Get ready for WordCamp US 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee! As December 1st approaches, we are getting so pumped to have you all here to celebrate WordPress. Make sure you’ve got your ticket and tell a friend about our amazing speakers.
Community Spotlight: Nashville
Our primary (and most well-attended) monthly meetup is our Developer’s Breakfast. This meeting is targeted towards WordPress developers at varying levels of proficiency. In addition to making delicious pancakes, we discuss news, updates, and best-practices for WordPress in general, and we also open the floor to allow members to “show and tell” different tools or features they’ve picked up on. Keep Reading Y’all
Mamá Meza Recommends Vegetarian and Vegan Restaurants
Would you believe that every single Nashvillian on the organizing team is an omnivore? To make sure that we got our vegetarian and vegan friends some local-tested options for eating out while in town, Lead Organizer Dustin Meza, talked to his mom who is a vegetarian. She gave us a list of her favorite spots with her thoughts on each spot. Keep Reading Y’all
Community Spotlight: Atlanta
Active, vibrant, collaborative, warm, welcoming, friendly, strong ties to the global community, the epitome of Southern hospitality.
We are unique in that Meetup attendance is spread across a large metropolitan area among six individual groups, yet we are one Community. The Meetup organizers are friends who work together to foster a learn-do-teach approach in all or our events. Keep Reading Y’all
Community Spotlight: Jacksonville
“Our community has gone through it’s ups and downs growing and shrinking. Since our first WordCamp in 2016 we have grown the number of regular members significantly. We are building friendships and business relationships. We work to make each other better and welcome any new face.” Keep Reading Y’all
Community Spotlight: New York, NY
Our Meetup topics are divided into three categories. Between 2016 and 2017 we’ve hosted 3 Meetups a month for three respective topics. We recently added a fourth Meetup mid-2017. We have Meetup topics for self-hosted WordPress users and developers of themes and plugins (organized by Steve Bruner), WordPress.com users who are often beginners to WordPress or content creators (organized by Winstina Hughes), and a WordPress Help Desk where members can ask questions, seek solutions to pressing challenges and share expertise (organized by Scott Becker). Keep Reading Y’all
Community Spotlight: Arlington, VA
“We are a small group that meets outside of Washington, DC. Being small gives us a chance to get to know new people and make them feel welcome. We usually have dinner and drinks and spend most of the time talking about what we do, in addition to having a featured speaker.”
Find them online: Meetup
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Slack 101: Connecting With Other WordCampers on Slack
Like WordCamp US 2016, we will have a Slack channel on the WordPress Project slack. For those already on the WP Project Slack, the channel name is just #wcus.
What is Slack?
Slack is a communication tool used by the WordPress Community to communicate about various aspects of the WordPress Project. In addition to being able to directly message anyone who has an account, you can join a number of different “channels” to communicate about specific topics. For example, WordCamp US has a channel on the WordPress Project Slack to talk about WordCamp US-related things. As stated above, that channel is called #wcus.
Slack is also the easiest way to connect with fellow attendees before, during, and after the event. It’s a fantastic messaging tool. Keep Reading Y’all
WordCamp US 2017 Nashville: Sessions Page Is Up
We have our sessions page up for WordCamp US. You’re now able to locate information on our speakers, as well as what they are speaking about. Keep Reading Y’all
WordCamp US 2017 Nashville: Speakers Round 11
This is our final speaker announcement this week. Look for our sessions to be posted over the weekend. We are working on the final schedule, and we hope to have that out within the next two weeks. We currently have a tentative schedule for your planning needs. Keep Reading Y’all