O:9:"MagpieRSS":17:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:10:{i:0;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:18:"OMG WordPress BBQ!";s:4:"link";s:59:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/03/omg-wordpress-bbq/";s:8:"comments";s:68:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/03/omg-wordpress-bbq/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:48:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:10:"Eventssxsw";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1251";s:11:"description";s:360:"This weekend, thousands of WordPress users and developers are among the people attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive conference in Austin, TX. To celebrate this, we&#8217;re throwing a WordPress BBQ at SxSW tomorrow so that there&#8217;s a place for us all to get together.
If you&#8217;re a WordPress fan attending SxSW (or you just happen [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2363:"<p><img align="right" title="OMG WordPress BBQ" src="http://jane.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/cake.png" alt="OMG WordPress BBQ logo" width="136" height="230" />This weekend, thousands of WordPress users and developers are among the people attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive conference in Austin, TX. To celebrate this, we&#8217;re throwing a WordPress BBQ at SxSW tomorrow so that there&#8217;s a place for us all to get together.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a WordPress fan attending SxSW (or you just happen to be in Austin), please join us for lunch after 12pm* tomorrow, Sunday March 14. We&#8217;re getting the BBQ from Rudy&#8217;s and the red velvet cake from Central Market. Yum! Come, eat, talk about the cool things you&#8217;re doing with WordPress, let us know what we can do better, gossip about Mark Jaquith&#8217;s new hairstyle, whatever. Think of it like a WordCamp without presentations. I&#8217;ll be there, lead developers Mark Jaquith and Ryan Boren will be there, core contributors will be there, plugin and theme developers will be there, and basically all the most intelligent and attractive people from SxSW will be there. You should be, too!</p>
<p><strong>Location: </strong>Conjunctured coworking space, 1309 East 7th St., Austin, TX 78702. From the convention center, walk up to 7th Street, hang a right, and walk until you get to #1309. If you&#8217;re tired of walking, taking a cab is a decent option. Note that this is on the other side of I-35 from the convention center.</p>
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<p><em>* We&#8217;ll keep serving until we run out of food, so probably until around 2 or 3? We&#8217;ll have a hundred pounds of bbq meat, a bunch of sides, and dozens of gallons of iced tea, so come hungry.<br />
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<p>If you&#8217;re a WordPress fan attending SxSW (or you just happen to be in Austin), please join us for lunch after 12pm* tomorrow, Sunday March 14. We&#8217;re getting the BBQ from Rudy&#8217;s and the red velvet cake from Central Market. Yum! Come, eat, talk about the cool things you&#8217;re doing with WordPress, let us know what we can do better, gossip about Mark Jaquith&#8217;s new hairstyle, whatever. Think of it like a WordCamp without presentations. I&#8217;ll be there, lead developers Mark Jaquith and Ryan Boren will be there, core contributors will be there, plugin and theme developers will be there, and basically all the most intelligent and attractive people from SxSW will be there. You should be, too!</p>
<p><strong>Location: </strong>Conjunctured coworking space, 1309 East 7th St., Austin, TX 78702. From the convention center, walk up to 7th Street, hang a right, and walk until you get to #1309. If you&#8217;re tired of walking, taking a cab is a decent option. Note that this is on the other side of I-35 from the convention center.</p>
<p><iframe width="300" height="300" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=106394153008544515148.000481b552f8ed920cfc5&amp;ll=30.265739,-97.733645&amp;spn=0.01112,0.012875&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed"></iframe><br /><small>View <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=106394153008544515148.000481b552f8ed920cfc5&amp;ll=30.265739,-97.733645&amp;spn=0.01112,0.012875&amp;z=15&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">WordPress BBQ at SxSW</a> in a larger map</small></p>
<p><em>* We&#8217;ll keep serving until we run out of food, so probably until around 2 or 3? We&#8217;ll have a hundred pounds of bbq meat, a bunch of sides, and dozens of gallons of iced tea, so come hungry.<br />
</em></p>
";}i:1;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:33:"Firefox Personas, WordPress-style";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/03/firefox-personas/";s:8:"comments";s:67:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/03/firefox-personas/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:37:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:22:"Cousinsfirefoxpersonas";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1234";s:11:"description";s:340:"We recommend open source software whenever we can, and the Firefox browser from Mozilla is one of our favorites. Firefox 3.6 recently came out with persona support, allowing users to skin their browsers with favorite designs and brands. WordPress users everywhere seem to love the W symbol (at WordCamps it shows up on everything from [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2514:"<p>We recommend open source software whenever we can, and the <a href="http://firefox.com">Firefox</a> browser from Mozilla is one of our favorites. Firefox 3.6 recently came out with <em>persona</em> support, allowing users to skin their browsers with favorite designs and brands. WordPress users everywhere seem to love the W symbol (at WordCamps it shows up on everything from t-shirts to <a href="http://shop.wordpress.net/usa/accessories/wordpress-iphone-skin">iPhone skins</a>), so it was only natural that WordPress personas would come along.</p>
<p>To kick it off, designer <a href="http://www.thebigpugh.com">Chad Pugh</a> created two WordPress personas based on the WordPress brand: &#8220;<a href="http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/85447">Vintage Press</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/85612">Inkwell</a>.&#8221; These two designs are a great way to show the WordPress love, even if you&#8217;re only showing it to yourself. <img src='http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<td valign="top">The &#8220;Vintage Press&#8221; Persona is inspired by the style of old-fashioned printing presses and the mechanics of working with type. This persona might appeal to WordPress developers and users who appreciate the way things work under the hood.</td>
