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Treating your taste buds at WordCamp Colombo 2017!

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WordCamp Colombo 2017 will provide snacks in between sessions, and tasty lunch during the hour dividing morning and afternoon sessions.

The food items we have chosen will bring to you the taste of Sri Lanka. 🙂

The Snacks

Starting 9.30 am, each long talk will last a total of 35 minutes (20 minutes main talk and 15 minutes Q & A) followed by a 10 minute buffer time for transitioning to new speeches. The same 10 minute buffer is for you to grab snacks and tea!

In the morning, we have cheese and tomato sandwiches, and hot fish buns. In the afternoon, we have mini mushroom pizzas and coffee cakes.

The Lunch

Lunch time is between 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm. The main menu is an essence of Sri Lankan cuisine:

  1. Yellow basmati rice
  2. Chicken or fish cury
  3. Carrot, green peas and cashew curry
  4. Brinjal moju 
  5. Dhal tempered
  6. Fish cutlet
  7. Fried chilli and papadam

The dessert served will be watalappan.

Mouth watering, isn’t it? We hope you enjoy the food, and make lots of friends over snacks and lunch. 🙂

Representational Image: Fish ambul thiyal (sour fish curry). Source: goo.gl/pbHeA7

 

 

 

Looking for a web dev agency in Colombo? CeylonDevs is the expert!

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We are happy to announce CeylonDevs as a Kalu (Bronze) sponsor for WordCamp Colombo 2017!

CeylonDevs is a web development agency specializing in WordPress, and based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

CeylonDevs is built around a core of technology experts, who are constantly abreast of the latest digital trends and tools. The CeylonDevs team has contributed to the WordPress Core, PolyGlots and WordPress Theme Reviews.

Their developers also love giving back to the WordPress community by hosting monthly meetups to share expert knowledge and by speaking at WordCamps all over the world. 

Visit their website to know all about them and how they can transform your or a client’s business: https://www.ceylon.solutions/

Thank you Multidots, for your Kalu (Bronze) sponsorship!

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We are glad to announce Multidots as our Kalu (Bronze) sponsor!

Multidots is full-service web and mobile application development agency. They were established 2009, and have now garnered immense experience with WordPress.

Multidots has worked with small startups, inc5000 companies, and global enterprises. Developers at Multidots are also regular contributors in the WordPress, WooCommerce and BuddyPress communities.

Multidots has built expertise in developing bespoke plugins for WordPress, WooCommerce and BuddyPress, themes for WordPress and WooCommerce, social networking websites with BuddyPress, e-commerce stores with WooCommerce, and a lot many projects involving WordPress.

Check out their website to know more about them and read stories of their delighted customers: https://www.multidots.com/

Announcing rtCamp, our next Kalu (Bronze) sponsor for WordCamp Colombo 2017

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We are proud to have rtCamp as Kalu (Bronze) sponsor for our event!

Founded in 2009, rtCamp is a leading WordPress consultancy and product company based in India. At the time of writing, they are the only WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner from Asia, and therefore an inspiration for rising agency owners.

rtCamp started their journey at a time when there was no WordPress dedicated company in India. They have been loved for their regular contribution to the WordPress community and focus on quality — this earned them the distinguished WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner status.

WordPress 4.7 was the 12th consecutive release with one or more patches by rtCampers.

Apart from providing handcrafted WordPress solutions to enterprises, rtCamp has developed products such as EasyEngine and rtMedia, each with more than 20,000+ active users. Notably, rtMedia is WordPress VIP compliant and is used on the new VIP-Go platform.

rtCampers are some of the most motivated, creative and active members of the WordPress community. Think you’ll fit right in? They are always hiring at http://careers.rtcamp.com/

Want to strike it rich with your WordPress plugin business? M Asif Rahman will teach us how!

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M Asif Rahman’s talk is titled “Making Millions in WordPress Plugin Business But Not Being Evil”. This talk is a must-attend for all rising WordPress developers and agencies who are keen to combine their passion with business acumen, without compromising on ethics.

Asif has been a long time WordPress enthusiast, serial entrepreneur and technology evangelist. He is the CEO of a prominent WordPress product company called weDevs, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A veteran of WordCamps, Asif has appeared in more than 40 WordCamps around the world.

Since weDevs was founded in 2013, Asif’s company has launched dozens of plugins, with both free and premium add-ons/versions. These plugins have clocked over 500,000 downloads, and fetched more than $1 million in sales.

Asif will share his experience on how his organization was able to bootstrap their business with plugins, and finally build a team of around 35 people working from a swanky office today.

The points that Asif will cover include:

  1. A brief discussion on do’s and don’ts.
  2. The moral background for business decisions.
  3. Choosing a pricing model: Add-ons, Pro versions or SaaS.
  4. Satisfying your free users.
  5. Making the most from the ecosystem around WordPress.