Ottawa WordPress Meet-up, March 21st, 2012

Agenda:

6:00 – Mingle and Network

6:10 – General announcements

6:15 – Presentations

Title:  Evaluating WordPress Themes Speaker: Denis St.Amour of DS-Communications Level:  Beginner Duration: 15-20 minutes Summary:  Got and idea for a website?  Looking for a theme to run your site?  Do I buy or get one free?  This lecture is for you where we will discuss the job of choosing a theme for your next website or revamping your existing site.

Title:  Bitnami install for local WordPress testing and learning Speaker: David Cook of iCourses-Ottawa Level:  Beginner Duration: 30-35 minutes Summary:  Learn how to install Bitnami,  a local server environment to run WordPress on your own PC.  This set-up will allow you get started playing with WordPress in your own test environment, or you can test new plugins and themes, test code snippets, css changes or content revisions without damaging your live site. Rick will roam around and help anybody needing assistance.

7:15 – Open Q&A bring your WP issues questions to be answered

7:30 – Mingle and Network

Amin Points:

Parking is on the street.

The classroom is downstairs.

Please make sure to bring $4 for the cost of the meeting… Exact Change would be greatly appreciated