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<td valign="top">&#8220;Inkwell&#8221; is more of a palimpsest* &amp; watercolor hybrid that might appeal to the artists among us. Music, script and spills of color combine&#8230;</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/85612"><img title="Inkwell Persona" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/01/inkwellclose.png" alt="Inkwell Persona" width="330" height="153" align="left" /></a></td>
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<p>Okay, I&#8217;m starting to feel like an art critic so I&#8217;ll stop there. Check out the <a href="http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/gallery/Designer/paulkim">WordPress personas for Firefox</a> and decide for yourselves.</p>
<p><em>* I never thought I would have occasion to use the word &#8220;palimpsest&#8221; in a dev blog post. Never. </em></p>
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<p>To kick it off, designer <a href="http://www.thebigpugh.com">Chad Pugh</a> created two WordPress personas based on the WordPress brand: &#8220;<a href="http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/85447">Vintage Press</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/85612">Inkwell</a>.&#8221; These two designs are a great way to show the WordPress love, even if you&#8217;re only showing it to yourself. <img src='http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<td valign="top">The &#8220;Vintage Press&#8221; Persona is inspired by the style of old-fashioned printing presses and the mechanics of working with type. This persona might appeal to WordPress developers and users who appreciate the way things work under the hood.</td>
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<td valign="top">&#8220;Inkwell&#8221; is more of a palimpsest* &amp; watercolor hybrid that might appeal to the artists among us. Music, script and spills of color combine&#8230;</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/85612"><img title="Inkwell Persona" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/01/inkwellclose.png" alt="Inkwell Persona" width="330" height="153" align="left" /></a></td>
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<p>Okay, I&#8217;m starting to feel like an art critic so I&#8217;ll stop there. Check out the <a href="http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/gallery/Designer/paulkim">WordPress personas for Firefox</a> and decide for yourselves.</p>
<p><em>* I never thought I would have occasion to use the word &#8220;palimpsest&#8221; in a dev blog post. Never. </em></p>
";}i:2;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:29:"BuddyPress for One (and All!)";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/buddypress-for-one-and-all-3/";s:8:"comments";s:79:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/buddypress-for-one-and-all-3/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:25:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:47:"Cousinsbuddypresspluginssocial networkingthemes";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1224";s:11:"description";s:329:"Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2324:"<p>Back in April of last year, Matt <a href="../2009/04/make-friends-with-buddypress/">posted here on the dev blog</a> about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather than the multi-site WordPress MU. To those people, good news! A little over a week ago Andy Peatling, founder and lead developer of BuddyPress, <a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/introducing-buddypress-1-2/">announced the release of BuddyPress 1.2</a>, which can be used on single installations of WordPress. Congratulations, BuddyPress! And congratulations to all the people who&#8217;ve been waiting with bated breath for this to happen.</p>
<p>The first thing I thought when I heard the news was, &#8220;Awesome! Now everyone can put BuddyPress on their site if they want it.&#8221; The second thought I had was, &#8220;Shoot! Average WordPress users won&#8217;t want to try BuddyPress if they have to switch their site themes over to the BuddyPress default theme just to try it out.&#8221; The third thought I had was, &#8220;That can&#8217;t be right. I&#8217;ll ask Andy.&#8221;</p>
<p>As it turned out, you could keep your current theme with BuddyPress if you added a couple of files and made a few file edits. There was even a link on the BuddyPress site to download the necessary files. That still seemed a little clunky, though, so Andy, super awesome guy that he is, went ahead and made a plugin to get you started. The <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/">BuddyPress Template Pack</a> can be installed directly from your WordPress admin (Plugins &gt; Add New), and will walk you through the theme additions step by step.*</p>
<p>Now you can use BuddyPress with your single site installation of WordPress, and you can keep your existing theme. Seriously, could BuddyPress have made it any easier for you to add social networking to your site? I know I can&#8217;t wait to try it out this weekend, how about you?</p>
<p><em>* Don&#8217;t forget to install <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/">BuddyPress</a> itself, or the template pack plugin won&#8217;t do anything!</em></p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:75:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/buddypress-for-one-and-all-3/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:1:"0";}s:7:"summary";s:329:"Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2324:"<p>Back in April of last year, Matt <a href="../2009/04/make-friends-with-buddypress/">posted here on the dev blog</a> about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather than the multi-site WordPress MU. To those people, good news! A little over a week ago Andy Peatling, founder and lead developer of BuddyPress, <a href="http://buddypress.org/blog/news/introducing-buddypress-1-2/">announced the release of BuddyPress 1.2</a>, which can be used on single installations of WordPress. Congratulations, BuddyPress! And congratulations to all the people who&#8217;ve been waiting with bated breath for this to happen.</p>
<p>The first thing I thought when I heard the news was, &#8220;Awesome! Now everyone can put BuddyPress on their site if they want it.&#8221; The second thought I had was, &#8220;Shoot! Average WordPress users won&#8217;t want to try BuddyPress if they have to switch their site themes over to the BuddyPress default theme just to try it out.&#8221; The third thought I had was, &#8220;That can&#8217;t be right. I&#8217;ll ask Andy.&#8221;</p>
