Planning Meeting and Call for Discussion Leaders

For those of you local in the Portland area, several of us will be gathering this Thursday, July 17th at 6:00pm at the Green Dragon (928 SE 9th Avenue, Portland OR). We’re going to nail down some details on registration, scheduling, speakers, and facilities/logistics. All are welcome; volunteers are needed.

A basic schedule framework has been developed which includes a couple large-group (everyone) sessions, a few more specific sessions for a targeted audience (developers, writers, etc), and some community-organized sessions to be determined during the event. We’re actively seeking those who want to lead a discussion. If you have an idea for a session, please contact Aaron Hockley with your idea. Any topic related to WordPress could be a potential WordCamp session.

More details about the schedule and registration should be released next week.

What is WordCamp:Las Vegas? WordCamp:Las Vegas is a conference style event covering topics related to the WordPress software. We are also planning for Unconference style sessions in the afternoon to let the people attending WordCamp help choose the topics discussed at WordCamp:Las Vegas.

Who Should Attend WordCamp:Las Vegas? No matter if you are a casual user, full time blogger, plugin developer, theme designer or if you are curious about getting in to blogging for the first time, WordCamp:Las Vegas promises to have a little something for everyone.

When Is It? Mark your calendar, January 10th and 11th, 2009

Where is it? OK, you got me there. We are still working on securing a location for the event. As soon as we have a confirmed location, we’ll update the site and let you know.

As part of our one year celebration, we want to offer the past year's worth of wisdom that we've built up to help you launch your blog. We're looking for all of those folks that have wanted their own hosted blog. End Bloglessness will be a 4 hour, 4 session workshop.

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1490606/ ] Our next Beer and Blog will be at Fireworks Restaurant & Bar from 5-7PM. We’ll be having our first topic going over how to start your blog. We’ll discuss how to setup a Blogger site along with setting up WordPress. There probably won’t be enough time to go over all of the steps, but we’ll try to cover the basics at least. Make sure you bring a laptop so we can even help get you started on the spot! Wireless is available there, but it is locked with a key.

Fireworks was also kind enough to provide a pizza and beer special for us! They’ll have $3 pints and all you can eat pizza for $5. Thanks Ocean for setting that up!

The WordPress Group will feature Justin Kistner talking about WordPress MU for Communities

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1495066/ ] This will be the second meeting of the Portland WordPress user group. Agenda to be announced.

This month's session will include a presentation by Nathan Bergey (@natronics) about CSS and how you can customize a theme to make it your own.

When: Tuesday, April 14 2009 6-8:30pm

Where: 1562 Se Tacoma St. Portland or 97206

Cost: $75.00

You've heard of blogs, online journals where people write about different subjects and can sometimes use them to market your business, but how does it work? In this class, Ill explain what a blog is, how it can promote your business and how you can automate it.

In this class you will learn:

• What a blog is
• How to set-up a wordpress or blogger blog
• How to use feedburner to automate your blogs
• What blog directory sites to get on to promote your blog
• How to get your blog entries onto Twitter
• How to use blog widgets with your blog
• How to let people subscribe to your blog by email
• How to make your blog professional and tasteful

This is part one of a series of classes. If you RSVP for all four classes, before April 14th, I will give you a $50 discount from the total. See http://imagineyourreality.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/how-does-your-behavioral-style-influence-potential-clients/ for details

RSVP: [email protected] or call 503-869-0163

WordCamp is a gathering of people interested in WordPress and blogging. Topics will focus on a wide range of audiences from the new blogger as well as those with more of a technical background.

Follow the WordCamp Portland website for details including speakers, sponsorship, and ticket information.

Registration for WordCamp Portland 2009 will begin in late July. The ticket price will be $20 for the two-day event.

WordCamp is coming to Seattle! Bloggers from all over the Northwest will meet to network, share knowledge and experiences, all while learning from some of the biggest names on the web.

