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JUNE 2015

Venue Sponsors

www.fishburners.org

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Beer Sponsors

fishburners.org

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Thanks to Fishburners for supplying beer tonight.

Pizza Sponsors

http://www.envato.com/#wpsyd

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Proud sponsors of this meetup.

We are the creators of ThemeForest, the world's biggest marketplace for WordPress themes, and CodeCanyon, the world's biggest marketplace for WordPress plugins.

We ♥ WordPress, and want to give something back.

• We sponsor WordPress meetups, PressNomics, and the WordPress community summit

• We've published over 960 WordPress tutorials on Tuts+ (http://tutsplus.com)

• We contribute to open source development including WordPress core contributions and plugins

• We’ve donated $20,000+ to WordPress open source projects

We're always looking for ways to give back to WordPress. If you have suggestions, please get in touch:

envato.com/contact

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Free WordPress Beginners Tutorials

http://tutsplus.com/learn/wordpress-meetup

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June News• WordCamp Europe 2016 announced

Vienna, Austria, 24-26 June 2016

• PHP 7.0 release date mid-November 2015Looking for testers: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php7timeline

• Extended CPTs – new lib on GitHubhttps://deliciousbrains.com/wordpress-library-review-extended-cpts/

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June News• WordPress.tv Branching out into Beginner Tutorial Vids

http://wptavern.com/wordpress-tv-is-branching-out-into-beginner-tutorial-videos

• WordPress mentioned in Netflix’s Orange is the New Black series. http://wptavern.com/wordpress-mentioned-on-orange-is-the-new-black

Is WordPress becoming a household name?

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June News• WordPress Foundation sues thewordpresshelpers.com

for trademark infringement http://wptavern.com/the-wordpress-foundation-sues-jeff-yablon-for-trademark-infringement

Response from thewordpresshelpers.comhttp://thewordpresshelpers.com/wordpress-trademark-lawsuit

• WP Pusher offering a free email Git Crash Course for Developershttps://wppusher.com/wordpress-git-crash-course

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June News• New to using Slack or never heard of it?

Read the Ultimate Unofficial Slack Guide at:http://theslackguide.com/

• 5 Must-Do’s Before You Agree To The Jobfrom wp-elevation.comhttp://www.wpelevation.com/2015/06/5-must-dos-before-you-agree-to-the-job/

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Upcoming WPSyd Events

July 6th WP ParramattaCDN’s for WordPress & 17 Ways to speed up WordPress

July 16th WP Syd NorthTopic TBC

July 27th WP Syd CentralWordPress Security Best Practices

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Give us your feedback – What You Want?

Separate User/Dev meetups?Workshops?

Would you pay for a WordPress Day workshop?