Celebrating 15 years of WordPress - wpBeirut - Promoting Steemit & Utopian

WordPress Celebrations!

Yes you read that right. 15 years of WordPress. Can you believe it's been around for this long?
WordPress officially became 15 years on this last May 27th from its first release (for a quick history, check out the first release post

If this is the first time you read about WordPress, it started off as a blogging platform to allow bloggers to easily post content on the web, and grown to become one of the biggest CMS (content management solutions) available now, powering 30% of websites, an increase of 5% since November 2015 see here.

WpBeirut Chapter

We have been having meetups at Beirut organized by wpBeirut team. I learnt about those meetups recently and started joining. Great team, cool presentations, fabulous community. Meetups take place once a month, on the first Tuesday of the month.
Screenshot from the official wordpress 15 years celebrations websitehere - yes that was yesterday :)

Yesterday's meetup was basically short, and involved a quick presentation about the team, the github account, but also had both "breaking fast" or "Iftar" as this is the month of Ramadan, and of course celebrating wordpress' anniversary with stickers, and more importantly, a CAKE :D
Some more screenshots below :)

Promoting Steemit and Utopian

Of course what is a dev/wordpress meetup without steemit and utopian? :)
I took the guys through some basic ideas about steemit, utopian, posts, STEEM currency, reward system, and the benefits/how-to join.
We definitely spoke lightly about github getting acquired by Microsoft, but I hope our talk incentivized some of them to really have a thorough look into steemit and utopian.
I'll be following up on this in the next meetup :)

Fancy some pics?

Check out some pics from yesterday's event:

The Iftar

The Cake :D

Team selfie with the cake :)

Oh and the stickers

To another 15 years of wordpress, or more...

Thanks for reading through
@mcfarhat