WordCamp will be a day packed full of WordPress goodness, giving attendees the opportunity to meet and rub shoulders with our amazing Speakers, Sponsors and each other. All this networking can be thirsty work and can definitely not be done on an empty stomach.
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We are very happy to welcome Gabfire Themes on board as a Bronze Sponsor. Gabfire Themes is a distinguished design and development studio providing simplified and sophisticated WordPress themes for Web Publishers. They have been extremely generous in sponsoring one free theme for each attendee.
Gabfire Themes was founded in 2008 by Mehmet Ozekinci and Charlie Patel. Since then, Gabfire Themes has grown substantially year after year. We’re a small team, with Mehmet based in Europe, and me (Charlie) splitting time between NYC and world travels.
LightSpeed WordPress Development (also known as lsdev.biz), is a specialist WordPress Web development studio based in Cape Town. LightSpeed and founder/owner Ashley Shaw are the organising sponsors of this year’s WordCamp.
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Tokokoo is an Indonesia-based premium WordPress e-Commerce theme provider and one of our bronze sponsors. The have been very generous in offering 10 of their Premium themes as prizes at WordCamp.
We are proud to announce the organizer of this year’s WordCamp Cape Town 2011, Ashley Shaw from LightSpeed WordPress Development as a Speaker on the Tech/Development Track. Ashley will be hosting a session on the art of scaling WordPress.
I am the founder and owner of LightSpeed WordPress Development (also known as lsdev.biz), a specialist WordPress Web development studio based in Cape Town. My passion is building WordPress solutions that facilitate and encourage online social interaction.
ProTheme Design is a bronze sponsor of WordCamp Cape Town 2011 and have been kind enough to offer 10 lucky winners a license to a theme of their choice. It’s great to see such continued and generous commitment to the WordPress community. Thank you Ben and Pro Theme Design!
Timthumb is an image resizing script that is widely utilized in most WordPress themes, including themes by top premium theme companies WooThemes, Elegant Themes and Graph Paper Press.
Recently a vulnerability in this popular image resizing library was discovered and it had a wide effect on the WordPress community. The vulnerability allows third parties to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code in the TimThumb cache directory. Once the PHP code has been uploaded and executed, your site can be compromised by the attacker.
Presentations are often boring slide-shows of irrelevant, bland graphics slapped together by the hapless presenter 15 minutes before show time that have to be endured by captive audiences bored to the point of depression.
One company decided to end this horror, to the endless gratitude of all.
Missing Link is a presentation company with a difference. Founded by one of South Africa’s most admired entrepreneurs and public speakers – Rich Mulholland, they are not only the biggest presentation company in South Africa but also a company that packs some serious originality, creativity and attitude.
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The response and interest in this year’s WordCamp has been amazing, with the allotted seats selling out long before the event. This high demand shows that the South African WordPress community is thriving and continuing to grow.
We are very proud to welcome RSAweb as Title Sponsor for WordCamp Cape Town 2011. RSAweb is South Africa’s leading Internet Services Provider, specialising in Internet access, hosting and enterprise-class data centre solutions.
We’re an Internet Service Provider with a long history and passion for hosting WordPress Websites – everything from small personal blogs to media companies publishing content on a large scale. We work closely with developers & integrators to make sure they get the optimal wordpress hosting environment, backed up by essential services such as Load Balancing, Scaling, CDN, security and hosting consulting. We also use WordPress for the majority of our online properties, making our lives much simpler!
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We are happy to welcome Web4Africa onboard as one of our international sponsors for WordCamp Cape Town 2011.
Web4Africa Ltd. is a web design & web hosting company based in Accra, Ghana. Web4Africa was established in 2002 and serves thousands of clients around the world.
Since it launched in early 2006, Freelancentral.co.za has become THE place for companies to find good freelance talent – and the go-to platform for freelancers to promote their portfolios. With over 6,500 members, Freelancentral aims to bring freelancers and clients together, to the benefit of both.
We are very happy to announce Dan Milward, founder and owner of Instinct Entertainment as a speaker at WordCamp Cape Town. Dan will be hosting a Tech/Development track session on the WP e-Commerce plugin and the Open Source community.
No successful conference is complete without some really cool swag for the attendees. WordCamp Cape Town 2011 will be no exception, and we are proud to unveil the official WordCamp CT t-shirt:
The design is the brainchild of the excellent graphic designer twins, Zughdi and Zaheed Manuel of Zedduo studios.
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Zedduo is a Design, Illustration and Multimedia studio formed by graphic designer twins, Zaheed and Zughdi Manuel. We are very happy to have them on board for WordCamp Cape Town 2011 as Silver Sponsors. Zedduo have designed our official WordCamp Cape Town 2011 T-shirts and stickers.
We are happy to announce Jonathan Duguid (@theDramaKing on Twitter) as the MC on the Publisher’s track. Jonathan will be keeping us entertained, assure that we don’t take ourselves too seriously and remember to have lots of fun between geeking out at this year’s WordCamp.
Well, where do I begin? I like to think of myself as being highly talented -but then, who am I kidding? I am an entrepeneur, starting my own publicity and social media management company, I am an actor, MC, theatre-maker and radio personality, a brand manager and blogger, and all-round busy guy (i.e. I have no life). I am at times a dumb strawberry-blonde.
