Girl Geek Tea Party v6 - Introduction to Wordpress - Sign Up Now
Liz
Introduction to Wordpress
When: Sunday, 25/07/2010, 2-4.30pm
Where: MadLab, Manchester's Hackspace in the Norther Quarter www.madlab.org.uk
(36 Edge Street)
Who:Girl Geeks, bring along anyone you like! Your friends, sisters,
mums, cousins, daughters, colleagues... who might be interested in
doing some techy stuff... Even boys can come if you want to bring them
as your date!
But more importantly, What:
Jordan Hatch (http://jordanh.net / @1jh) will help us venture into the
world of Wordpress, a very popular content management system that is
used as the basis for many websites and blogs! You will learn how to
install and set up Wordpress from scratch on a web server, which gives
you much more freedom than the blogs offered on wordpress.com.
Please note: Level of experience required: Basic HTML and CSS skills,
experience with using
web interfaces and perhaps Wordpress as an author / editor would be
helpful. Having heard the words MYSQL database and FTP before would
help, but absolutely no worries if not - we're doing step-by-step
instructions. As always, the workshop will be very basic and there
will be some volunteers to help out when you're stuck!
If in doubt: come along and see what it's like, we're here to help you
explore things. And if all else fails, there's always tea and
biscuits :)
Bring along...?
•Your laptop (with working WiFi) to get involved with the hands-on
parts of the Wordpress workshop.
•Your favourite mug
•Your favourite biscuits, cupcakes, tea, coffee (we'll have the
basics, but in case you fancy something slightly more
interesting... :)
•Your friends, sisters, mums, cousins, daughters, colleagues... who
might be interested in doing some techy stuff.
Many thanks again to Madlab for letting us use their space & giant
teapot! Check www.madlab.org.uk for more information & directions.
For More Info and to Book Your Place - http://girlgeekteaparty.eventbrite.com/
Caius Durling
> Introduction to Wordpress
No offence (well, a tiny bit intended actually) but you've sent this to a few northern UK geek lists I'm on and it's looking like you're just spamming. Is it really worth looking like a nigerian wanting to shift some money to the UK for this? Especially to those of us on multiple lists and seeing this appearing across them over the course of a few hours.
The NWDC Announcement list[1] is intended for these kinds of event announcements, can I kindly suggest you use it in future. When you've reached the point of emailing everyone, you're not. I also note you've missed probably the most relevant list for you, PHPNW.
[1]: http://groups.google.com/group/nwdc-announcements?hl=en
Thanks,
C
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Tim Dobson
> On 17 Jul 2010, at 14:08, Liz wrote:
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>> Introduction to Wordpress
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>
> No offence (well, a tiny bit intended actually) but you've sent this to a few northern UK geek lists I'm on and it's looking like you're just spamming. Is it really worth looking like a nigerian wanting to shift some money to the UK for this? Especially to those of us on multiple lists and seeing this appearing across them over the course of a few hours.
I hope people don't mind me responding to this here, but Caius posted to
nsmanchester so it makes sense for me to.
From a running an event PoV, it's a tough decision. In the past I've
pushed events to every_techie_list_north_of_the_equator and have felt
that, to some degree, people see it's duplicated & ignored it on that basis.
I've considered also trying posting it to one place and encouraging
people to push it around themselves. That's worked to a degree, but
generally stuff is ignored.
To be honest, the best thing that ever happened was when someone took
what I was posting and fairly unjustifiably flamed me. The resulting
backlash from the rest of the community complaining it was a bit
unreasonable gave the original post, loads of eyeballs.
:-/ Anyway, at the end of the day, list etiquette can be vastly
different between different communities.
:)
Tim
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