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Hello everyone, we hope you’re having a great summer, and we look forward to seeing you at the next meetup! Please take a few minutes to check out what’s going in the community over the next month.

Our newest location (440 E Iris Dr Nashville, TN 37204) will more than likely become our main location so get acquainted with the address and be sure to join us this month. One of the groups organizer John Housholder has a joint working space with another one of our members Kenneth White, and together they have opened up their office space to host our meetups. If you get a chance find them on twitter and say thanks!

Other places to find WPNashville

Web: http://wpnashville.com
Twitter: @wpnashville
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wordpressnashville
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wpnashville/

WordPress Classes Coming to Nashville

As some of you are aware we have begun collecting names and emails of those who are interested in taking focus, paid classes on WordPress. Currently we are still building the list of interested people through out the Nashville area. At this point it appears that we will have the perfect three choices for you. All three of which are well worth the time, effort and cost.

1. Online
2. Classroom Style
3. Company Training
4. SEO Specific

Please fill out our form at http://wpnashville.com/wordpress-classes to help us build the list of interest. As soon as we have enough interested we will announce class availabilities. If you have specific questions about classes, please email us directly [email protected]

August Meetups

Standard Meetup

As the year has gone by we have consistently received requests for a variety of presentations and topics which we have not been able to get around too. So, in an effort to bring you all that Nashville has to offer we’ve gathered Nashville’s WordPress professors for a meetup opportunity.

We are going to have the following member give a 5 min talk about what they offer and how it can benefit you and your sites. We believe that as the Nashville WordPress community grows it should not be bound by the just our meetups, so please come out and support you community.

The following member has their own variety of paid classes they offer. Having talked with each one of them I can say there is a great selection to choose from!

John Housholder
http://www.ahsodesigns.com/
http://www.meetup.com/NashvilleWordpress/members/13008060/

MaAnna Stephenson
http://www.BlogAid.net
http://www.meetup.com/NashvilleWordpress/members/23700871/

Judy Wilson
http://www.site-shack.com
http://www.meetup.com/NashvilleWordpress/members/45876982/

Ross Jones
http://www.site-shack.com
http://www.meetup.com/NashvilleWordpress/members/10119159/

August’s Meetup

Developers Meetup Round 3

As many of you saw we had our first two developers meetup in June. Though small they were a great success! The developer meetups are dedicated to those in the community that are actively writing html, css, php and various other languages to build or modify their themes.

We currently have not schedule our next developer meetup though we expect to have one in August. Our next Developer meetup topic will be “Your Latest Work”. Each of us will take about 5 min to show off our latest work or works in progress. This idea is give each of us that 5min to shine in a part of the industry where it’s hard to be seen.

We’ll send a developer specific email when we have our next meetup scheduled. In the mean time please check out the Google Group we’ve started to help facilitate community questions and conversation.

The month of March has been quite a busy one for all of us involved with WPNashville and the Upcoming WordCamp. We have recently announced the schedule for this years WordCamp, and I am very excited! With out a doubt we have some great speakers this year. If you have any doubts, please go and check out the schedule and be sure to read up on the speakers.

This month we had our first WP Meetup social, and it seemed to have been a great success! We had around 30 Pressers show up at the Crows Nest and talk shop about various aspects of WordPress as well as what they do and of course the usual Nashville banter about local things. It was very nice break from our usual Presentation style meetup, which I enjoy, but requires more effort.

We hope to see you at the WordCamp Nashville this year, be sure to get your tickets while we still have some. We expect seats to fill out now that we have our schedule!

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2012 is here and WPNashville is gearing up for an another year on the web. As you can see from the title of this post we’ve updated our look to a child theme of “Twenty Eleven”, with a few mods. The goal was to streamline the site and put more focus on the Meetups and our projected WordCamp.

Nashville WordPress Meetup in 2011

2011 was the first year of the Nashville WordPress Meetup group and it was quite an experience. We tested out a lot of options and tried a few tricks with our meeting format, but we have finally landed on something I think we’ve all enjoyed. 20min presentation, 20min Q&A followed by 20min Show & Tell, how can you go wrong. With more interaction and less one-way conversation, you can be sure there is an opportunity to get your question asked.

Meetup Locations

I think we can all agree that finding a solid location has been our biggest hurdle, and I can safely say it is at the top on my priority list! Many thanks to our sponsor CoLab for allowing us to use their space, it’s an awesome building with really cool, laid-back people. However, many of our users are not city dwellers and the hunt for parking was leaving our groups waning. We also spent a brief night at ESpaces thanks to a secondary sponsor MetaCake, but it was short lived and we are on the hunt again. Be sure to always check the location when attending a Meetup.

What’s in store for 2012?

We have our goals set pretty high this year. On top of monthly meetups we are working hard to put together Nashville’s own WordCamp! I’m really excited and hopeful about this.

If you have never heard of a WordCamp or you’ve only heard rumors, then you need to see and read it for yourself. http://central.wordcamp.org

This is not another social networking conference, this is the world of WordPress that lives in your local community. We are all working hard to publish our thoughts, so don’t let inexperience slow you down or scare you away. It’s almost a guarantee that you know at least a donzen people that manage their sites using WordPress so there is no excuse, find those friends and come out to meet the group.

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.

~ WordCamp Central

For information and current planning for the upcoming WordCamp visit the official WordPress hosted site @ http://2012.nashville.wordcamp.org. As well, we will be discussing our WordCamp planing goals and needs at the mothly meetups, be sure to attend, you won’t regret it.