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Footnotes #456

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Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
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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Dan Knauss
BusinessHosting
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…

Meaghan McBee from Veracode shares a…

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Dan Knauss

Meaghan McBee from Veracode shares a few results from their State of Software Security: Open Source Edition report. I noted this stat: “79 percent of the time developers never update third-party libraries once they’re in a codebase.” I like this…

Video Picks 📺 Here is my video…

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Dan Knauss

Video Picks 📺 Here is my video pick for the week: Running WordPress on AWS Lightsail: Jerry Hargrove demonstrates at a recent WordPress New York Meetup

The lead stories this week include…

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Dan Knauss

The lead stories this week include GiveWP's acquisition by Liquid Web and increasing concerns over the "bus factor" in open source projects. Thankfully WP-CLI has a major release coming up this next week, but the sustainability of this vital project…

This week the formal announcement was…

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Dan Knauss

This week the formal announcement was made that CC Search (now Openverse) is part of the WordPress open source project. You can follow along with Openverse on its own Make page at make.wordpress.org/openverse. 🪐

WP-CLI 2.5 Release Pending

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David Bisset
WordPress News
The long-awaited 2.5.0 release of WP-CLI is happening Wednesday, May 19th, 2021. Several obstacles converged to slow its progress in 2020.

There is a cool new badge…

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Dan Knauss

There is a cool new badge that GitHub has added to the profiles of open source developers who wrote code used by Ingenuity, the first helicopter to take flight in the Martian atmosphere. 🚁

Recently Github added the ability to…

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Dan Knauss

Recently Github added the ability to support one-time payments to those on the site. Very useful if you want to contribute a one-time amount to an open source maintainer or book time with someone regarding their project. 💵

Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp Centroamérica is…

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Dan Knauss
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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…

wJosepha Haden shared her “early thoughts”…

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Dan Knauss

wJosepha Haden shared her "early thoughts" 💭 on WordPress 5.8 planning, including this intention: "For the release that includes full site editing, I would like to pause our cohort mentorship processes and replace it with a public coordination channel for…
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