Design meeting notes for Wednesday May 9, 2018

From this week on, the weekly design meetings occur on Wednesday 17.00 UTC. You can find this week’s design meeting transcript here on Slack, or jump to different topic discussions by using the links in the document following.

Housekeeping

• Can we post meeting times in just one place?
  We have a discussion on where all the times are mentioned and are looking for an easier way of keeping the info in sync but visible for people in an easy way.
  @boemedia is now updating the meeting times where necessary and will create an overview of where to edit. We briefly discuss the findability of https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/ and the way it’s presented. There are tickets for improving this page to be a calendar, but we don’t go into this too deep.
• Gathering onboarding feedback
  If everyone can add their thoughts to this document, it will allow us to learn from each others experience contributing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MagB7v9SK6SDnMb1nqc6jrYQ9Fs6y82Utn2jkWRbTp4/edit?usp=sharing
• Add fonts as resources
  Looks like the fonts are there, and just need to be added to the handbook.
• Using trac
  We’d like to make it easier for first time contributors to do stuff. Integrating the tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. guide would help.

Triage Inbox

• Create A Blog: Copy & Wireframe
  This is a priority task just looking for someone to own it. During the meeting, we’ve clarified what is needed from a designer and updated the card on Trello with more information. This call for design will take a bit of reading, but if you have ideas on how to make this future page for 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/ visually appealing, please go ahead and own this project.
• Audit content of handbook
  Currently, the handbook doesn’t have a clear and usable structure. To improve this, we started a document to audit the handbook. @boemedia will start working on this, but if anyone else is happy to join, please do.

Calls for design

• PHP Meeting is revived
  It was a bit confusing, since this ticket asked for both design feedback on the 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. that will appear in the WP-admin dashboard, as well as the page the widget leads to.
  From @flixos90: I’m not sure if this fits in your meeting today, so please let me or the #core-php channel know when there’s time for it. We’re also around to help with contextual questions of course. For feedback, please comment on the 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. ticket for the page https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3609
  We discussed this call for design in today’s meeting, but it still needs some clarification: has coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. given feedback on the original design of February 2? Design questions are: What color is good? What icons to use? What illustrations could help?
  Should it match the rest of wp?
  Find the conversation 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/.: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02S78ZAL/p1525887844000224

Thanks everyone for lively conversations again! Hope to see you all again at next week’s meeting.

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