--- title: "WordCamp Udaipur – Best ‘First’ WordCamp in India" url: https://thecancerus.com/wordcamp-udaipur-best-first-wordcamp-india/ date: 2017-02-25 modified: 2017-02-25 author: "ican" description: "Last month I attend WordCamp Udaipur, which was organised by Puneet, Vajrasar and other members of Udaipur WordPress meetup group. Compared to all others WordCamp's that I have attended and..." categories: - "WordCamps" image: https://thecancerus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_20170128_095559.jpg word_count: 458 --- # WordCamp Udaipur – Best ‘First’ WordCamp in India Last month I attend [WordCamp Udaipur](https://2017.udaipur.wordcamp.org/), which was organised by [Puneet](https://www.facebook.com/puneetsahalot), [Vajrasar ](https://www.facebook.com/vajrasar)and [other members](https://2017.udaipur.wordcamp.org/organizers/) of Udaipur WordPress meetup group. Compared to all others WordCamp's that I have attended and were organised for the first time, Udaipur was one of the most smoothest organised WordCamp in India. One more cool fact was that quite a few attendees came with their kids. For the most part of Udaipur WordCamp, I was volunteering at Swag counter, my son who was attending his first WordCamp also helped us with the distribution of bags filled with swags. ![](http://thecancerus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16423128_10154975738908832_1360090183478794272_o-1024x680.jpg) Still, I managed to attend both the[ talks from my target list](https://www.wpoets.com/general/upcoming-wordcamps-india/), first was by one of my favourite speaker [Nirav Mehta](https://twitter.com/niravmehta), the topic of his talk was '*Why Indian developers fail and what can be done about it?'.* He talked about what separated an Indian developer from developers from other countries. He quoted his discussion with Chris Lema, which can be summed up as '*Our defaults are different* '. This is such a profound statement and it immediately hit home for me. I could clearly visualise all the places where I had issues in my early days as a developer and have seen the difference in working style between me and my clients from abroad. ![](http://thecancerus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16836200_1319124171459505_6643662519005389888_o-1024x683.jpg) This picture of one of his slide shared by Rahul sums his talk best https://twitter.com/rahul286/status/825276662665269248 Another, talk that I was looking forward to and was able to attend was by [Vinodh David](https://www.facebook.com/vinodh.david), where he talked about how he managed to take company from a services to a products company. It was interesting to see that he went through the similar challenges with InfiniteWP and persisted with them, where I failed with [BackupVU](http://amiworks.com/experience.html). ![](http://thecancerus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/vinodh-david-udaipur-1024x683.jpg) Another talk that I wanted to attend but could not attend was by Rahul Bansal, where he talked about hiring WordPress developers, as it clashed with my talk, I hope to catch it on video as soon as it is released by WordCamp Udaipur team. I talked about how you can create a prototype quickly with WordPress, you can[ read more about it on Awesome Studio blog](https://www.getawesomestudio.com/blog/rapid-prototyping-with-wordpress/).  Slides from my talk are below, and I will update the video once it is uploaded. https://www.slideshare.net/teamphp/rapid-prototyping-with-wordpress Once again kudos to the organising team for pulling off such a flawless WordCamp, and once again raising the bar for other WordCamps happening in India. ![](http://thecancerus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_2517-1024x683.jpg) Next, day we had a mini WordPress user group Pune meetup, over Dal Baati at Cafe Namaste for lunch, the tweet below sums up my experience about it, ![](http://thecancerus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_3074-1024x540.jpg) https://twitter.com/thecancerus/status/825631616647184386 I also roamed around Udaipur, we did a boat ride at lake Pichola and finally walked for about 2 hours to view Udaipur Palace, before taking a train back to Pune. ![](http://thecancerus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_2528-1024x683.jpg) Most of the photos shown above were taken from photo albums of [Abhishek](https://www.facebook.com/abhishek.deshpande/media_set?set=a.10212683613671855.1073741834.1431430963&type=3), [Isabelle and Gagan Deep](https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipM4nO1nN8kh1rx4SLbpi34JxzQ7zfTO4pKpjJ822Ke_lxsz9ru6c7vFBSqeskCa4A?key=U0pxYlM5UjJIUHJzcTlOT1kxWDRQUnhBRHNscW5R).