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Hall LEAD

• You are the main team leader to the allocated hall.
• Your main responsibility is to run the sessions smoothly.
• You have to co-ordinate with Timekeeper, Door guard, Tech & Speaker help, Mike Runners, Social Media handlers and other volunteers within the Hall.

Timekeeper

• Your responsibility is to start and end the sessions, talks on time.
• Show time card to speakers for their remaining time during the session.
• You have to help the speakers stay on proper time track.

Door guard

• You have to warmly welcome people into the halls before the session starts.
• Make halls peaceful by maintaining silence when people entering or exiting the halls during the talks.
• You will get good chances to see the sessions when you’re guarding the door.
• During the Q&A’s you have to help microphones runners at backside of halls.

Tech help

• Your role is to connect with Audio & Video Wrangler.
• Your job is to make sure that session doesn’t go wrong with any technical difficulties.
• You should have technical knowledge to resolve the issues.

Microphone Runners

• Its super easy job but should be speedy person resolving last minute issues.
• You have to assist the Hall lead with things that might be needed in the hall.
• Main role is to run microphones during the Q&A’s.

Social Media handlers

• You are responsible to write posts and share pictures during the sessions
• You will have to post directly on the WCKTM2019 social media accounts.
• You should interact and response to the people who are commenting on posts.
• you have to be fast and accurate due to the time constraint.
• You need to support attendees if they ask for help using social media.

Media & Communication Support

• Your role is very important during the whole event.
• You have to communicate with the Photography/video team.
• You have to make sure that all photos/videos are captured as per needed.
• You need to find and share news during the event.
• You have to prepare and set up interviews with speakers, attendees and more.
• You make sure all Media supporters and Media partners get updates during the conference.

Gutenberg Lab Room Assistant

• Directly co-ordinate with Gutenberg Session Lead
• You have to be technically sound with Gutenberg.
• Help attendees to get the expected results
• Overview progress
• At the end of the session, select one of the best layout built by the attendees to award the winner.

WP Beginners Lab Room Assistant

• Directly co-ordinate with WP Beginners Session Lead
• You have to be potentially good with all about WP.
• Help attendees to get the expected results
• Overview progress
• At the end of the session, select one of the best layout built by the attendees to award the winner.

Workshop Assistant

• Directly co-ordinate with Workshop Session leads.
• You have to create friendly environment for Workshop leads during their workshop.
• Attendees need an approval sign from Happiness Bar manager to get in a workshop and it’s your job to verify those.
• It’s your role to make sure nobody is a disturbance during a workshop.

Happiness Bar Manager

• You are leader of Happiness bar.
• You should be comfortable helping people with all kinds of WordPress related Q&A’s.
• You have to be friendly there.
• You have to keep inviting face that makes people feel comfortable asking all the questions.

Happiness Bar Techinal Assistant

• This is totally technical role.
• You have to co-ordinate with Gutenberg Lab Room Assistant, WP Beginners Lab Room Assistant and Workshop Assistant together.
• When Attendees are applied for Workshop and Lab, then you have to verify following amenities along with them.
  • For Gutenberg Lab
    • Laptops and adapters
    • XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP or any other local development server installed https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/xampp/ .
    • Latest WordPress setup (https://wordpress.org/download/) with twenty-nineteen theme installed.
  • WP Beginners Lab
    • Laptops and adapters
    • XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP or any other local development server installed https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/xampp/ .
  • React Workshop
    • Laptops and adapters
    • XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP or any other local development server installed https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/xampp/
    • Latest WordPress setup (https://wordpress.org/download/) with twenty-nineteen theme installed.
    • Add some dummy post in backend or import Theme test file as instructed here.
    • Node installed.

Registration & Swag Station Manager

• Set up the Registration & swag table.
• Plan and make sure all stuff are in good order.
• Coordinate with Swag Station lead, Finance and Print Wrangler
• Oversee the swag area and make sure everything is fine.
• Make sure that enough volunteers are present at swag station.
• Create a system to hand out T-shirts and check who got one.

Swag Station Assistant

• Work with Swag Stations Manager and other volunteers
• Help Attendees to get the swag quickly.
• Make sure all stations are peaceful

After Party Entrance Manager

• Welcome people to the after-party and check their badges.
• You have to get people into the venue in a quick and organized way.
• You set the mood for the team to get people excited to enter the party-location.
• You make sure to keep out unwanted guests.

