LightSpeed » Cape Town http://lsdev.biz Website Development - WordPress - Cape Town Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 WordCamp Cape Town 2011 is a Go! http://lsdev.biz/wordcamp-cape-town-2011-is-a-go/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wordcamp-cape-town-2011-is-a-go http://lsdev.biz/wordcamp-cape-town-2011-is-a-go/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:15:42 +0000 Barend Potgieter http://lsdev.biz/?p=10416 First it was a dream, a twinkle in Ashley Shaw’s eye but now finally it is a reality!

LightSpeed is proud to officially announce that WordCamp Cape Town 2011 is on and coming to the mother city this September!

We are striving to make this the biggest South African WordCamp yet, with top notch speakers from all over the globe (countries represented include SA, New Zealand, Ghana and Kenya) delving into everything WordPress!

The Details:

Date: 15 September 2011
Venue: The Alba Lounge, V&A Waterfront
Location: Cape Town
Price: R135 (includes lunch and a nifty WordCamp Cape Town t-shirt). Tickets are available at http://www.entrytickets.co.za/eventview/WCT2011
Theme: Spring has Sprung

WordCamp Cape Town Badges

The Forge has designed some kick-ass badges for WordCamp CT participants to download and post on their blogs, websites and social media profiles:
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Speakers

WordCamp Cape Town 2011 will offer 2 tracks of talks and workshops:

Content Managers and Publishers

This track will focus on the role of content in WordPress Web development, including blogging, content creation, content management and content strategy.

Development

The development track will be focused on the more technical aspects of developing with WordPress, including Plugins, User Interface design and scalability.

There will be slots for 20 speakers to deliver their presentations. Presentations should be 30 – 45min long and there will be a short Q&A session after each talk.

Speakers that have been confirmed include Dan Milward (Instinct) Ashley Shaw (LightSpeed and Feedmymedia), Adii Pienaar (Woothemes) and Matt Bush (Haycroft Media). To see the full list of Speakers, click HERE.

There are still some Speaker slots to fill, so if you want to get involved and wow the WordPress community with your thoughts and insights, don’t hesitate and fill out the Call for Speakers form on the official WordCamp Cape Town 2011 website.

Sponsors

Sponsors are essential to a successful event, as WordCamps are run entirely by volunteers and the only funds available are those from ticket sales and our community supporters. Supporting WordCamp Cape Town 2011 makes tickets affordable for a wide variety of attendees, including freelancers and small business owners with limited funds.

Supporters that have been confirmed are LightSpeed (platinum sponsor), Missing Link (Platinum Sponsor) and WooThemes (Gold Sponsor).

If you want to get involved and help make this WordCamp the most successful South Africa has ever seen, click over to the official WordCamp Cape Town 2011 website and fill out the Call for Sponsors form.

Any and all contributions are welcomed!

It’s All About WordPress

WordCamp Cape Town 2011 is shaping up to be a great event and LightSpeed is looking forward to seeing you all there!

]]> http://lsdev.biz/wordcamp-cape-town-2011-is-a-go/feed/ 0 WordCamp – Word’s out on WordCamp South Africa 2011 http://lsdev.biz/wordcamp-word-out-on-wordcamp-south-africa-2011/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wordcamp-word-out-on-wordcamp-south-africa-2011 http://lsdev.biz/wordcamp-word-out-on-wordcamp-south-africa-2011/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:47:15 +0000 Ashley Shaw http://lsdev.biz/?p=9644 WordCamps are informal, community-organized conferences about everything WordPress. They are great networking and learning events put together by WordPress users of all types, from the casual user to the hard core developers and code wranglers. Everyone gets to participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.
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WordCamp South Africa

The last WordCamp South Africa was held in 2008 with big success at the Wild Fig Restaurant in Cape Town (Mowbray).
Over a 100 bloggers, geeks and journalists attended the event and speakers ranged from WordPress founder and inspiration Matt Mullenweg to local legends like Adii Rockstar (born Adriaan Pienaar) founder of WooThemes and Dave Duarte self styled Marketing Geek.

LightSpeed wants to host the next WordCamp SA and we need your support!

We want to put the following out to the community for ideas and suggestions. Please contact us and share your thoughts by commenting below the post:

WordCamp Meetup

For the run up to the actual event we want to host an informal WordPress Meetup, open to anyone with an interest in WordPress and the WordCamp event, to share ideas and get the WordPress juices flowing.

WordCamp Meetup’s are usually smaller events held before the actual conference and help to set the tone for the big event as well as providing an opportunity for potential hosts, co-hosts, speakers and sponsors to meet and discuss ideas and come up with actionable plans for the conference.

