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Konstantin Kovshenin 4:39 pm on April 4, 2016
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WordCamp Central Admin Maintenance

We’re planning on rolling out some possibly breaking changes 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. admin on Tuesday, April 5th between 16:00 and 17:00 UTC. During that time, the Central admin will not be accessible by 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. and 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. organizers. Other parts of the WordCamp.org network should not be affected.

We apologize for any inconvenience and we’ll post more information about what has changed after the rollout is complete. As usual, we’re available in the #meta-wordcamp and #events channels on 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/..

#wordcamp-org, #wordcamps

Konstantin Kovshenin 4:26 pm on February 18, 2016
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WordCamp.org URL Migration Status

The URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org structure for all WordCamp.org sites has been migrated to the newest year.city.wordcamp.org format, all the redirects are in place, and all the SSLSSL Secure Socket Layer - Encryption from the server to the browser and back. Prevents prying eyes from seeing what you are sending between your browser and the server. certificates stuff has been taken care of.

All new event sites created in the network should now use the new structure, and the 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. handbook has been updated to reflect this change. Please note that SSL certificates for new domains are issued only twice daily. This means that after creating a new site in the network, you’ll have to wait up to 12 hours before it gets a valid certificate. Previously issued certificates auto-renew every 60 days unless the site has been deleted.

If you have any questions or come across any issues that might be related to this change, please feel free to leave a comment or 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.” us in #events or #meta-wordcamp on 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/..

#wordcamp-org, #wordcamps

Konstantin Kovshenin 5:24 pm on February 12, 2016
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We’ve recently deployed our WordCamp org + Let’s…

We’ve recently deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. our WordCamp.org + Let’s Encrypt integration and it looks good so far. This means that all newly created WordCamp.org sites will get a valid SSLSSL Secure Socket Layer - Encryption from the server to the browser and back. Prevents prying eyes from seeing what you are sending between your browser and the server. certificate within 12 hours after creation, and all SSL certificates will be renewed every 60 days.

We already spotted some SSL-related errors and fixed them in the past few hours, but if you come across anything strange that may be HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. related, let us know on 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/.. We’ll be transitioning the rest of the network that is still using the city.wordcamp.org/year structure to year.city.wordcamp.org in the coming weeks. I’ll post an additional update about that when it’s done.

P.S. If you’re ever in the WordCamp.org SupportPress instance, we’re expecting a flood of e-mails from staging-expiry@letsencrypt.org or expiry@letsencrypt.org so don’t go crazy if you see one. Keep calm and 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.” @kovshenin on Slack and we’ll sort it out with some new filters.

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Konstantin Kovshenin 4:43 pm on February 9, 2016
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Just a quick note on the WordCamp org…

Just a quick note on the WordCamp.org site creation flow for 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.. We’re still working on our new SSLSSL Secure Socket Layer - Encryption from the server to the browser and back. Prevents prying eyes from seeing what you are sending between your browser and the server. setup and URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org format change. Some cities have been migrated to the newest year.city.wordcamp.org URL structure, while most cities are still on city.wordcamp.org/year.

To work correctly, the newly created sites should follow the previous year’s structure, so if you’re creating a new 2016 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. site for City:

  • If the last year’s site is on 2015.city.wordcamp.org, the new site should be created as 2016.city.wordcamp.org
  • If the last year’s site is on city.wordcamp.org/2015, the new site should be created as city.wordcamp.org/2016

In the future (hopefully very soon) all sites will be on year.city domains and this will no longer be a problem. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. If you have any questions feel free to 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.” @kovshenin on 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/. or leave a comment.

#wordcamp-org, #wordcamps

Konstantin Kovshenin 11:16 am on January 4, 2016
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WordCamp URLs

This has been discussed many times in several threads and IRL conversations over the past few months, and as many of you heard, a decision has been made. We’re currently in the middle of changing 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. URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org structures back to year.city.wordcamp.org from city.wordcamp.org/year. If you’ve noticed broken images, styles, insecure content warnings, invalid SSLSSL Secure Socket Layer - Encryption from the server to the browser and back. Prevents prying eyes from seeing what you are sending between your browser and the server. certificate warnings, broken redirects or anything odd, please let us know here or via support@wordcamp.org.