<p>As it turned out, you could keep your current theme with BuddyPress if you added a couple of files and made a few file edits. There was even a link on the BuddyPress site to download the necessary files. That still seemed a little clunky, though, so Andy, super awesome guy that he is, went ahead and made a plugin to get you started. The <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/">BuddyPress Template Pack</a> can be installed directly from your WordPress admin (Plugins &gt; Add New), and will walk you through the theme additions step by step.*</p>
<p>Now you can use BuddyPress with your single site installation of WordPress, and you can keep your existing theme. Seriously, could BuddyPress have made it any easier for you to add social networking to your site? I know I can&#8217;t wait to try it out this weekend, how about you?</p>
<p><em>* Don&#8217;t forget to install <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/">BuddyPress</a> itself, or the template pack plugin won&#8217;t do anything!</em></p>
";}i:3;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:37:"Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint!";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/menus-merge-patch-sprint/";s:8:"comments";s:75:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/menus-merge-patch-sprint/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:56:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:37:"Developmentfreezemenusmergenavigation";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1201";s:11:"description";s:350:"A Report from the 3.0 Development Cycle
Menus
There&#8217;s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted the official word. For 3.0, the main user-facing feature we wanted to include was a better site menu management system. Currently, dealing with [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:4265:"<h4>A Report from the 3.0 Development Cycle</h4>
<h3>Menus</h3>
<p>There&#8217;s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted the official word. For 3.0, the main user-facing feature we wanted to include was a better site menu management system. Currently, dealing with menus is clunky, using Page IDs or in some cases categories, if a theme uses categories instead of pages for the menu. We wanted a menu system that had the drag and drop ease of the widget management screen, could combine Pages, Categories, and Links, was able to be re-ordered, allowed submenus, and enabled hiding specific Pages or Categories from the menu altogether. We were in the process of building this when <a href="http://www.woothemes.com/2010/01/the-awesome-custom-woo-navigation/">WooThemes introduced their Custom Navigation system</a>. Watching their introductory video, it seemed that their system did pretty much everything we wanted to do for core, so we reached out to them about contributing to core.</p>
<p>As you&#8217;ve probably heard, it worked out, and the first patch has been submitted. It does require some code modification, which is <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11817">happening now</a>. The decision to incorporate the Woo menus happened right before our planned feature freeze for the 3.0 development cycle, so we pushed our freeze date back by two weeks to allow the addition. We&#8217;re now targeting the 3.0 release for early May, and we think it will be worth the extra two-week wait.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m personally really happy that it worked out this way, because I think it will show commercial theme and plugin authors that contributing to core is a win-win proposition. More people can contribute to and improve the basic functional code now, while WooThemes can continue to innovate on top of it for their customers. They get massive bragging rights (which I have no doubt will lead to even more customers), core gets a nice menu system without having to reinvent the wheel, and WordPress users all over the world will benefit. I&#8217;m hoping other plugin and theme developers will take a cue from Woo and look at core as a place for collaboration, rather than competition.</p>
<h3><strong>The Merge</strong></h3>
<p>It was announced at WordCamp San Francisco last year that WordPress and WordPress MU would be merging codebases. This has now happened in 3.0-alpha, and we&#8217;re working on smashing bugs and tidying up a few screens. If you&#8217;re currently using a single install of WordPress, when you upgrade to 3.0 you won&#8217;t see any of the extra screens associated with running a network of sites. If you&#8217;re currently running MU, when you upgrade you&#8217;ll notice a few labels changing, but upgrading should be as painless as usual. If you&#8217;re going to set up a new WordPress installation, you&#8217;ll be asked as part of the setup if you want one site or multiple sites, so that&#8217;s pretty simple. If you want to turn your single install into one that supports multiple sites, we&#8217;ll have a tool for you to use to do that, too. So if you&#8217;ve been worried about the merge, have a cup of chamomile tea and relax; it will all be fine. <img src='http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<h3><strong>Patch Sprint!</strong></h3>
<p>Okay, so where are we now? The new feature freeze date is on Monday, March 1, 2010. That means that after that date, no more enhancements or features will be added, and we&#8217;ll switch gears to focus solely on crushing bugs and fixing up the features that have already made it in. That means we only have a week to try and finish up the many Trac tickets on the 3.0 milestone that either need a patch or have a patch that needs testing. You can help! From now until noon eastern time on March 1 (that&#8217;s 17:00 UTC on March 1), <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/32">head on over to Trac and pitch in</a>. If you hit a wall, hop into the core development channel at #wordpress-dev on irc.freenode.net and hopefully one of the friendly core contributors can give you a push.</p>
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Menus
There&#8217;s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted the official word. For 3.0, the main user-facing feature we wanted to include was a better site menu management system. Currently, dealing with [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:4265:"<h4>A Report from the 3.0 Development Cycle</h4>
<h3>Menus</h3>
