Author: Hari Shanker R

I am an Open Source Program Manager at Automattic. I work full-time on WordPress, and I am a Community Program Manager (formerly known as "Super Deputy") on the Make/WordPress Community Team. My current focus is on making the contributor experience for the WordPress open source software the best it can be. I'm currently leading the Contributor Working Group of WordPress where we are working on building contributor mentorship programs for WordPress! I also help manage, support, and run the Five for the Future program. WordPress is one of the biggest passions in my life, and I strongly believe that open source tech and the open web have the potential to make the world a better place. I have had a rather diverse career with significant experience in the domains of Retail Banking, Print & Web Journalism, Web Development, Entrepreneurship, Event Management, Professional Blogging, and Education. Outside of work, I enjoy writing (blogging) as a hobby, and I'm a compulsive bibliophile. I'm also a happily married pet parent to three cats.

GoDaddy Is Our Silver Sponsor

With several years of experience providing services for websites, as well as small businesses, GoDaddy has been a pioneer in the WordPress, as well as the web hosting world. With GoDaddy Pro platform, you can manage all your accounts, domains & expenses from a single platform.

We convey our gratitude to GoDaddy for their immense support in making WordCamp Kochi a reality!

GoDaddy’s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 12 million customers worldwide and 57 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business.

Jetpack Is Our Gold Sponsor

The organizing team of WordCamp Kochi expresses their immense gratitude to Jetpack for being our Gold Sponsor.

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites. This single plugin enables Photon (a global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple-site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look and feel of your site without installing other tools. More information can be found at jetpack.com.

Sell All The Things With WooCommerce – Our Gold Sponsor

We would like to express our gratitude to WooCommerce – our gold sponsors for WordCamp Kochi!

WooCommerce is the fastest growing eCommerce software/platform, powering over 30% of all eCommerce stores with over 1 million active installations. It is built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, making it the obvious eCommerce choice for existing WordPress users and connects you to the fast-growing WordPress ecosystem which now powers over 25% of all websites on the internet.

With WooCommerce you can start with all the basic tools that any small business would need to start selling online, including product setup, payments, shipping options, and sales reports and as your business grows choose from over 300 premium add-ons available including additional payment processors, shipping methods, inventory systems and marketing tools anyone to sell anything, anywhere from real products and digital downloads to subscriptions, content and even your time.

In July 2015, WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month and also the creators of other popular WordPress services including Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress. We look forward to growing WooCommerce to achieve even greater things together with Automattic.

Get Your Ticket For WordCamp Kochi!

Hot news! Tickets for WordCamp Kochi – The First WordCamp In South India, on the 19th of February, 2017 – at Udyaan Convention Centre, Vennala are now available!

Visit our Tickets page to purchase your ticket right away!

Why Attend WordCamp Kochi?

WordCamp Kochi is an informal, international conference about all things WordPress. An event conducted by the WordPress Community, WordCamp Kochi will have talks by reputed speakers and WordPress experts from India, and all across the world. It is an event that covers topics on WordPress development, security, design, and more.

WordPress is a free and open source web publishing platform that powers over 27% of all websites in the world. Millions of people use WordPress everyday to create beautiful and functional websites, blogs, and web applications. WordPress is also used by major companies like Facebook, Microsoft, New York Times, Time Magazine, and more.

The first WordCamp was held in San Francisco, USA, in 2006. Ever since, WordCamps have been held in hundreds of cities across the world, in every continent except Antartica! The WordCamp phenomenon has also made its presence felt in India. WordCamp Pune, WordCamp Udaipur, and WordCamp Mumbai are some of the other WordCamps that have been/are being held in India, in 2017. WordCamp Kochi is the First WordCamp in South India!

WordCamp Kochi is for everyone who WordPress, and everyone who should use WordPress. The event brings together authors, artists, bloggers, business-owners, consultants, designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, non-profits, photographers, software professionals, web developers and more…

In short, there is something in WordCamp Kochi, for everyone!

WordCamp Kochi will have several informative, and entertaining sessions on several topics revolving around WordPress, conducted by WordPress experts from India, and all across the world. The sessions are not meant for a technical audience – they will be equally useful for you, whether you are a WordPress user, or a WordPress developer.

Another highlight of WordCamp Kochi is the opportunity for networking.

We are expecting around 300 attendees from all across the world, at WordCamp Kochi. It will be an interesting opportunity for you to meet, connect, and network with some of the best WordPress professionals in the world. Whether you are a WordPress expert, or a fresh graduate looking for job prospects, or if you an agency on the scout for new clients, or if you are an entrepreneur looking out for talent to power your next big idea, WordCamp Kochi is an event you should definitely attend!

So why wait? Go ahead and purchase your ticket for the First WordCamp in South India, in the lush city of Kochi.

Remember – we have only limited seats for the event! Book your seat now, before the tickets get sold out!