The Moscow WordPress Meetup group is growing, and this weekend we had three sessions and over 30 attendees! We finally seem to have settled with the venue, and started working towards a WordCamp Moscow this year.
Fun fact: next meetup (in March) we will turn one year old.
The Moscow WordPress Meetup is this Saturday. If you’re in Moscow, come join us for a few hours of geek talk about WordPress. We have several presentations scheduled, as well as good coffee, stickers and buttons. Despite the Moscow weather recently, I feel that Saturday will be a great day.
The sixth WordPress Meetup in Moscow was held on Saturday. Not as much attendees, due to many group members being on vacation and such, but the meetup was quite productive. We spoke mainly about themes development, and the _s theme.
We also talked briefly about WordCamp Moscow, which will be held in 2013.
Our fifth WordPress Meetup in Moscow was quite a success, with 16 attendees and four short sessions, covering: P2, working with GlotPress, Lime Stripe and Pedigree Maker themes presentations and an overview of caching in WordPress.
During the meetup we also launched our new Meetup P2 where we’ll be publishing all the photos, slides and everything else from the events. Take a hike, Facebook! :)
The fifth WordPress Meetup in Moscow will be held this Saturday, June 21st. We’ll be talking about P2, GlotPress, theming WordPress and a tech talk about the caching methods available in WordPress. If you’re in Moscow and would like to join us, please RSVP on Facebook.
So, there’s quite some interesting stuff going on around here and let’s of course begin with WordPress. Yes, WordPress 3.0 has been released, some blog posts of mine got even more visibility and I’ve been interviewed on the WordCast Conversations show – thank you so much @kymhuynh and @lorelleonwp.
I don’t know when the show will air, but Kym promised to let me know the scheduled date as soon as they set one, so stay tuned for an update – I’ll write a separate post for that one.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is in the US, visiting Apple, Twitter & others from the Silicon Valley. He finally got his Twitter accounts: @KremlinRussia and @KremlinRussia_E (for the English speaking ones). Both accounts are verified and following @BarackObama ;) He gained over 30k followers within two days and is now using his own URL trimming service – krln.ru! He also has some quite cool photos of the Twitter office, the Apple office and Steve Jobs ;)
Speaking about photos, a few days ago I came across a real New York City Taxi here in Moscow. It was parked in Lyublino (South-East), had no number plates, and disappeared after a couple of days. I guess it was some Russian oligarch living in NYC who got drunk on Friday and decided to visit his relatives in Moscow during the weekend :D Oh well ..
My apologies, this was shot from my iPhone, not the best size and quality. View the full photo here. So, as promised by the title, a short list of facts I found interesting this week, mainly about hiring:
That’s about it for this week and yes, we’re still looking for young and talented PHP developers and web designers willing to work in Moscow startup. Feel free to contact me for more information about the job offers. Cheers, and have a great weekend!
Okay, these are kind of old from an exhibition in Moscow in like December 2008. Previously hosted by Flickr, and today I decided to have duplicates here, ’cause Flickr will not display more than 200 photos from my photostream, so here’s probably a safer place (unless my hosting provider messes up). This is an android robot, similar to Honda ASIMO. It’s called i-Van and the model name’s AR-600. It’s still being developed by Android Robotics Corp. in Russia, so I’ll get back to you with the improvements in a couple of months.
Sorry for the quality, I hadn’t had a camera back then so I caught those on my Nokia cellphone. It was fun though, our Russian president Dmitry Medvedev shook hands with the android, and then the newspapers here posted out some good photos of them both, stating that Dmitry’s standing on the right, in case somebody got confused LOL. BTW that’s me in the orange shirt. It was almost midnight and we had a bunch of technical problems, that’s why I looked so sad.
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