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===== Wordpress for professionals, Gerbi-CMS =====


====== May Meeting: Wordpress for professionals, Gerbi-CMS ======

Date: May 3, 2012 at 7 p.m.\\
Location: [[history:location:3|Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117]]\\


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===== Wordpress for professionals =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:70|Darcy Whyte]]\\

Darcy Whyte will present a Wordpress seminar.

The focus is on preparing a site for a professional or a business, quickly, easily, and with the main bells and whistles.

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==== About the Speaker ====

Darcy Whyte is the inventor of the [[http://mambohead.com/category/drawbot|Drewbot]] and the [[http://www.rubber-power.com/|Squirrel Model Airplane]], a software trainer and software developer.


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===== Gerbi - a CMS for Developers Lightning Talk =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:15|Ian Ward]]\\

[[http://packages.python.org/django-page-cms|Gerbi-CMS (nee django-page-cms)]] is a multilingual content management system written in Python and based on the Django web framework. This talk will cover some of the features of the CMS and short discussion about how it operates.

Ian Ward recently added JSON export and import to Gerbi-CMS and uses it for a number of web sites he maintains.

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==== About the Speaker ====

[[http://excess.org|Ian Ward's blog]] and a number of open source projects are hosted at http://excess.org/. He has studied Computer Science at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. He was first introduced to Linux in 1999 while working at Corel.

Ian is available for software work on a contract basis. See [[http://genericconsulting.ca|http:%%//%%genericconsulting.ca]] for more information.

Ian has been an advocate for [[http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/crp-prda.nsf/en/rp00341e.html|copyright fairness in Canada]].


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