WordCamp Cape Town

We’re very pleased to announce the first round of our speakers for this year’s WordCamp Cape Town!

We have some really great speakers with interesting topics this year, and we can’t wait to share it with everyone. To whet your appetite for what’s in store, here’s a sneak peak at a few of this year’s speakers and workshop instructors:

Anchen le Roux

Anchen le Roux is the CEO and lead developer of Simply Digital Design a boutique studio in Pretoria specialising in working with photographers or creatives and the experience around creating a website. She has a passion for everything WordPress and loves being part and contributing to the WP community. Anchen is passionate about green, simple and nomadic living and occasionally find time to play the bass guitar.

Lindeni Mahlalela

Lindeni Mahlalela is a dedicated WordPress developer with focus on custom business oriented WordPress plugins and solutions with much love for WordPress and open source projects. Currently, Lindeni is maintaining one of the leading WooCommerce extensions and building awesome business tools for businesses.

When he is not coding WordPress plugins, Lindeni burns his fingers trying to build cool things using micro controllers.

Thabo Tswana

Thabo Tswana joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in February 2018. He is also an open source junkie, WordPress fanboy, and professional GIF sharer. Thabo was the primary organizer for the very first WordCamp Harare and is a co-organizer for Harare WordPress Meetup.

Daine Mawer

A Front-end Engineer at 10up, Daine has been a committed (no Git pun intended) and passionate open source follower for over 6 years now. Completely self-taught from the ground up, Daine has managed to grab the attention of many award-winning agencies and media houses in South Africa, not to mention international brands such as Women’s Health, Men’s Health and award-winning author, Ken Follett.

Daine’s roots truly began in education. Having trained some of South Africa’s biggest corporates in digital technologies, he found himself contributing not only to the business sector but to tertiary education as well. Daine has planned, developed, lectured and implemented web courses for students, professionals and newcomers; covering everything from UX, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and WordPress Development. He is also an Envato Tuts+ Author and contributes regularly to the site.
He’s currently focusing his attention on delving deeper into Javascript, specifically React and NodeJS.

Daine gravitated to WordPress early on in his career, learning the ins and outs of theme and plugin development. He regularly contributes to the WordPress.org support forums, speaks at WordPress South Africa MeetUps and WordCamp Cape Town

When the laptop closes, Daine fills his time travelling, running and spending most of his disposable income on coffee in and around Cape Town’s hip food and restaurant culture. The laptop tends to open again to mess around with electronic music production and synthesis.

Hanna Partridge

I am part Entrepreneur, part executive,part content manager and part designer and editor and part amateur coder, and a keen WooCommerce and WordPress supporter and challenger. I am the Managing Director, and Editor&Developer of the International Horze brand in South-Africa which sells both wholesale, and retail. This is an equestrian brand. I am passionate about how our amazing website horze.co.za. I love implementing and working on new features and doing the impossible on these platforms, coming up with new ideas for plugins to develop through developers and we have some unique amazing plugins which shows what WordPress and WooCommerce is capable of doing. Twitter: @Hanna_117

Job Thomas

I’m the only Belgian in the WooCommerce team at Automattic. I lead one of the WooCommerce support teams. I’ve been working with WordPress for about 10 years, and mostly enjoy just breaking things in order to learn. In 2013, I moved to South Africa for the best reason in the book: love.

Bruce Lunnis

Startup Grind Global Community Manager, Co-Organiser of WordPress Cape Town & WordCamp Cape Town, WordPress development agency owner, and digital nomad.

We’ll announce the second round of speakers soon followed shortly by the final schedule for the event!

Don’t forget to get your tickets for WordCamp Cape Town 2018.

Each year WordCamp users from across Cape Town and South Africa meet to share their love and knowledge of WordPress and open source with each other. Without the assistance of our amazing volunteers, the event would not run as smoothly as it does.

Ready to do your bit to help WordCamp? WordCamp volunteers assist with anything from setting up, to handling registrations, to helping out with any general tasks throughout the day.

All volunteers also receive a free ticket to WordCamp.

Volunteer submissions will close on Friday 28 September, after which we will select the volunteer team and notify all successful applicants.

The WCCT Organising Team likes to be transparent about all aspects of organising the event, and this includes our budget and funding.

Below you will find the budget as approved by WordCamp Central in June 2018.

Should you any questions or concerns please let us know. We will post the actual numbers after WCCT 2018 has ended in a separate post.

Budget Wrangler: Bruce Lunnis
Prepared by: Bruce Lunnis
Checked by: Jonathan Bossenger

Event Summary

Budget Summary

Income

Expenses

Before we open speaker submissions, we thought it would be a good idea to see what you, the Cape Town WordPress community, would like to hear about at this year’s WordCamp.

So, if you have an idea of any kind of topic you would like to see featured at WordCamp Cape Town 2018, please complete the poll below. You can select any amount of the suggested topics, but please also add your own ideas too! These topics are suggestions to help speakers apply with talks that are relevant to everyone attending, so all we need are general ideas from you.

We will close this poll on 8 August 2018 before opening speaker applications.

For anyone who is keen to apply to speak, you can use these topics as inspiration for your talk or workshop content – we will publish the poll results along with the call for speakers.

The team is gathered, documents have been signed, it’s official, WordCamp Cape Town 2018 is on the schedule.

The WordCamp Cape Town Organising team is excited to bring you another amazing WordCamp event, filled with great talks, workshops, people and fun, all in the name of sharing WordPress with Cape Town.

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Thank you, and see you at WordCamp.

We’re happy to announce that WordCamp Cape Town 2018 is officially in the planning stages.

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