Centered on the world's most popular blogging platform - Wordpress - this is THE event to learn about the blogging tool used by millions of consumers and businesses alike. Wordpress powers some of the world's most visited sites and blog networks. WordCamp Seattle 2009 is happening on September 26, and runs from 8:30am to 5pm at the Adobe office building in Fremont. Tickets for the event cost $25 and can be bought at http://wordcampseattle.eventbrite.com/

Ticket price goes up to $35 after September 1, but with only 150 seats available this event is sure to sell out! WordCamp Portland sold out in less than a week, so sign up now to secure your spot at WordCamp Seattle!

We have several all-star speakers, including:

• Chris Pirillo (Lockergnome, http://www.lockergnome.com/)

• Liz Strauss (Successful & Outstanding Bloggers, http://www.successful-blog.com/)

• Jane Wells (Automattic/Wordpress, http://automattic.com/)

• Scott Porad (CTO Pet Holdings, http://icanhascheezburger.com/)

• Ian Lurie (Conversation Marketing, http://www.conversationmarketing.com/)

• Lorelle Van Fossen (Lorelle on Wordpress, http://lorelle.wordpress.com/)

• Brett Nordquist, Aaron Hockley, Nick Orn, and more...

Topics:

Break-out session topics will include Blogging 101, Blog Idol (website review panel), theme customization, plug-in development, Wordpress, BuddyPress, social media, SEO, marketing and more.

Sponsors:

WordCamp Seattle 2009 is sponsored by Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/), Pathable (http://pathable.com/), Pet Holdings (http://cheezburger.com/), and Windows Live Writer (http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/). Sponsorship opportunities are still available. For information on being a sponsor, please contact Calvin Freitas at [email protected].

Purchase your ticket today: http://wordcampseattle.eventbrite.com/

That's right, time to End Bloglessness, AGAIN! Whoo-Hoo! Gather up your friends, family, or any one else you can think of who has been looking to start a blog and come join us! Sunday, October 4th from 12:00-5:00pm

Format

Each session will be 1 hour: 15 minute presentation and 45 minutes of assisted help. During assisted help, attendees can raise their hands to get help from one of our assistants. Assistants are folks from the Portland tech scene that have done this process before who can help you with your questions.

Agenda

* Session 1 - Sign up for your blog 12:00-1:00pm;
* Session 2 - Dial in the settings for your blog 1:00-2:00pm;
* Session 3 - Intro to posting on your blog 2:00-3:00pm;
* Session 4 - How to promote your blog 3:00-4:00pm;
* 4:00-5:00pm will be an open help time to ask help with anything you'd like.

What to expect

We are focusing on WordPress blogs for this workshop. We chose WordPress so that if your blog is going well enough and you need to graduate to a hosted blog, you're data and experience will be compatible. By the time you leave the workshop, you'll have a blog that is ready to go and some direction on how to connect with other local bloggers. We are expecting people from all skill levels, including the technically challenged. Everyone will be treated with respect and will be encouraged. We'll be hosting the event at Webtrends. There are some computers available to use, but we highly recommend bringing your laptop if you have one as there likely won't be enough computers for everyone. Help us get the word out!

Most of the people we're hoping to reach are either to far outside of our social circles or are offline completely. We could use your help in letting people know about this free workshop to get a blog up and running. We don't care if your motivation to blog is personal, professional, or political; we'll help you get one up and running.

* Tweet the link to this page http://bit.ly/ufsYL
* Email this page to a friend
* RSVP on Upcoming and Calagator
* Tell someone in real life using your voice. Crazy, huh?

Why is this free?

We're hoping to make new friends and be good citizens. We don't want to be an insular group, so we want to enable others to join. And, because we're Portlanders inspired by other Portlanders to DIY and that Yes We Can. :)

Help out

If you have experience with installing WordPress, we'd love to have you help answer people's questions. Please leave us a comment below if you're interested in helping!

The name of Aaron’s talk is “After Launching a Couple Dozen Blogs, I Figured Out how to Do it Right.” Aaron presented this talk at WordCamp Seattle, and has done several blog posts around this theme as well.

Aaron Hockley is experienced at starting new WordPress blogs, including his highly successful SocialPhotoTalk site. Even if you’re an experienced blogger, if you’re thinking about starting another blog (and who isn’t?), Aaron Hockley has great information for you.

