I am very excited to finally be able to announce the detail of our May 27th WordPress 10th anniversary party!
Don’t forget to RSVP as usual here: http://www.meetup.com/Vienna-WordPress-Meetup/events/116339292/
and due to the exceptional nature of the event, also here: http://www.meetup.com/WordPress/Vienna-AT/935722/
Entrance is free, of course, and the first 100 people to RSVP on both pages will get a free drink!
Cheers 
A really great meetup last night, thank you so much to all the participants, and to everybody who couldn’t make it: see you next time!
Here are the links to the presentation slides:
Aaaand some pictures ( thanks @floor 
):
Stay tuned, as we will announce soon the details of next month meetup / party!
WordPress will be 10 years old on May 27, so for once instead of presentations, a screen and a projector, let’s have a great party!
Join us at Flanagans Irish Pub, Schwarzenbergstrasse 1, May 27, 19:00 to ….
Please RSVP both here on our regular meetup page, and on the special WordPress 10th Anniversary page here: http://www.meetup.com/WordPress/Vienna-AT/935722/
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Hi Vienna WordPressers!
So, it appears that for Monday 29 we have:
Remember, Monday 29, 18h at Spaces03, Kaiserstrasse 5, Wien 7.
Hello fellow MeetUpians,
as we’re currently 8 days 22 hours 54 minutes and 55 seconds (according to the sidebar) away from our next MeetUp, it’s time to talk about … talks. Who wants to talk? Who knows someone who wants to talk? Who has topics or ideas?
The last time we talked a bit about the idea of a *hands on* workshop. To outline it briefly: We would build something with WordPress together.
Everybody who’s interested in doing something practical would bring her/his laptop. Preferably with a pre-installed (local) copy of WordPress [0] and some local server like XAMPP [1], WAMP [2], LAMP [3] or MAMP [4] – depending on your system.
(A) Trying to realize *one* idea. Something like a basic blog, a magazine, etc.
(B) Trying to realize *everyones* idea. Ever had a project where you thought “I want to do that!”? We could try to wrap up concepts and build the base together.
(C) Improving and Problem solving. You got a problem and can’t wrap your head around it or always wanted to improve some part of an existing site? Let’s go on it. Let’s do it together as a group, task by task.
To get you rolling as fast as possible, I contacted Japh Thomposon (WordPress Evangelist at Envato/ThemeForest) if they could sponsor us some of their themes for the workshop. He promised me to help us out, but as he’s becoming a father in the next few days and I haven’t heard so far from the person who’s now responsible for this now, I’m not sure if we can rely on this.
+ We would need some (depending on the amount of people attending to the workshop) people helping out. Paolo, Luca and me be of some help, but when there’re more than 6-9 attendees, we’ll run out of man (or woman) power.
+ As I’m not sure if we get some themes from ThemeForst, someone would have to sit down and evaluate some themes that we could use for the workshop. This means that we will need to know if we have the workshop, who’s attending and what exactly we’ll do.
Btw: Today’s WordCamp Bratislava. Anybody there? And if so any interest in sharing your experience?
[0] http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP
[1] http://www.apachefriends.org/de/xampp-windows.html
[2] http://www.wampserver.com/en/
[3] http://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/LAMP/download/
[4] http://www.mamp.info/en/
Hi, I didn’t make it to WordCamp today 
Anyway, as we talked about on the last meetup, I can do the presentation about Facebook. I’m not sure though, what will be the best to talk about. Some kind of general best practices maybe?
WordCamp Bratislava was cool. But the afterparty was phenomenal. Tons of great tips, super practical advice and free drinks 
Hi everyone, and thank you @kaiser for the post!
The side question first: I was with @luca at WC Slovakia yesterday, and beside our inability to understand Slovak which kind of made us miss most of the presentations, it was really great.
Nice friendly atmosphere, very well organized, very good location. I discussed with Peter Nemčok and Ján Bočínec, of the organizing team and invited them to visit us at one of our next meetups, hopefully as soon as Monday 29.
About Monday 29 now: as mentioned the last time, I am up to either talk about “WordPress multilingual sites, when, why, and how to make them” or do a workshop with a handful of people to build one together from scratch.
Ha! Lot’s of action here!
@Andrej Thanks for the report. Hope you share a bit of your impression the next time on the MeetUp.
@Milan @paolo So we have two talks so far. If we could get a third one then I guess it’s enough? If we don’t get a third one: How about appending the workshop to the talks?
@Milan What I’d (personally) like to have is a basic wrapper plugin that shows the register/enqueue for the needed styles and scripts, some oAuth callback wrapper and something that illustrates how you communicate with FB via the WP HTTP API. Some generel insights about what can be done and what data can be sent/retrieved would be great.
Q: How do I use this @mention thingy?
Just type @username and it is automatically handled as a mention.
