Krystle Salazar 9:23 pm on November 6, 2024
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Openverse Monthly Priorities Meeting 2024-11-06

OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. contributors held a community meeting today to discuss priorities for November.

You can loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. in the conversation on the #openverse channel of the Making WordPress Chat. We appreciate any ideas and help offered.

You can read the ongoing notes document for these meetings here and the summary in the first comment below.

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Zack Krida 1:01 pm on July 30, 2024
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Openverse Monthly Priorities Meeting 2024-08-07

OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. contributors will host a community meeting to discuss priorities for August at 1500 UTC on August 7st, 2024.

A video chat link will be provided in the #openverse channel of the Making WordPress Chat. We hope to see you there!

You can read the ongoing notes document for these meetings here.

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Zack Krida 8:46 pm on May 20, 2024
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Openverse Monthly Priorities Meeting 2024-06-05

OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. contributors will host a community meeting to discuss priorities for June at 1500 UTC on June 5th, 2024.

A sync video chat link will be provided in the #openverse channel of the Making WordPress Chat. We hope to see you there!

You can read the ongoing notes document for these meetings here.

This meeting in particular will also serve as a mid-year check in for the project and our goals.

#openverse-priorities, #priorities

Madison Swain-Bowden 7:33 pm on June 4, 2024
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Openverse maintainers welcome Princewill Onyenanu as a new committer

It gives us great pleasure to announce that Princewill Onyenanu (@madewithkode) has been added as a committer to the OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. project! His contributions to Openverse across the stack as well as his work on our documentation (for the catalog, Airflow, and in general) have helped us address long-desired improvements throughout the project. We’re thankful for his continued effort as a community contributor!

#openverse-committers

Zack Krida 6:30 pm on March 28, 2024
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Openverse Monthly Priorities Meeting 2024-04-03

OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. contributors will host a community meeting to discuss priorities for April at 1500 UTC on April 3rd, 2024.

A sync video chat link will be provided in the #openverse channel of the Making WordPress Chat. We hope to see you there!

You can read the ongoing notes document for these meetings here.

#openverse-priorities, #priorities

Madison Swain-Bowden 7:11 pm on February 28, 2024
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Openverse Monthly Priorities Meeting 2024-03-06

OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. contributors will host a community meeting to discuss priorities for March at 1700 UTC on March 6th, 2024.

A sync video chat link will be provided in the #openverse channel of the Making WordPress Chat. We hope to see you there!

You can read the ongoing notes document for these meetings here.

#openverse-priorities, #priorities

Zack Krida 4:28 pm on November 16, 2022
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Openverse Now Includes Over 1 Million Audio Records

OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. has reached a crucial milestone of including over 1,000,000 Creative Commons licensed audio files in our collection of GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples.-compatible media. When we launched audio earlier this year we included roughly ten thousand files.

The growth of the collection of the year is a testament to our contributors, partners, and audio sources. In particular, work to refactor our Provider DAGs, the scripts which collect Openverse media from 3rd party APIs, led by sponsored contributor @stacimc, helped us reach this exciting milestone. Thanks to Staci and all the Openverse contributors who made this possible!

Openverse indexes audio from Jamendo, Freesound, and Wikimedia Commons. Do you have another source of openly-licensed audio you’re excited about? Please send Openverse contributors your suggestions using our GitHub issue form.

#announcement

Madison Swain-Bowden 8:33 pm on February 5, 2024
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Openverse Monthly Priorities Meeting 2024-02-07

OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. contributors will host a community meeting to discuss priorities for February at 1500 UTC on February 7th, 2024.

A sync video chat link will be provided in the #openverse channel of the Making WordPress Chat. We hope to see you there!

You can read the ongoing notes document for these meetings here.

#openverse-priorities, #priorities

Madison Swain-Bowden 2:44 pm on September 15, 2023
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Openverse 2024 Planning: We Want Your Ideas!

As we near the close of 2023, our sights are set on the horizon of the coming year. OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. has grown incredibly over the past year, thanks to the countless contributions, feedback, and ideas of our passionate community members. We have had some excellent successes this year, including:

This project thrives on collaboration, and as we begin plotting our course for 2024, we want to hear from you. Have an idea that could improve Openverse? Noticed a feature gap we haven’t addressed? Have suggestions to improve existing features? We are eager to hear all about it!

How to Contribute Your Idea:

  1. Post a Comment Below – Share your idea in the comments section of this blog post.
  2. Provide a Clear Summary – Begin with a concise summary of your idea to give everyone a clear snapshot.
  3. If possible, Include an In-depth Description – After your summary, dive into a more detailed explanation. The more information you provide, the better we can understand and evaluate your proposal. If you aren’t sure what the feature looks like from a technical standpoint, that’s okay!

Things to Consider:

  • How will your idea improve or expand Openverse?
  • Who benefits from this idea? (Is it for developers, end-users, or both?)
  • Are there potential challenges or pitfalls to consider?
  • If possible, provide examples or use-cases.

Remember, Openverse is not just a tool or a platform—it’s a collaborative vision. It’s the collective input from individuals like you that makes Openverse truly special and continuously evolving. We’re committed to ensuring that our project reflects the needs and aspirations of the community.

Whether you’re a seasoned Openverse contributor or someone who recently came across our project, your voice matters. Let’s come together, share insights, and craft the future of Openverse. We appreciate your input!

#planning, #project-planning

Madison Swain-Bowden 11:10 pm on December 28, 2023
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Openverse Monthly Priorities Meeting 2024-01-03

OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. contributors will host a community meeting to discuss priorities for January at 1500 UTC on January 3rd, 2024.

A sync video chat link will be provided in the #openverse channel of the Making WordPress Chat. We hope to see you there!

You can read the ongoing notes document for these meetings here.

#openverse-priorities, #priorities