Community Meeting Recap (Mar 22nd) – Make Openverse

Welcome!

Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media. It is both a website where you can search, discover, and learn how to use and attribute media, as well as an openly accessible REST API.

The OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. team builds the Openverse Catalog, API, and front-end application, as well as integrations between Openverse and WordPress. Follow this site for updates and discussions on the project.

You can also come chat with us in #openverse on the Make WP Chat. We have a weekly developer chat at 15:00 UTC on Mondays.

If you’re a new contributor, welcome! Have a look at our good first issues or our guide for new contributors.

Meeting Start (in Slack)

Meeting End (in Slack)

Takeaways

Done

In progress

All media grid is nearly ready, except a few small bugs [ref]
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. in APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. hyperlinks [ref]
- PR#574 proxies using NGINXNGINX NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability. In addition to its HTTP server capabilities, NGINX can also function as a proxy server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP, TCP, and UDP servers. https://www.nginx.com/. (changes requested)
- PR#576 rewrites URLs (merged)
RFCs
- Monitoring [ref]
- Feature flags [ref]
TSification [ref]
HTTPS in frontend dev [ref]
Monorepo discussion [ref]
Making Overvue and the Openverse Slack integration official [ref]
Focus-visible in Safari is not working [ref]

High priority issues for triage/fixing

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