Weekly meeting This week we have our usual…

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Weekly meeting

This week we have our usual meeting at 18:00 UTC. So far the topics are:

Keeping up with coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. There are tickets we should be paying attention to, how do we do that?

@greenshady would like to talk about adding customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. examples to the WPTRT githubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo.

@chipbennett would like to talk about licenses.

If there is anything else you’d like to talk about please note it here.

Chip Bennett 12:43 am on May 17, 2015

Actually, I want to talk about both Favicons, and CC 4.0 license compatibility with 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..
- Samuel Wood (Otto) 11:34 pm on May 18, 2015
  
  I know all the details on CC 4.0. PingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me when the topic comes up, and i’ll come around to explain it
  - Chip Bennett 11:49 pm on May 18, 2015
    
    I’ll pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” you when the meeting starts, assuming I’m able to make it. The TL;DR version of what I want to propose is that CC-By 4.0, as listed as 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 for non-code artistic works by GNU, should be acceptable for directory-hosted Themes in that specific context:
    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#ccby
    
    In general, I think we should adhere to our current policy of accepting what GNU accepts. Since GNU now accepts CC-By 4.0 as GPL-compatible for “art and entertainment works, and educational works”, then we should do likewise, for “art and entertainment works, and educational works” bundled with Themes. The main impact would be for image files, I think.
Justin Tadlock 7:54 pm on May 18, 2015

I might not be able to make the meeting tomorrow because my father is coming down to my place. It really just depends on what time he gets here. I’ll leave some notes about what I wanted to discuss with the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. examples here in the comments if I can’t make it.
- Justin Tadlock 3:48 pm on May 19, 2015
  If I’m not able to make it today, the idea that I was thinking about is creating a GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo for the WPTRT account that shares customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. examples.
  - Show how to utilize all of the “out of the box” customizer controls.
  - Show how to do more advanced controls, settings, etc.
  - Show how to manipulate controls with JS.