Internationalization (i18n) and translation is one of those fuzzy gray areas for many of us in the WordPress community, especially amongst Americans. We’re simply not very accustomed to a multilingual society, therefore we sometimes erroneously don’t think about internationalization of our code and translating our projects to other languages. But WordPress is 20% of all the web,…
The WordPress Mobile team has been working hard to get the WordPress iOS app ready for iOS7, which is to be released today. Design was led by Hugo Baeta, but eight contributors took part in the design and development for this update. If you haven’t ever used the WordPress apps, now is a good time…
Matt Gibbs, the original creator of the popular Pods Framework, has launched his latest project: FacetWP. FacetWP is a commercial plugin to offer faceted search capability for WordPress. Faceted search, if you’re unfamiliar, is an advanced search technique: A technique for accessing information organized according to a faceted classification system, allowing users to explore a collection of…
This past weekend, I co-organized WordCamp Birmingham, or WP Y’all, and a couple of our (many) taglines were “In Open Source We Trust” and “Cheers to the GPL.” So naturally we toasted the GPL at the after party. Going through all of the pictures and seeing our toast, I thought about it some more and…
Justin Tadlock has written about the four core freedoms of open source, and warned that with some of the WooThemes drama that happened in the last couple of weeks, he heard some words and tones that didn’t match the ethos of open source freedoms. I may have missed exactly where people were slamming the ethics…
Helen Hou-Sandí has some advice for those of you that might be afraid of WordPress core’s development processes. You could get involved with bug gardening, which essentially allows you to set milestones and make sure bugs aren’t getting left behind and ignored. Trac can be a firehose, and maintainers of the system to help legitimize…
Matt Mullenweg just delivered the 2013 State of the Word, his annual update about WordPress. He started off discussing the history of WCSF, and the first WordCamp San Francisco 8 years ago. It was pretty low tech at first, and organizers have learned a great deal since then. There have in fact been 314 WordCamp’s…
The history of WordPres book that Siobhan McKeown is leading is now on Github so folks can help edit, or even contribute. The official title is WordPress: Freedom, Community, and the Business of Open Source. Pretty cool that the history book of the largest open source CMS is itself open source.
Sarah Gooding has a nice post on WPMU describing how NASA is promoting open source, and WordPress specifically. It’s great to see huge organizations like this realize the power of open source development.
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.
Next time the WordPress Community starts a discussion over GPL, lets try and understand the starting point of the ideas on the other side.
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