A Quick Caveat
The Top Focuses
Projects
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CMS : Test, iterate, and ship Phase 3 of the Gutenberg Gutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ project -
Community : Continue to support the community through learning , events , and mentorship of current and future contributors -
Ecosystem : Address the difficulty in moving platforms through the Data Liberation project as well as streamline existing review processes across repositories
Obstacles
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Growth : Our new installations are stagnant year over year. The time to encourage the use of open source Open Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. software solutions like WordPress is now. Our project is pro-business and pro-commerce, and we’re committed to aiding in our users’ success by providing access and opportunities to those who might not have them otherwise. -
Differentiation : Our event series needs to grow past a “one size fits all” strategy. With more advanced topics and more focused events, we can meet our community where it is—in a moment where time is valuable and joining an event should clearly help them reach their goals.
How Can You Help?
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Development, Technology, Code : Core Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. /Editor, Mobile, CLI CLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. /Tide, Security, Performance -
Design, Product, UX UX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. / UI UI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. : Design, Accessibility Accessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility ) , Test, Triage -
Community, Extending WP, Education : Community, Themes, Plugins, Polyglots, Training -
Contributor Experience : Meta Meta 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. , Docs, Hosting, Privacy -
Communications : Marketing, Support, WPTV