Chandra likes to call himself a hobbyist. He is mostly using the artistic side of his brain, working on creative things such as photos/videos and music. He has founded a tiny company—Nhuja Concepts to work on small ideas on the web of which building unique, minimalist and revolutionary WordPress themes has been pretty successful. He has also partnered with a top WordPress theme shop—Graph Paper Press. He has to his credits being mentioned as one of the top 7 amazing theme designers in 2009, several of his themes being listed as top 100 free themes for 2010 by Smashing Magazine and one of his themes being used by various Mozilla blogs. His theme “Gridspace”, made for Graph Paper Press, has been trending as Top 10 Most Popular theme at WordPress.com since a year and most recently Chandra has been interviewed by CodePoet, an Automattic run library of resources and inspiration.

His talk on WordCamp this year will focus on design aspect of the web. How it has evolved and where its heading. He will focus on specific CSS definitions that will soon be available for all the browsers and how that will change the overall web design experience.

Philip Arthur Moore is the Premium Theme Team lead at Automattic, Inc., where he spends the majority of his waking hours feverishly obsessing over making premium themes a world-class experience for all WordPress users. Philip is a third culture adult, global nomad, music lover, and comedy fanatic.

Philip will be sharing his knowledge on How To Become A WordPress Theme Developer.

In this talk Philip Arthur Moore will go over what it takes to become a full-fledged, full-time WordPress theme developer and all that it entails. Topics covered will include discovering your inner themer, learning how to theme the right way, knowing where to look for answers, and how to become the best WordPress themer in the world.

WordCamp Nepal is happening again in 2013! Mark your calendar, its going to happen on Oct 26, 2013!! If you want to speak about anything related to WordPress on the 2nd ever WordCamp here in Nepal, please feel free to fill up the form below and send us your applications. Don’t miss the chance to be recognized by the WordPress community, not just here in Nepal, but also all over the world since we will be filming the sessions and posting over at WordPress.tv, a major resource for WordCamp talks.

The last date of submission was on August 17, 2013! No entries after this date will be entertained.

EDIT: This has been CLOSED now. If you found this out just now, perhaps we can schedule you for our Meetups or next WordCamp.