Thank you for your patience!

#wordcamp-org, #wordcamps

Torsten Landsiedel 1:08 pm on December 8, 2015
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After reading this post about adding random wapuus…

After reading this post about adding random wapuus as default avatars, I would like to suggest to add the mentioned plugin on wordcamp.org.

Do you like this idea? Want to see all the wapuus on the attendee list instead of the boring grey person? 🙂

#wapuu, #wordcamp-org, #wordcamps

Ian Dunn 7:22 pm on November 24, 2015
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Remote CSS Plugin Launched on WordCamp.org

The Remote CSS tool is now available on WordCamp.org. It’s one of the ideas that came out of last year’s Community Summit, and it allows WordCamp.org site developers to work with whatever tools they want, instead of Jetpack’s CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. editor.

remote-css-basic

What You Can Do

For instance, you can:

  • Work in a local development environment, like Varying Vagrant Vagrants.
  • Use your favorite IDE or text-editor, like PhpStorm or Sublime Text.
  • Use SASS or LESS instead of vanilla CSS.
  • Use tools like Grunt to automate your workflow.
  • Manage your CSS in a version control system like GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/..
  • Collaborate with others on a social coding platform like 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/.

You can use all of those tools, only some of them, or completely different ones. It’s up to you how you choose to work.

How It Works

Remote CSS works by downloading your CSS file from a remote server (like GitHub.com), sanitizing it to remove security threats, minifying it, and then storing a local copy on WordCamp.org. The local copy is then enqueued as a stylesheet, either in addition to your theme’s stylesheet, or as a replacement for it. The local copy of the CSS is synchronized with the remote file whenever you press the Update button, and you can also setup webhook notifications for automatic synchronization when the remote file changes.

Because of security concerns, it can only support specific hosting platforms, but it currently supports GitHub, and we can add others if there’s interest. If you want to use Beanstalk, Bitbucket, CodeForge, or something else, let me know.

Contextual Help

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 also contains detailed setup instructions inside wp-admin; just open the Help tab.

remote-css-help

It plays nicely with Jetpack, so you can test it out today without losing any of your current CSS.

If you’re looking for something simpler, though, Jetpack’s CSS Editor is still a great option.

If you have any feedback or ideas to improve it, please leave a comment. If you’d like to check out the source code, it’s available in the Meta repository.

#git, #improving-wordcamp-org, #jetpack-css-editor, #wordcamp-org

Jen 2:45 pm on September 24, 2015
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Sponsor Info

Someone wanted information about sponsoring WCs so I went to central.wordcamp.org to look for it for them.

  • I went to https://central.wordcamp.org/global-community-sponsors/ because it was near the top of the list and bc I know that’s the current program. It lists the current sponsors but has no information on what the levels mean or how to become one.
  • Then I went to https://central.wordcamp.org/sponsor-multiple-wordcamps/, listed lower in the subnav. This is the old program, and links to the 2014 packages.

This is bad IA/content to have there. I’d like to suggest a change:

  • Make Sponsor a top level nav item.
  • First item should be Sponsor a 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., a page that doesn’t exist yet. It should say how great WCs are, how they’re all run by volunteers, how we depend on the kindness of strangers money of helpful businesses to keep the events going, and outline the difference between sponsoring an individual WC and joining the global program. Should link to other subpages showing current sponsors, global program rates/benefits, the upcoming WCs schedule (for people interested in sponsoring a single WC), and an application form to become a global sponsor.
  • Change the Global page label to Current Global Sponsors.
  • Remove the 2014 rate sheet that is linked from the multi-event page. Create a current rate sheet (as a page, not a pdf) and update once a year. Each year, post the upcoming year’s rates as well by September so businesses can plan for the coming year.
  • Remove multi-event page since it’s not the current program.
  • Create the page with a sponsorship application form for those interested in global sponsorship.

Any objections to this update?

