Giving back
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
Anne Frank
Our journey started with our fascination with WordPress.
Since 2010, WordPress has been our bread and butter and it is only befitting that we give back to the hero in our success story.
We have made core contributions in 2017 (Version 4.9 “Tipton”), 2019 (Version 5.1 “Betty” and Version 5.3 “Kirk”) and 2020 (Version 5.4 “Adderley”).
Our contribution does not end with core coding. We have also contributed to the Polyglots team and plugin development. Five plugins developed by our team are available for free download in WordPress.org.
We also share our experience and knowledge in WordPress with the world through our blog posts on our site and platforms like Medium, Facebook, etc. We also started a blog with the purpose of demystifying WordPress for beginners and supporting advanced users.
We are lending our whole-hearted support to the “Five for the Future” initiate of Matt Mullenweg.
We have pledged 5 contributors (nearly 42% of our resources) for 13 hours a week. They contribute to Core, Community, Design, Support and Polyglots teams. A worthy contribution to a worthy cause.
We hope to make WordPress remain forever as “both free and priceless at the same time”. We love that we get to follow our passion while making a difference to the community. We have fun and the world gets a better CMS. Not a bad deal!
We love meeting friends and we adore WordCamps. We attended our first WordCamp in 2017 Mumbai, India and it was love at first sight. So much so that we sponsored the WordCamp Kochi 2017 – the first WordCamp in South India.
The infatuation didn’t end there. We took a flight to attend the next one at Columbo, Sri Lanka. It was an amazing experience. Since then we have made it a point to sponsor, co-organize and volunteer at WordCamps. Aravind Ajith was one of the co-organizers of 2018 WordCamp Kochi.
We are also actively involved in the activities of the local meetup group – WordPress Trivandrum. We frequently host, co-organize and sponsor meetups to keep the spirit of WordPress strong.
We take our responsibilities towards society very seriously. We have tried to make a difference in the lives of others in our own way.
We provide free IT services to our local NGOs, schools for children with special needs and make monetary contributions to poor homes and sponsor study and sanitary materials to underprivileged girls.
Being a team of WordPress enthusiasts, it goes without saying that we donate to the WordPress Foundation too.
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