Tucson Digital Arts Community

Startup Drinks – What are you working on? Need help? Need a co-founder?

Come to Tucson Startup Drinks to talk about all things entrepreneurship, trade information, the latest book you’ve been reading or just to take in the vibe. Time to kick off end of summer (and back to school for some of us)!

7 pm at Spoke6 6th St & 6th Ave. – parking available in lot south of 6th St.

Please bring a drink or snack to enjoy and share (doesn’t have to be alcohol).

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 covering topics such as:

- Latest WordPress News
- WordPress community and 100 Stands (Sam Devore)
- Custom Post Types & TDAC Job Board (Tim Bowen)

• Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
• When: Thursday, August 19th from 7–9 PM
• Cost: Please bring a snack or drink to share

This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

Learn about Barebones CMS – a high-performance, minimalist content management system.  The author, Thomas Hruska, will give a short presentation and demonstration of this open source product.

Time permitting, Q&A and installation help will be offered afterward.

When: July 15th from 7 to 9pm
Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave., Tucson, AZ 85705 (SW Corner of 6th and 6th)

This event is free, however please bring a drink or snack to share.

Demo Night!
Currently we have two demos of projects in the works. If you have something you’re working on bring it down to present to the group. Other than that we’ll be discussing startups, funding, and, of course, beer (or wine).

Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (SW Corner of 6th and 6th)
When: June 29th from 7-9pm.

BYOB/Snack and come on down

Join us for an evening of WordPress. We’ll cover the latest in WordPress news, share how we are using WordPress, and possibly 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: Tuesday, June 22nd 7–9 PM
• Cost: Please bring a snack or drink to share

This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

Presentations scheduled:

1. Intro: Latest WordPress news (Lance)
   - 3.0 launched last week! Whoo-hoo! Read all the details and watch a video overview, then go update your WordPress sites.
2. Rapid development (Josh)
3. WordPress community and 100 Stands (Sam DeVore) Canceled
4. Ian: Integrating development frameworks and custom applications with WordPress: pros and cons
5. Child themes (Lance)
   - Codex page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Ideas for presentations in July and August:

1. How to develop a theme: A-Z, learning all the files (based on ThemeShaper tutorial)
2. Writing with WordPress: Britt
3. Plugin development basics
4. Common tasks and how to solve them: calendars and events, migration of old sites to the latest WordPress version
5. Commercialization of WP (plugins, developers, bloggers…)
6. Top 10 things you should know about WordPress
7. Compare photo gallery themes/plugins
8. Search Engine Optimization
9. Best practices in development and design
10. BuddyPress review of capabilities

If you’d like to present a topic related to WordPress, drop Lance an email: lance at simpledream dot net.

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

1. Review WordPress news and happenings (Lance)
2. Two or three short presentations (5-10 minutes each)
3. Q & A and networking

Event information:

• Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
• When: Tuesday, May 25th 7–9 PM
• Cost: FREE (though please bring drinks or snack to share)

This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

Ideas for presentations:

1. Ian: Custom Post Types
2. Ian: WordPress Performance
3. Common tasks and how to solve them: calendars and events, migration of old sites to the latest WordPress version.
4. Tim and Lance: Commercialization of WP
5. Lance: Child themes

If you’d like to present a topic related to WordPress, drop Lance an email: lance at simpledream dot net.

Startup round table – What are you working on? Need help? Need a co-founder?

Come to Tucson Startup Drinks to talk about all things entrepreneurship, trade information, the latest book you’ve been reading or just to take in the vibe.

7 pm at Spoke6 6th St & 6th Ave. – parking available in lot south of 6th St.

Please bring a drink to enjoy and share.

Hear from several local video game developers about what they do, including both past and current game design projects -Followed by an open forum discussion and ITT Technical Institute student game design presentations.

Sony Online Entertainment, SMERC, Riverman Media, and Good Call Sports, have all registered to sit on a panel of game developers.

Where: ITT Technical Institute, 1455 W. River Rd (by La Canada)
When: Monday, July 19th from 7 to 9pm

Food and Refreshments will be Provided

What is HTML5? HTML5 is the next generation of HTML, superseding previous versions and providing new features needed to build modern web applications.

The web is evolving faster than existing browsers and tools can keep up with, which were largely designed for documents and not for applications. HTML5 paves the way for designers and developers to push the boundaries of web publishing by introducing and improving features such as semantic elements, multimedia, form controls, APIs and other browser extensions.

Join Tucson Digital Arts Community members Aaron Wagner and Lance Willett to learn about this exciting new web technology.

• Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
• When: Wednesday, May 19th 7 PM. Presentation starts at 7:30 PM.
• Cost: FREE (though please bring drinks or snack to share)

This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

Update: View the slides here: http://timesupapp.com/html5/. The final slides have more links and resources.

Join us for an evening of WordPress. We’d like to explore making this a monthly meetup, so come with ideas of what you’d like to learn about and what you’d like to share with the group at future meetups.

Let’s talk WordPress:

• New features and changes coming in WordPress 3.0.
• What are you working on with WordPress?
• Share your favorite themes and plugins.

Event information:

• Where: Spoke6, 439 N 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705 (located on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 6th St)
• When: Tuesday, April 27th 7–9 PM
• Cost: FREE (though please bring drinks or snack to share)

This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

UPDATE: Notes from last night’s meeting are below.

WordPress 3.0: where to find more info?

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0
• WordPress development blog: http://wordpress.org/development/
• WP Devel P2: http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/

WordCamps: http://central.wordcamp.org/

Future TDAC WordPress meetups:

1. Review WordPress news and happenings (Lance)
2. Two or three short presentations (10 minutes each)
3. Q & A and networking

Ideas for presentations:

1. Ian: Custom Post Types
2. Ian: WordPress Performance
3. Common tasks and how to solve them: calendars and events, migration of old sites to the latest WordPress version.
4. Tim and Lance: Commercialization of WP
5. Lance: Child themes

If you’d like to present a topic related to WordPress, drop Lance an email: lance at simpledream dot net.