December 8: WordPress Montreal Holiday Party

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WordPress Montreal Holiday Party

Santa’s not the only one that never has a company holiday party to go to. It’s hard out there for a freelancer! So we’ve organized a holiday party for you, the Montreal WordPress community. Come meet old friends, make new ones, have a drink, play some pool, and celebrate the holiday season.

The Fitzroy is a bar and pool hall on the plateau, near the Mont-Royal Métro station. We have reserved an area for our group which includes a 3-hour block of time playing pool. The Fitzroy serves beer on tap, cocktails and finger food.

Tickets are 7$ in advance (no tickets at the door, no refunds). This includes one beer or non-alcoholic beverage, as long as you arrive before 9 p.m. There are a limited number of tickets. If we sell out early, we can add more tickets, but it is not possible for us to add tickets at the last minute, so please get your tickets early. Ticket sales close on Friday December 4, or when we sell out, whichever happens first.

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Time and Location

Event: WordPress Montreal Holiday Party
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: 7$ (no tickets at the door, no refunds)
Venue:

LE FITZROY
551 Mont Royal E.
Montreal, QC  H2J 1W4
Métro: Mont-Royal

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Sarah Semark

November 10: The Unbearable Likeness of Design: How to build a unique WordPress site

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The Unbearable Likeness of Design: How to build a unique WordPress site

Why do so many websites look the same? To answer this question, we’ll first look at trends in web design over its short history, and examine how modern tools and practises have contributed to a more homogenous-looking internet. We’ll examine the web design process from two perspectives—the designer’s and the developer’s—and discuss how the blurring of those roles impacts design. Along the way, we’ll discuss the various merits of following or bucking trends. Finally, we’ll offer some constructive advice to help you—whether you’re a designer or not—add an individual touch to your WordPress designs.

Sarah SemarkSarah Semark designs and develops themes as a Theme Wrangler at Automattic. A former Montrealer now living in the UK, she has never been any good at sitting still. She’s been to 45+ countries and she starts to get antsy if she hasn’t crossed a border in a month. You can usually find her tapping away anywhere there’s a power outlet—from ramshackle Soviet sleeper trains to a hut in the Amazon. When she’s not busy conquering foreign lands, Sarah likes obsessing over typography, collecting impractical footwear, and drinking glasses of wine the size of her head.

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Time and Location

Event: The Unbearable Likeness of Design: How to build a unique WordPress site
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Time: 7:00-9:00 pm
RSVP: Required
Venue:

Centre cloud.ca (formerly RPM)
420 Guy St.
Montreal, QC H3J 1S6
Métro: Gare Lucien-L’Allier

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October 22: WordPress Social Meetup

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Hi fabulous WordPress Montreal community!

It’s already been almost four months since WordCamp Montreal (time flies!). We’re organizing a new WordPress Montreal Social Meetup just before winter shows up!

So come out and network with WordPress locals, have a few drinks, meet up with old friends and make new ones, come discuss WordCamp Montreal 2015 and discuss all the cool things you have been doing!

Time and Location

Event: WordPress Montreal Social Meetup
Date: Thursday October 22nd, 2015
Time: 7-11:30pm
RSVP: Required
Venue:

Brutopia
1215 Crescent St
Montreal, QC, H3G 2B1
Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/wCcE
Métro: Guy-Concordia


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September 21: WooCommerce Meetup

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Sell all the things

Sell All The Things: Getting the Most Out of WooCommerce
Fifteen members of the WooCommerce team will host an Ask Me Anything-style meeting for this month’s meetup. They’ll focus on helping you get the most out of using WooCommerce, and will include some short presentations on a few unique things you can do with the plugin. Whether you’re looking to start an online store, are a freelance developer seeking an invoicing solution, or just aiming to sharpen the tools in your WordPress toolbox, you’ll pick up something useful at this unique meetup.

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WordPress Montréal sur la terrasse

August 26: WordPress Montréal sur la terrasse

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WordPress Montréal sur la terrasse

Hi fabulous WordPress Montreal community!

This year’s WordCamp Montreal was a lot of fun! It was really great to see lots of faces, new and old, and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! To help close out the summer we’re going to have a social meetup to chat about coding, blogging, and WordPress! Come join us!

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WordCamp Montreal 2015

WordCamp Montreal Schedule Available / Programme de WordCamp Montréal disponible

Français ci-dessous We’ve confirmed all our speakers and we’ve just released the tentative schedule for WordCamp Montreal. You can read all about our talks and speakers and start planning your WordCamp weekend. How Our Talks Are Organized This year our talks are divided into several streams: code, users, marketing, ux, theming, hands-on workshops, and special topics. We hope there will be something for everyone. All our speakers have provided … Continuer de lire WordCamp Montreal Schedule Available / Programme de WordCamp Montréal disponible

le 19 mai: Contenu multilingue et WordPress

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En 2013, le grand débat qui devait enfin tout régler n’avait évidemment rien réglé. Si on nous donnait un dollar chaque fois que quelqu’un demande quel plugin utiliser pour le multilingue, on pourrait sûrement payer la bière à tout le monde qui sera présent à cette présentation.

