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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so buddypress 1.7 OMG that stands for "Oh My God"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here is information about where you can contact me if you want to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll show that again at the end becvause it won't be until the end of the presentation when you'll really realize how cool I am and you're gonnal wanna take down all of my information
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, hello, about me, I'm a freelance web developer and consultant, um, I live in queens, formerly of Brooklyn, home of the greatest rappers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but now I'm in Brooklyn, or Queens, see, Freudian slip
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a lead developer on the BuddyPress project.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do a bunch of other WordPress related projects.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CUNY Academic Commons, Anthologize, Commons In A Box.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do a bunch of stuff, um, a bunch of stuff
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, and I am unrelated to He-Man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I put that up there because a lot of people they look at me and they're like "wait are you?"... and I'm like...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, [clears throat], um, what is BuddyPress?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steve asked before how many people have used BuddyPress, I wasn't really looking, so how many of you have used it?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, so close to half.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let me just briefly tell you a little bit about what BuddyPress is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have WordPress right? and WordPress gives you the ability to blog; to create content.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What BuddyPress does is it adds a social layer on top of your WordPress isntallation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way I like to... and I didn't put a slide in here about this... but the way that I really like to say this. The way that I like to put it best is that WordPress is abou content first.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about whatever you are producing: blog posts or journaling or whatever itis that you put in your wordpress blog.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BuddyPress kind of turns that around and it makes user s first.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You produce all sorts of content. LIke you have profile content. You have a customizable user groups.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have the ability to create forums. You have threaded activity streams that keep track of things going on around the site.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have all sorts of content but it is all organized around users as opposed to being organized around posts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, um, I like to... About BuddyPress [laughs] so here's where I screwed up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I may as well just pull back the curtain right, the great and powerful Oz.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, I copied a couple of these slide from another prsentation deck and I forgot to copy over the images.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm just gonna kind of tell you about what the images look like.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So lets imagine here that you saw a picture of the BuddyPress logo and then over here you saw a picture of a piece of a lego.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a friend in the BuddyPress community named Tammy and she loves to descibe BuddyPress as social lego.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is my favorite way of thinking about it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's this collection of tools that are there to provide different social functionality on your site.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you as a site developer or a site administrator can decide which ones of these you can turn on. to kind of build a customized social experieence for your sites users.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you could also think about this as a sort of existential statement if you want.