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Footnotes #456

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Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…

Issue #456 “One of the marvelous…

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Dan Knauss
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…

Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my…

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Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my podcast picks: Open Sourcery: Jonathan Bossenger had a discussion with Mika Epstein about the horrific experience she had when a member of the open-source community harassed her. This leads to a good talk about…

An excellent business-related discussion in Post…

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An excellent business-related discussion in Post Status Slack: Patrick Garman (CEO of Mindsize) asks in our #business Slack channel, "How much cash do you keep on hand in the business?" 💵 The consensus was three months, although Cory Miller always…

Upcoming Events 📆 The Speak Up!…

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Upcoming Events 📆 The Speak Up! Black Speakers in WordPress Workshop hosted by WP Engine is still accepting signups. It will kick off on June 5th. 🧑🏾 WordCamp Europe 2021 has announced it will take place online, June 7-10. 🏕️…

Matt Chowning opened some issues in…

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Matt Chowning opened some issues in the Gutenberg repo to help begin the process of obtaining consent from contributors to relicense their work under the GPLv2 and MPLv2 licenses. Two days later Matt apologized in the wake of contributor reaction…

Ben Gillbanks built a new plugin…

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Ben Gillbanks built a new plugin called Translate Words — it's a simple and quick "change text/translate plugin" that works both on the WordPress front-end and admin area. I like the simple UI. It appears to be good for simple…

Hello CC0! Creative Commons Public Domain…

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Hello CC0! Creative Commons Public Domain Image Search Coming to WordPress 📸   Matt Mullenweg announced this week that CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine, is joining the WordPress project. Eventually, this will make over 500…

Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp Centroamérica is…

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Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp Centroamérica is happening now for the first time between April 15-17. 🌎 WordCamp Greece is happening online today, April 16. 🇬🇷 EXPAND 2021 is a free virtual event for web designers and developers being hosted by…

Josepha Haden Chomphosy has a new…

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Josepha Haden Chomphosy has a new post about some updates to the roadmap and some high-level clarifications about Full Site Editing (SE). 📝 Some Highlights: Full site editing "isn’t shipping as the full, default experience for users... this merge process…

Elementor in the room 🐘 POST…

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Elementor in the room 🐘 POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ A recent conversation in Post Status Slack centers on Elementor. The company targeted "full-site editing" in some of its Google ads. Community member Birgit Pauli-Haack is the publisher of Gutenberg…

At Make WordPress Core there is…

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At Make WordPress Core there is a discussion taking place about dropping support for Internet Explorer 11 in core. IE 11's usage is very low by several measures. It would be a great benefit to developers to let it go.…
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