<p>There&#8217;s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted the official word. For 3.0, the main user-facing feature we wanted to include was a better site menu management system. Currently, dealing with menus is clunky, using Page IDs or in some cases categories, if a theme uses categories instead of pages for the menu. We wanted a menu system that had the drag and drop ease of the widget management screen, could combine Pages, Categories, and Links, was able to be re-ordered, allowed submenus, and enabled hiding specific Pages or Categories from the menu altogether. We were in the process of building this when <a href="http://www.woothemes.com/2010/01/the-awesome-custom-woo-navigation/">WooThemes introduced their Custom Navigation system</a>. Watching their introductory video, it seemed that their system did pretty much everything we wanted to do for core, so we reached out to them about contributing to core.</p>
<p>As you&#8217;ve probably heard, it worked out, and the first patch has been submitted. It does require some code modification, which is <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11817">happening now</a>. The decision to incorporate the Woo menus happened right before our planned feature freeze for the 3.0 development cycle, so we pushed our freeze date back by two weeks to allow the addition. We&#8217;re now targeting the 3.0 release for early May, and we think it will be worth the extra two-week wait.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m personally really happy that it worked out this way, because I think it will show commercial theme and plugin authors that contributing to core is a win-win proposition. More people can contribute to and improve the basic functional code now, while WooThemes can continue to innovate on top of it for their customers. They get massive bragging rights (which I have no doubt will lead to even more customers), core gets a nice menu system without having to reinvent the wheel, and WordPress users all over the world will benefit. I&#8217;m hoping other plugin and theme developers will take a cue from Woo and look at core as a place for collaboration, rather than competition.</p>
<h3><strong>The Merge</strong></h3>
<p>It was announced at WordCamp San Francisco last year that WordPress and WordPress MU would be merging codebases. This has now happened in 3.0-alpha, and we&#8217;re working on smashing bugs and tidying up a few screens. If you&#8217;re currently using a single install of WordPress, when you upgrade to 3.0 you won&#8217;t see any of the extra screens associated with running a network of sites. If you&#8217;re currently running MU, when you upgrade you&#8217;ll notice a few labels changing, but upgrading should be as painless as usual. If you&#8217;re going to set up a new WordPress installation, you&#8217;ll be asked as part of the setup if you want one site or multiple sites, so that&#8217;s pretty simple. If you want to turn your single install into one that supports multiple sites, we&#8217;ll have a tool for you to use to do that, too. So if you&#8217;ve been worried about the merge, have a cup of chamomile tea and relax; it will all be fine. <img src='http://wordpress.org/development/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<h3><strong>Patch Sprint!</strong></h3>
<p>Okay, so where are we now? The new feature freeze date is on Monday, March 1, 2010. That means that after that date, no more enhancements or features will be added, and we&#8217;ll switch gears to focus solely on crushing bugs and fixing up the features that have already made it in. That means we only have a week to try and finish up the many Trac tickets on the 3.0 milestone that either need a patch or have a patch that needs testing. You can help! From now until noon eastern time on March 1 (that&#8217;s 17:00 UTC on March 1), <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/32">head on over to Trac and pitch in</a>. If you hit a wall, hop into the core development channel at #wordpress-dev on irc.freenode.net and hopefully one of the friendly core contributors can give you a push.</p>
";}i:4;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:19:"WordPress On The Go";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/wordpress-on-the-go/";s:8:"comments";s:70:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/wordpress-on-the-go/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:54:53 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:45:"Developmentandroidblackberryiphonemobilenokia";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1187";s:11:"description";s:294:"I like to moderate comments when I&#8217;m waiting for something: a checkout clerk to help me, the dentist to call me back to the office, a soy chai to be made. I don&#8217;t lug my laptop everywhere I go,* so I love it that we have mobile apps that make this possible. I don&#8217;t know [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:4358:"<p>I like to moderate comments when I&#8217;m waiting for something: a checkout clerk to help me, the dentist to call me back to the office, a soy chai to be made. I don&#8217;t lug my laptop everywhere I go,* so I love it that we have mobile apps that make this possible. I don&#8217;t know of any other blogging platform that has mobile apps for iPhone, Android <em>and</em> Blackberry. Do you?</p>
<p>The <a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org/">iPhone app</a> is up to version 2.2 (note that iPhone app version numbers do not correlate to WordPress core versions, due to separate dev cycles), while the <a href="http://android.wordpress.org/">Android</a> and <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/">Blackberry</a> apps are brand new. You can write posts (save drafts or publish right away), moderate comments, blog photos from your phone (and video on Blackberry!**), and more. Check out the glory that is mobile WordPress in the image below:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/mobileapps1.png"><img class="aligncenter" title="mobileapps" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/mobileapps1.png" alt="Screenshot of WordPress mobile apps" width="674" height="249" /></a></p>
<p>&#8220;But what about my Nokia,&#8221; you ask? Raanan Bar-Cohen, who oversees the mobile projects, recently announced:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are very excited to share with all of you that in the coming weeks we&#8217;ll be opening up a beta test for the official Open Source WordPress for Nokia app. For developers who are interested in getting involved, we just opened up a <a href="http://dev.nokia.wordpress.org/">dev blog</a> with details, links to the source code and trac tickets, and an early alpha build.  We&#8217;ll be leveraging the <a href="http://qt.nokia.com/">Qt</a> framework which means will be able to support both the S60 and Maemo platforms.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>W00t!</p>
<h3><strong>Getting Involved</strong></h3>
<p>All of these mobile WordPress apps are free and open source. They are developed in the same manner as WordPress core, which means anyone can contribute! If you&#8217;ve got some mad mobile development skills and want to get involved, a) you&#8217;re awesome, and b) here are a bunch of useful links.</p>
