Cami Kaos covers some common questions involving the Code of Conduct that is associated with the WordPress Community Team — in particular, what happens if someone “does something wrong” — and if the problem is not resolved? 🤔
Cami says this is a rare outcome:
“when a swift end is put to the situation and no harm came to anyone, that’s usually the whole story of what happens.”
John James Jacoby has been the main source of (unofficial) information about the removal of active install statistical tracking for plugins in the WordPress.org repository. On Friday, he provided more technical details on the WPwatercooler podcast.
How has the WordPress community changed since its early days? How does money and market share change it? What lies ahead?
Here’s a helpful and interesting look at the policies and procedures for Code of Conduct violations at WordCamp Europe. If you’re involved in event organization, check it out. You’d be surprised that these types of actions do periodically have to be enforced.
Next time the WordPress Community starts a discussion over GPL, lets try and understand the starting point of the ideas on the other side.
Cory Miller asks, “What can we do to better support our plugin developers and product owners?” Katie Keith offers some clues with the story of her WordPress/WooCommerce agency and product shop, Barn2 Plugins. Dan Knauss and Nyasha Green talk about microaggressions, the Active Install Growth Data story, and US federal legislation aimed at Open Source Security. In an increasingly “demon-haunted world,” how can we know who is doing what with the hardware and software tools we use? Ben Gabler, CEO and Founder of Rocket.net, is in our Member Spotlight.
WPArmchair is a pet project by David Bisset. An avid WordCamp fan, he’s regularly created microsites for WordCamps, so that attendees and folks at home can follow along, viewing tweets and pictures based on WordCamp hashtags. Now, WPArmchair is taking it to the next level. The folks behind AppPresser, which I’ve reviewed before, have created the…
