Abridged, From my blog:

Congratulations to the Gang at Bucketworks for cobbling together a fantastic space for the Bucket's first event since it was closed by Mother Nature and the subsequent cleanup.
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UPDATE: This MEETING will still occur, however, the Event Location Will Be Decided Tuesday. 

June 2008 Web414 Meeting — Thursday, June 12th, 2008 — 7pm

Topics: WordPress, Web Design Critique, MKEDH2 Summary, BCMKE3 Lisa Sabin-Wilson will present "Dissecting Magazine Themes", an implementation of WordPress which uses queries and custom fields to create magazine and newspaper-like themes. Learn how to generate leading articles, featured stories and small article lead-ins, display category icons, article images and videos using WordPress with absolutely no plug-ins or scripts. Sample Magazine Themes will be provided for discussion and Q&A.

Mike Rohde and Jason McDowell will lead a brief group discussion, critiquing a website design to determine what works and what doesn't from design and usability perspectives.

There will be a follow-up summary of MilwaukeeDevHouse2 and discussion and planning for BarCampMilwaukee3 planned for Fall 2008.

Bucketworks 1340 North 6th Street Milwaukee, WI 53212 USA

Dinner? Not sure yet... We typically order food at 7PM and eat/mingle around 8PM. Please bring cash if you want to dine with us.

Also listed on Upcoming and Facebook.

One more thing... We'd appreciate if you use the signup at Web414.com (you must be logged in) even if you signed-up here, on Upcoming or Facebook, just so we get a good idea of how many people plan to attend.

Hooray! Web414's Third Exciting Meeting at Bucketworks will be April 2008.   Details and registration happens at the Web414 site, an the meeting happens at The World's First Health Club for your Brain.
April 2008 Web414 Meeting — Thursday, April 10th, 2008 — 7pm
Topics: F1 Web Site Challenge, Nikol from MTSS
Since we ran out of time in March, Team Web414 will give us a recap of their adventures at the F1 Website Challenge (and yes, we plan to do one of these in Milwaukee.)

Nikol from the Midwest Teen Sex Show will talk about the challenge of reaching a two-minute audience, viral videos, and being a technological outsider.

Bucketworks 1340 North 6th Street Milwaukee, WI 53212 USA

We typically meet for dinner at 6PM... watch Twitter for details the day of the meeting.

Use the Web? Make the Web? Want to talk about the Web and hang out with smarties who know all about the web? Web414 is Milwaukee on the Web.

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Please enjoy these videos from the Feb. 21, 2008 meeting. It was our first meeting at Bucketworks, but the video does a nice job of capturing the casual but passionate atmosphere of the Web414 gang. The videos are in three pieces.

Please enjoy: