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Jen Mylo 3:56 pm on January 15, 2014
Past Week:
- Chatted with Matt re community expectations doc, doing a revamp based on his input.
- Posted re definitions of WCs/event naming for comment, next step will be to chat with Matt about it.
- We have 52 MeetupsMeetup 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. on the central account now. An additional 17 are on the list waiting for meetup.com to add them to the account, including Seattle, Orlando, Miami, Milwaukee, and Beijing. With the exception of 2 new group applications that have some issues re trademark pending, all new group applications are caught up.
- Talked with Scott re profiles project, notes on /meta
- Talked with Joseph from AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) group about using WP to publish their test reports rather than githubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/+dropbox.
Coming Week:
- Will circulate expectation doc to the volunteer group to review changes based on talk with Matt before bringing to Matt for comment and publishing here for community feedback. Target timing end of week for getting to volunteers, next week for Matt/community.
- Andrea and I are headed to WC Phoenix this week/end.
- Send out the 1st annual 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. member survey.
- Send invites to join the central account to active WordPress meetups.
- Send out swag packs to meetups.
- Schedule the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev leads meetup.
- Send out 3.8 core contributor feedback survey.
- Publish 2013 in Review post on .org news blog
- Xavier Borderie 8:49 am on January 22, 2014
  
  “all new group applications are caught up”: would it be possible to have the complete list of pending names? I did write repeatedly about either creating a Paris meeting or taking over the old one (the organizers oh which has thrown the towel), and have received no news since then.
  
  There’s a sea change coming since WCParis14, and I’d like to build on that with a monthly local 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.. Ergo, any news would be welcome 🙂
  
  Thanks!

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