2nd Solid Symposium: Solid Pods vs Personal Knowledge Graphs
WordPress Portsmouth Meetup 20 March 2019 v0.0.1
1. Welcome to
WordUp Pompey!
20th March 2019
Agenda
19:00 Meet, greet and eat
19:30 Website Health Check
Talk and interactive session with Jenny Wong
20:30 Wrap Up – incl. more 2019 plans
20:45 Social at Sovereigns
@wppompey
#wppompey – no hyphen!
Www.wp-pompey.org.uk
/About-wordpress-meetups/code-of-conduct/
2. Sponsors
Venue sponsor
RedIT
@reditcouk
Scott McKeown says
I'll offer a 25% discount on Web Hosting or
Virtual Servers to WordUp Pompey!
members entering wordup at checkout
(that's for life by the way, not once)
Pizza / refreshment sponsor
34SP
@34sp
Manchester, UK based website hosting.
Free 3 month trial of WordPress hosting.
Use code: WPPOMPEY
3. Website Health Check
Why and how to do a website health check.
With Jenny Wong, @miss_jwo
"155cm of pure, unrestrained, Mancunian intensity, knowledge, and
warmth" - @saramg & Engineering Manager at @humanmadeltd.
Maintenance of your website is important but can be confusing.
Jenny will be sharing with us
• why site health checks are important,
• the consequences that can happen
• and how you can perform a review yourself.
• She will explain why you should upgrade your PHP.
4. 104 meetup members
Key Now Last month
Countries 99 97
Groups 715 706
Members 352,975 345,416
Portsmouth 104 102
Brighton 554 546
Bournemouth 466 447
Exeter 220 201
Bristol 871 857
Tunbridge Wells 306 291
6. WordPress plans for 2019
21 Mar 5.2 beta 1
25 Mar WordUp Brighton
28 Mar WordPress Bournemouth
5 Apr WordCamp London Contributor Day
6-7 Apr WordCamp London & Madrid
9 Apr WP_HOOKED
17 Apr 5.2 Release Candidate
30 Apr 5.2
17-19 May WordCamp Bristol
20-22 Jun WordCamp Europe - Berlin
17-19 Aug WordCamp Brighton
1-3 Nov WordCamp US – St. Louis
https://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/02/19/wordpress-5-2-schedule-and-scope/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/08/9-priorities-for-2019/
7. #wppompey plans for 2019
Date: 3rd Wednesday of every month
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
At: Technopole, Kingston Crescent,
Portsmouth, PO2 8FA
Date Agenda Notes
Apr 17 Useful Accessibility Tools with Graham Armfield @coolfields
May 15 Lightning Talks Part Two
Jun 19 Tbc
8. Thanks to our sponsors
Thanks again to our venue sponsor @redIT
And to our new sponsor @34SP
Editor's Notes
Welcome to WordUp Pompey! for March 2019.
Please conform to our code of conduct, which you can find on our website.
This applies during the meeting and the social afterwards.
Red IT have sponsored the Meetup ever since January 2018.
https://redit.co.uk/aboutus
34SP have been sponsors since December 2018.
https://www.34sp.com/wordpress-sponsorship
Probably just as easy to go straight into Jenny’s talk.
Some WordPress Meetup statistics.
Could also include average attendees…according to meetup’s RSVPs.
WordPress releases, local WordPress meetups, some WordCamps and the priorities for 2019.
3rd Wednesday of every month. To May at least.
Speakers to be completed.
Thanks again to everyone for coming.
To our organisers: Herb, Drew and Abha.
To Scott and redIT for the venue and backup laptop.
To 34SP for their sponsorship
To oik-plugins / bobbing wide for previous sponsorship
To the attendees.
To the dormant WordPressers who have joined the meetup but not yet attended one.