Informal Coffee - 8:30 am downtown

We’re meeting downtown at Third Space Buffalo on Wednesday, October 14 at 8:30am and we can chat all things WordPress ...or not, as we see fit. This is an informal gathering to get to know one another and talk shop.

There were five of us October 1 at Sheridan Family Restaurant, including Freed, Becky, Bill, Sandi, Annette and Charles. Among other things we discussed:

• Podcasts about WordPress: Kitchen Sink Podcast, The WP Minute, WP minute plus, WP Builds, WP Tavern, and WP-Tonic.

• Podcasts not about WordPress: HTML All the Things, Strict Scrutiny, Boom Lawyered, I love Buffalo Podcast

• WordCamp Canada in Ottawa is coming up

• Learn Press

• AI help chats being not so helpful

• People using AI to produce content then not proof reading

• AI note takers

• AI using voice clones and stealing actors' voices

• Getting locked out of social media accounts when you lose your password (when getting a new phone)

• Getting a Meta verified badge gives you support, and Charles used it to get a real person at Meta to help him!!!

• Google ad tags & custom coding

• Tech is changing so quickly that some documentation isn't keeping up

• WNY AI Coffee group

• Buffalo Code & Coffee Meetup group

• WP Photos – free images for use by anyone

• Indie Author Day 2025 in Buffalo is November 15 at the Buffalo & Erie Country Central Library

• Shut Up and Write! Buffalo Meetup in Williamsville

• Noisli background noise generator

• Jury duty

• When to start advertising holiday shows

• Allegheny and Letchworth State Parks

• Creative Anachronism and Old Forty Niagara

I schedule these events at different venues around WNY so everyone can join if they want (and don't want to drive half an hour first thing on a Thursday). If there's another neighborhood or coffee house you'd like me to plan for, put it in the chat. I'm always up for finding new local coffee places.