Design meeting agenda for 9th September 2020

This week’s meeting will be held at 18:00 UTC tomorrow in the #design channel of the WordPress 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/.. You can join the Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Here are the suggested topics:

Housekeeping
- Call for note-takers and triage facilitators
Updates
- GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
Main topics
- 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. patterns for default themes: call for help and feedback during 5.6
Open floor

If there is anything you would like to see added to the agenda, please leave a comment also.

Ari Stathopoulos 4:53 pm on September 8, 2020

I’d like to bring up 2 issues for the meeting:

1. A discussion about font-family stacks for the new font-family picker in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
2. A PR to allow using non-percent units for column sizes by changing the RangeControl to a UnitControl.

The 1st one will be nice for global-styles so users can select the font-families they need, while the 2nd one is necessary if users want to build a side-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. layout in FSE.
Tammie Lister 11:25 am on September 9, 2020
A few points I would like to bring to the housekeeping:
- What iterations can be made to the weekly meeting?
- How can we be more effective about our updates?
Also, discussion about the change of times due to daylight saving might be right to have, although that could also be next week.

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