The WREN design’ is range of bags inspired by the possibility of materials and their stories.
The brand started out of a want for a bag that had a story, was beautiful and was not mass-produced. The need was for a bag that was simple and practical. Wendren – the founder, could not find a bag that met both her want and need and so after a year or so of searching, ‘The WREN design‘ was born in 2008.
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Storefront Themes craft beautiful, feature packed themes for the WP e-Commerce plugin. They have donated 5 developer bundle packages of all themes and plugins that will be up for grabs at WordCamp, as well as a special wordcamp release theme for all attendees.
DevPress.com is a collaboration between Patrick Daly, Tung Do, Ptah Dunbar, and Justin Tadlock. Their goal is to create well designed, flexible, high-standard themes and plugins that can be used by anyone – from the newbie to the expert developer. They have donated a wopper of a prize, in the form of one DevPress Club membership for each WordCamp Attendee.
Roy, started his career life as a network engineer in South Africa then moving to Botswana. A natural progression happened as he moved from networks to servers after gaining an “old school” MCSE qualification while managing the Barloworld Botswana infrastructure.
I’ll take anything apart to see what makes it tick, hardware or software. I enjoy designing systems, coding and making things. One of the incredible FormFunction team.
Nur Ahmad Furlong develops Communications which are “Human Centric”, in other words, facilitating the new ways in which people are starting to interact and communicate by helping companies speak to people in their own language.
Nur have been involved with Graphic/Web Design, XHTML Development, CSS coding, Brand Development, Conceptual & Strategic Development, Animation, Illustration & Information Architecture.
WPMU DEV is arguably the best WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress resource and support site on the web. They offer plugins, themes, support and direction backed up by years of experience as developers and operators of their own WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress sites. WPMU Dev have sponsored 5 annual memberships for 5 lucky attendees at WordCamp.
Splashing Pixels is Premium Theme provider that specializes in e-Commerce Themes. We are very happy to have them on board as a Silver sponsor. Splashing Pixels have also sponsored 10 Premium Themes for our attendees that will be up for grabs at WordCamp.
Joe Botha will share a few insights from his use of WordPress. He’s been using WordPress for about five years as a startup entrepreneur and photographer.
I’m a Cape Town based serial entrepreneur, photographer and dad. I’ve been blogging since 2006 – at least 5 posts a month. Read more: http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/about/
ThemeWarrior was founded on July 2010 by Yogi, a web designer from Jakarta, Indonesia. We sell premium WordPress themes, so literally WordPress runs in our blood.
Rafiq Phillips is a Cape Town based SEO Specialist, Social Entrepreneur and Innovator. He will be presenting a session on the Importance of SEO as a part of the Publisher Track.
SEO at MIH SWAT by day Web AddiCT all the time
We built a plugin for WordPress that allows site owners to manage all aspects of event management and registration.
Obox are creators of quality premium themes across multiple popular publishing platforms including WordPress, Tumblr and Posterous.
Since we started Obox in 2006 we always wanted to create templates which we could use for client projects. Initially we made our own CMS in ColdFusion but decided to move to WordPress as there was more scope.
David Perel is the co-founder, designer and product manager at Obox design, a Premium Themes company based in Cape Town. David founded the company along with his brother Marc, and beyond themes Obox has become known for the Obox Mobile WordPress plugin that converts your website into mobile compatible theme. David will be presenting a session on The Story of Obox Mobile on the Tech/Development Track. He is a panelist on the Making Money with WordPress panel.
Marc Perel is the co-founder of Obox Design along with his brother David. Obox is a professional Premium Themes company also known for Obox Mobile, their WordPress Plugin which converts your site to be mobile friendly. Marc will be participating in The Future of WordPress Publishing Panel on the Publisher Track.
Byron Rode is a Web Developer, Professional Photographer and the Co-founder of Tangram – a digital agency focusing on brand, website development and design, mobile applications and internet consultation. Byron will be hosting a session on our Tech/Development Track about Improving Ease of Use with the WordPress Admin Dashboard.
