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The Tazzu WordPress Camp Schedule

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Rastin Mehr

on April 27, 2008

in Announcements, Events and WordPress

. 8 Comments

Tazzu WordPress Camp was originally inspired by a group of Tazzu community members (here and here) after a series of Joomla Demo Camps we’d organized (here and here).

For the WordPress Camp, we were expecting at most 35 to 40 people to show up. But now we’ve found out that about 68 people have RSVP’d on our facebook event announcement. We have estimated that more than 70 people will be showing up at The Network Hub. There won’t be enough seats for everyone, therefore to get a seat you will need to arrive early. This event might seem a little crowded, but it is very likely that you may meet many of your friends there too. For future WordCamp events, we’ll make sure to consider a larger venue for our attendees.

I am also posting the Tazzu WordPress Camp schedule. I would like to thank the following 8 people who have stepped forward to share their knowledge with us in this event. If any of the presenters are not happy with their time slot, please let us know and we could perhaps arrange to make changes.

WordPress Camp Schedule

Event is from 5:30 to 8:30 PM on Wed. April 30th at The Network Hub

5:30 to 5:50pm - Jeff Kee
WordPress for total website development

5:50 to 6:10pm- Monica Hamburg
Blogging & Social Media

6:10 to 6:30pm - Rebecca Bollwitt
Adding photos [flickr, permission, links, gallery plugins, badges] to your WordPress

6:30 to 6:50pm - Duane Storey
WordPress and mobile blogging - i.e. how to read and write from an iPhone.

6:50 to 7:10pm - Networking Break

7:10 to 7:30pm - Kulpreet Singh
Using WordPress to create a custom library, catalog, or other mashup-type site

7:30 to 7:50pm - Bruce Byfield
The joys of Amateur Blogging

7:50 to 8:10pm - Greg Andrews
Good Typography in WordPress

8:10 to 8:30pm - John Chow
How to make money using a WordPress Blog

In our next post I would like to talk about the people and organizations who have made all kinds of contributions in order to make this event happen.

Technorati Tags: wordpress, camp, wordcamp, vancouver, tazzu, networkhub, community, open source, presentation, Social Media

Tazzu WordPress Camp in Vancouver

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Rastin Mehr

on April 10, 2008

in Announcements, Events, Jen Duguay, Rastin Mehr and WordPress

. 50 Comments

On Wed. April the 30th from 5:30 to 8:30pm we are getting together at the Network Hub to share and exchange tips and how-tos on Wordpress and blogging in general. We will also learn how to reach a larger audience by using a Wordpress blog in conjunction with other web services and Social Networking websites such as Flickr, YouTube, Slideshare, Facebook, and Google Calendar.

WordPress is perhaps the most commonly used Blogging web application on the web. We blog to express ourselves, share our thoughts, or promote our businesses. WordPress is one of the simplest forms of Social Media Content Management Systems where one or few people write blog posts, and many readers are able to provide feedback through comments. The social aspect of a blog makes it a very effective Communication and Marketing tool. Wordpress is an Open Source software released under the GPL and many aspects of it relies on the wisdom of the crowds. Wordpress comes with a large list of plugins developed by community members. Many successful blogging techniques and methods have also been created as a result of community members who have collectively built on each other’s ideas and creativity.

Many WordPress users are coming from a non-technical background, so a group of community members on Tazzu.com suggested we have a WordPress Camp event to share tips and learn more about this great Social Media CMS.

What is the format of the event?

The Event is 3 hours long. 7 Presenters get 20 minutes each to share their ideas. There will be two 20 min. breaks, so we could socialize a bit and have a laugh.

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There is an Open Web Conference happening in town!

Published

Rastin Mehr

on March 27, 2008

in Announcements, Events and Rastin Mehr

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The Open Web is a conference showcasing open source technologies, communities and culture. We are featuring talks from all areas of open source technologies such as PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, XUL, GPL, Linux, Django, Drupal, HTML, CSS, Javascript and AJAX, XML, Apache, MySQL, Web 2.0, etc.

