Dubai WordPress meetup with Matt Mullenweg recap

The first WordPress meetup in Dubai was held at BUNKERS restaurant in the club house in Montgomerie Golf club last night January 2. I can say that it was success as we learn so much from matt and with the other WP fanatic who attended the meetup.

We came around 6:40 PM in the restaurant and matt are still not there so we just introduced ourselves to those people who are there already and some of them are Fouad & Rida who plan and manage the meetup, DrBaher the man behind the CloudAppers, Shuja Shabandri from FlipCorp, Abraham Antony a student from BITS Pilani, Geo Morjane, Bassem Jarkas, Mohammed Al Safi, Paul Castle on of the author of shufflegazine and his wife Karla (Thanks Mr. & Mrs. Castle for the complimentary magazine:)) and to those people who I forgot to mention here, please forgive me as I am not good in names.

Jon meets matt

After a few minutes Matt the founder of wordpress came and he told us that he was late because the cab brought them in the wrong place instead in Montgomerie Golf club.:) MATT how many golf club have you went through before finding the Montgomerie club??:( The group was excited and so we started the conversation.

Some of the interesting stories that I can still remember about the group conversation was the on progress work of WordPress 2.8 where dozens of things that got tabled during 2.7 due to time constraints. He also talk about how he started WordPress, the new 2.7 interface which is very COOL and everyones like it, and other question and answer portion:) which we like it a lot.

Here is some of the geeky pictures that I took in the first Dubai wordpress meetup with Matth Mullenweg click read more to see the pictures.

We are looking forward for the Dubai WordCamp and I hope it will happen this year.. Thanks MATT for visiting us here in DXB and thanks to fellow bloggers who organize & attend the meetup