Missed WordCamp, but keen to hear about how it all went down? Well here’s a bit of a recap for you!
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WordCamp gives back!
This year at WordCamp we will be taking donations and doggy bags (see below!) for African Tails‘ Santa Paws project.
What is Santa Paws?
Santa Paws is a project that collects and distributes doggy bags to township dogs in need this Christmas. All doggy bags will be distributed by African Tails to townships the Western Cape, such as Joe Slovo and Du Noon.
Speaker Spotlight: Gavin Mannion
Want to hear about how an unknown local made waves using nothing but WordPress? Well Gavin Mannion will be telling us how he got started with Lazygamer and how he turned his hobby into a full time job. We found out from him just how he got to where he is today…
Announcing the official WordCamp Cape Town 2013 after party!
Once the conference is over and we’re all filled to the brim with inspiration for building the next big thing with WordPress, we need somewhere to relax, let loose and have some fun together. That’s where the after party comes in…
Speaker Spotlight: David Perel
David Perel is the co-founder of Obox Themes where he is the designer and head of product. He’s going to be talking about the current state of the WordPress theme industry, so we found out from him how he got into the industry himself and where it has taken him so far.
Speaker Spotlight: Brian Krogsgard
We caught up with Brian Krogsgard, one of our awesome international speakers for this year’s WordCamp, to find out more about who he is, where he comes from and what he’s going to be speaking about.
Speaker Spotlight: Rob Hope
Capetonian Rob Hope, the man behind One Page Love, is going to be speaking about going niche – growth, monetization and traffic retention in a saturated market at our event. We found out from him why he started One Page Love and how things have worked out for him so far.
A message from your MCs for the day…
Dear everyone (who is reading this),
Over the last few days & nights, we have both worked tirelessly to come up with a clever & creative way to make this announcement to all of you.
Being that this is the most important announcement we will quite likely make in our career, it is a decision we did not take lightly.
Speaker Spotlight: Chris Lema
Chris Lema started working on web sites and applications in 1994, as soon as browsers were available. At the time people thought of the web as a nice place for online brochures, but having already connected web pages to databases, Chris was positive it could be so much more.
Speaker Spotlight: Adii Pienaar
Adii Pienaar is an entrepreneur, husband and very new father; the combination of these roles resulting in an epic & challenging journey. Unlike the bio’s of most “serial” entrepreneurs, Adii is (as at the time of this going to press) a one-hit wonder with his role as co-founder of WooThemes. That status isn’t for a lack of trying either; it’s just that the other attempts lost more money than it made…