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  • Post Summit Status

    The number one question asked at the summit of me was “Can I join 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…

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  • No Devhub Chat Tomorrow

    Per @samuelsidler, there will be no Devhub chat this week. Next chat will be Tuesday, 11/11/2014 at 20:00 UTC. #devhubLogin to Reply

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  • Team meeting: Tools review

    Note: These are all in note form from the team meetings that took place over 2 days after the WordPress summit. When words like everyone and we are used, they are done for the group that was there. This was a cross section of the people who review and work on this project. This meeting’s…

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  • Weekly Chat Times

    With the end of Daylight Savings Time in the US this past weekend, we decided to make the UTC times for the weekly meetings one hour later to keep the meeting times the same in each team member’s timezone. The chat times in the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area…

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  • Open Update Thread

    What’s going on in your coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development world this week? Drop a comment. Let it OUT. #open-update-thread

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  • Dev Chat Summary, October 29th

    https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core/p1414613658002331 Misses BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1…

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  • Team meeting: Mentorship program review

    Note: These are all in note form from the team meetings that took place over 2 days after the WordPress summit. When words like everyone and we are used, they are done for the group that was there. This was a cross section of the people who review and work on this project. This meeting’s…

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  • Polyglots leads discussion and selection – WP Community Summit

    Polyglots leads discussion Leading the polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ isn’t an easy task. Lots of cultures, a lot of diversity. Understanding everyone can be hard. There have been issues in the past with specific communities using…

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  • Team meeting: Updates

    Note: These are all in note form from the team meetings that took place over 2 days after the WordPress summit. When words like everyone and we are used, they are done for the group that was there. This was a cross section of the people who review and work on this project. This meeting’s…

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  • Team meeting: Checklists

    Note: These are all in note form from the team meetings that took place over 2 days after the WordPress summit. When words like everyone and we are used, they are done for the group that was there. This was a cross section of the people who review and work on this project. This meeting’s…

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