We’ll also have time for networking and socializing. If you’ve got questions about WordPress 2.9 (actually, we’re already up to 2.9.1), someone might be able to help you!

As usual, we’ll be at Webtrends, 851 SW 6th Avenue on the 16th floor. We usually get into Webtrends right around 6:00, but if you come later than that, just let the security guard know that you’re coming to the WordPress meeting and he’ll punch in the elevator code for you.

Hope to see you there! Please let us know on Upcoming if you’ll be attending.

Join us to talk about WordPress and statistics!

Aaron Jorbin will talk about the new multi-site features coming in WP 3.0

Please join us this Thursday at Webtrends where Michael Fields will be speaking on the topic of Custom Taxonomies for your WordPress powered website. The purpose of the presentation is two-fold: to inform WordPress users that this functionality exists and inspire them to use custom taxonomies on their own sites by providing a series of use cases.

Please bear in mind that there will be absolutely no code to learn. All examples can be reproduced by a beginner with the aid of freely available, open-source plugins.

WordCamp Portland is a conference for WordPress users and developers, held in Portland, Oregon. The next WordCamp Portland is on September 18-19, 2010 at WebTrends.

The Oregon News Incubator presents:

Spread your word! How independent journalists & writers market themselves online

A crash course with digital media expert Cory Huff

Wednesday, Jan. 19, noon Mercy Corps 45 SW Ankeny St $2 suggested donation details: oregonnewsincubator.org

• Activating your social media
• Launching your WordPress site
• Building your brand

http://meb.tw/onijan11

Aaron Hockley will speak about Making Money With Your Blog.

Join us on April 25 for a chance to win a free pass to the Open Source Bridge conference in Portland on June 21-24.

If don't win, or if you can't make it to the user group meeting, Open Source Bridge is offering a special user group rate of $200 for the entire conference! That's $25 off of the early bird rate, and $100 off of the regular rate. Just use the discount code "osbugluv" when registering.

Hope to see you on Monday, April 25!

Scott Hanselman will be presenting WebMatrix, a new free tool from Microsoft that allows you to create, customize and publish websites that can grow with you, from design and installation to deployment and maintenance. It is one of the simplest tools for creating web sites that has come along in a long, long time. To get started you can select an application from the built-in gallery, containing such applications as DotNetNuke, Umbraco, WordPress, Drupal or Joomla. Or you can create your own masterpiece from scratch, written in either PHP or ASP.Net.

Scott has made presentations to the OCCA before, and has always been well received and appreciated.

Scott Hanselman works out of his home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this, for over 6 years, he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and he'll speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen.

WordCamp Portland is a conference for WordPress users and developers, held in Portland, Oregon.

RSVP to meetup.com/itpro-70.

Agenda: 6:00--7:00 Networking and no-host dinner 7:00--7:30 Introductions and announcements 7:30--8:30 Main Presentation (followed by Q&A): Description: Have you considered using WordPress, but aren’t sure where to start? Do you wish you had someone to show you the ropes? Would you like to setup the basics of your WordPress in a short amount of time?

What You’ll Learn: How to setup the basics of a WordPress site How to navigate the WordPress Administrative Panel How to write and publish an article or page The ten essential plug-ins to make your site function & look better How to find and tap into the enormously helpful WordPress community

Best for: Small business & entrepreneurs interested in WordPress and building sites with this tool.

Length: 60 minutes including Q& A Speaker Bio: Brandie Kajino, is a small business technology expert, consultant, author & dynamic speaker. Empowering and educating entrepreneurs and small businesses with information, technology tools & simple solutions is her specialty. For more information on her services, visit www.sohosolutionist.com .

Jeremy Felt will be talking about Vagrant at our next meetup:

Development environments are not often one size fits all. While having a LAMP stack available on your local machine is great, having access to the many variants in the wild is better. Working with many variants and being able to sandbox them away from your operating system is the best.

