Monthly Archives: October 2014

Michael Wiginton 6:52 pm on October 30, 2014
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WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.”
– Buddha

Just finished a very enjoyable two days at 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. San Francisco (the last WCSF) and then an intense three days at the Community Summit. We were able to publish The State of the WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. and the Town Hall Meeting videos within hours after they happened.

At the Community Summit we were able to put the finishing touches on some documents for adding new mods, for the buddy system for new mods and a rewriting of the Moderator handbook. And we were able to get nice drafts for some other needed documents. We were also able to do a lot of clean-up in categorizes, video tags, language tags, authors and moderators. And we also ended up with a list of issues that we can address later.

And if that wasn’t enough we have a new way to communicate – SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. This will improve our ability to communicate both with each other and as a team.

The Last 7 Days

We published 16 videos from 6 WordCamps around the world. Videos from WordCamp Dallas/Fort Worth are being uploaded and videos from WordCamp New York will be uploaded soon.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCamp Videos This Week

Matt Mullenweg: The State of the Word 2014

Matt Mullenweg: Town Hall at WordCamp San Francisco 2014

Chris Lema: Professional WordPress

In Process:

A list generated at the Community Summit.

#wptv-mods

jerrysarcastic 5:05 pm on October 29, 2014
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WordPress.tv moderator chat moved to next week

Howdy WPTV mods, as may have heard, it was announced recently that we will be moving our chats from IRC to SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. As a result of this (plus the fact that @roseapplemedia and I are still at the Community Summit) it seemed best to reschedule our chat which was to be held today.

So let’s plan on meeting on Slack in the #community channel next week. I’ll be on vacation starting Wednesday the 5th (our normal day to chat) so how about we meet on Tuesday November 4th at 09:00 PDT (17:00 UTC) on Slack. Convert to your time zone

If you are not on Slack yet, please try to get signed up before our meeting. If you have a WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ account, you are already invited to join. To sign up, just follow the steps here: chat.wordpress.org

If you have any trouble, please drop a comment and I’ll get you fixed up! 🙂

#team-chat, #wptv-mods

B. 4:25 pm on October 29, 2014  

Team Chat Cancelled, October 30, 2014

Team chat is cancelled for this week as many of us are traveling home from 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. San Francisco.

We will be returning to IRC on November 6th 2014. See you then!

Michael Wiginton 5:41 pm on October 23, 2014
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WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

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. San Francisco is this weekend and the community summit will follow next week. WPTV will have a discussion group covering a variety of topics including documentation for AV equipment use, process for new moderator orientation, post-production workflow, captioning for videos and making WPTV a useful community resource.

WPTV Moderator meeting next Wednesday!

There will be a IRC chat on Wednesday the 29th (exact time TBD) during the community summit for those who want to talk about and give input about what was discussed.  A post will follow detailing the exact time. Also if you’ll be at WCSF then WPTV will be at the Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. on Sunday for all who want to join in the excitement.

Videos are being uploaded from WordCamp Europe and WordCamp Tampa this week and a few from WordCamp Kansai in Japan.

There were 2 videos that did not get published this week because of technical problems in the videos. We did publish 13 videos from 7 WordCamps from around the world. No 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. videos were submitted or published this week.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCamp Videos This Week

Chris Lema: Professional WordPress

Mark Jaquith: Next Generation WordPress Hosting Stack

Andrew Nacin: Post-Modern WordPress

In Process:

WordCamp San Francisco 2014!

#moderator-update

Jen 8:10 am on October 23, 2014  

Let’s cancel this week’s Thursday meeting since a…

Let’s cancel this week’s Thursday meeting since a lot of people are traveling to our in person team 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. at WCSF.

Also: For people who’ll be at WCSF and want to be more involved, I may have some organization tye things I could delegate if anyone wants to volunteer.

Jen 7:02 pm on October 20, 2014
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WCSF Final Planning

If you are not attending WCSF this year, you can ignore this post. If you are coming and planning to participate as part of the theme review team, please click through and read it all. 🙂

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#wcsf, #wcsf14

Anonymous User 7658014 1:23 pm on October 17, 2014  

So it begins A team member of de…

So it begins. 🙂 A team member of de.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ just received this e-mail:

Sehr geehrter Herr […],
einer Ihrer Mitglieder “medizinguru.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/” hat ohne Namensnennung mein Foto in seinen Banner veröffentlicht, es handelt sich um Rosen.
Bitte kontaktieren Sie den Nutzer der Webseite und fordern ihn auf es sofort zu ändern.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
[…]

Translation:

Dear Mr […]
one of your members “medizinguru.wordpress.com” published my photo in his banner without due credit, it is those roses.
Please contact the user of the website and ask them to change it immediately.
With best regards
[…]

Speaking from experience with the German legal system, more of that can be expected in the future, and—far more important—writings of greater legal impact than the friendly one cited above.

For this one, we’ve pointed the person to http://de.wordpress.com/complaints/.
For the future, it would be great if we could add a page with legal info of wordpress.org to our Rosetta site. Like who runs w.org, who is legally accountable etc., so those e-mails don’t have to be dealt with by our team members.

Though it seems to be a Polyglots issue, I am posting this here, because I’m faithfully counting on @andreamiddleton and @jenmylo to advise. 😉

Thanks!

Michael Wiginton 6:33 pm on October 16, 2014
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WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

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. video uploads continue to be slow this week.

Some WordCamp Maine videos are in the Pending queue and WordCamp Cape Town has started to upload some videos and some videos from WordCamp Europe are starting to be uploaded.

There were 4 videos that did not get published this week because of technical problems in the videos. We did publish 20 videos from 4 WordCamps from around the world. No 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. videos were submitted or published this week.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCamp Videos This Week

Andrew Nacin: Post-Modern WordPress

Steve Zehngut: Build a WordPress Theme with Foundation and Underscores

Eric Wolfe: Building a WordPress Theme Using AngularJS

 

#moderator-update, #wordpress-tv

Jen 3:02 pm on October 16, 2014
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Team Chat Agenda, October 16, 2014

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. meeting week, and what timing, since it’s crunch time for WCSF/the community summit/team 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..

  • Any and all questions re wcsf
  • Andrea and I are swamped with last-minute deadlines and details. You all know how it is from your own events. If anyone has some time this week and wants to help with stuff, volunteer in the meeting.

If you want to add agenda items, leave a comment.

#agenda

Chase Livingston 4:00 pm on October 13, 2014
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New Meetup Organizers Hangout

We’re going to have a hangout Wednesday October 15 at 11am Eastern/3pm UTC for new 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. organizers as well as anyone who might be interested in more information about organizing a WordPress meetup in your area. If you’re interested in attending, leave a comment on this post so we can try and make plans for how many folks will be attending.

Hangout link: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gsys7cae6basvmyuftiwwejhgma

#hangouts, #meetups-2, #organizer-mentorship-program