<p>Development Blogs:<a href="http://dev.android.wordpress.org/"> Android</a> | <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/blog/">BlackBerry</a> | <a href="http://iphonedev.wordpress.org/">iPhone</a></p>
<p>Development Tracs: <a href="http://android.trac.wordpress.org/">Android</a> | <a href="http://blackberry.trac.wordpress.org/">Blackberry</a> | <a href="http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/">iPhone</a></p>
<p>Feedback Forums: <a href="http://android.forums.wordpress.org/">Android</a> | <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">BlackBerry</a> | <a href="http://iphone.forums.wordpress.org/">iPhone</a></p>
<p>Language Support: WordPress users come from all over the world. The mobile apps here are available in multiple languages but need volunteers to enable even more people to use them. If you&#8217;re interested in helping localize these mobile apps, you can get involved by <a href="mailto:mobile-translate@wordpress.org">emailing the translation team</a>. They&#8217;ll send you instructions on how to translate.</p>
<h3>Getting the Apps</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">So go for it &#8212; download the app for your platform of choice and soon you, too, can be live posting about how slow the cashier is while you wait for him to ring you up!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://android.wordpress.org/download/"><img title="android-store" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/android-store.png" alt="" width="116" height="40" /></a> <a href="http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/5802"><img title="bb-store" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/bb-store1.png" alt="" width="116" height="40" /></a> <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordpress/id335703880"><img title="iphone-store" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/iphone-store.png" alt="" width="116" height="40" /></a></p>
<p><em>* Okay, yes, I do bring my laptop everywhere, but I leave it in the bag on these occasions.</em></p>
<p><em>** Video support should  be coming soon to the iPhone and Android apps.</em></p>
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<p>The <a href="http://iphone.wordpress.org/">iPhone app</a> is up to version 2.2 (note that iPhone app version numbers do not correlate to WordPress core versions, due to separate dev cycles), while the <a href="http://android.wordpress.org/">Android</a> and <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/">Blackberry</a> apps are brand new. You can write posts (save drafts or publish right away), moderate comments, blog photos from your phone (and video on Blackberry!**), and more. Check out the glory that is mobile WordPress in the image below:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/mobileapps1.png"><img class="aligncenter" title="mobileapps" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/mobileapps1.png" alt="Screenshot of WordPress mobile apps" width="674" height="249" /></a></p>
<p>&#8220;But what about my Nokia,&#8221; you ask? Raanan Bar-Cohen, who oversees the mobile projects, recently announced:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are very excited to share with all of you that in the coming weeks we&#8217;ll be opening up a beta test for the official Open Source WordPress for Nokia app. For developers who are interested in getting involved, we just opened up a <a href="http://dev.nokia.wordpress.org/">dev blog</a> with details, links to the source code and trac tickets, and an early alpha build.  We&#8217;ll be leveraging the <a href="http://qt.nokia.com/">Qt</a> framework which means will be able to support both the S60 and Maemo platforms.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>W00t!</p>
<h3><strong>Getting Involved</strong></h3>
<p>All of these mobile WordPress apps are free and open source. They are developed in the same manner as WordPress core, which means anyone can contribute! If you&#8217;ve got some mad mobile development skills and want to get involved, a) you&#8217;re awesome, and b) here are a bunch of useful links.</p>
<p>Development Blogs:<a href="http://dev.android.wordpress.org/"> Android</a> | <a href="http://blackberry.wordpress.org/blog/">BlackBerry</a> | <a href="http://iphonedev.wordpress.org/">iPhone</a></p>
<p>Development Tracs: <a href="http://android.trac.wordpress.org/">Android</a> | <a href="http://blackberry.trac.wordpress.org/">Blackberry</a> | <a href="http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/">iPhone</a></p>
<p>Feedback Forums: <a href="http://android.forums.wordpress.org/">Android</a> | <a href="http://blackberry.forums.wordpress.org/">BlackBerry</a> | <a href="http://iphone.forums.wordpress.org/">iPhone</a></p>
<p>Language Support: WordPress users come from all over the world. The mobile apps here are available in multiple languages but need volunteers to enable even more people to use them. If you&#8217;re interested in helping localize these mobile apps, you can get involved by <a href="mailto:mobile-translate@wordpress.org">emailing the translation team</a>. They&#8217;ll send you instructions on how to translate.</p>
<h3>Getting the Apps</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">So go for it &#8212; download the app for your platform of choice and soon you, too, can be live posting about how slow the cashier is while you wait for him to ring you up!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://android.wordpress.org/download/"><img title="android-store" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/android-store.png" alt="" width="116" height="40" /></a> <a href="http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/5802"><img title="bb-store" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/bb-store1.png" alt="" width="116" height="40" /></a> <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordpress/id335703880"><img title="iphone-store" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/iphone-store.png" alt="" width="116" height="40" /></a></p>
<p><em>* Okay, yes, I do bring my laptop everywhere, but I leave it in the bag on these occasions.</em></p>
<p><em>** Video support should  be coming soon to the iPhone and Android apps.</em></p>
";}i:5;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:15:"WordPress 2.9.2";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/wordpress-2-9-2/";s:8:"comments";s:66:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/wordpress-2-9-2/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:37:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1182";s:11:"description";s:298:"Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2.  As always, you can visit the Tools-&#62;Upgrade menu to upgrade.
