When: Tuesday February 16, 2010 at 6:30pm

Where: okcCoCo

Roller Coaster of Entrepreneurship: The Web Design Industry - presented by Cory Miller, iThemes.com

Cory will give 5 lessons that he has learned in his journey of going from a solo, freelance and part-time web designer to building a successful company and a team.

Cory Miller is a former newspaper journalist and public relations/communications practitioner, turned freelance web designer, turned full-time entrepreneur. In January 2008, he founded iThemes, a provider of premium WordPress themes, and in the summer of 2009, he launched WebDesign.com, a premium provide of web design training with WordPress. A native of Oklahoma, he resides in Oklahoma City with his wife, Jennifer, and two dogs, Fletch and Chloe.

RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5327269

6:30PM - Social

7:00PM  - Presentation

Direct Download: Refresh OKC Podcast Episode 12

Where: okcCoCo

Create stunning designs with Fireworks - presented by Dustin Evans

Web designers rely on multiple tools in order to get designs from concept to completion. Typically, those tools involve a graphic editor for design comps and slicing and a text editor for markup. Most designers will default to using Adobe Photoshop for design comping and slicing. However, great alternatives to Photoshop do exist for web designers. Dustin Evans will be presenting how simple and easy it is to comp out web designs in Fireworks.

Dustin is the Lead Web Designer for RocketTheme, a Joomla template company that is remotely based all over the world. Dustin works has been featured all over the web in CSS galleries and blogs. Dustin also is recognized as zindustry on the web, which is his personal site, which can be found at: zindustry.com

RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5228577

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Direct Download: Refresh OKC Podcast Episode 11

During the next few weeks, we will be creating a board of officers to provide leadership and new energy to Refresh OKC. With the newly appointed officers, Refresh OKC will continue to encourage good design, promote web standards and educate people to become better designers.

Why is Refresh OKC seeking nominations for officer positions?

Although there were many of you who have contributed to the success and growth of Refresh OKC, those familiar with Refresh knows that Jeff Davis has been the lifeblood that has kept Refresh OKC going forward. Jeff has done a wonderful job getting us to this point, but Refresh OKC has grown beyond the point of being sustainable by just one man.

Refresh OKC strives to serve the interests of web designers and developers in the community and is continuing to find new ways to uplift web design in Oklahoma City and nurture the local web design talent we have here. In order to do this, we feel that it is necessary to expand Refresh OKC to meet the demands and challenges of this community. Part of this initiative is the expansion of leadership in Refresh OKC with officer positions, each charged with specific goals and objectives to meet the demands of the community. We are seeking passionate individuals for the following positions:

• President
  President sets the vision and overall goals for the year. Serves as the face for the organization along with the VP. Sets the agenda for Refresh Officer meetings and ensure that officer meetings stay on track. Splits the management of officers with VP. The President can either handle the “administration” side of things and works with the treasurer, sponsorship and activities officers or handle the “community” side of things and works with the membership, communications, and promotions officers.
• Vice President
  Splits the management of officers with President. The VP can either handle the “administration” side of things and works with the treasurer, sponsorship and activities officers or handle the “community” side of things and works with the membership, communications, and promotions officers.
• Secretary
  Records minutes during meetings and posts them to basecamp afterwards. Keeps track of schedule and deadlines and keeps herd on track. Basecamp management – keeps after people to get their job done. Reports to VP and President to make sure officer deadlines are met.
• Activities
  Works with the Treasurer and possibly Sponsorship officers in scheduling events for the next year. Works with the president to ensure that the speakers and events line up with the President’s vision.
• Treasurer
  Manages money and plans out costs for the next year. Works with the sponsorship and activities officers.
• Sponsorship
  Builds relationships with businesses/companies and potential sponsors. Comes up with creative new ways to raise funds. Building relationships with sponsors, sponsor contracts, follow-ups, deliverables.
• Membership
  Engages with existing membership. Keeps track of member attrition and reaches out to potential new members.
• Communications
  Website Management. Finds content and people to contribute content to website. Keeps the website moving forward – connects to the local scene and community. Voice of web development/design in OKC.
• Promotions
  In charge of marketing and promotions and execution of the promotions. Works with the communications chair to get the promotions out to the people. Post meetings and events on Refresh website, Upcoming, Facebook, etc.

If you would like to nominate yourself or another individual in the OKC design community, please send the name and email of the nominee to info@refreshokc.org.

Note: We are seeking a minimum of one year commitment for each officer position.

Mingle Bells/Techmas Party!

Let us jingle your bells at the First Annual okcCoCo Techmas Party!

To celebrate the holidays this year, the okcCoCo is inviting web development and design freelancers, employees of local tech companies, and members of okcCoCo user groups, for a night of drinks, entertainment and holiday cheer.

When: Thursday,December 17, 2009
Time: 6:00pm
Where: okcCoCo 723 North Hudson Oklahoma City, OK 73102

RSVP by December 11th at www.okccoco.com

Come and play tech-oriented holiday games to win 1 of 25 holiday prizes (ranging in technology from years 1985 to 2009) from under the CoCo Christmas tree! Prizes are donated by local tech companies.

We will have holiday snacks, as well as provide beer for the event.

To warm up, Chef Ryan Parrot from Iguana Grill is providing a festive CoCo-Cocoa for the party!

We are charging one canned-food item per person at the door to be donated to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.

Come out, drink, win some prizes, and get the holiday celebration started early!

Where: okcCoCo

723 N. Hudson Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK 73102

Refresh Reboot

Come out to Refresh OKC for a night of lively conversation! Our November meeting will be used to discuss the future of Refresh OKC and get feedback from the community. Do you have ideas for Refresh OKC? Do want to be on the Board of Directors? This is a great chance to get involved.

We are looking for feedback on speakers, topics, board of directors and the overall direction of the group. For over 3 years, Refresh OKC has played a critical role in educating and connecting some of Oklahoma’s best designers. We are now taking it to the next level. Come out tomorrow night to help us shape the future of Refresh OKC.

RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4888865/

Where: okcCoCo

The everyday developer’s guide to version control with Git - presented by Erin Carter

About Erin

Erin is a local web developer and technology enthusiast. He uses Git daily believes it is a vital tool for project source code growth and maintenance. Erin hopes to expose fellow developers with the concept of using version control in their projects and share tips and tricks he has learned along the way.

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About Git

direct from www.git-scm.com

Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.Branching and merging are fast and easy to do.

Git is used for version control of files, much like tools such as Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and Visual SourceSafe.

RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4784772/

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OpenBeta 3 is scheduled for 6-10pm, Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 and is to be held at the Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative

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Where: okcCoCo

Using CSS3 in Today’s Browsers - presented by Michael Dick

Michael is a Web Designer & Developer for nclud, a creative web design agency based out of Washington D.C., and runs CSSiPhone.com, a popular mobile web design inspiration gallery. You can find Michael at his personal website, m1k3.net.

RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4233700/

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