To jQuery and Beyond…

If you are going to build a large application, jQuery alone is not enough. Far Jangtrakool will present on some examples of frameworks that utilize jQuery and explore concept of MVVM (Model View View Model) and MVC (Model View Controller)

About Far Jangtrakool

Far currently works at the Walt Disney Studios as Sr. Software Engineer (UI). Their team builds web applications to help improve business process and asset management. Far has previously worked for the Rubicon Project, FOX, and MySpace.com.

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Cost

Thanks to our generous sponsor, this meetup will be free for everyone to attend.

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Our Sponsors

Q

Q is sponsoring a meetup space for us. Please thank them for their generosity: @qconnects

SoftLayer

SoftLayer is sponsoring food and drink for us. Please thank them for their generosity: @SoftLayer

SoftLayer is an API-driven, globally present infrastructure provider helping companies scale their applications. In recent years, SoftLayer has launched the Catalyst startup program, which seeks to infuse startups with free hosting for a year, mentorship, and marketing resources.

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Parking and Location

Plentiful parking is available at the Howard Hughes Promenade across the street for a $2. Avoid the parking structure behind 6080 Center Drive – it’s crazy expensive.

A look at how to move from WordPress.com to a self-hosted site – presented by Bryan Villarin, Happiness Engineer at Automattic

How to move a WordPress site from one server to another – presented by Suzette Franck, WordPress Evangelist for MediaTemple

How to make a local copy of a WordPress site and move it to a server – presented by TBA.

Sharon will present a project she’s worked on recently and demo her work and how it was put together.

Natalie will continue her jQuery for beginners series. We’ll talk about on, bind, live, and delegate and what the heck they mean and when you should use each one.

Room for one other speaker if anyone’s interested! Just email natalie@purplepen.com

Sponsors

Kleverdog Coworking

Thank you to Kleverdog Coworking for hosting us at their cozy, gorgeous space. Please thank them – @kleverdogcowork

Kendo UI

Thank you to Kendo UI for sponsoring food and drink for us. Please thank them for their generosity: @KendoUI

Location and Parking

Metered street parking is available on Hill and Broadway Streets. There is also a paid parking lot at 420 Bernard in Bamboo Plaza with reasonable rates, or another lot on Broadway. For public transit, we are a couple of blocks from the Chinatown Gold Line station, and multiple bus routes go up and down Hill and Broadway.

Map to help you find us

http://bit.ly/qy8Xkj… kleverdog coworking is located in an alleyway between Hill and Broadway; just a couple doors down from Phoenix Bakery on Broadway. Look for the bright red door with the 418 address — we’re on the second floor.

Members of our community will present their favorite WP plugin.
Glenn Weikert: Backup Buddy
Lisa Bittan: Easing Slider
Susie K: FitVids

Who is this for?

These presentations will be useful to anyone who knows how to install plugins in WordPress. The presenters will demo using the plugins, so you’ll get a good idea of how to install and configure them.

Sponsors

Cross Campus
Cross Campus is an engine of creativity and innovation, housed at our state of the art 11,000 square foot space at 820 Broadway in the heart of Santa Monica. They are generously providing us with meetup space. Please thank them on Twitter: @crosscampusla.

WooThemes
Thank you to WooThemes for stepping up as a sponsor for our group for all of 2013. We’re excited about this partnerhip and the benefits it will bring for our members. Please thank them on Twitter: @woothemes.

OS Training
At OSTraining, they teach people how to build great websites. They focus open software and in particular, WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. The biggest thing that separates them from other training companies is that they guarantee same-day support and usually reply within the hour, and often within minutes. Their support staff are experts in their fields and prove to be a big help to students. Many of their students stick around for years simply for our support, even after they’ve taken all the classes. Please thank them on Twitter: @OSTraining.

WP Engine
WP Engine makes WordPress fast, secure, and scalable by hosting your site on our rock solid platform. They proudly host tens of thousands of the 75 million WordPress sites and apps on Earth – a number that grows every day. Please thank them on Twitter:@wpengine.

Cost

Thanks to our generous sponsors, this meetup is free for all to attend.

Volunteers

Setup: Arrive by 6pm to set up chairs, etc. Need 2-3 people.
Checkin: Arrive by 6pm to take sign-ins at the front desk. Need 2 people.
Takedown: Stay 30 mins after the meetup to clean up. Need 2-3 people.
Video: Be in charge of recording the presentations to video. Need 1 person.

Parking and Location

Cross Campus is located at 820 Broadway, about 1 block east of Lincoln. Read the street signs carefully as many streets are permit-only parking. Limited street parking on Lincoln, 9th Street, Broadway, 10th Street, Colorado Blvd, and Santa Monica Blvd is free after 6pm. Paid lots are available at the Santa Monica Public Library ($3), or Public Parking Structures, 5, 7, or 8 near Colorado and 4th or Broadway and 4th ($3). For up-to-date parking information the night of the event, please check parkme.com or use ParkMe’s iphone app.

RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/SoCalWP/events/98525492/

Join us for a full-day, intensive WordPress 101 workshop led by WordPress experts, Natalie MacLees. She will guide you step-by-step through setting up your own WordPress website or blog and will step you through themes, widgets, plugins, adding images, setting up galleries, adding video and audio, and more.

Space is limited, so secure your spot today. Note: You’ll need to bring your own laptop.

