1. Welcome to WordUp Pompey! 17th April 2019
@wppompey
#wppompey – no hyphen!
/About-wordpress-meetups/code-of-conduct/
Welcome to WordUp Pompey! for April 2019
Please conform to our code of conduct, which you can find on our website.
This applies during the meeting and the social afterwards.
Agenda
19:00 Meet, greet and eat
19:30 Useful Accessibility Tools
with Graham
20:30 Wrap Up – incl. more 2019 plans
20:45 Social at Sovereigns

2. Sponsors Venue sponsor Pizza / refreshment sponsor
RedIT
@reditcouk
Scott McKeown says
I'll offer a 25% discount on Web Hosting or Virtual Servers to WordUp Pompey! members entering wordup at checkout
(that's for life by the way, not once)
Pizza / refreshment sponsor
34SP
@34sp
Manchester, UK based website hosting.
Free 3 month trial of WordPress hosting.
Use code: WPPOMPEY
Red IT have sponsored the Meetup ever since January 2018.
34SP have been sponsors since December 2018.

3. Useful Accessibility Tools
With Graham
Coolfields Consulting - effective and accessible websites. Accessibility testing, consultancy and training.
An introduction to Graham’s talk.
Discover a selection of browser tools you can use for testing particular aspects of your website’s accessibility. He will include examples of how you can help make your sites easier for users who only have keyboard navigation access. He will also demonstrate to attendees WordPress plugins which can be used to fix some common accessibility problems found in a number of themes.
Did you know that the word accessible was invented by William Shakespeare?

4. WordCamp London ( 6-7 April 2019 ) was Live Streamed.
WordCamp London was Live Streamed over both days. Catch up today.

5. Complete the Mental Health & Well-being Survey 2019
If you haven’t already, and are part of the WordPress community please take a moment to complete the Mental Health & Well-being Survey 2019
Complete the Mental Health & Well-being Survey 2019

6. Know your Wapuus For a bit of amusement try to identify some Wapuus.
Know your Wapuus

7. Egg who? Ways to contribute to WordPress.
Can you guess what the icons represent? Each one is associated with a particular team of WordPress contributors.
Find these icons in the Contributions section of a user’s profile.

8. 110 meetup members Some WordPress Meetup statistics.
Key
Now
Last month
Feb
Countries 99 97
Groups
723
715
706
Members
359,828
352,975
345,416
Portsmouth
110
104
102
Brighton
558
554
546
Bournemouth
473
466
447
Exeter
226
220
201
Bristol
875
871
857
Tunbridge Wells
321
306
291
Some WordPress Meetup statistics.
Could also include average attendees…according to meetup’s RSVPs.

9. WordPress plans for 2019
17 Apr 5.2 Release Candidate
25 Apr WordPress Bournemouth
26 Apr WordPress Brighton – Accessibility
30 Apr 5.2
2 May WordPress Tunbridge Wells
7 May WordPress Bristol – Problem Solving & Visual Site Map & Tasks
11 May 4th WordPress Translation Day
17-19 May WordCamp Bristol
20-22 Jun WordCamp Europe - Berlin
17-19 Aug WordCamp Brighton
1-3 Nov WordCamp US – St. Louis
WordPress releases, local WordPress meetups, some WordCamps and the priorities for 2019.

10. #wppompey plans for 2019
Date
Agenda
Notes
May 15
Lightning Talks Part Two
Two Factor Authentication, by Drew Westcott
British Pteridological Society, by Andrew Leonard
My Favourite Block, by Herb Miller
Issues with the Duplication plugin, by Steve Wood
Issues with Fasthosts and Namesco shared hosting, by Steve Wood
Jun 19
Tbc
Jul 17
Aug
Summer Holiday
Future speakers
Gary Jones, Todd Halfpenny, Babs Saul, Dan Maby – by Hangouts ?
Talks
Copywriting with Lesley Hussell Editing Edge
3rd Wednesday of every month. Speakers to be confirmed for Jun to Sep
Date: 3rd Wednesday of every month
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
At: Technopole, Kingston Crescent, Portsmouth, PO2 8FA

11. Thanks to our sponsors Thanks again to everyone for coming.
Thanks again to our venue
Thanks again to everyone for coming.
To our organisers: Herb, Drew and Abha.
To Scott and redIT for the venue and backup laptop.
To 34SP for their sponsorship
To oik-plugins / bobbing wide for previous sponsorship
To the attendees.
To the dormant WordPressers who have joined the meetup but not yet attended one.
And to our new