Speaker: Gautam Gupta

Gautam Gupta, 15year old wonder kid and Google Code-In winner is probably among youngest to deliver talk at any WordCamp across globe. Just returned from GooglePlex San Jose, Gautam us a recognized name in bbPress community and contributes heavily to plugin development cycles.

At WordCamp, Gautam would be speaking on “bbPress 2.0 – an overview of what’s new, the code behind it and extending it via plugins“.

• Tell us a bit about yourself.
  Hello folks! I am 15 years old, a Xth grader, g33k, and I’m obsessed with coding and somewhat photography. Also a WordPress and bbPress enthusiast! You can find more about me on my blog.
   
• What motivates you most to use WordPress?
  What motivates me the most to use WordPress is the community behind it which makes it fun to use! They’re really amazing people.
   
• What are your thought about WordPress Community in India?
  WordPress has become synonymous to blogging in India, rather everywhere in the world. We think of blogging, we think of WordPress. The community has really grown big in the recent years and it is interesting to see a lot of young minds getting involved in it. I myself had a blog on WordPress.com about five years back, when I was probably in fourth or fifth class, though it is not live anymore. 😉
   

• Topic on which you are speaking?
  I would be speaking on bbPress 2.0 – an overview of what’s new, the code behind it and extending it via plugins.
   
• What are you mostly looking forward to during this WC Jbp?
  [Same answer for both questions] I’d love to make new friends and meet the people in real life whose avatars I have always been seeing on my computer screen. 😉
   
• Who in WP community inspires you most and why?
  Everyone does! Everyone contributes to WordPress in some way or the other. And that inspires me. 🙂
   
• A one line advice you would like to give people about WordPress.
  It’s one simple great piece of software!