At WordCamp Colombo, manage all your WordPress sites with GoDaddy Pro!

We’re proud to have GoDaddy Pro as a Kelani (Silver) Sponsor for WordCamp Colombo 2017. If you’ve been around websites at all, chances are that you’ve heard of GoDaddy. However, you may not know that, apart from being a very popular domain registrar, they are also a popular choice for WordPress site management, via their GoDaddy Pro brand.

GoDaddy Pro allows you to manage multiple WordPress sites with ease, making it so that you can do everything from one, easy to use interface. From updating WordPress core, and themes and plugins, to automating backups, cloning and migrations, GoDaddy pro is a one-stop WordPress maintenance dashboard. If you’re a freelancer or WordPress agency that’s spending a lot of time on maintaining client sites, it may be worth giving GoDaddy Pro a shot, especially since you can signup for free.

After-party in paradise, at WordCamp Colombo 2017!

We’re excited to announce that the WordCamp Colombo 2017 after-party will be right on Colombo’s famous Mount Lavinia beach, at La Voile Blanche.

At the end of a long day of WordPress, you’ll be able to sink your toes into sand, sip on a drink and enjoy a variety of Sri Lankan food with your friends, both new and old! After parties are often the highlight of a WordCamp, and we’re sure that this one will be no different.

The best part?

This fully-catered after party is absolutely free when you purchase a WordCamp Colombo ticket.

 

Date and Time
September 23, 2017 – 8:00pm onwards

Location
LVB is located right on Mount Lavinia Beach, at the bottom of College Avenue. Google Map below:

NOTE: please be careful when crossing the train track at the bottom of College Avenue.

Walk out on to the beach and then turn to your right. Keep walking. LVB will be on your right, in about 200m.

If you have trouble finding the place, you can contact:

Dasun (+94771357111 )

Asith (+94779691135 )

Naweed (+94772358935 )

Rahul Bansal Will Inspire WordPress Agencies to Sell to Enterprises

Are you the owner of a WordPress web design and development agency? You surely can’t miss this one!

Rahul Bansal is going to speak on the subject “Selling WordPress to Enterprises”.

Rahul is the founder and CEO of rtCamp — the only WordPress.com VIP Partner from Asia.

His WordPress journey began in 2007 when he was looking for ways to customize his blog. Later on, he moved from professional blogging to freelancing, and from freelancing to starting his company rtCamp in 2009.

At work, Rahul plays multiple roles, switching between sysadmin (his favorite), to sales and everything else his company demands from him.

Over the years, Rahul has contributed to the WordPress community in many ways — as a WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, polyglot, theme/plugins developer. Outside of WordPress, he loves spending time with his son and is a self-proclaimed foodie.

Rahul did a lengthy interview with us on the subject of WordPress adoption, need for a community and more: https://2017.colombo.wordcamp.org/2017/04/05/interview-with-rahul-bansal-founder-and-ceo-of-rtcamp/

From Small to Enterprise — Know the Formula For Success

Rahul’s WordPress journey started with small projects, with total budgets under $100.

Nine years later, he has grown to reach the other end of the spectrum, regularly handling enterprise WordPress projects with budgets of over $100K per year.

At this scale, the rules for “selling” WordPress to a client change. WordPress’ traditional advantages don’t necessarily apply anymore.

He will start by addressing the two largest apprehensions that enterprises have- security & scalability- and cover other pain points like:

  1. Integration with existing systems
  2. Ownership and responsibility
  3. Extensibility and long term viability
  4. “Free” and “GPL” concerns

We are confident Rahul’s talk will help bust the various myths surrounding the use of WordPress at the enterprise level. We hope to use his advice to spread the message about WordPress being a great platform for enterprises.

Announcing Our First Speaker: Takayuki Miyoshi from Japan

Takayuki MiyoshiIf you are a programmer and have been introduced into the world of WordPress, you may have wondered, “Should I develop plugins? And how? Is it going to be a tough ride ahead?”

Takayuki Miyoshi, the author of Contact Form 7, is going to answer just that, and much more. Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular WordPress plugins ever developed. Many WordPress sites cannot live without it!

At WordCamp Colombo 2017, you will hear Takayuki in his own words, and get to ask questions straight at him too. The subject of his talk is “Lessons Learned from Ten Years of Plugin Development”.

Takayuki’s career in WordPress plugin development started way back in 2006. It was the age of Web 2.0, mashups, and Ajax fever, and 2.0 was the latest version of WordPress. At that time, WordPress didn’t even natively support widgets, menus, or shortcode API. The WordPress Plugin Directory didn’t exist yet. Since then, Takayuki learned a lot of important things through the experience of plugin development.

Some of these lessons include:

  1. How to design a WordPress plugin.
  2. How to add a feature.
  3. What user feedback is like and how to react to it
  4. How to write an FAQ.

….and many other interesting and entertaining examples.

Takayuki did a short interview with us on his WordPress journey, productivity as a programmer and his words of advice for young professionals. Click here to read it: https://2017.colombo.wordcamp.org/2017/05/30/a-conversation-with-takayuki-miyoshi/

The Sri Lankan Technological Campus supports WordCamp Colombo 2017!

SLTCWith the vision of being a centre of excellence for the development of student potential for the benefit of Sri Lanka and the rest of the world, the Sri Lanka Technological Campus (Pvt) Ltd (SLTC) was started in 2015 as a fully owned subsidiary of Sri Lanka Telecom PLC.

It is the first corporate powered, research based, fully residential Engineering campus in the country. The SLT Campus is located at the SLT Satellite Earth Station in Padukka and is easily accessible from Colombo via common transport modes. The administrative office and the City Campus are based at TRACE Expert City in Maradana.

With a variety of undergraduate programmes, and graduate degrees, SLTC adopts the latest developments in teaching and research to create a truly, cutting edge institution. Their campus at Padukka is one of the campus’ greatest assets and exudes the best of both worlds – a busy urban vibe surrounded by great parkland and sporting facilities as well as high quality study environments that are central to their thinking.

If you’re interested in knowing more about SLTC, you can visit their website, or contact them.