Past workshop attendees had great things to say about Natalie:

“Noel Saw and Natalie MacLees did a wonderful job putting this program together. They also presented some of their own impressive WordPress work, and are obviously enthusiastic and conscientious in all their endeavors. This program was well-worth its price and the time.”
– Doreen Chen

“Natalie creates a relaxed and fun environment where everyone can feel comfortable. She is extremely knowledgeable and able to break concepts down into a way that is digestible for everyong.”
– Vanesa Rey

“This workshop was exactly what I needed to get started with WordPress. Natalie is very knowledgable and patient and is the perfect person to lead such a group.”
– Matt

What you’ll learn

In this workshop, we’ll teach you:

What WordPress is and why it’s a great choice for anyone who wants to build their own website
The difference between a blog and a website and how you can use WordPress to build either or both
How to install WordPress and get a new site up and running quickly
How to customize your WordPress dashboard to maximize your efficiency and show you just what you want to know
How to configure the WordPress settings the best possible way
How to create, edit, and delete posts, pages, categories, and tags
How to manage images, video, and audio
How to insert media into your posts and pages
How to view and moderate incoming comments
How to find, install, activate, and configure themes and plugins
How to create and manage user accounts
How to upgrade to new versions of WordPress
How to create backups of your WordPress site
How to reduce spam and prevent hackers from accessing your site
And more!

Special Extras

In addition to top-notch training in WordPress, you’ll also get your very own practice site that you’ll be able to use for the exercises throughout the class. That site will be live for 3 months after the workshop completion date. We’ll also give you 3 months of access to a community site where you’ll have access to your instructors and other WordPress experts for getting your questions answered and helping you through any hurdles that come up as you build your own WordPress site.

We’ll also provide breakfast and lunch, and we’ll have plenty of snacks and beverages on hand throughout the day as well.

About your primary presenter, Natalie MacLees

Natalie MacLees is a front-end web developer and UI designer and is founder + principal of the interactive agency, Purple Pen Productions. In 2012 she publishedjQuery for Designers with Packt Publishing. She founded and runs the jQuery LA Users’ Group and together with Noel Saw she heads up the Southern California WordPress User’s Group, organizing WordPress meetups, help sessions, and workshops. In 2010, she worked as technical reviewer on WordPress 3 Complete by April Hodge Silver. She makes her online home at nataliemac.com.

Natalie has been building websites since 1996 and working with WordPress since 2005. She has become a well-respected member of the WordPress community and has spoken at WordCamp Los Angeles, WordCamp Las Vegas and WordCamp Phoenix, where she also taught ‘WordPress for Kids’.

Register here: http://wp101santamonica.eventbrite.com/

This will be the second part of a beginner’s introduction to jQuery aimed at absolute beginners. This series will continue throughout 2013. In the first part, we learned how to get set up to use jQuery in a project and learned about jQuery’s ready() method. Now in the second part, we’ll take a look at querying the DOM and events.

About Natalie MacLees

In addition to being the founder and organizer of the jQuery LA meetup group, Natalie is a front-end web developer and UI designer and is founder + principal of the interactive agency, Purple Pen Productions. In 2012 she published jQuery for Designers with Packt Publishing. Together with Noel Saw she heads up the Southern California WordPress User’s Group, organizing WordPress meetups, help sessions, and workshops. In 2010, she worked as technical reviewer on WordPress 3 Complete by April Hodge Silver. She makes her online home at nataliemac.com.

Other speakers to be announced.

RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/jQuery-LA/events/102897102/

Leveraging social media to get people to your site is more than installing a Social Media share button. It is important to know how to generate traffic from social media and have people come back to your site. Social media and Search Engine Optimization are blending together; we will discuss what this means for your WordPress site. We will also share with you how to optimize your WordPress site so that your content gets shared more on social media and how to get your blog audience to come back. We will share with you what plugins to use for (social) commenting and how to partake or create your own blogging community with Triberr. This will be an action packed workshop for you as entrepreneur, marketer site owner, or developer that wants to learn the benefits of a social media optimized site.

Who Is This For?

• Developers that want to learn the benefits of being social media friendly

• Entrepreneurs, Marketers, Site owners that need to take their site ‘social’

• Bloggers that don’t want to miss out on building a bloggers community with Triberr

Our Speaker

Marieke Hensel has lived and worked in Brazil, Romania, the US, and in the Netherlands –where she was born and raised. She got started in Search Engine Optimization and Marketing in 1998, and launched Branding Personality, a digital marketing agency, in 2006. She currently runs the 9-people-strong team.
Branding Personality also develops web apps and iPhone/Android apps. They have worked with WordPress since 2005. They manage social media and improve Google rankings for schools, car dealerships, restaurants and retail chains. Microsoft Xbox, Honda Cars of Corona, and Goodwill of Orange County are among their clients.
Marieke also runs Cowork+Play, a community that has supported independent and remote workers, entrepreneurs and startups since 2008. Located in downtown Fullerton, they just opened up with kids labs, including a MineCraft Lab. In addition, they host many events. Check out the links to Branding Personality: http://www.brandingpersonality.com and Cowork+Play: http://www.coworkingfullerton.com.

RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/SoCalWP/events/98525412/

RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/jQuery-LA/events/97607002/

Belsien Thomas will present WP Multisite, the WordPress team’s own tool for creating and managing multiple WordPress sites. The Automattic team uses WP Multisite to run WordPress.com.

Glenn Bennett will present his own tool, WPSiteStack. WP Site Stack allows you to run multiple WordPress sites from one installation.

Stacey Stanley will present InfiniteWP, a tool that allows you to manage multiple WordPress sites on different domains and different servers from a single central admin panel.

Jonathan Nakatsui will present ManageWP, a tool that allows you to access, manage, update and backup all of your WordPress sites from a single dashboard – and even has tools available for your iPhone.

RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/SoCalWP/events/97606432/

• Why you should use WordPress in the first place
• Using WP to build a landing page (using QuickLaunch.me theme)
• Membership and e-commerce plugins to collect donations
• Optimization tips for current WordPress site (through a group critique)

The format will include a round-table discussion of all participants for non-profits to maximize their publicity/marketing  and fund-raising opportunities using the WordPress platform.