In this session, we'll show you how to replace common development environments like MAMP or XAMPP with the much more versatile Vagrant. You'll gain access to a world of various development options while simultaneously keeping your computer clean. When you walk out the door, you'll have a wonderful local WordPress development environment running nginx, mysql, php-fpm and memcached -- or anything else you want -- so that you can better develop for the technology in use on the web today.

And don't worry, this session is operating system agnostic - Mac OS X, Windows and Linux can all be friends with Vagrant.

A fun-filled all-day WordPress conference. Keynotes from Jen Mylo and Brewster Kahle.

It always saddens me when people come to me near the end of a project, deadline looming, with a site that has clearly gone off the rails and ask if it can be fixed. The answer is usually 'not without starting over'.

In this session, I'll provide a blueprint for investing your time and money wisely to end up with a site you love that is also useful, effective and easy to manage. I'll talk about finding a good developer, asking the right questions, and what you as the site owner should be prepared to contribute.

Speaker Bio

Kronda Adair is an independent WordPress developer who loves helping people make their sites better. She's spoken at Open Source Bridge, Wordcamp Portland, and recently gave an Ignite talk titled, Stop Making Senseless websites.

WordPress 101 - Intro to WordPress Development - Day 1 of 2 Day series.

With 20% of the web running on WordPress, it's no surprise when a prospective client contacts you for Wordpress site development. As of Feb, 2014 WordPress version 3.8 downloads passed the 20 million mark.

Join Girl Develop It and Jenn Stoffel for an introductory look into all things WordPress. We will show you the basics of how to create a WordPress website by customizing it to fit your needs. We'll learn about Themes, Plugins and Widgets and how to spot a good or bad one. We will publish posts and learn about the types of content we can publish. Most importantly, our instructor and TA's will be here to answer any questions you may have along the way. You'll leave with an understanding of the basics and an ability to publish your own WordPress site.

This class is a 2-day series running on Saturdays, October 18th and October 25th, 9am - 1pm each day. The cost of the class covers both days. Please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Girl-Develop-It-Portland/events/209732652/

WordPress 101 - Intro to WordPress Development - Day 2 of 2 Day series.

With 20% of the web running on WordPress, it's no surprise when a prospective client contacts you for Wordpress site development. As of Feb, 2014 WordPress version 3.8 downloads passed the 20 million mark.

Join Girl Develop It and Jenn Stoffel for an introductory look into all things WordPress. We will show you the basics of how to create a WordPress website by customizing it to fit your needs. We'll learn about Themes, Plugins and Widgets and how to spot a good or bad one. We will publish posts and learn about the types of content we can publish. Most importantly, our instructor and TA's will be here to answer any questions you may have along the way. You'll leave with an understanding of the basics and an ability to publish your own WordPress site.

This class is a 2-day series running on Saturdays, October 18th and October 25th, 9am - 1pm each day. The cost of the class covers both days. Please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Girl-Develop-It-Portland/events/209732652/

Enlightenment for beginners, confidence for the daunted, wisdom for anyone looking to promote their creative work online.

Build a professional looking, easy-to-maintain website for marketing your music, artwork, or creative business. This workshop is an applied lesson in building a website that works for you using the free Wordpress content management/blogging platform.

Free ($5 - $15 suggested donation). Let us know you're coming. Registration is free (and optional)

Instructor: Noah Kleiman

Secret Knowledge offers free/low-cost workshops aimed at giving working class artists, musicians, and creative entrepreneurs the tech & business skills they need to succeed.

In the last seven years creating websites I've seen many of the same mistakes over and over again. I'm going to share what they are and how to avoid or fix them.

Press Publish is a conference for bloggers who use WordPress (or want to switch), with a whole day of inspirational presentations by successful bloggers and useful tutorials by the people who make WordPress.com and Jetpack — all designed to help you level up your skills and get fired up about your blog.

WordCamp Portland is the annual WordPress conference for Portland. After being on hiatus in 2014, we're elated to be coming back together for all things WordPress this year.

