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For the foreseeable future, WordPress Birmingham has gone digital! After the success of our first online meetup in April, we are back! and with something a little bit different this time...

This months event will be held using ZOOM, all you need to do to join the event is to download the zoom app to your mobile, tablet or laptop and click the link at 7pm!

If you would like to join in the chat around the event please login to the WP UK Slack: http://wpslack.uk/ and join the #meetup-birmingham channel.

Schedule:

19:00 - Start

19:00 - Welcome and WP News roundup from Jonny

19:10 - Brief recap on using the #meetup-birmingham Slack

19:15 - NEW! Topic Collection (A last opportunity to suggest topics for discussion)

19:20 - 1-minute intro’s from everyone

19:40 - NEW! Random Topic Discussion Generator

20:30 - Wrap up and Close

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NEW! Random Topic Discussion Generator

This is a completely new section of the evening we are introducing purely for our online meetups. It should work in a very similar way to Lean Coffee style Q&A discussions we have held at past WP BHAM Meetups.

In order to randomise topics we are using an online topic randomiser: https://tree-spicy-sight.glitch.me/

The randomiser will select a topic for us to discuss, we then have 5 minutes of discussion time**, after 5 minutes everybody votes on whether we would like to continue discussing the current one or have another topic randomly selected.

The topics discussed at this meetup depends entirely on what topics people would like to talk about and therefore put forward as suggestions. We would like to ask everyone who is thinking of attending this month to think of at least one topic we could discuss as a group. This could be WordPress development, SEO, Web Design, Online Security, Creating Content, WordPress Events, Hosting etc etc. As long as it is related to WordPress in some way then it can be discussed.

To suggest a topic, simply RSVP to the meetup and answer the question asking for a topic, alternatively you can add suggestions through the #meetup-birmingham Slack or tweet @WPBhamUK. You will also be given the opportunity to suggest topics at the beginning of the meetup as well.

** This is our first time attempting anything like this online, therefore timings for discussions may change depending on how easy it is for everyone to get involved within the allotted time.

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IMPORTANT NOTES TO ALL

This is an online event hosted using Zoom. The link displayed on this page is NOT password protected this month. Once entering the Zoom waiting room the host will grant you access to the meetup. If you find that you are in the waiting room for a long time, please send us a message in the #meetup-birmingham room of the WP UK Slack. If you haven't already joined you can do so by following this link: http://wpslack.uk/

Please be aware that we do intend to record the Meetup for future use and by joining the Zoom call you understand that the recording will show that you were in attendance. If you prefer, you can switch off your camera so that your face does not appear, only your name, (unless you have your own Zoom account and uploaded a picture of yourself for when your camera is off) although we encourage you to keep your camera on as it helps people engage with you.

We would also like to ask you to ensure that your audio is muted throughout the call to avoid distracting background noises during presentations and discussion sessions. Only unmute when you would like to ask questions or join in a conversation.

We also plan to live stream the meetup on Youtube (if it works!).

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