Hello world!
New official WordPress contributor group! There are so many great WordPress evangelists out there who have been organizing in-person events like meetups, WordCamps, classes, and socials, yet we haven’t had a way in the past to bring them all together as one group. Now is the time!
Here’s what I envision for this group:
- Blog to keep people posted about goings on, surveys to gather feedback, etc
- Forums for ongoing discussions about common issues and areas of interest (how to raise money, find venues, grow your local group, etc)
- Mentorship! Right now, Andrea Middleton acts as a central point of contact and guide for all WordCamps. In the ideal near future, she can still handle things like bank accounts and such, but we can build a group of volunteers to help with bringing new organizers up to speed and being an advisor/mentor/friend to them during their organizing process.
- Follow-up: WordCamp videos that go to WordPress.tv need to be reviewed and published one at a time. We could make this a shared responsibility.
- Constant feedback loop: as an active contributor group, we’d be better able to review and adjust plans, policies, and guidelines for official WordPress events on a regular basis to keep up with the ever-shifting needs of the community.
Over the next couple of weeks, past and present organizers (that we know about) will be contacted and added to this blog as authors if they would like to participate/contribute. If you don’t want to wait and want to get on in here early and help us get this site in shape, leave a comment on this post and we’ll loop you in.
Exciting!!!
P.S. Heck, even if we’re going to email you soon, why not leave a comment here anyway if you are a past or present organizer? Introduce yourself, tell us about your events/group, and pick the one thing you most hope this new contributor group can accomplish by the end of this year. Thinking we will want to set up a regular IRC chat as well, like other contributor groups, so these “one thing”s would be a great starting point.
Melodie Laylor, and 132 others are discussing. 
perezbox 7:08 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
This is a great idea Jane. Very awesome indeed.
Auras 8:57 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi,
I’m Auras Geambasu, one of the organisers of WordCamp Romania. I love WordPress
Jane Wells 7:11 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
P.S. Use your wordpress.org (forums etc) login info.
perezbox 7:12 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
hahahahahaha..
dremeda 7:16 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
Boom!! This is solid, Jane. Very excited to see this mature.
Jonathan Dingman 11:08 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Indeed! +1 from this corner.
Aaron Jorbin 7:57 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
Great to see this site added to the mix. I’m looking forward to the IRC chats and am happy to talk about lessons I’ve learned and our mistakes and successes.
About me: Co-organizer of the DC WordPress meetup, speaker at WordCamps, and someone who has fixed more bugs then they have created in WordPress core.
Andrew Christian 7:57 pm on July 25, 2012 Permalink |
Hey, Aaron. As a Washingtonian living in New York, I’m looking forward to a WordCampDC. Any luck finding a venue?
Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 8:07 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
Hey cool. (I’ve been dragooned into doing a Happiness Meetup in Chicago after our WordCamp
)
Monique 6:34 am on July 14, 2012 Permalink |
Hi Mike,
I’m Monique–from Chicago–currently in Seattle, WA–returning to Chicago on 8-10-12. I am spankin brand new to WordPress and experiencing a learning curve in prep to transition my site to WordPress, but I’m not new to event planning and would love help you organize WordPress Events if you’ll have me. I love the prospect of WordPress and cannot wait to learn more. This is EXCITING!
dllh 8:11 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
Neato. I run a tiny revolving-door meetup group in Knoxville and am glad to see some movement on this front. I suppose the thing I need help with is getting people not just to come but to keep coming. My community is very light on devs, and users tend to come to a meeting or two that interests them and then ride of into the sunset.
Joachim Kudish (jkudish) 8:17 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
Great idea. I co-run the WordPress meetup group in Vancouver, BC, and am co-organizing my first WordCamp in the fall. It’s great to gather everyone in a group like this
Ian Stewart 8:59 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
Hi. My name is Ian and I use WordPress. I’m the lead organizer for the Winnipeg WordPress Meetup and am on the organizing committee for what will be Winnipeg’s first WordCamp in 2013. The one thing I’d like to see this group build is an awesome community here, sharing knowledge, and helping each other grow their local WordPress communities.
Matt Wiebe 3:40 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Matt here, co-organizer of the Winnipeg WP meetup with Ian, and also helping with Winnipeg WordCamp 2013. I hope this group helps to encourage other people to start meetups in their citiy/town/village – if Ian and I can do it, anyone can.
Marilyn Smith 12:42 pm on August 14, 2012 Permalink |
Great idea! Thanks and keep me posted of the upcoming WordCamp. My company has been using WordPress now for about 6 months. We are very excited to attend any events in Manitoba. Thanks!
Marilyn Smith 12:40 pm on August 14, 2012 Permalink |
Hi! I’m very interested in attending Winnipeg’s first WordCamp. I’ve been using WordPress for the past 6 months. Please add me to your mailing list. Thanks. Marilyn Smith
Dimensionmedia 9:41 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
I’m David and i’ve been organizing WordCamp Miami since 2010 and looking forward to a 4th WordCamp in 2013. I’m also one of the chief organizers of WordPress meetups in the South Florida area. I would love to communicate with people and see how one can best approach and use sponsors… and some ideas to make WordCamps more interesting and social. I’ve got some interesting ideas for better WordCamp themes for WordPress and would love to talk about them among this group.
I’ve always said there should be a (small) WordCamp about running WordCamps. This is awfully close!
Please count me in to write articles or help out. It’s been a pleasure working w/ Andrea and Ze.
Cátia Kitahara 11:01 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Cátia Kitahara from São Paulo, Brazil, I’ve organized WordCamp Brasil in 2009, helped organize both WordCamp Curitiba 2010 and 2012, and right now I’m organizing WordCamp São Paulo. I’ve started the Brazilian Community with the Brazilian Portuguese translation team. I think this is a great idea and I’d like to see it linked with plan.wordcamp.org.
Jeffrey Zinn 11:44 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
I’m liking this idea very much, Jane.
I’m Jeff, one of the organizers of WordCamp Orange County. I’d like to see some sort of repository built around running meetups and camps. We talk with other organizers all the time, but it’d be awesome to have a better centralized location for stories, tips, experiences, etc. to exist. I know this is a bit of a nebulous idea at the moment.
Jon Brown 7:44 am on July 16, 2012 Permalink |
Ditto. I’m already liking this much more than the dead LinkedIn group… +1 to having some sort of facility to share resources.