Our initial ideas for a meetup is to have a small get together early in 2011, similar to the Geek Dinners for interested parties. If you have any suggestions for Venue, Topics, Date or just want to share some general thoughts, Speak up by commenting below.

The Big Daddy: Suggestions for WordCamp SA 2011

Call for Venue Suggestions

The Previous WordCamp SA was held at the Wild Fig in Mowbray, Cape Town. Ideally it should be held at spot that is close to accommodation and transport facilities for all out of town attendees, is large enough to host a crowd of geeks in excess of 100 people and has excellent Wifi to enable all those tweets, blogs and live streaming video feeds that will be generated on the day.

Call for Speaker Suggestions

We want to make WordCamp SA 2011 the best WordCamp possible, and the success of a WordCamp depends heavily on the quality of the Speakers available to attend the event and blow our minds with WordPress awesomness
Our suggestions for Speakers:

Call for Sponsors

Anyone interested in sponsoring WordCamp South Africa 2011 or has a suggestion on whom to approach for sponsorship can contact us here at LightSpeed or simply leave a comment below

Things to consider:

  • Wifi access is essential. Previous WordCamp brought down the first Hotspot and a second had to be initiated
  • AV equipment is needed
  • The Speakers really do make or break the event
]]> http://lsdev.biz/wordcamp-word-out-on-wordcamp-south-africa-2011/feed/ 16 Almost 3 months in Cape Town http://lsdev.biz/almost-3-months-in-cape-town/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=almost-3-months-in-cape-town http://lsdev.biz/almost-3-months-in-cape-town/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:18:48 +0000 Ashley Shaw http://lsdev.biz/?p=626 I’m a Capetonian for almost 3 months now, and still don’t have a second of regret because of coming to this fascinating city. During my time here I learned a lot about the social media businesses, how to use it to put your company in the picture, and the way of view Ashley has about running his business. Currently I am still working on my business plan, I’ve finished the main part of it and I will spent my last month at LightSpeed reviewing it and re-edit it. I also planned to help Ashley with his case study about the DA website, and help him with ideas for the feedmymedia website and further content.

Of course it’s not just working I did during my period here, but I also had fun, a lot of fun. Ashley took us to Beaverlac, a camping site in the middle of nowhere, and I had a great weekend there with Ashley, Frank and Linda. I also went for the Garden Route with Linda where we went to the Cango Caves, we went to an ostrich farm, ride an elephant, did the highest bridge bungee jump of the world and saw lions, rhino’s and giraffes in a wild park. Last Sunday I did the shark cage diving which was a little bit of a disappointment, because I became seasick and we only saw one shark for a few minutes during the 4-5 hour boat trip. At the point where we could go into the cave to see the shark in the water, the shark was gone and we where freezing because of the cold water, we stayed in that cave for 10 minutes without a shark around. This great trip costed 1430 ZAR, so not really worth the amount of money we paid for it.

Today my girlfriend is coming over for a week, so I have a little holiday with her in Cape Town. I want to take her to  some great things Cape Town has to offer like Table Mountain, Lions Head, nice restaurants, let her meet my friendsI’ve met here and of course visit Cape Point. We also want to do the skydive in Blauwberg if the weather allows us.

Next month if I’m finished with my internship at LightSpeed, Linda en me are going to do the Nomad Cape to Vic tour. We will go from Cape Town to the Vicoria Falls in 20 days. We will visit Namibie, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Johannesburg and then come back to Cape Town for a few days and then return to Holland. More about that in the next post.

]]> http://lsdev.biz/almost-3-months-in-cape-town/feed/ 0 My experiences in Cape Town and at LightSpeed so far http://lsdev.biz/my-experiences-in-cape-town-and-at-lightspeed-so-fa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-experiences-in-cape-town-and-at-lightspeed-so-fa http://lsdev.biz/my-experiences-in-cape-town-and-at-lightspeed-so-fa/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:04:00 +0000 Ashley Shaw http://lsdev.biz/?p=612 I have been in Cape Town for two months now. In this short period of time I learned a lot about a complete new marketing approach, I find it interesting to expand my knowledge about subjects like online marketing, social media, webPR etc. Next to my internship at LightSpeed I saw a lot of beautiful places in and around Cape Town and met many nice people from all over the world.

Last week I completed my business plan for as far as possible. In the second part of my work placement I am going to focus on subjects I want to extent like the customer analysis, the competitor analysis, the financial plan and the marketing plan with the help of a media campaign aimed at blogging, search engine optimization and social media.

Not only was the time at the office an experience. Also the visit to the design exposition and the weekend camping in Beaverlac with the team I enjoyed very much.

In the beginning of June a launch/farewell party will be giving. I am looking forward to start with the arrangements and further to improve my business plan with the results of my research I am starting with today…

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