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MEETUP: πŸ“¦ Learn to Host Your WordPress Site With DigitalOcean!

Ahmad AwaisAhmad Awais
DigitalOcean + WordPress Meetup

πŸ™Œ Hey, everyone! This last Sunday (2017-08-20) I arranged a local meetup for the tech-junkies.

I do that very often like twice a month, but this one was different. Last year in October I arranged a meetup for DigitalOcean and GitHub which was meant to cover the #Hacktoberfest event where we all contributed to the open source.

So, naturally, I ended up talking to folks from DigitalOcean and I came to know how much they care about the community aspect of their company. I liked that very much. Long story short, now I head local events for DigitalOcean here. Sort of a country lead organizer, though, let’s not go there?

πŸ‘‹Β This was the first DigitalOcean meetupΒ here. I combined it with the local WordPress meetup I arrange (to save myself some time β€” going on vacations next week). This meetup was all very quickly arranged, with the help ofΒ Maedah (co-organizer and my wife), Ashar (my WordPress student and now a close friend), and SaqibΒ (another WP student of mine and the new translation editor for Urdu Lang. in WordPress).

The Meetup Notes!#

🎩 TALK:Β I talked about: Self-Hosting WordPress With DigitalOcean & EasyEngine: Slides are best viewable at MacBook Pro 15.6 and was built for width: 1280px; height: 720px;Β β€” I didn’t have time to make it responsive.Β These slides are built with Flexbox, Gulp, Jade, Stylus, and BrowserSync all on top of the Google slide deck JS. Code License is MIT. Thanks to everyone who is directly or indirectly involved as an inspiration. Wes Bos, Chris Lema, DigitalOcean, EasyEngine, Rahul B, etc.

πŸ“ΉΒ VIDEO: I forgot the tripod home and weΒ couldn’t do the live video but I made this one. It’s a quick video to get started with registering an account at DigitalOcean and then install EasyEngine + WordPress. Honestly, this one doesn’t compare to what I taught at the meetup there. We had so many awesome discussions there. You might wanna join next time.

πŸ•Β Q/A, API, PWA, AMP, DISCUSSIONS:Β The discussion session was quite long. I didn’t realize it earlier but I ended up talking for more than 4.5 hours (yeah, I ended up taking Monday off). We had a lot of discussions there. I’ll just summarize them here in a few bullet-points

⚑️ DETAILS:#

Feedback & Moments#

We received lots of great feedback comments, some of which can be read below. Also, there are pictures of the event at the end. I think it turned out to be a good one. We should have these events more often.

Photos or didn’t happen!

Founder & CEO of Langbase.com β€” The most powerful serverless AI developer platform for building AI products Β· Ship agentic AI pipes, tools, and memory with BaseAI β€” The first Web AI Framework (free, open-source, local-first, deploys serverless, agentic pipes, tools, and memory)

Ex VP DevTools & DevRel Eng. Rapid Β· Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member. πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» AI/ML/DevTools Angel Investor ❯ AI/ML Advisory Board San Francisco, DevNetwork

🎩 Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert Web DevRel πŸš€ NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission code contributor πŸ† 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient with 5x GitHub Stars Award (Listed as GitHub's #1 JavaScript trending developer).

🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator. πŸ“Ÿ Teaching thousands of developers Node.js CLI Automation and VSCode.pro course. Over 142 million views, 24 yrs Blogging, 108K developers learning, 200+ FOSS.

✌️ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries utilized by millions of developers worldwide ⓦ WordPress Core Developer πŸ“£ TEDx Speaker with 100+ international talks.

✨ As quoted by: Satya Nadella Β· CEO of Microsoft β€” Awais is an awesome example for developers.
πŸ’œ Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Read more about Ahmad Awais.

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Comments 2
  • Adeel Sami
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    Adeel Sami Adeel Sami

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    Asalam-o-alaikuM, Ahmad bhai!

    Wow! That’s very great seeing the super-productive meetup in the Lahore!

    I missed it…

    But I’ll be attending the meetups in the future, InshALLAH!

    Hopefully, I will be catching up the train from the second or third meetups. :)

    Best work done, MashALLAH!

    See you soon! :)

    ~ Adeel


  • Mohammad Hasham
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    Mohammad Hasham Mohammad Hasham

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    Really waiting for more to come.That is a great initiative.