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Jen Mylo 7:28 pm on September 12, 2013
Past Week:
- Changed our irc channel
- GSoC/OPW penultimate week check-ins, preparing for final week
- Confirmed all new team reps
- Working on getting wordpress.tv subtitling ready for launch (last thing, we’re removing the requirement of being a logged-in wordpress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ user)
- Reviewed the work by @iandunn on adding categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. selector to this site so we can have sections separate from tags
- Synced back up with George, Otto, and Sam re Make homepage, will be pulling in Brian Krogsgaard to work on it in George’s place while George focuses on coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. for a bit.
Coming Week:
- On Make homepage, will be pulling in Brian Krogsgaard to work on it in George’s place while George focuses on core for a bit
- Get GSoC/OPW students finals arranged for students/interns who are on track to pass (video + irc chats)
- Hopefully launch subtitles
- We’re going to change WordCamp.org over to use wp stable instead of branch to ensure the least possibility of issues for our wonderful volunteer WC organizers
- Attending WC Buffalo this weekend
- Post call for volunteers to work on community expectations doc
- Post results of summit research to /updates
Note: The Automattic mandatory company meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. is the week of September 26, so both @andreamiddleton and I will be less available that week and leading up to it.

@sabreuse : We forgot to talk Grace Hopper on our team chat. Let’s discuss tomorrow if you’re around?
- Amy Hendrix (sabreuse) 7:31 pm on September 12, 2013
  
  Yes, we should talk GHC — I’ll pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” you sometime in the afternoon, if that’s good for you.
  - Jen Mylo 7:54 pm on September 12, 2013
    
    Flying to WC Buffalo, but should be settled and back online by afternoon.
andreamiddleton 5:11 pm on September 13, 2013
Last week:
- 18 WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. videos posted to WordPress.tv
- 424 WordCamp tickets sold
- WordCamps Louisville and Cape Town published their dates
- Toronto published their schedule
- Milwaukee 2014 approved for pre-planning
- Vinicius Massuchetto approved to take over the WordCamp Sao Paulo team after Catia’s departure
- Jess Jurick volunteered to help administrate the WordCamp Multi-Event Sponsorship program
- New wp10-like social media aggregator pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (tagregator?) in betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. testing this weekend at Albuquerque, Buffalo, and Tokyo
- recruited some volunteers (Herb Ripka, Dustin Filippini, Jon Valcq, Emma Edgar, Faison Zutavern, Scott Offord in Milwaukee) to do weekly reviews of WordCamp websites
Coming week:
- keep working on the tagregator
- train the website review volunteers
- interview Dayton applicant
- nag some WordCamps about posting their videos to wp.tv
- more posts to the WordCamp CentralWordCamp Central Website for all WordCamp activities globally. https://central.wordcamp.org includes a list of upcoming and past camp with links to each. blog
- write a spec for WordCamp ratings system on Central
- continue to support the 20 camps in planning and 15 camps in pre-planning
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