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:
- People who have never talked before.
- Subjects closely related to WordPress
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.