Team Chat Agenda: July 3, 2014

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Leo Baiano 6:53 pm on July 3, 2014

I do not know if it is out of scope, but would like to comment on the experience I have had with the meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. group here in Salvador / Bahia / Brazil.

Despite living in a city technologically underdeveloped, compared to other cities in Brazil, here we have a very high demand for project development using WordPress, so I created a group on Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/wpsalvador/ ) to meet the guys who works, or uses like WordPress.

We begin with a shy group, the first meetup I gave a presentation on WordPress, my experience working with this CMS and what I expected from the group was starting. Gradually we were increasing the amount of people and today we have a weekly meetup where standards come together to exchange ideas, talk about projects we’re working on and other banalities. At least once a month we do a more elaborate event with one or two lectures on topics of interest to the community and we are intending to carry out the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. here in 2015.

I wonder how it has worked monitoring the foundation at these meetups.
- Jen Mylo 6:59 pm on July 3, 2014
  
  Hi Leo. We can get you onto the Foundation account to roll you into the project and so you won’t have to pay meetup.com dues. I’ll email you next week when I’m back from comp time off.
  - Leo Baiano 10:00 pm on July 4, 2014
    
    Thanks Jen Mylo, I already filled out this form https://make.wordpress.org/community/meetup-interest-form/ acedito for which purpose right?
    
    Also filled out the form to hold WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. here, been a while that we are waiting for a return.
Chase Livingston 11:13 pm on July 3, 2014

Sorry I missed the meeting this afternoon, am on vacation. Happy to help with whatever is needed next week when I’m back.

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