Title: Missing Discussion Notes
Author: Jen
Published: November 13, 2012
Last modified: May 12, 2013

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) [Jen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/)
7:45 pm _on_ November 13, 2012      

# Missing Discussion Notes

Hi everyone. Now that everyone has recovered from the summit (and/or the subsequent
trip to Pressnomics) it’s time to follow up on all our promises to each other at
the summit. To that end, we’re trying to get all the discussion group notes posted
and action items coordinated. There are some discussions that don’t seem to have
any notes:

 * _The Downside of Theme Customizers and 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/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/)
   or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. Options Screens: Oversimplification_
 * _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/](https://wordpress.org/) Profiles and
   Transitioning to bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress
   for easily creating forums on sites. [https://bbpress.org](https://bbpress.org)
   2.X_
 * _What challenges do people face with release schedules and management?_
 * _Education Tools_

If you were in one of these discussions and would be able to produce a summary of
who was there and what was discussed (and what the action item was), that would 
be outstanding.

I’ve drafted a page of collected [action items](http://wp.me/P2EmxJ-gl) from the
discussions. This is basically a public draft right now, covered in notes for follow-
up, but I wanted to make it public sooner rather than later so that it’s clear we
are actually following up on things. Once the working notes are cleared off and 
people are assigned to follow up on various things, I’ll add the page to the nav
of this site.

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 2.  [Mike Hansen](http://mikehansen.me)  8:22 pm _on_ November 13, 2012
 3. I think the best summary I have seen on “The Downside of Theme Customizers and 
    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/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/)
    or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. Options Screens: Oversimplification”
    is found on the blog of BlueLimeMedia. See link below.
 4. [http://www.bluelimemedia.com/2012/11/01/wordpress-community-summit-2012/](http://www.bluelimemedia.com/2012/11/01/wordpress-community-summit-2012/)

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