Learn how to “Launch a Live Website in a Few Hours”

Join us for an all day Interactive Build Your Website workshop on August 19th, 2017. Most famous companies that you hear of today such as Uber, AirBnB, Tinder, and Snapchat started off with just a simple website to spread their message. Our workshop will teach you how to build and launch a website from scratch with zero coding skills required. At the end of the workshop; you’ll walk out with the professional website you’ve always wanted as well as master skills to manage the new site on your own. Bonus: In addition, when we’re finish building our websites, we’ll be talking about analytics and ways to increase traffic to your new website. This workshop is taught by millennials with the latest digital trends in an easy, laid-back, interactive environment.

BENEFITS:

• Introduction to Consumer Behaviors and designing habit forming platforms.
• Websites normally cost $1500 or more to hire a developer or take months to create on your own. You will have your basic site completed in a day for a fraction of the cost.
• Individual time to work on your site along with the help of classmates and the instructor.
• Learn how to increase web traffic using search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques.
• Learn how to improve the user experience and the content on your website.
• Learn how to integrate your social media presence, please have all these accounts set up before the course if possible. (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube)
• Practical exercises on your laptop, plus detailed handouts and follow-up video tutorials
• Learn concepts through case studies, interactive role play, exercises and discussions
• Learn how to install Google Analytics and Google Webmaster’s Tools/ Search Console
• Learn the value of building your brand and discover how creating websites can help grow your online presence as well as enhance teaching and learning
• Be entertained by stories from our real-world experienced and knowledgeable instructors
• Learn how to use the latest analytics web platforms, social media management platforms such as buffer/Hootsuite, and design platforms such as Canva.

WHO SHOULD COME?

Created for entrepreneurs, small-business owners, marketing professionals, small practice owners, designers, contractors, artists, musicians, authors, students and other self-starters.

PREREQS/PREPARATION:

Please bring along your own PC or Mac laptop and charger, that is able to connect to the Internet - WiFi access will be available to all attendees. No spares will be available on the day – so it’s essential you bring your own computer along A credit card in case you choose to do any upgrades to have a more polished and professional site such as better features and functionality.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

This workshop will be led by Heber Michaels, CEO and Founder at Eber Health. Prior to this; Heber Michaels founded IBEA (a non-profit) and quickly grew it to 60+ members while in college (2015). His vision for IBEA was to offer practical courses and resources (that colleges normally don't offer) to fellow students and young professionals in the Portland Metro Area. Since the inception of IBEA, more than 1,000 attendees have attended its courses.

ABOUT IBEA:

Non-profit organization established in 2014, offers practical courses and resources (that colleges normally don't offer) to fellow students and young professionals in the Portland Metro Area. For more information please visit myibea.org.

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS:

For further information: Please Contact Us at [email protected]

Are you confused by Gutenberg, the new WordPress block editor? Are you afraid that it might break your website? Do you have questions about how to use Gutenberg?

Come to the January 7th WordPress MeetUp and learn how to test your site for Gutenberg compatibility, what to do if you find a conflict, and how to use Gutenberg once it is installed.

Mary Ann Aschenbrenner will walk us through several live installations of Gutenberg and host "play time" on a site still in development. Yes, we will test out a few of the most popular blocks!

Schedule:

6:00 - 6:15: Introductions. What you do, are you looking to hire, are you looking for work?
6:15 - 6:45: Speaker and topic.
6:45 - 7:00: Questions and answers on the topic.
7:00 - 8:00: Get help with WordPress. Bring your laptop for this part. There's a wide range of experience levels, and we're all here to help each other.
8:00: Soft close. You may hang out a bit longer to talk or finish up a project, but the official Meetup will end.
8:30: Socialize at Bailey's Taproom (213 SW Broadway). Let us know if you're interested in joining!

Thanks to Digital Trends for providing the venue!

Have basic design needs and no budget to outsource or buy expensive software?

Canva might be the answer!

Free templates for everything you can imagine and a simple drag-and-drop format make Canva a graphic-design tool worth looking at.

Misty Pine will give us a tour of Canva 2.0 and show us a variety of easy web and print applications.

When Misty is not obsessively creating content for side-projects she does freelance brand management, builds WordPress websites and provides maintenance and support.