@kaiser OK, I think that I’ll do an into to what you can get from Facebook Platform and show some existing integration, which are a great example. I haven’t worked with WP HTTP API and I’m more of a project manager than developer, so i can’t cover that 
@paolo the multilingual is a great idea
Also, I’d like your opinion on something. How would you like the option of being able to add a small stripe, with the link to your blog for example, to show on every link you share? An example is worth hundred words – http://lnc.hr/h12iH
About that Website add thingy: Better discussed when meeting in person as it’s pretty off topic over here.
If you want, I could give a short talk on blogging and how WordPress determined my future. Originally, I wanted to be a copywriter. That was 5 years ago… But now, I introduce my self as blogger and do workshops on my topic (TimeManagement.sk). It doesn’t generate huge income, yet , but at least I don’t have to get up every morning.
I would love that talk!
Great! So how can we decide on that? I just come and deliver it or… Should I prepare slides? How does the schedule looks right now?
The format is up to you, with or without slides, with a movie, or music and dancing, whatever suits you best
The schedule is not set yet, so far we have three or four proposals, but formats are not 100% set, you can count on 20 min to half an hour at least in any event.
At the last MeetUps we all used slides. Main reason for me using slides: Sharing. Main reason why I like slides from others: Remembering the talk and its contents. We as well had riddles, competitions and opportunities to win chocolate – which brought a lot of momentum into the discussion.
Hi bloggers. I’d like to know your opinion on something. We are trying to help (especially) bloggers to get more traffic to their blog and increase the income. We will achieve that by creating a simple tool, which will let you brand your short links. It means, that everytime when the user clicks your shortlink, they would see a stripe on the top of the page with the content customized by you (link to your site or paid advertising). There may be some tools out there, but they aren’t just good enough. How does it sound to you? I’d love to hear your feedback in the comments or in the survey – http://bit.ly/151asvf. I’d really appreciate, if you help us and share the form with you blogger friends as well.
I believe, that I didn’t violate any forum rules by this post. If yes, I apologize.
Thanks for your help!
This site is now running WordPress 3.6 beta 1 along with MP6 ( don’t tell anybody ).
Yeah, that’s how we roll in Vienna!
Today’s meetup will again offer four great presentations:
The rest of the time, let’s have a beer, chat, ask and answer questions, share experiences, etc.
Links to the presentations/slides:
Bastian: https://github.com/bastilian/markup_2013_wpvienna_meetup
Kaiser: http://franz-josef-kaiser.github.com/wpm_vie_3/
Please add the others if you know the links.
My presentation is here: http://www.slideshare.net/hikarikariudo/word-press-portfolio
Let’s meet again around WordPress and other web development related subjects: Facebook integration, multilingual site management, content creation, Javascript, audience targeting,…
Wether you use WordPress or not (yet), our discussions are open, if you are concerned by your online presence, interested in publishing, marketing, development, or even just in meeting new cool people, this is the place to be on April 29.
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It’s time to start talking seriously about presentations for April 4, and by “seriously” I mean to move the conversation from meetup.com to this site
So far we have a few ideas that have been mentioned, please post them as replies to this post.
We have no rules about presentations, but our (short) experience seems to show that 4 is a good number, as long as we keep them between 20 and 30 minutes each.
If we have more proposals than available slots, priority will be given to:
Presentation proposal: when and how to set up a WordPress multilingual website.
Topics I currently got in mind:
Where are WPs limits? Extreme CMS usage of WP. Pushing WP to its limits.
How to determine the difference between a good and a bad theme?
Reply from Luca (Sartoni):
“I would love the latter. How to evaluate a theme, before and after the purchase ”
I’d love to show how to use Jetpack on a local host using a WordPress approved way
I guess this one is not really a priority anymore, but just wanted to confirm 
I could talk about blogging — how to write content people will want to read.
My proposal is a more in depth talk about semantic html markup, a little bit of history and why semantic markup is important for readers and search-engines.
Just read Mikes list [1] and found the idea of “round tables” or workshops quite interesting. Anyone else thinks the same?
[1] http://mikeschinkel.com/blog/25-best-practices-for-meetup-organizers/
Cliff ( @spliffy ) will talk about content creation and will reveal his pet-project, hoping to get the attendees to join him for a photo session.
My presentation will be: “Why a photo portfolio should be on WordPress”
Sorry I will not come this time. See you later!
So, do we already have a list of talks? Any opinions on the round table idea?
Sorry for the delay, trying to make a point right now… are you still up to talk about how to evaluate a theme, before and after purchasing, or is it too late?
I love the round table idea, I think though we should try that next time, as we are just 48h away it’s a bit short.
It would be great though to keep presentation short, so that we have some time for chat, questions, technical assistance, etc. at the end.
Ok, then I’m in. “Evaluating themes: Before and after purchase or download”. But can’t promise that it will be short. I still hope for an idea (or any input) on how to make it a bit interactive so we get some discussion out of it.
paolo, 
You can check my presentation on Slideshare – http://www.slideshare.net/milansteskal/tricks-to-grow-your-blog-audience-with-facebook