Unlike the other major conferences, this event is community driven and run by volunteers. This isn’t the first Open Web Conference happening, and in the past it has attracted many audiences from all over the world, and have featured the biggest names in PHP and related topics and technologies.

Vancouver Open Web Conference

This event will be happening from Monday April 14 - Tuesday April 15th 2008 at the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre (VCEC), 999 Canada Place which is the largest conference facility in downtown Vancouver, located in the spectacular inner harbour.

The Vancouver Open Web Conference

The conference will open with a keynote session featuring Tim Bray from Sun Microsystems, the Co-Inventor of XML, and Zak Greant from Mozilla Foundation and Foo Associates.

A full list of talks is available at: http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/talks
See the talk schedule grid at: http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/schedule

In addition to our three tracks of presentations on both days of the conference, there will be time allocated for attendees to give short talks on topics of interest in a ‘Lightning Talk’ format.

The Open Web is a presentation of the Vancouver PHP Users Association, a registered non-profit association for the advancement of PHP and the Open Web. Tazzu is one of the Media sponsors for this great event, looking forward to see you there.

Registration Information: http://www.openwebvancouver.ca

Technorati Tags: tazzu, openweb, owc, conference, vancouver, php, speackers, event, community, web, mysql, php, ajax, web application, web2.0, rastin mehr

Vancouver’s first Joomla Demo Camp

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Rastin Mehr

on February 6, 2008

in Announcements, Events, Networking and Rastin Mehr

. 1 Comment

UPDATE: This event was moved from Saturday Feb. 23rd to Tuesday Feb. 26th

Hello Tazzu Members,

On Feb 26th we will be gathering together to discuss and learn how to setup and maintain a small website using the Joomla! CMS version 1.5 . We will be discussing Information Architecture and Template Design methods, tips, and ideas. You will also get to meet other people and learn about their experiences about the content management systems.

Date: Saturday, Feb. 26th 2008 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Location: At the Network Hub ( 3rd floor - 422 Richards Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada ). Our good friends Minna and Robert have been so kind and given us their beautiful work space for the entire day, and we’ll get free Wi-Fi Access too! Thank you Network Hub!

To read more and register for this event, please read the announcement on the rmd Studio website.

This event has been sponsored by:

Technorati Tags: joomla, democamp, rmdstudio, peerglobe, tazzu, opensource

The 2nd Vancouver Facebook Developer Garage

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Rastin Mehr

on January 8, 2008

in Announcements and Rastin Mehr

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Vancouver Facebook Developers' Garage Our good friend Gerald Bauer is organizing the 2nd Vancouver’s Facebook Developers (& Designers) Garage event at the Vancouver’s film school. The event will take place in Theatre 1 accessible from the main foyer. Reception will be in place to assist all guests.

When: Monday, January 28, 2008 5:30 PM

Where:
Vancouver Film School
420 Homer Street
Vancouver, British Columbia

Visit Vancouver’s Developers Facebook Group and Yahoo Upcoming Events

I attended the previous event and after viewing few quite amazing (and not so amazing) presentations I got to meet some really wonderful people such as Boris Mann, Roland Tanglao, Miss 604, my great business associate Ash Sanieyan, and of course Gerald himself. So this event will not only contribute to your development knowledge, but also a great opportunity to meet some really good people in the Vancouver’s technology and business community.

I will be there taking some pictures and blogging. Let’s see what our town’s developers have been cooking up lately.

Facebook probably has more than 60 million users by now. Some of us spend at least 15 minutes or more there, so it is part of our everyday life. Facebook is also a neat framework for developing web applications, and I know quite a number of developers who develop for Facebook including Gerald, Ash and myself (shameless self promotion!)

Btw: this is Gerald’s website. He is a very experienced Ruby on Rails developer and he has been very active brining the community of Ruby developers together, and Tazzu is gladly collaborating to spread the word.