";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:388:"<p><a href="http://www.tmacuk.co.uk/">Thomas Mackenzie</a> alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">upgrade to 2.9.2</a>.  As always, you can visit the Tools-&gt;Upgrade menu to upgrade.</p>
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";s:12:"atom_content";s:388:"<p><a href="http://www.tmacuk.co.uk/">Thomas Mackenzie</a> alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">upgrade to 2.9.2</a>.  As always, you can visit the Tools-&gt;Upgrade menu to upgrade.</p>
";}i:6;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:20:"WordPress Foundation";s:4:"link";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/01/wordpress-foundation/";s:8:"comments";s:71:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/01/wordpress-foundation/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:38:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:31:"Metacharityfoundationnon-profit";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1179";s:11:"description";s:314:"It is with extremely great pleasure that I point you to the first post at the new WordPress Foundation site. Not only am I excited about the things that will happen under the auspices of the Foundation, I&#8217;m excited to see a site running the 3.0 development version and the nascent theme called 2010. Go [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:517:"<p>It is with extremely great pleasure that I point you to the <a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org/2010/getting-off-the-ground/">first post</a> at the new <a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org/">WordPress Foundation site</a>. Not only am I excited about the things that will happen under the auspices of the Foundation, I&#8217;m excited to see a site running the 3.0 development version and the nascent theme called <em>2010</em>. Go <a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org">check it out</a> for yourself.</p>
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:67:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/01/wordpress-foundation/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:1:"4";}s:7:"summary";s:314:"It is with extremely great pleasure that I point you to the first post at the new WordPress Foundation site. Not only am I excited about the things that will happen under the auspices of the Foundation, I&#8217;m excited to see a site running the 3.0 development version and the nascent theme called 2010. Go [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:517:"<p>It is with extremely great pleasure that I point you to the <a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org/2010/getting-off-the-ground/">first post</a> at the new <a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org/">WordPress Foundation site</a>. Not only am I excited about the things that will happen under the auspices of the Foundation, I&#8217;m excited to see a site running the 3.0 development version and the nascent theme called <em>2010</em>. Go <a href="http://wordpressfoundation.org">check it out</a> for yourself.</p>
";}i:7;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:29:"2010 Open Source Design Plans";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/01/2010-open-source-design/";s:8:"comments";s:74:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/01/2010-open-source-design/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:38:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Jane Wells";}s:8:"category";s:23:"CommunityUser Interface";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1154";s:11:"description";s:332:"2010 is the year we dive into open source design. We&#8217;ve dipped our toes in this pool before (icon contest, graphic design component for Trac tickets, header refresh contest, etc.), but this year we&#8217;re going to cannonball and make a big splash. Here&#8217;s what you need to know if you want to get involved.
