Community Team Chats – December 20 2018

The Community Team meets twice a month, first and third Thursday, at two different times to cover different timezones.

Agenda and 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/. logs from November 15: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy Check-in

Everyone is busy with the end of year. No blockers.

P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. posts needing review/feedback

Chat scheduling over End of Year Holidays

Proposed to skip the first chat of 2019, since it’s during Christmas holidays for a large part of Contributors. We will start again on January 17.

WordCamp US 2018 Contributor Day Recap

The recap has all the details of the projects we worked on at WCUS. No discussion needed, but if someone wants to adopt a project and go on with it, please 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.” us in the Community Events channel and we will help you get started!

WordPress Governance Project Chats

During 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, a discussion was started about creating a Governance Project for WordPress. The team behind it asked to hold the chat in the Community Team channels. Initially we said yes, but upon further discussion it was decided to move it to another Slack instance, since this is not an officially sanctioned 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/ project.

During the 20:00 UTC there was a lively discussion about Governance and the project itself, so if you are interested in knowing more start reading from here.

Highlighted P2 posts

WordCamp camera kit program discussion wrap up

Thanks for commenting and volunteering to send camera kits and make the experience better for the WordCamp organisers.

Open Floor

We have a big backlog of 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. applications, we are constantly struggling to keep afloat. If you are a trained deputy and you can help, please do!

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