AWP January Meetup sponsored by WordImpress

Here's the schedule for the meetup. Email me if you'd like dibs on a spot devin(at)wordimpress.com

Meetup Schedule for January 22nd, 2014

Are you ready for the first AWP meetup of 2014? We hope so! This year is going to be full of WordPress awesomeness and the organizers are working hard to ensure this group doesn't miss a beat.

If you have never been to one of our meetups before here's a little bit of what to expect:

The AWP meetup is not a traditional, go sit and listen, style meetup. We run a round-table type forum where conversation (WordPress-related of course) is encouraged. Each person who chooses will get a chance to share their code, cool plugins or themes or anything more advanced that's WP related to the crowd and speak about advanced WordPress topics. We will have pizza, soda and beer.

It's a good idea to bring a laptop so you can share your code, write notes, save links, etc. during the meetup.

6:00 - 6:15 Pre-meeting Networking

The meet up doesn't 'officially' kick-off until 6:15ish. Please try to get here during the half-hour before so you can mingle, network and hang out with fellow AWPers. We understand people have a hard time getting downtown or finding parking so there's a slight buffer. During this time we will start to pass around the sign up list for those looking to share.

6:30 - 6:45 Hellos, Heys and Introductions

Introduce yourself to the group, don't be shy, we are a friendly bunch. Please tell us your name and what you do, and your experience with WordPress. Have you written a plugin or theme? Maybe you're a blogger or business owner that uses WordPress. That's great! What you looking to get out of the meetup?

6:45 - 7:00 What's in the WP News?

WordPress news roundup. In this time we'll talk about what's happened since our last meeting in the WordPress world. There's always so much going on... this is a brief run through of some of interesting and discussed topics on the AWP facebook group.

• AWP in 2014 - what's new, what's changing, what we have planned.

• WordCamp Phoenix - who went? thoughts? reactions? Kid's day

• Recent company aquisitions:PixelJar is Aquired by Crowd Favorite (formally Velo Media); 10Up’s acquisition of Brainstorm Media

• Matt Mullenweg is now Automattic’s CEO

Torque and DradCast Partner for 2.0 Launch

GoDaddy Launches WordPress Managed Hosting Service

Please feel free to add any news you'd like to share or have seen in the AWP group or online.

7:00 - 7:15 - Matt Cromwell: Custom Admin Color Schemes using WP 3.8

Matt is going to share with us how to create your very own color scheme in the WordPress Admin Panel

7:00 - 8:30 - Round table forum: Whoever signs up gets a chance to share their WordPress-related code, thoughts, theme, plugins. We will split up the time evenly between participants. Please respect the speaker, but feel free to comment and ask questions. It's an open forum. Time slots will be dependent on the number of people who sign up.

Slot 1 - Jim Walker - WordPress Security Plugins In-Depth

Slot 2 - Yaron Guez - How to set up your own free, automated, daily, low resource, incremental WordPress backup using Git and Bitbucket

Slot (http://tgmpluginactivation.com/Slot) 3 - Devin Walker: TGM Plugin Activation - Why and how to use it: http://tgmpluginactivation.com/ (http://tgmpluginactivation.com/Slot)

Slot 4 -

Slot 5 -

Slot etc

Please email me is you'd like placed on here (there will also be a list tomorrow)

8:30 - 8:45 - Closing remarks and networking

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This month's meetup is sponsored by Devin Walker's (http://imdev.in) WordImpress (http://wordimpress.com), we are excited to have a different company help out each month with sponsoring and logistics for Advanced WordPress and look forward to growing out the local San Diego WordPress community more and more each year.

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