I was interviewed recently for the Relative Paths Podcast – the subject was sketchy at first but ended up being all about WordPress Plugins and related the ‘WOW Plugins’ talks I often do at WordCamps and WordPress meetups.
Listen here:
WordPress Sheffield Hack Day, who’s going?
The first-ever WordPress Sheffield Hack-Day is Saturday August 15th at the Showroom, Sheffield,
There are still a few tickets left – you can get a £20 hacker ticket (includes food/drinks etc) or just show up with the FREE visitor ticket and join in the fun!
Hackers attending include…
- Kirsty Burgoine – Shropshire WordPress-er, speaker and organiser of the ShropGeek/Revolution conference
- Daniel Westall – Founder and developer of exodusesports.com (a WordPress site obviously)
- Saul Cozens – Local-Sheffield Digital maestro (he also attended the first ever WP-Sheffield meetup over 5 years ago!)
- Philip John – (VIP Wrangler at Automattic (and author of 11 plugins on WP.org)
- Samantha Miller – Front-end WordPress developer and fellow meetup organiser of @wpleeds
- Rhys Wynne – Manchester-based WP developer & maker of of @WPEmailCapture
- Charlie Tapster – An ex-WP-Sheffield regular now working as a designer/developer in Manchester
- Matt Watson – WordPress developer, co-founder of Make Do, sometimes helps run WP Sheffield when not writing PHP.
- Dave Green – Another part of the @makedoin machine. Dave is a front-end wizard from Manchester.
- … also Kimb, yes, that’s me.
You should join us….
We’ve got 10 free visitor tickets left. These are perfect for anyone who:
- Can’t make the entire day
- Fancy contributing an idea but not doing any actual hacking
- Would like to drop-in and see what it’s all about
Why are we doing this?
It’s been 5 years since WordPress Sheffield opened its doors and to celebrate we’re getting together for an exciting WordPress Hack Day event
The event is open to anyone with WordPress & web development experience.
WordPress Sheffield Hack Day event – Saturday August 15th 2015
Well. It’s been 5 years since WordPress Sheffield opened it’s doors and to celebrate we’re getting together for an exciting WordPress Hack Day event.
The basics are:
- This will be a 12-hour hack day
- Tickets are £10
- We have room for about 50 people, so book your space fast!
- All hacks/builds are welcome but they must be WordPress-related
- You can show up in a pre-made team or join a team on the day
- This is an event primarily for developers and designers but anyone can come along and join in
- More info is on the WordPress Sheffield website: wpsheffield.com
I also plan to post an update here when I have a better handle on things. Questions? Get me on Twitter @mkjones.
Aspire CPD now has a home
It’s still very early days for our WordPress powered CPD platform but you can now visit the GitHub page here: https://github.com/mkdo/cpd
There’s also the a website: http://mkdo.github.io/aspirecpd.org which utilises the branding I blogged about a couple of weeks ago.
Other than that we are still in heavy beta testing with The University of Sheffield team. If you’d like to know more about the project or get involved then contact us via the Make Do contact form.