Deborah Edwards-Onoro 11:44 pm on July 12, 2012 Permalink |
I’m Deborah and I’m one of the organizers of the metro Detroit WordPress meetups. Along with seven men, I was on the organizing team for the 2011 WordCamp Detroit and I’m on the team organizing 2012 WordCamp Detroit. I would like to see this group grow into a community sharing tips, ideas for organizing and managing events, and addressing the issues involved with managing groups of newbie and advanced WordPress users.
Chelsea 12:18 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi! I’m Chelsea and I just started helping organize the San Francisco WordPress Meetup, Zach Berke, Evan Solomon, and Shannon Dunn do most of the work around here, though
I used to run the Reno WordPress meetup, organized WordCamp Reno-Tahoe last year (and was on the organizing team for previous years) and am currently helping organize WordCamp San Francisco.
Happy to help!
Konstantin Kovshenin 6:06 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi there! I’m Konstantin and I recently started a meetup in Moscow. I help with tech issues in the WordCamp.org network and I’m helping out with WordCamp San Francisco too. One thing I’d like this new group to help me accomplish, is obviously a WordCamp in my area, but probably not by the end of this year.
ramseyp 6:18 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Red Five, standing by… (sorry, couldn’t resist) Great to see this, Jane. I’m Pat Ramsey, with the Austin WordPress meetup & WordCamp Austin. We’re working on expanding our reach with multiple meetups around Austin each month.
We just secured a space for our primary meetup that lets us double the attendance so its a start. I’d love to share what we’ve done over the past 5 years.
Cheers!
Peter Westwood 8:19 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi my name is Westi and I’m addicted to WordPress. I’m part of the group organising the WordCamp taking place in Edinburgh this weekend and have also been involved in the organisation of the past 4 WordCamps in the UK. I’m also looking towards organising more UK WordCamps and attending more of the local meetup groups.
Carol Stambaugh 8:32 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Carol checking in here from the sunny and warm state of Arizona. Don’t you all wish you were here with 112 degree temps?
Okay, maybe not now, but WordCamp in the winter is a great time to come see us. 
I’m the organizer of the AZ WordPress Meetup group and am so happy to see this group so we can exchange ideas and successes.
Cas 8:58 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Caspar from Potsdam, Germany. My friend Chris and I have been organizing a monthly meetup over here since Nov 2011. You‘re all welcome to drop by when you‘re in the area.
emmanuel 8:59 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
que buena idea has tenido me encantara trabajar con ustedes como un nuevo evangelizador
Japh 8:59 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hey, I’m Japh. I run the WordPress meet up group in Hobart, Australia. I’ve attended and spoken at a number of WordCamps, and will be at WordCamp Sydney in a couple of weeks. I’m also on the contributor list for WordPress 3.4 (and hopefully will be for WordPress 3.5 too), and I’m Envato’s WordPress Evangelist.
This is a great idea Jane, and I’d love to be as involved and helpful as possible
Bronson Quick 8:31 am on July 14, 2012 Permalink |
I know you!!! You’re awesome
Thanks so much for running the WordPress Meetups in Tassie. I’m so glad you’ve been growing the WordPress community down south! I can’t wait to catch up at WordCamp Sydney
Simon Dickson 9:27 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
I’m Simon, and I’m part of the UK WordCamp crew.
I also organise ‘Word Up Whitehall’, which is an annual event for WP users in UK central government. It’s not really a WordCamp, and it’s not really a ‘meetup’. We bring together government employees already using WP (or planning to), with their external consultants / agencies for a day of ‘show and tell’. Not much technical detail; it’s more about idea-sharing, and community/momentum-building. We’ve run it twice now, and both times, the tickets were all snapped up within 24 hours. We’ve also got more and more UK government bodies using WP. Coincidence?
James Collins 9:32 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m James from Melbourne, Australia. I was co-organiser of WordCamp Melbourne 2011, and have been co-organiser of the WordPress Melbourne User Group for the last 2 years (which has grown from 10 users to 400 users in 2 years).
I’d love to get advice from this group on how to best cater for such a varied audience at meetups. We have absolute beginners attending (which is great), but also experienced developers and users, which makes it hard to cater topics/talks to suit both audiences. We’ve thought about running a beginner meetup one month, and an advanced one the next month, but aren’t sure what would work best.
I’d also love to see this group help encourage small towns and cities to start their own meetup events.
James
Bronson Quick 8:39 am on July 14, 2012 Permalink |
Hey James, thank you so much for WordCamp Melbourne 2011!!!!
You guys were inspirational and really made me TOTALLY obsessed with WordPress. Your Meetup group is going great guns!
It’ll be good to see what advice you get about the varied audience. We’ve had the same issues in Brissy. It seems that the developers are very understanding about the different levels of knowledge in the group but the newbies tend to show up and get disappointed that there issues aren’t solved and the meetup topics aren’t targeted to them. There is definitely a big gap in knowledge and it’s hard to look after the whole group.
Rafael Poveda - RaveN 9:51 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hello there. Rafa from Sevilla, Spain. I’m the organizaer of WordCamp Sevilla 2011 and 2012, in two months. I’, also the organizer of WordPress Sevilla group
I’m Mecus WordPress Evangelist and developer.
Scott Basgaard 10:57 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hello there! I’m Scott. I started Norway’s first WordPress Meetup in Oslo last year and WordCamp Norway 2012. Since then another Meetup has started in Bergen and I expect there to be more popping up all over the country. Here to be involved and help out where I can. This is awesome.
Beau Lebens 11:55 am on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Beau. I was one of the co-organizers of the San Francisco meetup, but just moved to New York. I’ll probably end up being involved in something either in New York or Brooklyn once I get settled
Brad Williams 12:12 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Very cool idea!
I’m Brad and I’m one of the WordCamp Philly organizers. We’re set for another WordCamp this year (our third) on October 20th-21st! Can’t wait
ADITYA JAIN 12:19 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hello, I am Aditya. I co-run the WordPress meet up group in Raipur, INDIA.
This is a great idea Jane, and I’d love to be involved and help as much as I can.
Guga Alves 12:27 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Guga Alves. I’m one of the organizers of WordPress Meetup Rio de Janeiro / Brazil, it’s going to third edition and we’re thinking in organize WordCamp here in Rio too.
I’d love to be involved and help!
Jeff Mackey 12:30 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hello one and all. My name is Jeff Mackey, and I (along with Deborah Edwards-Orono and others) am helping to organize WordCamp Detroit 2012.
This is a great idea and I look forward to sharing and learning from the awesome WordPress community.
Thanks!
Edward Caissie 12:54 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Although I have been involved in early-stage WordCamp organizing most of my “events” have been with WordPress Meetups. I was a co-organizer of the WordPress Toronto group for well over a year; and, now I organize the WordPress GTA (Greater Toronto Area) Meetup group.
