General announcements
WordPress 4.9.9 has been given a tentative release date of November 5th. This is subject to change, but is the current working date.
Checking in with international liaisons
Members of the Russian, Hindi, Dutch, Brazilian, Urdu, Swedish, German and Spanish communities were part of this weeks meeting, letting us know things are going well in their respective communities as well.
Open floor
The 404 page on the forums isn’t very helpful, as many things may have happened to a topic before you end up on this page. Adding a bit more information will help users going forward. We’ll be ticketing this and following up on the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/..
At 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. US this year, we’ll be doing another of our onboarding sessions. If there are items you feel should be included please reach out to @zoonini or @bethannon1 and they’ll help facilitate this!
Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)