A list [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:3855:"<p>2010 is the year we dive into open source design. We&#8217;ve dipped our toes in this pool before (icon contest, graphic design component for Trac tickets, header refresh contest, etc.), but this year we&#8217;re going to cannonball and make a big splash. Here&#8217;s what you need to know if you want to get involved.</p>
<p><strong>A list for all seasons. </strong>Developers have the <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers">wp-hackers mailing list</a> to discuss core and plugin code. Sometimes UI/UX stuff comes up and gets discussed there, but there is a whole universe of discussion around navigation labels, gradients, button styling, layouts, alignment, etc. that would be clutter on wp-hackers. Designers need a list to call their own, and now we have one. You can sign up for the <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-ui">wp-ui list</a> to discuss ways to improve the interface or user experience of WordPress, and to discuss progress on design-related projects for the open source project, like the design challenges we&#8217;re going to have.</p>
<p><strong>Design Challenges.</strong> We learned a lot from the icon design and header refresh contests, and we want to do these kind of open design challenges on a regular basis to give UI/UX designers who want to contribute to the WordPress open source project more opportunities to do so. If we could do one per month, that would be ideal, keeping the challenges relatively bite-sized to allow potential contributors an easy way to get involved at first. As each challenge is posted, people can use the list to bounce ideas off each other and work toward optimal solutions. I&#8217;m hoping the design challenges will evolve to be less contest and more collaboration. We&#8217;ll announce the first one before the end of January, so if you&#8217;re interested, please sign up for the list! <em>(Hint: one will likely be a touch up to the Right Now dashboard module, to improve the information design, and there will be a couple of screen layout challenges coming up as well.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Distributed Usability Testing.</strong><em> </em>We started to try this out last year, and several dozen usability professionals volunteered to help get the program going, but a combination of scheduling and infrastructure issues combined to stall the progress. Having the &#8220;UI/UX contributor team&#8221; infrastructure in place, starting with the mailing list, will make it much easier to get this project going again.</p>
<p><strong>Chit-chat.</strong> The weekly developer chats in IRC at <a href="https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-dev">#wordpress-dev</a> have been very productive. We&#8217;ve created an IRC room at <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wordpress-ui">#wordpress-ui on irc.freenode.net</a> so that we can have the same kind of &#8220;water cooler&#8221; for UI/UX contributors as for core code contributors. In addition to being a place where you can drop in and discuss core UI/UX (note: this room will not be a place to discuss the design of blog themes, it&#8217;s to discuss the design of the Wordpress application itself), we&#8217;ll set up a weekly chat. Choosing a day and time for the chats will probably be the first discussion on the mailing list.</p>
<p><strong>A blog of our own. </strong>Once again, taking a page from the code contributor infrastructure, we&#8217;ll set up a blog for UI/UX updates, announcements, progress reports, etc. This will be on WordPress.org in the nearish future, and will be announced to the mailing list when it is live.</p>
<p>So, if you want to become a contributor to core WordPress by using your design skills, <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-ui">join the wp-ui mailing list</a> and get ready for a fun year!</p>
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<p><strong>A list for all seasons. </strong>Developers have the <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers">wp-hackers mailing list</a> to discuss core and plugin code. Sometimes UI/UX stuff comes up and gets discussed there, but there is a whole universe of discussion around navigation labels, gradients, button styling, layouts, alignment, etc. that would be clutter on wp-hackers. Designers need a list to call their own, and now we have one. You can sign up for the <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-ui">wp-ui list</a> to discuss ways to improve the interface or user experience of WordPress, and to discuss progress on design-related projects for the open source project, like the design challenges we&#8217;re going to have.</p>
<p><strong>Design Challenges.</strong> We learned a lot from the icon design and header refresh contests, and we want to do these kind of open design challenges on a regular basis to give UI/UX designers who want to contribute to the WordPress open source project more opportunities to do so. If we could do one per month, that would be ideal, keeping the challenges relatively bite-sized to allow potential contributors an easy way to get involved at first. As each challenge is posted, people can use the list to bounce ideas off each other and work toward optimal solutions. I&#8217;m hoping the design challenges will evolve to be less contest and more collaboration. We&#8217;ll announce the first one before the end of January, so if you&#8217;re interested, please sign up for the list! <em>(Hint: one will likely be a touch up to the Right Now dashboard module, to improve the information design, and there will be a couple of screen layout challenges coming up as well.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Distributed Usability Testing.</strong><em> </em>We started to try this out last year, and several dozen usability professionals volunteered to help get the program going, but a combination of scheduling and infrastructure issues combined to stall the progress. Having the &#8220;UI/UX contributor team&#8221; infrastructure in place, starting with the mailing list, will make it much easier to get this project going again.</p>
<p><strong>Chit-chat.</strong> The weekly developer chats in IRC at <a href="https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-dev">#wordpress-dev</a> have been very productive. We&#8217;ve created an IRC room at <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wordpress-ui">#wordpress-ui on irc.freenode.net</a> so that we can have the same kind of &#8220;water cooler&#8221; for UI/UX contributors as for core code contributors. In addition to being a place where you can drop in and discuss core UI/UX (note: this room will not be a place to discuss the design of blog themes, it&#8217;s to discuss the design of the Wordpress application itself), we&#8217;ll set up a weekly chat. Choosing a day and time for the chats will probably be the first discussion on the mailing list.</p>