I would definitely be open to helping new WordPress Meetup organizers with any questions, suggestions, or advice.
Remkus de Vries 12:57 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Like where this is headed. My name is Remkus de Vries and I am the organizor of WordCamp Netherlands and a bunch of local WP Meetups here in the Netherlands.
Cheers!
Daniel Bachhuber 1:06 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Daniel Bachhuber. I’m the organizer of the Portland WordPress Users Group and wrangling volunteers this year for WordCamp Portland.
I hope to help produce a guide for running meetup groups, as I unexpectedly adopted the role of organizer in February and am learning many things as I make them up
Ze Fontainhas 1:15 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Zé here. I co-organize Wordcamp Lisbon (2011, 2012) and the meetup groups in Lisbon and Porto (and hopefully more, in the future). I also polyglot, which is relevant here for those with WordCamp sites in languages other than English Feel free to ping me with any questions related to that..
alternatekev 1:45 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi I’m Kevin and I work at Automattic. I’m directly involved in WordCamp Denver/Boulder and one of the WP Meetup groups in Denver. So stoked to have this group put together!
sbruner 2:04 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Steve. I co-organized the last three WordCamps in New York City, and I organize the WordPress NYC Meetup. Looking forward to hearing new ideas and helping out other organizers.
Karl 2:07 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Karl and I’m the lead organizer of the WordPress User Group in Charleston, SC. I’m looking forward to collaborating and learning about others’ experiences, and hearing ideas on how to help the WordPress community grow.
Naomi 2:14 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Naomi here. I organize the WordPress Gwinnett (GA) developer meetup.
Aaron Hockley 2:26 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Greetings! I’m Aaron. I live near Portland and have been involved with WordCamp Portland since the beginning (it’s still up for debate how I ended up in charge of the first couple). After being the lead organizer for a couple of years, other folks have played the lead role but I’ve remained a part of the organization team.
You have bought your tickets to join us for this year’s event, right?
I look forward to chatting with others to share experiences of what works, what doesn’t, and how we can make better local communities.
Aaron Hockley 2:34 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Whoops. Realizing my attempt at humor and my sarcastic <pitch> tag got stripped out after me suggesting you buy tickets. You’d think I’d know how to use the internet after 17 years.
andystaple 2:33 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Great idea.
I am the Organizer of The Buffalo WordPress Meetup and a co-organizer of the Buffalo WordCamp, so I’d love to be a part of this.
nhuja 3:43 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I am Chandra Maharzan and I organize WordPress Meetups monthly here in Kathmandu, Nepal since Mar 2011. I am in the planning phase of organizing a WordCamp Nepal in November this year. It would be great to see and learn from all of you guys.
I have attended WordCamp SFO 2011 so I must have met some of you. 
DrewAPicture 4:05 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Wow Jane, what a nice idea! It’ll be refreshing to have a place with all these folks together. Happy to help with shared tasks and such. I’m looking forward to interfacing with other organizers here.
Oh, and I’m Drew Jaynes, I co-organize the Denver WordPress meetup.
Bob Dunn 5:05 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
This is an awesome idea, Jane! I am the lead organizer for the Seattle WordPress meetup, was lead for this year’s WordCamp Seattle, and have done dozens of free WordPress workshops in this area. Looking forward to being part of this group!
Ben Lobaugh (blobaugh) 8:12 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi Jane, great idea! I am also an organizer for Seattle WordPress meetup. I organizer the developer meetup, hackathons, and random get togethers and co-organize the group at large. I also help organize the Seattle WordCamps
Brandon Dove 5:18 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi everyone! I’m Jeffrey’s counterpart for WordCamp Orange County. @Jane, I love this idea, it gave me warm fuzzies. The evolution of “Stickers to the Survey” is finally here!
I’m particularly happy to see a place where organizers can come together and constructively talk about issues that relate to WordCamps.
Awesome++
Michael Cohn 6:36 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Great idea. I manage the North Jersey Social Media for Business meetup where we hold regular discussons about WordPress and its use tp promote a business reputation and exposure online.
Make WordPress Events blog gives WordCamp organizers a place to collaborate | WPCandy 7:57 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
[...] can be recognized for the community leaders they are.In the blog’s (pretty much obligatory) “Hello world!” post, Wells said she envisions the group to not only be a blog for sharing and discussion, but where [...]
Judi 9:09 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
Great idea. I’m in! It was great to meet so many of you last year at WordCamp SF.
Jane Wells 8:22 am on July 14, 2012 Permalink |
Judi is the organizer of the main Atlanta WP meetup group, and was one of the organizers of WordCamp Atlanta 2012.
Brandon Dove 10:04 pm on July 13, 2012 Permalink |
How many of you organizers are going to be at wcsf this year? Let’s plan on getting together if for nothing else, just to make in-person introductions.
andymci 1:37 am on July 14, 2012 Permalink |
Salutations, all! I’m one of the co-organizers of the Toronto WordPress Group, Toronto WordPress Developers Group, WordCamp Toronto 2011, and WordCamp Toronto 2012 / Developers’ WordCamp Toronto 2012.
I’m really pumped to see everything get centralized on the new Make.WordPress site.
John Hawkins 7:47 am on July 14, 2012 Permalink |
Howdy. I’m John. Better known to the interwebs as vegasgeek. I’ve been the lead organizer for WordCamp Las Vegas in 2009/10/12 and was co-organizer for the same in ’11. Last year I also started up the Las Vegas WordPress user’s group which has nearly 200 members now. Woot!
So stoked to have a place to share ideas/stories/etc with the rest of the organizers out there. We’re a crazy bunch and somebody should be looking after us.
Bronson Quick 8:29 am on July 14, 2012 Permalink |
*waves* My name is Bronson. I live in Brisbane and love WordPress to bits! My business partner and I started the WordPress Brisbane Meetup group a few years ago because we wanted to give back to WordPress but didn’t have the time/skills to commit to core. We figured we could give back to the WordPress community by getting people together and teaching them more about WordPress!
After starting that we started the WordPress Sydney Meetup group and flew to Sydney to get the ball rolling and now that group is run by a fabulous bunch of people!
James Collins and Anthony Cole were running the WordPress Melbourne User Group on their own blog but after WordCamp Melbourne I convinced them to give Meetup.com a try because it’s easier to organise and get new members. They’ve been amazing organisers and have recruited some extra organisers and their Meetup group runs every month no matter what! And the numbers in their Meetup group are huge!
