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Steve Grunwell: Keeping WordPress Under [Version] Control with Git

Michael Wiginton 3:07 pm on February 6, 2015
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WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“It’s good to be in a role when you can learn something new.”
– Matt Mullenweg (Forbes interview 2014)

No videos were submitted this week but we did publish some that were in the queue.

The Pending queue and the AWS account are clear and ready for videos.

In the Mod Chat we talked about:
Pinging past WordCamps for any videos they have ready for submission.
Moving the WPTV docs to a new home at https://wptvdocs.wordpress.com/

moving the post-production docs to the new home
starting some docs on subtitling
moving the WPTV videos to the new home
creating the post-production docs for Mac

Updated list of WordCamp video submissions.

In The Last 7 Days

We published 3 videos from 3 WordCamps and meetups around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Videos Last Week

Chris Lema: Keynote Speaker

Kyle Maurer: Theme Customization Best Practices

#moderator-tags

Michael Wiginton 1:48 pm on January 30, 2015
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WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“I believe that WordPress allows us to satisfy people’s hopes and dreams, if you let it.”
– Chris Lema

Great information, ideas and teaching comes out of WordCamps and meetups, we need to have more of that available for everyone on WPTV.

We had videos to mod from WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Grand Rapids and WordCamp Milwaukee this week.

We are starting to get videos from WordCamp Mumbai and some more from WordCamp Europe.

No Mod Chat this week due to scheduling conflicts.

Updated list of WordCamp video submissions.

In The Last 7 Days

We published 11 videos from 5 WordCamps and meetups around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCamp Videos Last Week

Ross Johnson: Designing For The First Five Seconds

Christine Harkin: Finding and Maintaining Your Blog’s Voice

Michael Wiginton 5:09 pm on January 8, 2015
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WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill

The ModSquad had it’s first chat since the holidays.
It was a short but productive chat where we talked about getting more WordCamps to submit videos to WPTV and some improvements to WPTV.
https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/wptv/s1420606800000000

The Pending queue has a few WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Raleigh videos to mod and we are still getting some videos from WordCamp Salt Lake City.

Submitted videos continues to be slow this week. No new WordCamp submissions.
43 WordCamps held from July 2014 to December 2014 and 24 of those (55%) have no videos submitted.

The Last 7 Days

We published 34 videos from 4 WordCamps and meetups around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCamp Videos This Week

Siobhan McKeown: WordPress: Bringing Ideas to Life

Michael Wiginton 6:08 pm on December 18, 2014
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WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“We can only see a short distance ahead but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
– Alan Turing

We published the first ever videos from WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Warsaw and the first videos for the Polish speaking community. Congratulations WordCamp Warsaw.

And thanks to @brashrebel we now have a new slides link box which means no more cutting and pasting in the slide link. Hooray!!

Submitted videos continues to be slow this week.
37 WordCamps held from July to November and 21 of those have no videos submitted.

The Last 7 Days

We published 13 videos from 5 WordCamps and meetups around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCamp Videos This Week

Siobhan McKeown: WordPress: Bringing Ideas to Life

In Process

Working the kinks out of the buddy system.

Steve Zehngut: Build a WordPress Theme with Foundation and Underscores

Michael Wiginton 8:05 pm on December 4, 2014
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WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius

Due to the US holiday this week, uploads to WPTV and modding have been slow. We do have videos uploaded from WC São Paulo and we are starting to get videos from WC Charleston. We are also getting videos from WC Grand Rapids and WC Salt Lake City.

Of the 39 WordCamps held worldwide since July there are 23 with no video submissions.

The Last 7 Days

We published 8 videos from 4 WordCamps around the world. We did lose 9 videos due to technical problems with the videos.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Videos This Week

Jenny Wong: Principles of Debugging

In Process

The new buddy system is getting a workout this week. All new mods have been assigned a buddy under the new system.

Luke Wroblewski: From the Front Lines of Multi-Device Web Design

jerrysarcastic 1:38 am on November 27, 2014
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WordPress.tv Moderator Chat – Recap

Today we discussed a few things that we have been working on since the Community Summit, and where we are headed for 2015. Full chat archive is here.

Moderator Handbook – We’re still working on building this out as a group, so we do also have some documents staged in Google Docs so we can iterate and add any feedback. Final text is then added to the handbook here (linked in the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme.)
Buddy System – To help onboard new moderators we are going to try out a “buddy system” where a new mod is paired with an experienced one. Documentation is here (#) and we also created a few buddy pairs for our newest mods
Assisting WordCamps – We have talked off and on and have done some preliminary leg work for this year. For 2015 we are going to actively reach out to an early camp, and offer to provide both guidance (how to set up for filming, etc.) as well as post-production help. If possible we will try to do this in a location where a mod is nearby, and also work video into the contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. for that camp.
Return of weekly meetings – We experimented with office hours, but in the end decided to return to a standard weekly format as our team has grown to a size where this makes sense. Our meeting time/location is in the sidebar, and we hope to see you next week!

We also added two new mods (Beth Soderberg and Evan Zimmerman) to the squad this week. Glad to have you both! 🙂

#team-chat

Michael Wiginton 9:05 pm on November 13, 2014
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WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
– Albert Einstein

We have been busy moderating videos from several WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. submissions this week. We are finishing the WordCamp San Francisco and videos from WordCamp NYC. We are getting submissions from WordCamp Grand Rapids, WordCamp Tokyo and the first videos from WordCamp Salt Lake City. If you have any questions about where a video is in the process just SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. me @roseapplemedia.

Also mods if you have completed a video please use the “READY TO PUBLISH” tag so they can get published quickly.

The Last 7 Days

We published 36 videos from 4 WordCamps around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCamp Videos This Week

Yasmine Mustafa: How I Made $15,000+ From One Blog Post

In Process

Update New Mod Handbook and video, documentation for the “Buddy System” for adding new moderators.

Steve Zehngut: Build a WordPress Theme with Foundation and Underscores

Michael Wiginton 7:55 pm on October 2, 2014
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WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Videos are still being submitted from WC Calgary and WC Maine (both using the new bulk upload). And WC Belo Horizonte has started to upload using the new system. WC Cape Town and WC Bleo Horizonte are submitting some of their 2013 videos.

For the WordCamps held in the month of July we do not have any video submissions from WC Bournemouth, WC Milwaukee or WC Auckland. We do have some meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. videos submitted from the Big Media WordPress meetups along with other meetup groups that are in the Pending queue for moderation.

Quality videos continue to be a big issue. Although the moderators are very forgiving when it comes to technical issues some videos are just not usable because of sound quality, video quality, lighting problems and other technical issues.

There were 14 videos that did not get published this week because of technical problems. We did publish 15 videos from 3 WordCamps and meetups around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Videos This Week

Morten Rand-Hendriksen: Future Responsive Today – Embracing mobile-first with ‘picture’ and FlexBox

Xiao Yu: WP <3 Elasticsearch

In Process:

To help the quality of WordCamp videos, links to the operations manual for each of the cameras in the kits along with recommended camera settings and camera framing suggestions will be available in the coming weeks.