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  • X-post: Welcome to the Community Summit Workspace!

    X-post from +make.wordpress.org/summit: Welcome to the Community Summit Workspace! Login to Reply

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  • WordCamp Talk Proposals weekly slack chat recap 11/01/17

    The last weekly 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/ chat took place Wednesday Jan 11 at 5pm UTC. The archive starts here. Present: Mathieu VIet, Tom Nowell, Andrea Middleton. Post status We kicked off with some recent work done by Tom on…

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  • This week’s design meeting agenda for January 12th

    This week’s chat is happening . This weeks agenda is light: Lets talk about ‘what makes a great editor’ and give some feedback on @joen‘s amazing post. Contribution day projects: what can we have ready for people to do design wise? How can we tie in the focuses here? Anything else? Feel free to leave…

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  • Marketing to End-Users – January 11 2017 Meeting Notes

    The Marketing to End-Users team met for the first time since 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 and the completion of the…

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  • REST API Documentation Meeting January 11

    After a slow period through the holidays the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store…

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  • What makes a great editor?

    The editor will be a big focus in 2017, so let’s chat about what makes a great editor. Perhaps it’s good to look at what’s there, and compare that with the goals we mean to achieve: The editor will endeavour to create a new page and post building experience that makes writing rich posts effortless,…

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  • Controlling access to REST API user functionality for multisite

    Following last week’s discussion in #core-multisite (read the recap) this week’s office hours agenda was to continue the chat about the multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also…

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  • Plugin directory chat 2017-01-12

    Back on schedule this week. Join us at in #meta to talk about the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming…

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  • First Meeting Schedule

    After collecting availability in #hosting-community, the first weekly meeting is scheduled for . Due to interest from many time zones (a good problem to have!), there wasn’t a time that would work for everyone, but it can change in the future as is helpful. For the first meeting, I’d like to go over the purpose…

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  • Agenda for January 12th Support Meeting

    General Announcements WordPress 4.7.1 New Forum Theme New Also Viewing Script (from @clorith, install this browser script for Tampermonkey or Greasemonkey) Checkin with International Support Liaisons For any other items to discuss please add them in the comments below, or bring them up in the meeting. The meeting will be in #forums on SlackSlack Slack…

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