WordCamp Melbourne also help me convince Japh to start a WordPress Tasmania Meetup and he’s been running those monthly as well!
I was a co-organiser of WordCamp Gold Coast earlier this yeah with Dion Hulse, Lachlan MacPherson and Brent Shepherd. I’m super proud of the WordPress community in Australia now. I think we’re slowly getting noticed in America
I was lucky enough to help out Jane Wells for the official WordPress party at SXSW this year! (Thanks Jane
)
I’m also flying back over from Australia to go to WordCamp San Francisco!!!! #yeahbaby
Pleiades 6:02 pm on July 14, 2012 Permalink |
Thanks, Jane. I’m really happy to see this group! I’m Nick Batik, co-organizer of the Austin WordPress meetup, Austin WordUp & WordCamp Austin. Our Austin WordPress community is really growing – not just in the number of registered members, but in actual participation. Last year we added a second monthly meetup, and now we are finding additional locations and bigger venues because we still can’t fit everyone who wants to attend.
We are also reaching out to related groups ( PHP meetups, Blogger groups, other web developer groups, etc. ) to expand awareness and get more people involved.
We are always looking for ways we can improve, and to share what works for us.
Jackie Dana 1:06 am on July 15, 2012 Permalink |
I’m another of the merry band of Austinites who helps to organize our twice-monthly (and soon to increase) meetups. If you’re in the Central Texas area be sure to give us a holler… we sure love meeting new happy shiny WordPress users!
Dot Pate 2:40 pm on July 28, 2012 Permalink |
Hey all
Trying to get something going in Bastrop, Texas just about 30 miles SE of Austin. It is hard to find meeting places here. Contact me and we will see if we cant get something going. cpparty@hotmail.com
Henry Perkins 7:27 pm on July 14, 2012 Permalink |
Love this idea! WordCamps everywhere are going to benefit from this.
mor10 8:33 pm on July 14, 2012 Permalink |
Morten here. Co-organizer of the Vancouver WordPress Meetup (Canada), WordCamp Vancouver and creator of Theme Weekend. I also manage the WPYVR.org website which aims to be the repository for anything and everything WordPress related in the Greater Vancouver Region.
Sarah 6:42 am on August 31, 2012 Permalink |
I was wondering if you are planning an event in B.C. anytime soon?
Andrew Christian 11:55 am on September 1, 2012 Permalink |
There are two events occurring in Vancouver in October. WordCamp and BuddyCamp. WordCamp is October 13th, and BuddyCamp is the 14th-15th.
Make WordPress Events blog gives WordCamp organizers a place to collaborate | WP Assistant 1:17 am on July 15, 2012 Permalink |
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Andres Skliarevsky 3:04 am on July 15, 2012 Permalink |
hello jane!
i organize a developers conference in mar del plata, argentina, called MDQ DevConf (www.mdqdevconf.com.ar).
This year it shall take place the 2nd edition, and i wonder if it’s possible to include a module about wordpress (let’s say a WordCamp inside MDQ DevConf). Do you think would this be possible? If so, would you please tell me how to get in touch with you?
Thanks a lot,
-Andrés
Andrew 6:36 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
Hi Andres. As per the rules at http://plan.wordcamp.org/ you can have a WordPress “track” (or module, as you call it), but WordCamp must be a standalone event, not part of a larger event.
Andrew 3:08 pm on July 15, 2012 Permalink |
Hey all. I’m one of the organizers of WordCamp NYC 2012 and the WordPress NYC meetup group, along with Steve Bruner, our fearless leader, Dana, Kevin, Krista, Rindy, and Tim.
Curt 6:28 pm on July 15, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, this is a great idea! I am webmaster for two jazzsites (ystadjazz.se and hoorsjazz.se). For both of them I have to make it as easy as possible for our customers to book tickets and inform about events. Looking forward to find good solutions and contribute in this forum!
Jane Wells 11:15 pm on July 15, 2012 Permalink |
Hi Curt. This group is not about making event sites with WordPress, but for the organizers of events that are about WordPress, like WordPress conferences.
Jorge 11:54 pm on July 15, 2012 Permalink |
Hello, I’m an organizer for WordPress meetup in San Antonio! http://jorgeasaldivar.com
Jorge 11:54 pm on July 15, 2012 Permalink |
er, I meant *South Texas!
Jon Brown 7:49 am on July 16, 2012 Permalink |
Loving all the new Make blogs, especially this one. I organize the WP Meetup on Maui (Hawaii) and maybe someday a WordCamp… If your visiting Maui think about stopping by our regular monthly meetup, it’s young but growing.
George Stephanis 10:06 am on July 16, 2012 Permalink |
Hey all! I’m an organizer of the Lancaster WP MeetUp group ( http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Lancaster/ ) but have been slacking off lately since my daughter was born a month ago!
cspencer75 1:40 pm on July 16, 2012 Permalink |
Christopher Spencer, organizer of WordCamp Fayetteville. We’re holding our third camp at the end of the year and working to get a lively monthly meetup group started. Thanks for making this resource available.
Nevis-1 2:55 pm on July 16, 2012 Permalink |
Great news, now if only there were enough WP users in Toledo, Ohio where I live. We always get passed by for ANY kind of computer / software related meetups. Oh well we have Jamie Farr (aka Klinger) from M.A.S.H. to be proud of. LOL
Andrew 6:37 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
It only takes one person to get a group started (well, it does take others to come into the group, but someone has to kick it into gear).
harry61286 3:41 pm on July 16, 2012 Permalink |
Hi Jane, Writing from Perú in South America, I’m Harry Colchado, organizer of WordPress Events in Perú. http://www.wpperu.org. Great idea, congratulations.
@martinbeasnunez 8:34 pm on July 20, 2012 Permalink |
Rick Solari 4:16 pm on July 16, 2012 Permalink |
Hey Jane, My Name Rick Solari (@ricksolari) I’m currently one of the Co-organizers for the South Florida (Miami and Fort Lauderdale) WordPress Meetup Groups. and later this month be taking over as the Lead Organizer for both location as well as planning the next WordCamp Miami with David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) we have a lot of active events we have at least twice a month and would like to stay connected officially with WordPress and be kept in the loop with new plans that you come out with.
I do have some questions that I would like to discuss in greater detail if possible over the phone.
Thank you again
Rick Solari
Jane Wells 11:36 am on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
Hi Rick, welcome! One thing we’re trying to do with this site is to be more transparent and to reduce the number of private/siloed conversations that just get repeated over and over. If you have questions about your meetup/WC, chances are other people have similar questions, so we’re trying to take more of the conversation to this public forum. What did you want to ask? IF there’s anything that is personally sensitive, of course we can move to another channel, but if these are general questions, it’s more useful to others to discuss here.
