to the WordPress community as WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, documentation, core contributors, translation team, theme/plugins developer. Furthermore, he is active in WordCamp Nepal and WordCamp Kathmandu since 2014 as a volunteer, sponsor or as a speaker.
He loves spending time with friends, families, reading blogs, traveling and listening to music.
Sudeep Balchhaudi
Team: Polyglots
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Sudeep Balchhaudi is a WordPress developer. Using and building WordPress products such as Themes and Plugins since past 5 years. He has been contributing on WordPress as Translation Editor on Plygots Team, Theme Reviewer in Theme Review Team on dot Org. Here is his profile
Besides his professional work, he loves to watch Real Madrid play and often go on a short trip and listen to some good music.
You can follow him on social media, just search meissudeep.
Yoav Farhi
Team: Polyglots
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: International
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Yoav Farhi is an Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiønër at Automattic, who works on everything related i18n (that’s internationalization) and l10n (localization) and of course, translation. A core contributor to WordPress for 10 years now, Yoav works hard to make the web a better place.
Learn how translation works in WordPress, and get real hands-on experience in translating a WordPress theme or a plugin – both from the WordPress.org repository and from third-party sources. Additionally, the workshop will introduce the community aspect of translation in WordPress – a great starting point to get involved.
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Latest news from the organizing team
February 28, 2019
By, WORDCAMP KathmanduOur Official Media Partners
On 5th February 2019, we announced a call for media partners to promote our event WordCamp Kathmandu 2019. We are overwhelmed with the response we received from media fraternity. We express our sincere gratitude to all media partners who showed interest in joining hands with us. Finally, we have teamed up with three official media partners.
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By, WORDCAMP KathmanduStudent Tickets Open
We are happy to announce that we are introducing student tickets for WordCamp Kathmandu 2019. Which means, if you are a student (with a valid ID card), you are entitled to a special discount. Students can now book their tickets for just Rs 1000/- instead of the regular Rs 2000/- tickets.
View MoreFebruary 6, 2019
By, WORDCAMP KathmanduTickets now open
WordCamp Kathmandu regular tickets are now open. Grab yours early to ensure, you recieve swags.Lunch and some cool WordCamp swags are included with every ticket purchase. Not to mention a full day of inspiring sessions from WordPress gurus and a chance to find like-minded people!
View MoreJanuary 25, 2019
By, WORDCAMP KathmanduWhat is Happiness Bar?
Happiness Bar is where you will find happiness, … but…. how?? Many WordCamp regulars find they spend as much time in the Happiness Bar as they spend listening to presentations. And the reason is simple, the Happiness Bar is a place to interact in an environment free from internet trolls.Many speakers will head for the happiness bar after their presentation, so if you want to further explore one of their ideas or have really specific questions, sit down with them and ask.
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