Announcing: Portland WordPress User Group

January 5, 2009 by 14 Comments

Portland loves blogging, and Portland loves WordPress. With so many great bloggers in the area using the WordPress platform, I’m excited to announce the first meeting of the Portland WordPress User Group.

Where/When: Thursday, January 15th from 6:00-7:30pm at CubeSpace. Please RSVP on Upcoming.

We’ll talk about:

  • Getting started
  • Meeting time/dates (monthly)
  • Future meeting topics or speaker ideas
  • The idea of a regular “help session” / “genius bar” type thing
  • Some of the great new features of 2.7 that folks might not have found

Come join us and let’s kick off what is sure to be a fun and helpful group.

* Preemptive FAQ: No, we’re not trying to compete with Beer and Blog. The user group will have a bit more formality in a calmer environment for folks to learn new things, get help, and improve their WordPress sites. While I’m sure there will be a lot of crossover in the audience, the topics and tone will be different.

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  • http://iheartmedia.com mediaChick

    Heading to upcoming.org to RSVP right now!

  • http://technoearthmama.com Kathleen McDade

    Oh, excellent, I've been thinking we needed something like this. Will pass along!

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/DeBorah_Beatty DeBorah_Beatty

    Is there a way to get included on a mailing list? I want to play, but I don't live in Portland, yet.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/ahockley ahockley

      Not sure about a mailing list, but we'll be talking about setting up a blog for sure.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Jim_Gray Jim_Gray

    I'm going to try to make it, I live in Longview.

  • http://camikaos.com CamiKaos

    excellent. I hope I’ll be able to make it. :)

  • http://www.bigdealpr.com Carri Bugbee

    Will this be a "power users" group? Would it be over the head of newbies? Think I might invite a client, but don't want to scare her off with Portland geekatude. ;-)

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/ahockley ahockley

    Part of what we'll discuss at the first meeting is the direction of the group, but in my mind we'll feature a variety of topics, some of which are going to be more advanced and some of which will be fairly basic. One of the ideas I have (and would like to see happen) is that every month there will be a couple folks setup specifically to provide help for questions or problems people might be having… it would be a great resource for newbies.

    In short… definitely invite your client… I hope it's a learning experience for all.

  • http://www.neverbeencool.com JustinS

    So since you're not competing with Beer and Blog, I take it there won't be any of the former?

    How about whisky instead? Could call it WordPress and Whisky™.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/corourke corourke

    On it like bacon. :D

  • http://www.justinkistner.com/ Justin Kistner

    Beer and Blog is really more of the Portland tech scene happy hour anyway. We're also going to do more with other platforms as well. Totally stoked about this user group and will be attending the first meet up!

  • http://iamjoe.name/ Joe

    I'm so there

  • http://www.kefinteractive.com Kerry Finsand

    I just found out about the user group and look forward to going to the next one.

  • http://www.gocosmonaut.com Cosmonaut

    Damn, just missed it, too. I'll be at the next one.