AMEEKER 6:36 pm on July 16, 2012 Permalink |
I’m Angie from Columbus, Ohio. I’m the organizer of WordCamp Columbus 2011, 2012, and co-organizer of the WordPress Columbus Meetup.
Lance Willett 8:41 pm on July 16, 2012 Permalink |
Hello—I’m Lance and I co-organize the Tucson WordPress meetup with Tim Bowen. We meet regularly at Tim’s coworking space, Spoke6. Tim usually handles the promotions and RSVPs and I handle the speakers and agenda.
The one thing that would help us out the most would be to have the Meetup.com cost covered so we can branch out from the umbrella of the Phoenix area Meetup.com account and use our own to organize the meetups.
Jane Wells 11:37 am on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
If you don’t see a post on this blog about meetups by next Monday, ping me for a status update. We should be able to set you up on a central account as of next week at no cost to you.
Lance Willett 9:12 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
Sounds great—thanks!
Andrew 10:12 pm on July 24, 2012 Permalink |
Hey, Jane. I just wanted to follow up on this. I noticed on make/UI you mentioned on 7/19 that you are taking a LOA; not sure if that was from the UI group or WP.org in general. I’d really like to jump in and help get the ball rolling.
Andrew Christian 12:24 am on July 25, 2012 Permalink |
doh. disregard. just read the full post on make/core.
Creative Slice 8:50 pm on July 16, 2012 Permalink |
We’ve been running WordPress meetups in Tucson, AZ over the past 2 years from http://Spoke6.com
AMEEKER 9:39 pm on July 16, 2012 Permalink |
Does any have a link to or examples of their post-Camp surveys they can share? We just finished our Camp this weekend and admittedly, we don’t have our survey written yet. I’d love to see some examples of surveys that are really pulling out good feedback.
dustyf 2:47 am on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
I’m one of the organizers of WordCamp Milwaukee and the Milwaukee WordPress Meetup. I’d love to help with this and I’m sure our other organizer Scott would too.
John Bolyard 2:50 am on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
We are developing a series of classes here in Los Angeles to help people develop their own WordPress website along with SEO and social media.
We’re also doing free “Coffee Shop Clinics”. The CSC is like a meetup but you need to let us know in advance you’re coming.
I have found in my years of working with clients (and WordPress) that you can really help people with just a hour of so of one-on-one time.
This is a great idea btw! I’m really looking forward to learning new ideas about WordPress!
Mike Little 11:35 am on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
Hi,
I’m Mike Little, co-founding developer of WordPress.
I have been involved in the five WordCamps in the UK so far, as well as two WordUp Whitehall’s and a WordUp Edinburgh. I’ve just come back from a successful WordCamp Edinburgh this weekend.
I also have run my very successful local Manchester WordPress User Group (MWUG) for a little over 3 years now.
I’m looking forward to seeing what comes out of this.
Mike McSharry 1:23 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
Hi,
I’m Mike McSharry and I run an IT business in Leicestershire (UK). Very keen user of WordPress (probably somewhat below the experience / skill level of a lot of names on here) and always keen to share ideas. Have organised a ‘have a look under the hood of a live site’ session in Leicestershire in August. Who knows, it could grow into a WordUp!!
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Ray Gulick 3:24 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
Hi. I’m one of the organizers of WordCamp Albuquerque and Albuquerque WordPress Meetup. This seems like a great idea; very interested in how it might support event organizers and facilitate connections.
Amanda 4:02 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Amanda. I’m a previous organizer of WordCamp Boston, WordCamp Phoenix … have attended many and spoken at some, and helped rep WordPress at more commercial events. I’ve also spoken at a number of meetups and organized free beginners workshops at a bunch of meetups on the east coast. (I would really like to see structured learning like free beginners workshops be a bigger part of the local meetups, maybe once or twice a year). I’m hopeful what this collaboration here could bring.
Peter Shackelford 5:09 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
This is great Jane. I am glad to hear WP is moving forward in focusing on the small in-person groups.
I run Jackson Michigan’s WordPress Meetup. http://www.meetup.com/JXNWP-meetup/
Chuck Reynolds 6:16 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
Good to see a more official place for event organizers to rally around. I’m Chuck, previoius organizer of WordCamp Phoenix 1 and 2, ran and co-run the Meetup group in AZ http://www.meetup.com/Arizona-WordPress-Group/
Still have an active roll in the community here and help run the event space the group meets in regularly, http://Gangplankhq.com
Commonly hit the west-coast camps, and will be at WCSF again too. And I love BBQ.
Erick Hitter 6:33 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
Erick here. I’ve been helping organize WordCamp Boston since its first run in 2010 and we just had the 2012 event this weekend.
I’ve spoken at the local meetup and a number of WordCamps recently. Looking forward to having this central resource for us all.
Jonathan Davis 6:38 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
I’m Jonathan Davis, co-organizer of the WordPress meetup group in Columbus and this year’s WordCamp Columbus. I’ve done some speaking at meet ups and WordCamps as well. Would love to see more resources for meetups. A grab bag of ideas (for meetups or WordCamps) would be great for new organizers to get started with and maybe provide inspiration to experienced organizers that’ve been doing it awhile.
Jon Bishop 6:44 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
Myself and Kurt Eng organize the Boston WordPress meetup. We also helped organize WordCamp Boston. Looking forward to seeing this thing evolve.
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Kurt Eng 10:07 pm on July 17, 2012 Permalink |
I can’t wait to see where this is going. We need something like this! I run the Boston WordPress meetup with Jon Bishop and just finished organizing WordCamp Boston.
Nikolay Bachiyski 12:51 pm on July 18, 2012 Permalink |
Hey, I’m Nikolay Bachiyski and I organize WordCamp Bulgaria and I sometimes help organizing a WordPress meetup in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Tracy Rhodes 3:13 pm on July 18, 2012 Permalink |
Great idea, Jane! I’m looking forward to being a part of this group. I’m a founding member of the Reno WordPress Meetup group, was one of the sponsors of the 2012 Reno WordCamp and am on the organizing team for the 2013 Reno WordCamp.
adavis3105 6:29 pm on July 18, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Al and one of the co-organizers of Toronto WordPress Meetups for both users and developers as well as both Toronto WordCamps this year…I also attend as many WordCamps as I can get to to try and learn and experience the different communities!
jrockpress 4:54 pm on July 19, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Julio Andrade and I co-organize the WP Westchester NY Meetup. This is great! Hopefully we can share ideas on how to keep our groups moving forward, while always having a place for newbies.
