Community Summit 2023: Your Role in What’s Next
The 2023 WordPress Community Summit has come to a close, marking another milestone in our journey to shape the future of the WordPress open source project. While the event itself was a whirlwind of...
View ArticleCommunity Summit Discussion Notes: Creating WordPress Curriculum and...
From the session schedule: One important way to welcome new users, builders, and extenders of all ages is to create excellent curriculum or educational experiences around WordPress. To address this...
View ArticleCommunity Summit Discussion Notes: Increasing contributor recognition and...
From the session schedule: WordPress contributors are incredible. How can we better acknowledge and celebrate the important contributions made, and recognize the impact they have for the WordPress open...
View ArticleCommunity Summit Discussion Notes: Iterating on the Team Rep role
From the session schedule: Today, each Make Team has a few Team Representatives (often referred to as “Team Reps”). Historically this role was not a leadership position, but designed to help facilitate...
View ArticleCommunity Summit Discussion Notes: Open Source participation in global...
From the session schedule: Historically, the WordPress project has avoided taking clear public stances on legislation as it appeared across the world, instead relying on our sustaining/underwriting...
View ArticleCommunity Summit Discussion Notes: Communication and Collaboration – Finding...
From the session page: The WordPress project both generates and processes a lot of information on a regular basis. Even for tenured contributors, it can be challenging to know where or who to go for...
View ArticleCommunity summit discussion notes: Revitalizing contributor teams’ leadership...
Title of session: Revitalizing Contributor Teams’ Leadership Pipeline Facilitator: @cbringmann Notetakers: @ninianepress, @peiraisotta Personal check-in about the topic How do we feel about the...
View ArticleCommunity Summit Discussion Notes: PHP version support
Title of Session: PHP version support Facilitator: @mikeschroder Notetaker 1: @flixos90 Notetaker 2: @courane01 From the session schedule: Currently, WordPress does not officially fully support PHP...
View ArticleCommunity Summit Discussion Notes: Can WordPress become the household name it...
Title of Session: Can WordPress become the household name it deserves to be? Facilitator: @dtsears Notetaker 1: @mikachan Notetaker 2: @jessibelle From the session schedule: WordPress is the internet’s...
View ArticleCommunity Summit Discussion Notes: Refreshing the contributor pipeline
Title of Session: Refreshing the contributor pipeline Facilitator: @volkswagenchick Notetaker 1: @mikachan Notetaker 2: @evarlese From the session schedule: A healthy contributor pipeline requires new...
View ArticleAccessibility Team Community Summit Notes
Review and update the accessibility coding Standards Considering the shift towards JS-based interfaces, we should consider to review and update the accessibility coding Standards. Announcing dynamic...
View ArticleMobile Team Community Summit Notes
WP-API and the Mobile Apps Currently the apps use WPCOM API and XML-RPC. WP-API works just like any REST API, but the big problem for the apps is Authentication. The discussion focused on that. SSL...
View ArticleTheme Topics @ Contributor Day
Future of the Theme Review process & making it smoother and faster In this session we continued the Theme Review specific discussions from the 13th of June. The main focus was an improved review...
View ArticleCommunity Summit 2017 recaps will be posted here soon
As a few weeks have passed since Community Summit 2017, we’ve gathered some notes of the discussions that took place during the Summit (although we haven’t received notes of all discussions yet). We’ve...
View ArticleWordPress Community Summit 2017: Final list of topics
The 2017 WordPress Community Summit (CS) in Paris (Tuesday, June 13th – Wednesday, June 14th) is less than 5 days away and here is the final list of topics submitted by teams. Core How can we increase...
View ArticleWordPress Community Summit 2017: Attendees and Agenda Summary
The 2017 WordPress Community Summit (CS) is almost here. It will take place on Tuesday, June 13th and Wednesday, June 14th, the two days before contributor day at WordCamp Europe in Paris, France. All...
View ArticleList of topics proposed by teams
As said in the previous post, the following list of topics which need in-person discussions is not definitive as we’ll loop back in the next couple of months. Here’s the current list of topics proposed...
View ArticleWordPress Community Summit 2017 announcement
The 2017 WordPress Community Summit (CS) will take place on Tuesday-Wednesday, 13-14 June, before WordCamp Europe in Paris, France and it’s a by-invitation conference. The main purpose of the summit is...
View ArticleCommunity Summit 2017: Sign-up Request
The Community Summit unconference is the event of conversations, so the time will be dedicated to group discussions prioritizing topics or tasks which are sensitive enough to specifically require...
View ArticleNotes from Eliminating Pain when Changing Themes discussion
One of those frustrating issues. 1) Target the problems and 2) propose solutions. Nothing works when installing a new theme. Doesn’t look like the picture. Takes time (a couple of hours even) to get it...
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