Cette fois-ci, il n’y aura pas de débat. On va d’abord parler de tout ce que ça implique, un site multilingue. Nous présenterons les meilleures pratiques et nous discuterons avec des traductrices et gestionnaires de contenu de sites multilingues pour en savoir plus sur ce qui se passe « dans la vraie vie ». Enfin, nous présenterons chacune des solutions disponibles en ce moment dans l’écosystème WordPress. On vous le donne en mille: il n’y en a aucune qui est parfaite. Sinon, on ne pourrait pas payer la bière!

Animation: Élise Desaulniers et Alexandre Simard – associés, Desaulniers Simard

Élise Desaulniers a redécouvert le plaisir d’écrire avec WordPress et blogue maintenant sur Voir et Penser avant d’ouvrir la bouche. Elle a déjà formé une centaine de personnes à l’utilisation de WordPress et réalisé plusieurs dizaines de sites de toutes tailles. Elle a été conférencière à toutes les éditions du WordCamp de Montréal depuis 2012. Auparavant, Élise a été analyste et directrice de compte chez Diesel (maintenant SidLee) avant de passer du côté client chez Air France/KLM, où elle a occupé les postes d’analyste des marchés et de responsable pricing pour le Canada. Elle est également connue comme auteure et spécialiste de l’éthique animale.

Alexandre Simard gagne sa vie depuis 2009 comme développeur indépendant spécialisé en WordPress. Il a été conférencier à (presque) toutes les éditions du WordCamp Montréal. Alexandre a « programmé » son premier site web en 1998. Son fureteur favori était Netscape 2.02. Depuis ce temps, il a occupé tous les corps de métier du web (designer, intégrateur, programmeur, analyste, chef d’équipe) dans tous les types d’entreprise (startups, agences de publicités, firmes conseils). Alexandre est lui aussi auteur, bien qu’il s’attaque à des sujets moins importants qu’Élise. Son premier ouvrage s’intitule Yves, le roi de la cruise.

Avec la participation de:

  • Anne-Sophie Cardinal, traductrice. Anne-Sophie parle couramment français, anglais, hébreu et espagnol. Elle a notamment travaillé pour une compagnie de localisation de logiciels et d’applications mobiles en Israël.
  • Lysanne Latulippe, designer et associée, String Theory Scarves. Lysanne a géré son site multilingue elle-même pendant des années avant de se décourager et nous appeler.
  • François Burra, UX designer et Product Owner chez bluenove. François a contribué à plusieurs projets d’applications multilingues sur les dernières années, avec son lot de défis !


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April 29: Harness the Power of Time Travel with Version Control

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Harness the Power of Time Travel with Version Control

Have you ever accidentally deleted a few lines of code that brought your WordPress theme into a bleak empty white page with no way of recovering the lost code? With revision control, travelling back in time is a breeze. Join Alex Dankoff and journey through time and space, using revision control as our Tardis.

See how quickly you can become the Time Lord of your WordPress code, creating alternate time branches and merging these multi-verse timescapes back into a single unified code base. Have you dreamt of a world where alternate realities of your code can coexist in multiple environments? Where travelling a year back in time through your code was as easy as a single command? A world where all of your code exists in a single space and can be collaborated on and shared quickly and easily? Perhaps the Doctor Who analogy is a bit much, but you get the gist.

In this session, Alex will guide you through setting up a project in GitHub and Bitbucket, from account creation and key generation to branching, committing and pushing code. Your world will never be the same.

Alex Dankoff is a senior PHP and front-end web developer with a decade of interactive marketing experience, creating innovative user experiences and complex system architectures for start-ups and multinationals.

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March 19: WordPress Social Meetup

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We’re organizing a new WordPress Montreal Social Meetup to celebrate the end of winter!

So come out and network with WordPress locals, have a few drinks, meet up with old friends and make new ones, come discuss WordCamp Montreal 2015 and discuss all the cool things you have been doing!

Time and Location

Event: WordPress Montreal Social Meetup
Date: Thursday March 19th, 2015
Time: 7-11:30pm
RSVP: Required
Venue:

Brutopia
1215 Crescent St
Montreal, QC
Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/wCcE


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Keeping Your WordPress Safe

February 26: Keeping Your WordPress Safe

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Keeping Your WordPress SafeOur next event focuses on security!

Let’s face it: you never want to wake up one morning with your WordPress install hacked – or even worse, your clients’ sites.

Google flags your URL as malware. Your hosting company disables your account. Your email accounts end up on blacklists. Anything like this can put your reputation and your business in jeopardy – and that’s if you’re aware of it. A hacker can even take over a site without your knowledge!

Security is a crucial topic for every WordPress user. This event will feature of a presentation by Carl Alexander covering best practices around the configuration and maintenance of your WordPress site, followed by a “show and tell” segment. Come share your own best practices with the community. You might even learn a thing or two in the process!

Time and Location

Event: Keeping Your WordPress Safe
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015
Time: 7-9:30pm
RSVP: Required
Venue:

RPM
420 Guy St.
Montreal, QC H3J 1S6

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