April 13, 2021 — do_action hackathons are community-organized events that are focused on using WordPress to give deserving charitable organizations their own online presence. Each do_action event includes participants from the local WordPress community coming together to plan and build brand new websites for a number of local organizations in one day. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, do_action hackathons have moved online. In this session, we talk about do_action events, and their importance in this post-pandemic world, and on how to effectively organize an online do_action hackathon.

August 31, 2017 — He’s the community lead for Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) Bangalore. He has taught in China, Tajikstan, Kirghizstan, different parts of India over past 20 years. Loves Open Source and Technology for good.

Yogesh loves using WordPress because of the community around and its FOSS principles. He will be speaking on the topic – Hacking for humanity with WordPress.

As a community lead of Random Hacks of Kindness, Bangalore he has a rich, and beautiful experience of leveraging the power of the technology community, to work for the common good (or to borrow his words “hack for the good”).

May 13, 2017 — Yogesh has taught in schools in India, China, Tajikistan over the past 25 years. He is a technology enthusiast and believes that power of technology can be used for social good.

He is a lead of at the Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) community in Bangalore. Yogesh wants to bring such concepts and introduce them at a WordCamp because he loves using WordPress because of the community around and its FOSS principles.

Yogesh will join Saurabh Shukla in an interview style discussion about how open source communities work, what motivates people to contribute time and skills for the community and the impact such ideas make with examples.