WP Security - D.K. Smith 4:44 pm on July 20, 2012 Permalink |
Julio does a great job with the Meetup!
Suzette Franck 4:14 pm on July 20, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I am Suzette Franck and I work for Kussner Web, a web development company that specializes in WordPress sites. We recently started a meetup at our offices in Costa Mesa, California. I am very much looking forward to this group and learning more on having a great WordPress Meetup and how to organize events.
D.K. Smith 5:01 pm on July 20, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m D.K. Smith, the organizer of the WordPress Brooklyn NY Meetup. Two of my companies sponsored WordCamp NYC 2012, and I just returned from WordCamp Boston, which was excellent. I speak at meetups in the northeast and presented at WordCamp Boston 2011. I’d like to see some uniform guidelines established for meetups and small WordPress events.
Damon Cook 12:07 am on July 21, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Damon Cook and I started a WP Meetup group in upstate NY. The group is called WP518 (area code), and we have a meetup scheduled next week. Would love to eventually collect enough steam and sponsors for an Albany, NY based WordCamp, and looking forward to insight from this new group. Thanks!
Tony Scott 2:29 pm on July 21, 2012 Permalink |
Hi everyone, I’m Tony Scott and I’m the Co-ordinator of WPUK.org
Peter Westwood, Simon Dickson and Mike Little, who’ve commented above, are part of the group’s organising committee.
We organised five WordCamps in the UK since 2008, and are also involved in supporting local WordPress groups across the country.
phenomenoodle 4:48 pm on July 22, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Taryn Wallis, from WPScotland. We organise monthly meetups across the country, have also run a few one-day WordUps, and (as others from the WPUK core group have mentioned above) just had WordCamp Edinburgh UK last weekend.
Ashley Shaw 7:06 pm on July 22, 2012 Permalink |
Hello. My name is Ashley Shaw from Cape Town, South Africa. I organise the Cape Town WordPress Meetups as well as the Cape Town WordCamp. I would like to help out in any way possible. Looking forward to hearing more from this group. Thanks!
John 11:40 pm on July 22, 2012 Permalink |
Great I’d love a meet up in Italy. I wonder is there anyone interested in doing this in Sicily? We could do it together…
Armin 2:32 pm on July 23, 2012 Permalink |
It’s Armin, known as San developer of wordpress plugins and themes.
I’d love to join events in Istanbul if there is any, wondering how many wordpress developers we have in Istanbul?
gijoe2cool 3:27 pm on July 23, 2012 Permalink |
I am very interested in this, even though I do not as of yet host any such event, it is my hope that I can one day host one weekly, or bi monthly. I love word press and couldn’t imagine not using it. It’s soo useful for everything I do, that I would love to give back in some small way.
ADITYA JAIN 3:53 am on July 24, 2012 Permalink |
Any status update?
Michael Torbert 6:23 pm on July 24, 2012 Permalink |
I’m MIchael, and I’ve organized WordCamp Raleigh since 2010 and the Raleigh WordPress Meetup group since 2009. I’m hoping this will lead to more collaboration/interaction between organizers.
qualitybargain 2:31 pm on July 25, 2012 Permalink |
Hello, Jane
Loop me in! I would love to participate and contribute to this blog. I have online groups and communities on social media sites. WordPress is one of my favorites, it’s the best! The one thing I most hope this contributors group can accomplish is to open wordcamps to everyone. If you missed the event closed date, register and attend online! Exciting
Derek 4:59 pm on July 25, 2012 Permalink |
Never been an organizer but I’m here to learn how to contribute! We’re in Denver, CO which is way past due for a WordCamp… anybody else in Denver? I am going to ask our company (Xcite Media Group) to sponsor WordCamp Denver, if/when it happens. Looking forward to connecting with everyone in Colorado and finding out more about how to do all this! Thanks to Jane, and all the WP peeps out there!
Andrew Christian 7:31 pm on July 25, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, Derek. There is a WordCamp Denver scheduled for October 12-14 this year. They’re currently looking for volunteers, if you’d like to help them out.
Derek 11:24 pm on July 25, 2012 Permalink |
Thanks for the info Andrew. I will be sure to get in touch with them. Hopefully soon we’ll have an area around this site somewhere about all WP related events… Cheers.
Andrew Christian 2:14 am on July 26, 2012 Permalink |
I agree, that would be great. For now, though, all the info on approved WordCamps is at central.wordcamp.org
garthkoyle 5:05 pm on July 25, 2012 Permalink |
Hi Jane, we’ve corresponded previously, but if Event Espresso can be of any help to facilitate registrations, payments and ticketing then please let us know. This offer has stili stands to benefit the WP community. http://eventespresso.com/2010/08/save-wordcamp-30000/
Jeff Jack 7:35 pm on July 25, 2012 Permalink |
I can attest to the value and practicality of using EE, its a quality product. One thing that I don’t know (and this was a concern of mine earlier) was the selling of schwag in addition to tickets – things like t-shirts, books, whatever – had to be managed through a separate shopping cart – rough experience for the sales side. The true benefit of EE is that for ticketing/event management – right now there is only one other that I’d consider (BuddyVents)… for different reasons.
Jeff Jack 7:37 pm on July 25, 2012 Permalink |
(clarify) EE is the best I’ve seen for event/ticketing. BuddyVents has a community tie in and front end that (and this may have changed in recent months) was not yet a feature of EE. BUT if events are you thing – tickets only – EE is solidly “IT”.
Andrew Christian 7:48 pm on July 25, 2012 Permalink |
The WordCamp site currently uses a modified version of the WP Event Ticketing plugin called CampTix. It works great, but I’m sure we’ll be able to look at alternatives to see if it’s worth a change.
Jane Wells 9:05 pm on July 25, 2012 Permalink |
Actually, since CampTix is built specifically for WordCamps and to work with the WC base theme, I doubt we would move to something else. The reason we wound up building CampTix to begin with was that despite some awesome general ticketing plugins, we needed really specific things for WCs to tie in to attendees pages, purchases, wordpress.org profiles, etc.
Andrew Christian 2:18 am on July 26, 2012 Permalink |
Gotcha. Makes sense. As I said, CampTix works great for WordCamps. When managing the ticketing for WordCamp NYC this year, I figured out a couple of tricks for managing special tickets (sponsors, volunteers, etc.). Will be happy to share on an appropriate page/thread.
wolly 3:24 pm on July 27, 2012 Permalink |
Ciao Jane, I’m wolly and I organize WordCamp Italy since 2008 and I’m member of WPitaly team (translation and support in italian).
