Inaugural Meetup: April 26, 6pm @ McFadden’s
The inaugural WordPress Providence Meetup will be on April 26th, 2010, at 6 pm, at McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon. We’ll be in their private room; food and drinks will be served. The first 15 attendees will get free drink tickets, courtesy of our sponsor. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm).
Doors open at 6 pm; we ask that you try to arrive by 6:30 pm for networking. The program starts promptly at 7 pm. The program includes introductions, a presentation, and a chance to pick the brains of your fellow attendees.
Our first speaker is Sara Czyzewicz from Providence’s DandyID. DandyID provides a set of tools that help you to collect, manage, and own your online identity. A little over 1 year ago, they released a WordPress plug-in that retrieves all of your DandyID identities and displays them as clickable links in the sidebar. Their plug-in, which Mashable called the #1 WordPress Plugin to Promote Your Social Media Profile, has been downloaded a whopping 30,000+ times from the official repository. And of course, their blog is WordPress powered too! Sara will introduce their service, demo the plug-in, discuss how it contributes to their success, and maybe even touch on how they built their plug-in. Check out this guest post from Sara to learn more about their presentation.
Our first sponsor is C. Murray Consulting, a local web development and strategy firm with deep WordPress experience, whose Director of Client Services is one of the founders of this meet up.
Planning to attend? RSVP and let others know by leaving a comment!
Please indicate whether you’re a “maybe”, “yes”, or can’t make it (but you’re still interested). Thanks for letting us know!
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I live over in North Attleboro and have been looking for a TweetUp and networking scene in the Providence Area, So much better to go to than Boston, IMO. I run about 15 blogs for myself and various clients and love to learn as much as I can about wordpress. I’m really looking forward to this event and hope to help as much as I can with the overall event.
Great idea, Jake. I’m pretty sure I’ll be there. (Only 15 minutes more to get there than to Downtown Boston depending on the day!)
Kudos to Jake, Suzanne and Ken for taking the initiative to bring a WordPress Meetup to Providence. I’m very happy that we are able to sponsor this first gathering. Looking forward to meeting some new faces in the WP community!
I was just talking to someone last week about this very thing – so glad there will now be a place to gather for WordPress users.
Hope everyone spreads the word and we have a great turn out! Looking forward to it.
Glad to see this being put together, I look forward to the first event!
Definitely want to attend! This comment serves as RSVP, yes?
You bet! See you there!
Maybe, leaning strongly toward yes.
I wish I could make it, but it’s the same night as the Boston WordPress Meetup.
I hope it’s a successful event. Thanks to Jake and fellow organizers for putting this together.
Still can’t believe the timing worked out that way. For the record, we picked the date weeks before Boston announced their date! We look forward to seeing you at the next one, though.
I’m a HUGE wordpress fan. Count me in!
[...] popular extension is the DandyID Services WordPress plug-in, with over 30k downloads to date. On April 26th, I’ll be presenting to the PVD WordPress meet up community this extension, more details about DandyID & sister-tool [...]
I’m a xHTML and CSS user interface guy primarily, but I also code php and jQuery. WordPress has been creeping into my workflow lately. Most of all, I’d like to meet other coders/developers who may need some UI expertise. My business partner/designer-in-crime and I will attend to represent Highchair designhaus.
Of course I’ll be there. I’m looking forward to it!
Thanks for getting this going. I’m hoping to attend, too!
I’m planning on being there.
Thrilled to see we’ll have such a great turnout for the first event. Very much looking forward to meeting everyone and not to have to drive to Boston!
I hope to attend!
Sounds great! I’ll be there.
See you then!
I’ll be there. Thank you for the invitation.
I’ll be there – looking forward to it!
Hello All,
This sounds like a great event. I’m a local designer who partners with some WordPress developers and maintains the sites after initial collaboration. I’d love to meet some fellow designers/developers in the Providence area….. count me in!
I’ll be there.
I’m so excited you’re getting this group together. Might have a couple more in tow!
I’m in, looking forward to it.
Was planning on coming, but I have something that came up. I can’t wait to be at the next one though!
Just found this through the Events section on LinkedIn – I’m excited to be there tomorrow night, hope to see you all there!
I certainly will attend the next one- I hope it’s going to be soon!
Great to see this come to life. Won’t be able to make the whole thing but will do my best to get to the first bits.
Cheers,
Jason