WordCamp Cape Town 2013:
Organised by the community, for the community
At the tip of Africa, in the most beautiful city in the world, in the grandest stadium of them all, with the hottest speakers from Cape Town and around the world, alongside a community of like-minded people, we shall gather with passion for that which unites us.
Sponsors
Platinum
WooThemes
WooThemes is an international, market leading, bootstrapped business providing a platform to extend standard WordPress-powered websites via a range of innovative themes and plugins. With WooThemes businesses and individuals can get professional WordPress sites launched quickly and affordably.
RSAWEB
Established in 2001, RSAWEB has extensive industry experience. Our commitment to customer service excellence and our in depth technical understanding, allows us to retain partnerships with some of SA’s leading brands from a wide array of sectors. We take pride in offering our clients the best in service and support, and our SLA’s ensure all clients absolute peace-of-mind, with a 24-hour help-desk fully supporting and monitoring all services. We have invested heavily in our infrastructure and have a strong presence in South Africa and Internationally with data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and POPs (points of presence) in London, Europe and the USA. We believe that great technology doesn’t have to be complex and expensive; our motto ‘technology meets life’ implies just that. We bridge the gap between IT innovation and everyday life – and our team take pride in doing this every day.
Champion
Code Poet
If you use WordPress to build things for other people, Code Poet wants to make your life easier. No matter whether you freelance on a solo basis, lead a small web shop, make plugins in a dark closet, or crack the whip at a large design firm, Code Poet’s aim is to become your go-to source of information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and know-how. To make you better at what you do. To make it easier to make your living and look great doing it. You’re part of a tribe of WordPress designers and developers over 10,000 strong, spanning the entire globe. codepoet.com aims to bring the working knowledge and real world strategies of those people into one place, for you to tap into.
Bluehost
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.
Silver
Obox Themes
Obox Themes. Creators of beautiful and usable Premium WordPress themes for business owners, freelancers and designers.
Accomplice
WPML
WPML makes it easy to build and run multilingual WordPress websites. You’ll be able to translate everything in the site, including content, navigation, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 150,000 commercial websites from all over the world. Want to go multilingual? Visit us at WPML.org
Toolset
Toolset plugins allow building WordPress sites without writing PHP. Toolset is great for both advanced developers and newbies. Advanced developers can use Toolset to complete more projects faster. Toolset makes it possible to build entire, unique and complex sites, from within the WordPress admin. No coding required. Customizing the WordPress admin, designing public pages, setting content access control, integrating payment processing for classifieds and listing sites. Visit wp-types.com for more information about building beautiful sites in days instead of weeks.
Bronze
PayFast
PayFast is a payments processing service for South Africans and South African websites. They enable easy, secure and instant transfer of money between online buyers and sellers and integrate with a variety of WordPress solutions.
Post Status
Post Status is a WordPress news blog. The site features a blend of original news and content plus daily links to the most interesting WordPress oriented blog posts on the web. Post Status was created by Brian Krogsgard, a web developer in Birmingham, Alabama and Junior Partner at Range.
Scholarship Sponsor
e-magination
e-magination Info Solutions is an information systems and consulting firm specialising in Business Intelligence and Information Management. We provide customised, cost-effective and relevant IT solutions that support and guide client strategy development as well as intelligent Report and Technical Data Warehouse Development.
Community Partners
Silicon Cape Initiative
The Silicon Cape Initiative a community of tech entrepreneurs, developers, creatives, angel investors, and VC’s who are passionate about entrepreneurship and the roles we play in the future of South Africa. The Initiative is a non-profit, community owned and driven movement, that aims to improve the environment in the Western Cape to create more and better startups as well as increase access to capital.
Media Partners
MyBroadband
MyBroadband is the largest IT Website in South Africa with 1 million unique monthly visitors, serving the local market with technology and business tech news and the largest online community in the country. MyBroadband was started in 2003 (known then as MyADSL) as a forum to address the broadband problems which existed in South Africa at the time. Since then the website grew into a full blown IT News publication and online community, serving over 6.5 million pages per month.
HumanIPO
HumanIPO is a top pan-African technology news site, with journalists based in all the continent’s major hubs covering Africa’s technological revolution. Whether it is startups, innovations or big tech business, you can read about it first on HumanIPO. We truly are the home to African tech.
Organisers
Dominique Rossouw
I manage the daily operations at WooThemes and ensure that everything runs smoothly behind the scenes. Apart from managing the Woo base I am a board member of a local animal rescue group and in my spare time can be found surrounded by four legged friends of the doggy variety.
Cobus Bester
I have a great passion for good design, and pride myself in the attention to detail. I am currently designer and front-end developer at WooThemes.
Warren Holmes
I’m a Product Manager over at WooThemes focused on growth.
Hugh Lashbrooke
Self-taught geek and PHP developer from Cape Town currently coding up a storm at WooThemes. New father. Lover of all things WordPress.
Mark Forrester
I’m a proud co-founder of WooThemes and an even prouder dad. I’m also an avid sports fan, photographer and digital designer.
Joel Bronkowski
Business Development Manager at WooThemes. Been known to blog from time to time. Passionate about social development, music, sports, innovation and I love getting to know people.
Gerhard Potgieter
WooCommerce Ninja at WooThemes. Avid WordPress enthusiast, web developer, blogger, technologist and homebrewer.
Matt Cohen
Chief Product Officer at WooThemes. WordPress and web developer, musician and blogger. Lover of punk rock, innovation, business and 80s/90s cartoons.
Jeffrey Pearce
Most know me as Jeffikus. I’m a senior developer at WooThemes where I focus on PHP and JQuery. I work mostly on WordPress plugins such as Sensei, while also dabbling in applications written in NodeJS. Education is my passion!