Chuck Lohre 9:08 pm on July 27, 2012 Permalink |
Hi everyone, I want to organize a WordPress event in Cincinnati, Ohio. Please get in touch to chuck@lohre.com. Thanks.
Andrew Christian 11:50 pm on July 31, 2012 Permalink |
Chuck, a good place to get started is to look on meetup.com and see if there are people who are already looking for a WordPress meetup group. You could also start attending some of the other tech-related events in your city to try to build a community.
Angie 11:56 pm on August 18, 2012 Permalink |
Hi Chuck – I’m the organizer of WordCamp Columbus. I know we had several people out of Camp ask about organizing a Meetup there. Can you email me at angie@angiemeekerdesigns.com so I remember to connect you with them!? ha!
Heather Acton 3:11 pm on July 29, 2012 Permalink |
Hi all! I’m Heather and I’m really late to this game
I organize WordCamp Chicago and the WordPress Lake County Meetup group. This is year two for me organizing. Happy to help any folks new to organizing, and looking forward to collaborating with everyone more. Thanks for setting ths up, Andrea!
Christopher Martinez 5:47 pm on July 31, 2012 Permalink |
I am not really tracking how this thing is supposed to work. I have been wanting to organize a group to support a local charity mud run but have been unable to do so. Do you have to be the owner of the Charity or Group to participate?
Andrew Christian 11:38 pm on July 31, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, Christopher. This blog is for organizers of WordPress-related events, such as conferences and local WordPress user groups, developer groups, and meetups, to coalesce as a community, and figure out best practices for how to help groups in our specific community.
This blog is not for people looking to organize other kinds of events, such as charity functions, even if these groups might be using WordPress to do so.
Sheri Bigelow 12:42 pm on August 1, 2012 Permalink |
I co-organize a WordPress meetup in upstate New York with Damon Cook called WP518. I tend to speak at WordCamps instead of organizing them, and I would love to see a local WordCamp happen near me next year. Topics I’m interested in: building a local leadership team (what works best, how many different roles do other groups have), how to keep monthly meetups dev-focused, encouraging contributions to core, tips for speakers, how to put together smaller WordCamps.
Andrew Christian 3:26 pm on August 1, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, Sheri. I was talking with Mel Choyce at WordCamp NYC about the possibility of a a western mass/vermont wordcamp. You might want to get together with her.
CleverCaliber 9:18 pm on August 1, 2012 Permalink |
Hey guys, Evan here from Nelson BC, I hate to toss out another shameless plugin plug but I thought it worth mentioning that our All-in-One Event Calendar plugin/platform would be a super useful tool for this group. It’s the most downloaded calendar plugin in the directory right now and for good reason as it has the ability to create entire calendar networks. i.e. pop your WC event or meet-up into your own calendar and it automatically feeds out to every calendar subscribed to it. Therefore a WP global events calendar could be created. We would love to create an event calendar network for this community so if there are any event contributors interested in helping us set this up please get in touch. And yes this is a free plugin, no strings attached we just loving building networks : )
CleverCaliber 9:19 pm on August 1, 2012 Permalink |
oops forgot to mention: you can download the premium version of plugin (for free) from http://time.ly/
Jenia 11:37 pm on August 1, 2012 Permalink |
I have recently started my second meetup group, for WordPress users in Geneva, Switzerland. Before moving to Geneva, I lived in Houston, TX, and together with Chris Smith and Chris Valdez organized a meetup group there. The Houston meetup had many more members and consistently high attendance, while in Geneva our first meetup had five (excellent, I must add) attendees, and I am looking forward to watching it grow.
Topics I’m interested in: how to keep up the meetup consistency and frequency, how to share the responsibilities within the group and cultivate local leadership (similar to what Sheri mentioned above).
Don Moore 1:15 am on August 2, 2012 Permalink |
We’re organizing a group in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina (Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem), separate from an earlier group that has been dormant for a few months. Several of the local Universities have switched to WordPress and are behind this new group.
Anca Mosoiu 1:38 am on August 3, 2012 Permalink |
Hi there,
I run a weekly WordPress Support Group here in Oakland, as well as helping the indomitable Sallie Goetsch organize the East Bay WordPress meetup. Please add me to the group!
Corrinda Campbell 4:56 pm on August 3, 2012 Permalink |
Hello WP Community
i am the lead organizer of the Denver WP Meetup along with Drew Jaynes. We have a big group which is great but we have a really broad range of WP skills and interests. How other groups address this issue and focus their group topics/content would be helpful.
mohdrafie 10:01 pm on August 4, 2012 Permalink |
Hi everyone,
Last year I talked at the CMS Showdown to represent WP community and I made the intension to be on the front line of the WordPress community in Malaysia and the region.
This year, we might not have any WordCamp, but I have get in touch with few and we decide to run WP Clinic, basically to educate users. We manage the group on FB, and the first clinic will be on Developing Theme and Customization since it is the highest vote.
I hope you can add me in the loop so that I can be part of this. Advice and feedback are much appreciated.
Eve Alexander 11:18 am on August 5, 2012 Permalink |
I’ve been a website designer for more than 12 years, the last 3 focused on designing custom WordPress themes / sites. I also am the Tampa WordPress Examiner (http://www.examiner.com/wordpress-in-tampa-bay/eve-alexander). I would love to be part of this group! I consider myself a WordPress evangelist and I want to spread the word!
Devin Reams 11:15 pm on August 5, 2012 Permalink |
I’m Devin with Crowd Favorite and I helped organize the original WordCamp Denver (2009) and WordCamp Boulder (2010) here in Colorado. I’ve done a bit of event planning and happy to lend a hand where I can.
Syed Balkhi 2:37 pm on August 7, 2012 Permalink |
Love this idea Jane. I’ve been co-organizing a WordPress meetup group in Gainesville, FL. I think it would be really cool if we can create a central talk ideas list for other presenters. People often forget to put things in their presentations… we can add something like do’s / don’ts type thing. Or don’t forget to mention this.
It would also be good to know what type of topics/activities really worked in other meetup groups.
We are using a voting system for our new group to get an idea of what our users want.
http://wpgnv.com/ << can be seen here.
The code for this is on Github https://github.com/digital-brands/wpgnv.com << if anyone else wants to use it.
MarkS99 7:32 pm on August 8, 2012 Permalink |
I am looking around at locations at present to run a 1 day WordPress Website Workshop (try saying that after a few beers
)
The idea will be that the attendees will pre-register (to get domain & hosting set-up) and on the day we take them through installing, using, choosing & installing themes & plugins and of course adding content, so that hopefully by the end of the day they will all be WP evangelists armed with the required knowledge.
