Jen Mylo has announced the WordPress summer mentorship programs. Google Summer of Code is for college/university students to get involved with development in an open source project. Gnome is an outreach program for women and is open to contributions in any area of the project. Both programs have a stipend of around $5,000.
The website for A Day of REST is now powered by the REST API, and uses React. Better yet, it’s available on Github! Happy exploring. Nice work by my podcast co-host Joe Hoyle, with design by Noel Tock.
The WooThemes team put up a landing page today for their first ever WooCommerce conference, which is to be held in San Francisco November 3rd and 4th. The conference is right on the heels of WordCamp San Francisco, which is October 25th – 29th. So those of you that want to make two trips in one…
Chassis is a virtual server for WordPress that’s been made available to the public while it’s still in the early stages of development. It’s an open source community project with commercial support from Human Made. With the Chassis Desktop interface you can choose your PHP version, a few available extensions, and enjoy some keyboard navigation.
FooPlugins aims to be an improvement on existing marketplaces and to service not only the end user, but also the many talented WordPress plugin developers in a way that no other marketplace has been able (or willing) to do before.
Next in our Member Spotlight is Nev Harris. Nev shows agency owners where the profit is hiding in their business.
Vito Peleg, Atarim‘s cofounder and CEO, explains how he “cracked” the partnership problem to find alignment with other companies that can help them all accelerate their growth. Alex Denning on the launch of Ellipsis‘ Weather Report: “We’ve never had this insight before, and it is exciting and terrifying to bring this kind of ‘live’ view of the industry, to the industry.” The acquisition trend is still up, on average. Meet Post Status business member Penske Media Corporation — PMC.
