Author: Abha Thakor

Abha Thakor is an experienced communicator, senior journalist and digital media and research professional working in a variety of sectors, with a speciality in content development and communities, web CMS, voice tech, and site building. She volunteers her contribution to the WordPress project as part of her wider contribution to Inclusion, and Tech opportunities for all. She is a long term active and significant contributor on several releases and has co-led areas of work. Her team contributions include Core, the Learn WordPress / Training, Community, and Documentation. She is also a component maintainer in core, and Team Rep for 2023. She has served on the Marketing Team since 2018, was a Marketing Team Rep from 2020 to February 2022. She continues to support contributors in this area and with using GitHub. Her professional interests include: - new technologies and research - communications and IT training - event organising and administration / project management - supporting the communications and tech organizations communities - community building and stakeholder engagement, particularly around digital and websites, and citizenship Promoting adult learning, development and accessibility through a range of community events including WordCamps, digital communications groups and tech-based Meetups. - member of a number of Make WordPress teams including core, marketing, training and WordPress.tv - champions Continuing Professional Development for her professional institutes Abha is a speaker and researcher on tech and communications, accessibility and innovation topics including AI.

Interested in livestreaming?

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Join the workshop on Friday

Interested in live streaming on your own website and how it can work in WordPress? At WordCamp London 2019, we will be live streaming the majority of the event on our own website and on social media channels.

To enable this to happen and share practical skills with the community, there will be a special session on Contributor Day, at 11:00 on 5 April 2019. Attendees will be able to learn and share their knowledge on how to capture, encode and live video, including adding titles and logos.

We hope this session will be especially useful to individuals wanting to livestream part of the Meetups and local WordCamps.

The workshop, led by Leo Mindel, will include streaming to popular destinations including YouTube and Facebook Live. The session is running in addition to the normal contributor event. It is planned to give workshop attendees the skills to practise and assist with the live streaming during the rest of the WordCamp London weekend.

Watch the Livestream

For the first time, this year’s WordCamp London sessions will be livestreamed. This in an effort to offer further inclusiveness for those unable to be in attendance in-personA selection of talks from WordCamp London 2019 will be livestreamed on 6-7 April 2019. We aim to have a livestream available via the website and natively on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

WCLDN Livestream

This service has been supported by a two technology companies.

Ecamm.com are providing us with Mac streaming and encoding software.

Ecamm are offering a coupon code for a free month of any Ecamm Live subscription package to all WordCamp London attendees including online watchers. Grab your coupon at ecamm.com/wclondon

Restream.io are donating a service to WordCamp London so we can deliver the livestream simultaneously to a number of social media channels including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Restream.io are offering a promotion to all attendees including online watchers of a 30% discount off all of their subscription packages using the code RESTREAM-APRIL use this link to the code.

Share your participation at #WCLDN

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Enjoy these e-badges if you are participating at #WCLDN 2019. Our wonderful design team has produced graphics for our attendees, sponsors, speakers and volunteers to share this week in their social channels, websites and to send to others to encourage them to book for this year’s WordCamp London.

We would like to feature even more of our attendees in our communications this year, so drop us a line on Twitter @WordCampLondon about your favourite things about going to WordCamp London, add a review to our Facebook page or post your best photo on our Instagram channel.

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Here’s what to expect at the WordCamp London Contributor Day

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The WordCamp London Contributor Day is a full day focused on contributing to WordPress. WordPress is open source software made by volunteers, and we will be splitting into small teams and working on WordPress!

The Contributor Day is taking place on Friday 5 April 2019 at the London Metropolitan University, the same venue as the rest of the conference. Tickets are free, but you do need a ticket.

You don’t have to know how to code, as there are many different roles that need filling. It’s easy to think of contributing to WordPress as helping write the core software, but you could help out in the support forums, write some documentation, organise community events, design the interface for a new feature, user test someone else’s improvement, or do some language or video translation. There are lots of options.

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OUR SECOND ROUND OF 2019 SPEAKERS

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Two weeks to WordCamp London 2019. What better time to introduce you to our second group of speakers.

Discover the wonderful individuals who will be presenting across three tracks during the afternoon of 6 April 2019. There will a total of 14 speakers covering business, community, development, and so much more. Just some of topics to be featured include automation, eCommerce, GraphQL, Cognitive Design, and Content Monetisation. Attendees will certainly be spoilt for choice.

There are still tickets available for the two-day conference on 6 – 7 April 2019, and for the free Contributor Day on the 5 April. You can find the full schedule at London WordCamp 2019.

Cue drumroll. Please welcome to the stage… our speakers for the afternoon of 6 April.

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Travel to WCLDN by rail, sea or road

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Your guide to travelling to WordCamp London ‘without an aeroplane’

Tom Greenwood, who will be speaking on sustainability at WordCamp London 2019, shares his alternative travel tips. He writes:

As the biggest WordCamp in the UK, WordCamp London draws people from far and wide, not just from other parts of the UK, but internationally too. This year the team is trying to bring together information to make it even easier for people to travel within London to the venue in a sustainable manner. The team also wants to encourage those arriving from outside of London, especially from overseas, to choose the most sustainable methods of transport. That means looking at alternatives to air travel and keeping your feet firmly on the ground.

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