2015 Contributor Survey

Hi 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. folks! Thanks for all your hard work and contributions in 2015. Could you contribute few more minutes to fill in the 2015 contributor survey? It will help us establish some baselines around the contributor experience so that we can see how things change over time.

**This is being posted to all the Make teams, so if you subscribe to a bunch of p2s and keep seeing this post, know that you only need to fill the survey in once, not once per team.**

The survey is anonymous (so you can be extra honest), all questions are optional (so you can skip any that you don’t want to answer), and we’ll post some aggregate results by the end of January. It took testers 5-10 minutes to complete on average (depends how much you have to say), so I bet you could knock it out right after you read this post! 🙂

There are two sections of the survey. The first has questions about team involvement, recognition, and event involvement, and is pretty much what you’d expect from an annual survey (which teams did you contribute to, how happy are you as a contributor, etc).

The second section is about demographics so we can take a stab at assessing how diverse our contributor base is. All questions are optional, but the more information we have the better we can figure out what we need to improve. If there’s some information you’d rather not identify, that’s okay, but please do not provide false information or use the form to make jokes — just skip those questions.

The survey will be open until January 15, 2016. Whether you have 5 minutes now, or 10 over lunch (or whenever), please take the 2015 contributor survey. Thanks!

#annual-survey, #contributors

WCSF Final Planning

If you are not attending WCSF this year, you can ignore this post. If you are coming and planning to participate as part of 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. team, please click through and read it all. 🙂

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#wcsf, #wcsf2014

@otto42 Can you get rid of the make…

@otto42: Can you get rid of the make.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//events blog? We pushed it into /community a long time ago, but the site is still there, and people still wind up there and leave comments that no one responds to.

#make, #site-deletion

WCSF 2014

Heads up, meta team! We’re getting ready to publish details about the plans for WordCamp San Francisco this October (which includes a mini team meetup), so if you’re thinking of attending, please read the post at https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2014/06/12/wordcamp-san-francisco-travel-contributor-days/ and take the short survey linked at the end of it so I’ll know how many team members to plan for (don’t worry, this isn’t a commitment or anything, I just need to get some rough numbers for budgeting purposes). Thanks!

#wcsf, #wcsf2014

The accessibility team needs a plugin for their…

The accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) team needs a 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 for their site that will allow them to create tables for displaying tabular data/content in their accessibility reports (pages). I know TMCE has a table builder that we could add, but what I’m not sure about is if it creates accessible tables.

1. Getting tables on there at all: better with a plugin that’s already out there, or better to write a one-off that just adds that one thing?

2. Once the options are identified something in place, @accessiblejoe can take a look at the table output to see if it’s accessible of if we need to write an add-on to make it that way.

#accessibilty, #make, #tinymce

Talked with @coffee2code about Profiles today He’s going…

Talked with @coffee2code about Profiles today.

  • He’s going to deployDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. (and test, and fix any bugs) the profile/buddypress stuff that Mert did during GSoC. At this time only the back-end stuff is going to be deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors., no UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. changes.
  • Scott is going to install/turn on 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(s) to pull Make posts and comments, tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. comments, etc into the activity stream to make it more inclusive.
  • I’ll work with @melchoyce on new UI for profiles based on my conversation with Scott.
  • After the back end stuff is running smoothly, will work on launching UI improvement.

Later follow-up work/projects:

  • Bring activity from events (wordcamps, meetups, etc) into the stream.
  • Create one .org profile instead of 2 (bring in the support stuff).
  • Related: upgrade forums to current bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. plugin (big standalone project, big implications, but will tie in)

#profiles

Could we install the co authors plus plugin…

Could we install the co-authors plus plugin?
Thanks!

#plugin

A while back on September 11 @andreamiddleton tried…

A while back on September 11, @andreamiddleton tried to import the /events blog into the /community blog since we were merging teams. She hit a bug/error/some kind of blocker in the import and reported it. @nacin and @otto42 said they’d look into the weird encoding issues. It wasn’t a priority, sure, but in the meantime we’re double-posting stuff and we still haven’t truly merged the groups. Could someone see if this can be figured out?
Thanks!

#community, #events, #import, #make

@otto42 @iandunn posted a plugin on trac for…

@otto42: @iandunn posted a plugin on trac for the /community team site 5 weeks ago. Could that get added, or if it’s not ready could you tell him what he needs to change? It’s a bottleneck for some stuff we want to do on our team site to make it easier for groups working on separate projects. Thanks!

#community, #make, #plugin

Added @krogsgard as an author here as he’s…

Added @krogsgard as an author here, as he’s getting started on the Make home site work.