If you've been around the local WordPress community for any amount of time, you've met Hugh. He's the guy in the WordPress t-shirt with the friendly smile, who is always available to answer a question, help with a problem, or point you to the person you are looking for. As one of the leaders of... Continue Reading →
In case you missed it, the WordPress community team recently launched the Learn WordPress site, as a way for the community to support meetups and other WordPress related events. The idea here is that as a meetup group, you can watch a workshop video, and then host a group discussion at a time that suits... Continue Reading →
In light of the current COVID-19 crisis, the WordPress Cape Town meetups will be going digital. To be honest, this is slightly welcome because a) it's been hard to find a new suitable venue and b) it opens up the pool of available speakers. So for our first WordPress Cape Town digital meetup, we're looking... Continue Reading →
New Meetup Venue In case you missed it, we recently moved our monthly meetups to a new venue at Miteri co-working space in Salt River. https://twitter.com/WPCapeTown/status/1131605635773206528 If you haven't been to a meetup recently, this is a great time to stop by. The new venue has a really relaxed atmosphere (the bean bags help) and... Continue Reading →
Gaining support from local companies is vital to the success of our meetups. That's why we're always excited when a new sponsor comes on board. uAfrica is a company that is innovating in the eCommerce space. They were recent sponsors of both WordCamp Johannesburg and WordCamp Cape Town, and they have joined Hetzner and Payfast... Continue Reading →
Since 2015, we have been working on a project called Leaderless. Now a Social Enterprise, Leaderless is both an online education platform and offline Innovation Hub for Social Entrepreneurs to learn how to use technology to disrupt corporate greed and government corruption. Nothing we are doing is new, we’re just bringing everything we read, experience... Continue Reading →
Digital Opportunity Trust South Africa (DOT SA) is looking for front end developers to help build a Social Innovators Platform for South Africa. Our goal is to launch a safe, diverse community of like-minded young social innovators that enables a value exchange between peers and experienced social entrepreneurs. This is an exciting yet complex project... Continue Reading →
Digital Opportunity Trust South Africa (DOT SA) is looking for a WordPress technical lead to help build a Social Innovators Platform for South Africa. Our goal is to launch a safe, diverse community of like-minded young social innovators that enables a value exchange between peers and experienced social entrepreneurs. This is an exciting yet complex... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who applied, applications are now closed. It's that time again, (well a bit later than last year, but anyway) where I reach out to our amazing local WordPress community and ask you to help me organise our annual WordCamp in Cape Town. Last year was an awesome event and, bar a... Continue Reading →
UPDATE - all available slots have been filled, thanks to everyone who showed interest. HowMightWe is looking for WP users to help them build a new WordPress setup and management service. "One of our clients is a hosting company that wants to make WordPress easier to setup and manage. We have some wireframes of a... Continue Reading →
