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Comment on WordCamp Manchester 2018 Schedule Announced by burhanahmed

burhanahmed — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:22:37 +0000

i am interested in visiting the event. thanks for sharing the post

Comment on Two WordPress Meetups in April 2018 by Carme Mias

Carme Mias — Sun, 06 May 2018 05:30:08 +0000

In reply to judgerookie. Title corrected. Thank you for pointing it out!

Comment on Two WordPress Meetups in April 2018 by judgerookie

judgerookie — Wed, 02 May 2018 09:18:49 +0000

WordPres or WordPress in the title!

Comment on WordPress London Meetup #wpldn – 28 Sep. 2017 by Dan Maby

Dan Maby — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 12:04:24 +0000

In reply to Elliott Porter. Really looking forward to hearing more about the journey with your business :)

Comment on WordPress London Meetup #wpldn – 28 Sep. 2017 by Elliott Porter

Elliott Porter — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 11:17:16 +0000

Thanks Dan. Looking forward to meeting you all.

Comment on WordCamp London Meetup Organisers’ Meetup by Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:29:09 +0000

Thanks for the great write up! It was a pretty inspiring sight to see all the meetup organisers chatting and sharing ideas. I'm not a fan of this suggestion:

One way to encourage more people to come is to fake the appearance of numbers. Get people you know to sign-up and say they are attending, then the event appears more attractive and more people want to come and so it really is attractive.

Why would you need to fake numbers if your measurement of sucess is not numbers? Just some expansions on some things:

Find a professional venue – WordPress.org will pay for this.

I would say find a venue that works for your group. It does not need to be a professional venue- but rather a venue that fits the local community needs. Think about accessibility, parking ( if you are in a location where everyone heavily relies on cars or bikes ) etc etc. This is an option if you can't find a free venue- but alot of local libaries will give you space for free, to enocurage the local community to use the library and check out local council tech initiativies.

Bring in good speakers

It is important that local groups encourage and support local people to share ideas. I think we have to be considerate as organisers at what we call "good". If you only have "good" speakers, it can sometimes have a negative effect on a local community if it happens too much as attendees end up thinking they don't have anything to share. Keep an eye on the balance of the two.

Comment on Getting started by Ulla

Ulla — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:26:51 +0000

English is a dynamic language. It develops and changes all the time. While different versions will persist, the mainstream is the American version. Trying to preserve what will not last may have the terrible consequence of turning you into a Frenchman

Comment on Getting started by David T

David T — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:44:23 +0000

Further to Simon’s comments on the use of apostrophes, I disagree about zs although I fully support colours (or colors, if you insist)

Carl Morris was not in error.

Oxford Dictionaries says this: (NOT say this!)

There are one or two cases in which it is acceptable to use an apostrophe to form a plural, purely for the sake of clarity:

you can use an apostrophe to show the plurals of single letters:

I’ve dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s.

Find all the p’s in appear.

you can use an apostrophe to show the plurals of single numbers:

Find all the number 7’s.

These are the only cases in which it is generally considered acceptable to use an apostrophe to form plurals: remember that an apostrophe should never be used to form the plural of ordinary nouns, names, abbreviations, or numerical dates.

You can read more rules and guidelines about apostrophes on the Oxford Dictionaries blog. Here you will find further examples of correct and incorrect use of apostrophes.

Now, please pass the potato’s !

Comment on Getting started by Simon

Simon — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:56:38 +0000

Well Done and Thanks. I hate publishing stuff written in what is in fact a foreign language!
You might need to check the rules for apostrophes though 😉 as in,
“…focus on fixing up the pesky z’s and color’s so that everything is spelt correctly.” Where the zs and the colours are simply in the plural, no apostrophes are needed. Difficult little blighters to get right, in my humble view.