As WordPress is moving toward new changes like API & React, many programmers and developers seem to be confused about these new changes. To adopt the changes we need to have basics clear, so our session will cover some basics that can help WordPress developers to get started with WordPress API & React.

This workshop is basically about exploring the flexibilities of WordPress with popular technologies in the market. We will talk about using one of the popular UI libraries React alongside WordPress. We will be consuming the API provided by WordPress in a React project.

We will build an infinite scrolling archive page in React where we will explain different features in React.

Workshop: Integrating React with WordPress & its API
Hall: Filter (Hall 2)
Date: March 16, 2019
Time: 12:40 pm-2:10 pm

Speaker
–  Rabin Gaire
–  Rakesh Lawaju
–  Roshan Gautam

Intended Audience:Developers who want to learn integrating React with WordPress & its API

Attendee Prerequisites:
– Laptops and adapters
– XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP or any other local development server installed https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/xampp/
– Latest WordPress setup (https://wordpress.org/download/) with twenty-nineteen theme installed.
– Add some dummy post in backend or import Theme test file as instructed here.
– Node installed.

Basic knowledge that should be
– PHP
– JavaScript
– If ever developing a WordPress theme, WordPress’s plugin will be very good.
– React, NPM (Bonus point!)

It’s time to say thank you to our Micro Sponsor, Jasper IT. Thank you for your contribution to WordCamp Kathmandu 2019. WordCamp wouldn’t have been the same without your support.

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Kathmandu is a bustling and lively city of Nepal. While the city welcomes you with its cultural beauty, the chaos, pollution and the traffic are yet undeniable. Here is a traveler’s guide that will help you to get in and around Kathmandu easily.

Airport
Tribhuvan International Airport is the only international airport of Nepal which is located in Kathmandu. Direct flights are available from few cities outside the country. The visitors from most of Europe, Africa, North and South America and Australia can reach Kathmandu mostly with one change of flight.

Domestic flights are easily available from/to the major cities of Nepal like Pokhara, Bharatpur, Janakpur, Biratnagar etc. However, the flights are likely to be delayed most of the time.

Access of Public Transportation from Airport:
You can easily get taxi from the airport to reach your destination. Pre-paid taxis will charge fare as per government rules which you will find at the display board at the airport. Regular taxis are also available. They cost around NPR 400-500 to Thamel. You can get to the place at around Rs. 300 if you get a taxi at the end of parking lot and if you have good bargaining skill. The taxis don’t have to pay airport entrance fee there. It’s always better if you negotiate the fare beforehand. Google maps can be a great help for you to find your way around the city. Another alternative can be finding buses from the Ring road outside the airport. However, this option is not very convenient when you are with your luggage.

Bus stations
There are two main Bus Stations in Kathmandu, Old bus park and Gongabu New bus park. You can get buses from/to most of the cities there. It also provides few bus services to the neighboring countries nevertheless for long distance roadways are slow and exhausting.

To get around the city, there are Sajha bus service, micro vans and tempos. These are usually crowded but are the cheapest means of transportation in the city. Carry 5, 10 or 20 rupees note for your ease when you choose to travel by these. You either pay the fare to the driver or the assistant.

Taxi
Taxi are the easiest and the most comfortable way to get around Kathmandu. Get ready to bargain on the fare with the driver as they might charge you more than the actual fare. Telling the driver to strictly use the taximeter can be helpful up to some extent. Alternatively, you can book your ride online with cab service providers like Onver Smart Taxi. You can pay whatever the taximeter shows to these cabs. They are reliable and free of bargaining hassle.

Ride-sharing apps
Tootle and Pathao can be great help. They are the ride-sharing apps within Kathmandu valley that will connect you with the two-wheelers willing to share the ride. Tootle is available from 6 am to 9 pm whereas Pathao is a 24 hours service. Two-wheelers can escape the traffic better and are cheaper than taxi. Tootle charges NPR 60 for first 3 Kms, from 3-6 Km is additional Rs 18/km and for more than 6 Km is additional Rs 25/km. Similarly, Pathao has base fare Rs. 30 and a rate of Rs. 15/km.