TDAC

Join us for an evening of WordPress. We’ll cover the latest in WordPress news, share how we are using WordPress, and have several 10-minute presentations.

• Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
• When: Wednesday, November 9th from 7–9 PM
• Cost: Please bring a snack or drink to share. This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

SCHEDULE:

1. Lance Willett will review latest WordPress news and happenings
2. Tim Bowen – Events Calendar Pro & how to make $ as an add-on developer.
3. Q & A and networking

Would you like to share a short presentation (5 to 10 minutes)? If you’d like to present a topic related to WordPress please leave a comment below.

It’s on for Tucson CocoaHeads meeting. We’ll be Spoke 6 on October 25, 7 p.m., see you there.

Two talks:

HTML on iOS by Josh Williams – Slides here: http://tucsonlabs.com/josh/HTML_APPS.pdf
The topic of Git by Zack Williams

If you’d like to give a talk as well, let me know. Our sponsor, tapsquare will not provide beer and snacks today, so please BYOB.

Hope to see you there.

Join our Google group to stay up to date.

Bring your laptop to hack on. Help build something with others hackers or work on your own project. We don’t have a specific software agenda, and if you’re interested in hardware hacking you’re welcome to participate as well.

The October version of the BAMF Tucson Design Group meetup will be held on Friday, October 7th from 7-9pm at Spoke6.

Are you a designer interested in meeting other designers in Tucson for friendly conversation on the local industry and design in general? Join us for discussion and networking on 10/7/11. BYOB

Join us for an evening of WordPress. We’ll cover the latest in WordPress news, share how we are using WordPress, and have several 10-minute presentations.

• Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
• When: Wednesday, September 7th from 7–9 PM
• Cost: Please bring a snack or drink to share. This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

SCHEDULE:

1. Lance Willett will review latest WordPress news and happenings
2. Josh Williams – WordPress Post Types & Post Formats
3. Josh Shaloo – Pods CMS: What it can do for you
4. Sherif Morgan – Gravity Forms: Creating Posts, PayPal Integration & User Registration
5. Q & A and networking

Would you like to share a short presentation (5 to 10 minutes)? If you’d like to present a topic related to WordPress please leave a comment below.

You can RSVP at the Arizona WordPress Group on Meetup.com

Notes:

• State of the Word: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/08/state-of-the-word/
• WordPress.tv videos: http://wordpress.tv/
  If you have limited time, highly recommended:
  • State of the Word, Matt Mullenweg
  • Post formats, Ian Stewart (slides)
  • Debugging WordPress, Andrew Nacin
• View all the WCSF 2011 videos: http://wordpress.tv/event/wordcamp-san-francisco-2011/ (more being posted daily)
• Upcoming WordCamps: http://central.wordcamp.org/: Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Portland

Next Startup Drinks! June 7th, 6:30 meet and greet, 7 main presentations start. At Spoke6, SW corner of 6th St and 6th Ave.

Andrew Lenards
“Using A Visual Problem-Solving Toolkit”

Simple pictures can go a long way toward helping you solve problems.

A picture may be a thousand words. But that is not what is important! Pictures are conversation starters and become catalysts for discussions about solutions to problems. The area is quite active now with several books being published about on the topics visual thinking, visual problem-solving, and active discussion techniques (like gamestorming). When trying to wrap your head around what customers really want, successful companies use simple pictures. A short introduction to the topic of how to use a visual problem-solving toolkit will be presented by Andrew Lenards.

Andrew Lenards is a software developer in Tucson with a habit of talking too much and thirst for learning.

Eric Biesterfeld will be talking on language and conducting surveys. How do you know that the way you’re asking questions will get you valuable answers?

Demos!
Greg Solovyev and Craig Bishop (?) will hopefully be on hand to demo their applications to everyone after the presentations.

Join us for an evening of WordPress. We’ll cover the latest in WordPress news, share how we are using WordPress, and have several 10-minute presentations.

• Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
• When: Wednesday, July 13th from 7–9 PM
• Cost: Please bring a snack or drink to share. This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

SCHEDULE:

1. Lance Willett will review latest WordPress news and happenings
2. Front Office, meet the Back Office by George Jenson
   - WordPress installed side-by-side with a custom database application
   - putting a pretty face on input/store/process/output
   - moving data into WP
   - moving data out of WP
3. 3-4 more short presentations to be determined.
4. Q & A and networking

Would you like to share a short presentation (5 to 10 minutes)? If you’d like to present a topic related to WordPress please leave a comment below.

You can RSVP at the Arizona WordPress Group on Meetup.com

Update:

Here are links from Lance’s 3.2 talk:

• http://wordpress.org/news/2011/07/gershwin/
• http://browsehappy.com/
• http://twentyelevendemo.wordpress.com/
• http://twentyelevenphoto.wordpress.com/

Join us for an evening of WordPress. We’ll cover the latest in WordPress news, share how we are using WordPress, and have several 10-minute presentations.

• Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
• When: Wednesday, May 11th from 7–9 PM
• Cost: Please bring a snack or drink to share. This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

Schedule:

1. Review latest WordPress news and happenings
2. Chad Bush from Ravens Eye Design will do a short presentation on podcasting using the Powerpress plugin
3. Jeff Turman from Foundry Digital Design Studio will talk about jQuery and WP Mashups
4. Sherif Morgan from Connexins Web Development will demonstrate a Member Wishlist he recently implemented for a client
5. Nicholas Grund from GWebware will give a short presentation about How to Engage Your Customers in a Story: Blogs and Your Business
6. Q & A and networking

Would you like to share a short presentation (5 to 10 minutes)? If you’d like to present a topic related to WordPress, drop Tim an email: tim at creativeslice dot com or post your presentation idea in the notes below.

You can RSVP at the Arizona WordPress Group on Meetup.com

Update: The next Tucson WP meetup here at Spoke6 is going to be July, Wed Jul 13.
Stay tuned to TDAC website for details, if you’re interested in giving a talk please email Tim (tim [at] creativeslice.com).

Links Lance mentioned in WordPress News and Events:

• Upcoming WordCamps: http://central.wordcamp.org/
• WordPress 3.1: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/02/threeone/
• WordPress 3.2 (beta): http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/wordpress-3-2-the-plan-faster-lighter/
• SXSW 2011 WP booth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/5537512601/in/photostream/
• WordPress Planet: http://planet.wordpress.org/
• WPCandy: http://wpcandy.com/

The next OpenTucson meeting will be this Tuesday, March 29 6-8pm at Spoke6. For now:

1. CityCampAZ report: Chandler held a city camp on February 15 that Andrew and Ian attended. What we learned and what we could do here.
2. SunTracker Kiosk: next steps — location aware browser version? QR codes?
3. Inspirations and Project ideas: discuss ideas for other projects and leads — what’s happening in other cities
4. Code For America report: How the Code for America teams are doing, and what they’re learning

Please let me know if there’s anything else you want to discuss. See you Tuesday!

Spoke6 is at the corner of Sixth Street and Sixth Avenue.

*** There will be a screening of the movie “Office Space” before the WordPress meetup from 5pm-7pm. ***

Join us for an evening of WordPress. We’ll cover the latest in WordPress news, share how we are using WordPress, and have several 10-minute presentations.

• Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
• When: Thursday, March 31st from 7–9 PM
• Cost: Please bring a snack or drink to share

This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

Schedule:

1. Review latest WordPress news and happenings
2. A few short presentations (topics to be determined)
3. Q & A and networking

Would you like to share a short presentation (5 to 10 minutes)? If you’d like to present a topic related to WordPress, drop Lance an email: lance at simpledream dot net or post your presentation idea in the notes below.