Schedule:

6:00 - 6:15: Introductions. What you do, are you looking to hire, are you looking for work?
6:15 - 6:45: Speaker and topic.
6:45 - 7:00: Questions and answers on the topic.
7:00 - 8:00: Get help with WordPress. Bring your laptop for this part. There's a wide range of experience levels, and we're all here to help each other.
8:00: Soft close. You may hang out a bit longer to talk or finish up a project, but the official Meetup will end.
8:30: Socialize at Bailey's Taproom (213 SW Broadway). Let us know if you're interested in joining!

Thanks to Digital Trends for providing the venue!

Have you ever wanted to start creative writing, a business venture, or a way to express your talents to the world? How about starting with a WordPress blog? WordPress is easy to get going, and you can test and validate your ideas easily. Since social media can be so fragmented, so how about a place to create a community around your purpose? Our session will have a short demo and interaction with the community. We would love to hear if you have a blog or looking for ideas to start one.

If you would like to join the discussion check us out on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/7891236789.

Do you want to learn and share your passion in a supportive community? Knowledge Mavens is an ethos of sharing, creativity, and inspiration. Our Meetup provides an opportunity to "Show and Tell" followed by feedback and Q&A. You'll have the opportunity to share with our channels such as Meetup, GitHub, YouTube, and Facebook to connect with more passionate people. The second half of our session we'll collaborate on new topics. The winner wins the most interesting topic and the opportunity to share in an upcoming session.

Directions: Look for PCC Sign - Enter these GPS coordinates Google Maps - 45.468688, -122.775950

With the onset of quarantine and social distancing, many of us have been settling into a somewhat surreal semblance of remote work. It doesn't feel quite right. But we're doing our best to fake it. And because of that we're not really working from home.

PIE wants to help. That's why we've assembled a panel of PIE mentors: one who helps lead a successful remote only company, one who has worked as a remote employee for a decade while working alongside an online school student, and one who has assembled the most fervent community of remote workers on the planet — all while leading a remote company, himself.

Join these incredibly insightful PIE mentors for an open and honest discussion about how to be truly successful as a remote employee. And how to manage remote teams. And deal with all the life that happens when that life all happens in a single place.

Any question you've had about working from home, these folks are going to be able to answer.

Invited panelists

• Barrett Brooks, ConvertKit
• Cami Kaos, Automattic
• Darren Buckner, Workfrom

RSVP: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/working-from-home-remote-work-panel

Learn something interesting while you have a great time connecting with the fabulous PHP Community!

This month Kurtis Holsapple will be sharing "Tips and Tricks with New(ish) PHP Features"

"Do you work with Laravel? What about WordPress? My guess is that you've at least heard of these two tools.

We work with these two platforms a whole bunch, and some of the latest features that were recently released into PHP make working with these two platforms so much more enjoyable.

• Null Safe Operator in Laravel -> So many fewer conditionals!
• PHP Arrow Functions in Wordpress Hooks -> Your functions.php will be less bloated!

We'll be looking at some slides, but mostly we'll be live coding to show how these new syntax features can make your life easier.

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.

NOTE: Partaking in beer and/or blogging is neither expected nor required. We're just looking for an excuse to get the broader Portland startup and tech community together.

Back in the before times — when blogging was far more prevalent — the Portland startup community used to gather every Friday afternoon under the pretense of discussing blogging and often WordPress. When it was really just an excuse to see one another. And welcome both new transplants and visitors alike to Portland.

Every Friday, Beer and Blog was the best place to meet and chat with the Portland tech community — as a community — whether you happened to blog or not.

With WordCamp US 2024 — which is being held in Portland, this year — coming to a conclusion on Friday, September 20, 2024, it seemed like an opportune time to bask in a little nostalgia and gather for another Beer and Blog. Just for old time's sake.

So take off work a bit early and head down to Rogue in SE Portland (formerly known as The Green Dragon). You deserve it. Go spend some time getting acquainted with the Portland tech community you're one event away from getting to know and love. Or reconnect with folks whom you haven't seen in a long long time.