Title: REST API Meeting Agenda for Nov 7
Author: K. Adam White
Published: November 7, 2019

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kadamwhite/) [K. Adam White](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kadamwhite/)
5:02 pm _on_ November 7, 2019     
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# REST API Meeting Agenda for Nov 7

The REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program
Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is
how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate
with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) [https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/](https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/)
weekly component chat will occur this week at **[November 7, 2019 18:00 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191107T1800)**
in the `#core-restapi` SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
channel.

**Please note: **We have not changed the UTC time for this meeting. If your country
has recently adjusted for daylight savings time, this may be a different hour than
the past few months.

Agenda Items:

 * Continue discussion 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](https://central.wordcamp.org/about/).
   US around [a canonical authentication solution](https://github.com/wp-api/authentication)
   and begin tasking out work towards that effort
 * Discuss priorities for the 5.4 development cycle
 * Discuss needed documentation improvements
 * Open Floor

All agenda items are welcome, from all teams and contributors; please post them 
as comments below or let us know by joining the meeting.

[#agenda](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/agenda/), [#rest-api](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/rest-api/)

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