WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“Little one, I would like to see anyone – prophet, king or God – persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time.”
– Neil Gaiman (A cynical cat, in Sandman)

WC Montreal, WC London, WC Hamburg, WC Atlanta and WC Minneapolis submitted videos this week.

WC Lancaster – WC St Louis – WC San Diego – WC North Canton – WC Portland ME and WC Nashville videos are still in process.

In the Mod Chat we talked about:

  • approving videos for a “WordPress Related Event”
  • issue with getting screencast videos for WPTV 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
  • updates on progress of post-production for WC videos

In The Last 7 Days

We published 32 videos from 5 WordCamps and WordPress Related Events around the world.

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Jenny Munn: SEO for 2015 – What’s In, What’s Out and How to Be In It to Win It (For Good)

Michelle Schulp: Beyond Whitespace – Designing for Complex Content

Christina Fuchs: Was sind Mitgliederseiten und wie lassen sie sich in WordPress realisieren?

 

#moderator-update, #wordpress-tv

WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
– Alan Watts

WC Montreal, WC London and WC Minneapolis submitted videos this week.

WC Lancaster – WC St Louis – WC San Diego – WC North Canton – WC Portland ME and WC Nashville videos are still in process.

In the Mod Chat we talked about:

  • updates on progress of post-production for WC videos
  • proposal to transcode videos using Amazon Elastic Transcoder
  • feedback on layout for @brashrebel‘s WPTV 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
  • @bethsoderberg did a copy edit on documentation

In The Last 7 Days

We published 13 videos from 2 WordCamps and WordPress Related Events around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed 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 Last Week

Jenny Munn: SEO for 2015 – What’s In, What’s Out and How to Be In It to Win It (For Good)

Eric Wolfe: Building a WordPress Theme Using AngularJS

Barbara Schendel: Create Your Own WordPress Theme

 

#moderator-update, #wordpress-tv

Community Chat recap 5/21/15

Chat was brief today.

@iandunn is waiting on more responses to the WordCamp organizer survey: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2015/05/05/wordcamp-organizer-survey/

@chanthaboune updated us on 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.. All groups will have received info on the annual survey results in the next couple of weeks. And you should be on the look out for a new sponsors page.

#agenda, #community, #community-management, #meeting

Rebooting CommHub meetings

Hi all,

Commhub has been dormant as both me and @shelob9 were busy with other things but we are both eager to bring it back to life!

With this we are moving the meeting to a new time of 16:00UTC to ensure its during working hours for us both and will be rebooting the meetings from tomorrow!

Tomorrow’s Agenda:

  • Reviewing the current status of the project
  • Make actionables based on review

 

 

#commhub

WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
– Henry Ford

WC Montreal, WC Atlanta and WC Minneapolis submitted videos this week.

WC Lancaster – WC St Louis – WC San Diego – WC North Canton videos are still in process.

In the Mod Chat we talked about:

  • updates on progress of post-production for WC videos
  • the WPTV submit page uploader being slow
  • transcoding videos using Amazon Elastic Transcoder (upsides and downsides)
  • @brashrebel‘s patch that will display video producer credit on WPTV posts
  • submission guidelines for making videos for the WPTV 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
  • welcome new mods @jshipc and @blondishnet

In The Last 7 Days

We published 17 videos from 3 WordCamps and WordPress Related Events around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed 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 Last Week

Jenny Munn: SEO for 2015 – What’s In, What’s Out and How to Be In It to Win It (For Good)

Christina Fuchs: Was sind Mitgliederseiten und wie lassen sie sich in WordPress realisieren?

Gene Hammett: Being an Authority in the WordPress Market Means More Impact and More Income

 

#moderator-update, #wordpress-tv

Community Chat | May 14, 2015

Slack Log (Requires 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/. login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account.).

The chat started off by sending good vibes to the WordCamps coming up this weekend (Lisboa, Maine, and Nashville). Next we got team updates from WPTV, DeputiesProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook., Improving WordCamp.org, and 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.. Here are the team highlights:

From WPTV (@jerrysarcastic)

From Improving WordCamp.org (@iandunn)

  • The 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. organizer survey is still open.

From WordCamps (Cami)

  • WordCamps this weekend: Main, Lisboa, and Nashville
  • WordCamps this month: Calgary, Miami, Brisbane, and Buenos Aires
  • 31 on the calendar and 30 more in pre-planning.

For more information on this and other meeting times, check out the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. and the Welcome box on https://make.wordpress.org/community/.

#agenda, #community-management, #meeting, #team-chat

WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“Well done is better than well said.”
– Benjamin Franklin

WC Atlanta, WC Dayton, WC Minneapolis and WC Seattle submitted videos this week.

WC Lancaster – WC St Louis – WC San Diego videos are still in process.

In the Mod Chat we talked about:

  • editing the videos on the “videos to edit” page
  • process for creating videos for the WPTV 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
  • update of the WPTV plugin (wiki and goals)

In The Last 7 Days

We published 14 videos from 5 WordCamps and WordPress Related Events around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed 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 Last Week

Mike Little: Running Multiple WordPress Sites Under NGINX

Mickey Mellen and Ali Green: Planning Your Website from Concept to Launch

Jenny Munn: SEO for 2015 – What’s In, What’s Out and How to Be In It to Win It (For Good)

#moderator-update, #wordpress-tv

WordCamp Organizer Survey

We’ve had several good discussions on ways to improve the tools used on WordCamp.org, and now it’s time to collect some hard data so we can know how to move forward.

If you’ve worked with any of the WordCamp.org tools — custom post types, Jetpack CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. editor, widgets, etc — in the past 18 months, please fill out this 6-question survey:

http://wordcampcentral.polldaddy.com/s/improving-wordcamp-org-tools

 

Anyone on an organizing team who has used the WordCamp.org tools is encouraged to take the survey, but I’m pinging the people who took part in the previous discussions to make sure they don’t miss it: @ryelle, @harbormark, @chanthaboune, @nvwd@kovshenin, @rafaehlers, @davidjlaietta, @dimensionmedia, @mj12982, @iandstewart, @miss_jwo@topher1kenobe, @jenmylo, @georgestephanis, @bandonrandon@cliffseal@valeriosza@hlashbrooke@lcrddz

#improving-wordcamp-org, #official-websites, #survey, #wordcamp-org

WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein

WC Atlanta, WC Dayton and WC Hamburg submitted videos this week.

WC Lancaster – WC St Louis – WC Seattle – WC San Diego and WC Minneapolis videos are still in process.

In the Mod Chat we talked about:

  • the 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 by @brashrebel that brings relevant videos from WPTV into the wp-admin.
  • the issues that need to be addressed for the plugin (relevant videos, getting existing videos tagged)
  • creating tags to help identify relevant content
  • creating new content for the plugin
  • feedback and input for the plugin https://github.com/brashrebel/wptv

In The Last 7 Days

We published 9 videos from 3 WordCamps and WordPress Related Events around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed 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 Last Week

Mike Little: Running Multiple WordPress Sites Under NGINX

Jenny Munn: SEO for 2015 – What’s In, What’s Out and How to Be In It to Win It (For Good)

Tom Tortorici: Awesome Images On Your WordPress Site

#moderator-update, #wordpress-tv