Is there anywhere (apart from the Docs section, that I can gather information for training guides & workshop notes.
Leonard Sipes 11:55 pm on August 8, 2012 Permalink |
I travel the country working with government agencies as to incorporating WordPress into their social media platforms. I represent a federal government agency in Washington, D.C. WordPress is a god-send to many of us without technical backgrounds. Best, Len.
Norm 2:36 pm on August 10, 2012 Permalink |
I’m in Pittsburgh, PA an have been organizing PodCamp Pittsburgh for a number of years. WordPress has always been our go to blog platform.
declanqian 11:24 pm on August 10, 2012 Permalink |
I am Declan. I am in Shanghai China. I am a new guy.
jimtobias 1:46 pm on August 13, 2012 Permalink |
Hi — I’d like to notify the WP community about an accessibility event at the FCC in Washington. They’re looking for WP experts in accessibility to present on that topic, to federal developers and webmasters, plus others. Is anyone interested or able to participate? Remote presentations are possible, and will be webcast over FCC’s network. More info here: http://www.fcc.gov/events/developing-accessibility and join the event listserv by emailing join-devacc@lists.wisc.edu.
bdgardengirl 3:21 am on August 15, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Becky and I run the Northside Chicago WordPress meetup and I’m on of the organizers of WordCamp Chicago. We meet every month at the Holiday Club at Irving & Sheridan, hope to see you there! The best thing about working in WordPress is the community, very excited to be part of this.
Anees 8:45 am on August 16, 2012 Permalink |
Hi, I’m Anees and I live in Bangalore, India. I just love WordPress and I train people and developers on using/developing for WordPress apart from encouraging and helping many to use WordPress through my blog. I am looking towards organizing WordPress events in Bangalore and other cities in India.
Thanks!
Anthony Navarro 6:13 am on August 17, 2012 Permalink |
Hey Jane! Thanks for organizing this! I live near Charlotte, North Carolina and run two WordPress Meetup groups, as well as provide online WordPress training via my website, TheWPDojo.com.
As for the “one thing”, I would like to see a membership site for us organizers so we may fellowship, share ideas, and to publicize our events so we can encourage each other and celebrate our successes as we evangelize WordPress.
Joseph Firmage 2:48 pm on August 17, 2012 Permalink |
Hello world,
Joe Firmage here (JoeFirmage.org). I want to congratulate this entire community for “winning” the race of the century: building a *real, sustainable, open, competent horizontal and vertical platform that is essentially “future-proof”*.
I look forward to working actively with this community in coming weeks, months and years. We’ve been organizing a $250 million effort for 14 years that is beginning to unveil around you, and WordPress, Plesk and certain variants of CPanel have been chosen as *fundamental* platform cornerstones. That’s as close to a permanent commitment as can be stated.
We have a *vast* library of new code and new content to inject into this community, over coming weeks and months, and have established master reseller/license relationships with more than 80% of the domain registrar and hosting capacity on the planet. See LifeTimeTree.Org.
WordPress will shortly see approximately 13,000 brand spanking new *extraordinary domains, with linguistic interconnections that can drive perpetual traffic, for free and forever, to those who extend this “InternetCentralPark”. They are NOT for sale; they are available for Stewards, approximately 2000 of whom have been progressively involved since 2002 in this project. We are serious, and have the team in place to help catalyze Web 3.0 via this general community, at the Central Park “LifeTimeTree” domains we have registered are forever to be owned by the 501(c)3 launching now, the Academy of Science and Arts.
We are still raising capital through subsidiary LLCs which will provide a *capped* return via purely dividends that end, to private capital partners, but over $25 million has been put behind the project just since 2004. And no part of this Enterprise may ever be sold, or “go public” in the IPO sense. Been there, done that.
The disclosure of these domains is imminent (as in hours), so it’s time I would advise you to jump in to the Internet Central Park, and plant a LifeTimeTree acorn domain at LifeTimeTree.Net.
Jane Wells 9:35 pm on August 17, 2012 Permalink |
Hi there. This blog, as clearly stated above, is for active organizers of WordPress in-person events (specifically WordCamps, meetups and the like). If you’re not involved in this area of contribution, this area isn’t the place to post. Also, this sounds a lot like spam. We don’t like spam around these parts, and posts are to remain on-topic here. There are many more appropriate forums for inviting people to join your new venture.
Christopher Schmitt 9:49 pm on August 19, 2012 Permalink |
While not in-person, I help produce the WP Summit – an online conference focused on WordPress as well as general web conferences like In Control. Would love to hear how others are helping to produce their events and help out where I can.
Saurabh Jain 4:07 pm on August 20, 2012 Permalink |
Thinking of WordPress event for long time. This increases my motivation to organize a WordPress event.
John Housholder 1:09 am on August 22, 2012 Permalink |
Great idea Jane! I helped bring the first WordCamp to Nashville, TN or Music City USA, and help run the local WordPress Meetup. Our community is also building a really bad/rad community driven site called WPNashville.com which we hope will help keep our local WordPress Community in touch with each other.
Bob Dunn 5:06 pm on September 2, 2012 Permalink |
Wow, this is great Jane. Hard choice of where to participate. I am the organizer of Seattle WordPress meetup, lead organizer for this years WordCamp Seattle, have spoken at WordCamps and do my own workshops, etc. Intrigued on the “hello world” post : )
Melodie Laylor 7:11 pm on September 6, 2012 Permalink |
Hi everyone, I’m the organizer of the WordPress Hampton Roads Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/wordpresshr). We meet in Virginia Beach, VA and we’re still small, but growing, and I’m starting to see a core group developing. My vision is to be able to help organize a WordCamp (would it be a WordCamp Virginia Beach or could it be called WordCamp Hampton Roads – we have seven cities grouped together and call the region Hampton Roads). I’ll be at this weekend’s WordCamp Baltimore presenting for the first time, so if anyone that has posted here is going, look forward to meeting you there! I’m excited at being a part of the WordPress community.
Andrew Christian 3:58 pm on September 7, 2012 Permalink |
Hi Melodie. I would totally love a WordCamp Hampton Roads, since I have family in the area. I’ll be at Baltimore too (not speaking, unfortunately). We should chat.
ben 10 11:57 am on October 27, 2012 Permalink |
I’m in Pittsburgh, PA an have been organizing PodCamp Pittsburgh for a number of years. WordPress has always been our go to blog platform.