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Community Roundup Week Ending August 4

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Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
WCUS Releases Schedule & Speaker Lineup I'm very excited about the inclusive speaker slate for WordCamp US 2023. The roster includes incredibly qualified speakers who will present on an amazing and varied topic list. See the speaker page here. See…
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Community Roundup Week Ending July 28

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Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Post Status Reveals New Community Code of Conduct If "good fences make good neighbors" (Robert Frost), then a good code of conduct makes a good community. Knowing the boundaries allows a community to thrive. Drawing heavily from the WordPress/WordCamp Code…

Jobs Change, Membership Doesn’t

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Dan Knauss
Post Status Team Blog
This is my last post as the editor at Post Status. I'm moving on to a new opportunity at StellarWP. Of course, this doesn't seem like moving much at all. One of the great things about the distributed work culture…

Trust Issues

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Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
WordPress Business News Roundup for the Week of October 3 Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo In reaction to as-yet-unpublicized details about the abuse of active install data in the WordPress.org plugin repository, the charts displaying that data have…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) — Trust and Distrust: Microaggressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security

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Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Dan and Ny take on three issues in the WordPress community that can threaten or impair trust while also revealing how foundational trust is, especially in open source. First, they talk about Ny's…

WordPress Community News Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022

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Michelle Frechette
PlanetThe Week in Review
Post Status Member Spotlight: Tom Greenwood Tom Greenwood is the co-founder and Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, a sustainability-focused WordPress agency that is a certified B Corp. Tom has led a number of environmentally concerned projects in the web design…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 69) — WCUS Afterthoughts, Accessibility, and Pay Transparency

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Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Dan and Ny talk about their WordCamp US experiences both good and bad. Their conversation focuses on accessibility and disability. Ny had an experience with Uber at WCUS that made her agree with Dan's preference for traditional and preferably unionized…

WordCamp US San Diego 2022 Experiences — Post Status Draft 124

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Dan Knauss
DraftPlanet
There are always new people coming in, being embraced and accepted, and being shown the way.Cory Miller In this episode, Cory and Michelle talk about their takeaways from WordCamp US. The Post Status Huddle ahead of the conference was a…

Post Status Picks for the Week of August 22

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Dan Knauss
PlanetThe Week in Review
Post Status Podcast Picks 🎙️ Underrepresented In Tech: Piccia Neri on recruiting and how to hire or build a diverse team.Do The Woo: Bob Dunn comments on Five For The Future — on giving to the community and also making…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 66) — What Does It Mean To Contribute To WordPress?

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Dan Knauss
PlanetPost Status Podcasts
In this episode, Dan and Ny talk about WordPress and giving back. Giving, making, creating... Looking at the search results for "Make WordPress" and "the firehose" of Make WordPress Slack where the #docs channel was having their weekly meeting, Dan…

Two Big Tweets on Ways to Give Back

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Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
1) We're really looking forward to seeing this WordPress mentorship program launch — and maybe some of the planning? In a recent episode of The Excerpt, Nyasha Green talks about the importance of mentorship to her growth as a developer…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 65) — How We Talk When We Talk About WordPress

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Dan Knauss
PlanetPost Status Podcasts
My friend and dialogue partner, Nyasha Green, is six months into her role as Editorial Director at MasterWP, so today we're talking about what that's been like for Ny, what she's learned, and how we look at the WordPress media…

New Voices

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Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
It’s with pleasure we welcome Daniel Schutzsmith and Nyasha Green to the Post Status contributor team this week. Daniel is taking point on curating our weekly Dev/Tech news and “cool tool” roundup. Nyasha and I are rebooting The Excerpt as…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 63) — Pay Transparency, Mutual Respect, and the Community We Need

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Dan Knauss
BusinessCareers
People don't realize how long ago "long ago" wasn't. We're not talking about two, three, four hundred years ago. My family always stressed working somewhere your employer respects you, because it wasn't that long ago they didn't have a choice.…

Building and Sustaining the WordPress Community Through Mentorship — Post Status Draft 123

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Dan Knauss
DraftPlanet
Mentor someone. Today! Don't wait. Start today! Talk to people. Connect with them. Go on Twitter. Just 15 minutes a day. Tell them why this community is great. Make them want to join!Nyasha Green In this episode of Post Status…

Mentorship as Contribution: What does Five for the Future mean to you? (Part 2)

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Dan Knauss
NotesWordPress News
Have you been thinking about that question? I hope so. Everyone should, as long as we have a 5ftF program. Some low-hanging fruit — recognition of non-code contributors — has already been picked, according to Angela Jin's latest update. I…
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