(Where is the 2015 global sponsorship plan info?)

#official-websites, #sponsorship, #wordcamp-org

Josh Leuze 10:26 pm on August 26, 2015
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Update on building a new WordCamp theme

This is a follow up to the @iandunn post on the WordCamp.org tools survey results.

I setup a Github repo for the new 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. theme with a fork of Underscores to get things started.

To start with I have been collecting feedback and ideas for a new WordCamp theme so that our design lead, @robertnienhuis, has something to work with. I haven’t gotten too much feedback online yet, but have gotten some good ideas from several other organizers offline. If you would like to share some feedback as well please post a comment below!

Theme Features

Here is the feedback that I have collected so far, as well as my own ideas:

  • Great Design: I would like to keep the theme light and minimalist, easy to build on, but also have it look good enough out of the box for a WordCamp without a strong designer to be able to use as-is.
  • Mobile First: I’d really like to include a strong mobile version that makes WordCamp sites easy to use at the event when you are on the go.
  • Widgetized: It’s always tough to get markup where you want it, I’d love a lot of widgetized areas so I can get the content I need in the right spot to match any design. I spoke with some other organizers who would also like more widgetized areas, sitewide and page specific. Particularly for the featured content sections typically found on a WordCamp site.
  • Widgets: Building actual widgets into the theme might be a step too far, but there was some interest in having a few featured widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. styles built in, so that if you used the right markup in a text widget you could get a good looking featured section right out of the box that organizers can expand on from there.
  • Page Templates: Most of the people I talked to were interested in having more page templates to choose from. Like a homepage template with a page content area and multiple widget areas for featured content and also a similar homepage template with a smaller blog area setup as recent posts with excerpts. We’ll need a single column page template of course, but I’d also like to try to include a more minimalist template with little or no headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. or footer as well that people can use for whatever they want as a blank canvas.
  • 404 Template: I’d like to include a pretty minimalist template for this too that includes a widget area just for the 404 page, so that people can create a nice custom 404 page if they want to.

Website Examples

I also have a few examples of WordCamp sites that I like, please share your favorites in the comments!

  • WordCamp Minneapolis: Westwerk did an awesome job designing this site and if we can do half as good I’d be thrilled!
  • WordCamp Montreal: They had a sharp looking site this year, I really like the call to action blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. on the homepage below the header with the tickets/schedule spot, and the subscribe/ social media spot.
  • WordCamp Denver: A nice clean site, great for mobile, with a sweet camping vibe.

I’m pinging people that volunteered to help out in the previous post: @cheffheid, @valeriosza, @dnelle, @danielgcarvalho, @brettshumaker, @davidjlaietta

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

Ian Dunn 3:32 pm on July 9, 2015
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Site Cloner v1 is now available

The first tangible outcome of the Improving WordCamp.org project is now available. The Site Cloner lets you browse through screenshots of other 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. sites, and then easily copy the custom CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. from them, so that you don’t have to start a new site from scratch.

Screenshot of Site Cloner

Props to @ryelle for building the prototype 🙂

If you’d like to check if out, just open up the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. on your site and click on the Clone Another WordCamp panel. Just be sure to not click the Save button, though, unless you actually want to switch your theme and reset your CSS 🙂

It’s the first version, so there are some known bugs and missing features. If you’d like to help out with those, check out these issues on MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.:

It’s also important to keep in mind that there will always be some CSS that is specific to each site; maybe it references a page ID, or uses a background image with the original Camp’s logo, etc. So, you’ll still need to do some work to make the CSS fit your site, but this should get you 90% of the way there.

 

Pinging the people who took part in the previous discussions to make sure they don’t miss the post: @ryelle, @harbormark, @chanthaboune, @nvwd, @kovshenin, @rafaehlers, @davidjlaietta, @dimensionmedia, @iandstewart, @miss_jwo, @topher1kenobe, @jenmylo, @georgestephanis, @valeriosza, @jb510, @jleuze, @robertnienhuis, @cheffheid, @dnelle, @danielgcarvalho, @brettshumaker

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