<p><strong>A blog of our own. </strong>Once again, taking a page from the code contributor infrastructure, we&#8217;ll set up a blog for UI/UX updates, announcements, progress reports, etc. This will be on WordPress.org in the nearish future, and will be announced to the mailing list when it is live.</p>
<p>So, if you want to become a contributor to core WordPress by using your design skills, <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-ui">join the wp-ui mailing list</a> and get ready for a fun year!</p>
";}i:8;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:15:"WordPress 2.9.1";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/01/wordpress-2-9-1/";s:8:"comments";s:66:"http://wordpress.org/development/2010/01/wordpress-2-9-1/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:35:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Ryan Boren";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=1140";s:11:"description";s:351:"After over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we&#8217;re releasing WordPress  2.9.1.  This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts.  If any of these issues [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:681:"<p>After over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we&#8217;re releasing WordPress  2.9.1.  This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts.  If any of <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;group=resolution&amp;order=priority&amp;milestone=2.9.1&amp;resolution=fixed">these issues</a> affect you, give 2.9.1 a try.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">Download 2.9.1</a> or upgrade automatically from the Tools-&gt;Upgrade menu in your blog&#8217;s admin area.</p>
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<p>January 8–9: <a href="http://atlantawordcamp.com/">WordCamp Atlanta</a><br />
January 23: <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/">WordCamp Boston</a><br />
January 30: <a href="http://www.wordcamp.gr/">WordCamp Greece</a> in Thessaloniki<br />
January 30: <a href="http://id.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Indonesia</a> in Jakarta<br />
February 27: <a href="http://2010.wordcampfukuoka.com/">WordCamp Fukuoka</a><br />
March 6–7: <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/">WordCamp Ireland</a> in Kilkenny<br />
March 27–28: <a href="http://wordcamptoronto.com/">WordCamp Toronto</a></p>
<h4>NORTH AMERICA</h4>
<p><strong>January 8–9: <a href="http://atlantawordcamp.com/">WordCamp Atlanta</a>.</strong> First WordCamp of the year, and it&#8217;s already sold out &#8212; twice! They changed to a bigger venue based on demand, from Georgia Tech to the Atlanta campus of Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). They&#8217;re still letting people onto <a href="http://wordcampatl.eventbrite.com/">the waitlist</a>, if you&#8217;re interested. A guaranteed way to get in would be to <a href="http://atlantawordcamp.com/sponsor/sponsorship-opportunities/">sponsor</a> the event, and they&#8217;re taking last-minute sponsors right now. Atlanta will have sessions on Friday evening and all day Saturday. I&#8217;ll be opening the Saturday program with <em>WordPress Resolutions: What to Expect in 2010</em>. After a day of design, development and content track sessions, Lead Developer <a href="http://markjaquith.com/">Mark Jaquith</a> will take the closing slot for a Town Hall-style Q&amp;A.  The <a href="http://wordcampatl.eventbrite.com/">attendee list</a> (follow link, scroll down) includes a number of WordPress core contributors, theme/plugin developers, and support providers as well as proof that Atlanta has a strong WordPress user base.</p>
<p><strong>January 23: <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/">WordCamp Boston</a>.</strong> I think WordCamp Boston is trying to one-up every WordCamp the organizers have been to, including the awesome NYC from November, and it looks like they might succeed. From <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/">Doc Searls</a> and <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/">David Weinberger</a> as keynote speakers to the multiple-track, unconference and Ignite sessions to the sweet-looking venue and the party plans, this one has got it going on. I credit it in part to the fact that they are one of the few WordCamps to follow the advice of having an organizing team of more than just 2 or 3 people, so the work is better distributed. I see a number of familiar names on the <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/registration/attendees/">attendee list</a>, but even more that I don&#8217;t know, so I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting the Boston WordPress community. They&#8217;re still <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/registration/">selling tickets</a>, so if you&#8217;re in the northeast, you should try to make it. I&#8217;ll be at this one also, talking about how the merge with MU will affect the WordPress admin (by then we should have started figuring it out!).</p>
<p><strong>March 27–28: <a href="http://wordcamptoronto.com/">WordCamp Toronto</a>.</strong> The last two Toronto WordCamps have been really good. I heard there would be one in March, but their site right now is just <a href="http://wordcamptoronto.com/">taking emails</a> for notification. I&#8217;ve contacted the organizer to see what&#8217;s up, and he says the site will likely go live this week. They&#8217;re looking for volunteers to help organize this year&#8217;s event, so if you&#8217;re interested, it would be a great opportunity to get involved. Believe me, volunteering at a WordCamp is one of the best ways to make sure you meet a lot of other attendees.</p>
<h4>ASIA</h4>
<p><strong>January 30: <a href="http://id.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Indonesia</a>.</strong> WordCamp Indonesia will be in Jakarta again this year. I love how they worded the beginning of their <a href="http://id.wordcamp.org/conference-sessions/">sessions</a> page. &#8220;Come in, we’ll get you breakfast and coffee, you’ll register, there’ll be networking. It’ll be great.&#8221; There will be a single track of sessions, but there are several time slots set aside for ad-hoc discussion and breakout sessions.</p>
<p><strong>February 27: <a href="http://2010.wordcampfukuoka.com/">WordCamp Fukuoka</a>.</strong> WordCamp Fukuoka is just getting its site up, too, so check back periodically a little later for more information. One of their visiting speakers will be <a href="http://noel.io/">Noel Jackson</a>, developer of the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This">Press This</a> bookmarklet as well as themes like <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2">P2</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/monotone">Monotone</a>/<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/duotone">Duotone</a>.</p>
<h4>EUROPE</h4>
<p><strong>January 30: <a href="http://www.wordcamp.gr/">WordCamp Greece</a>.</strong> WordCamp Greece will be held in Thessaloniki, and they expect about 100-150 people to attend.The program includes regular sessions on the usual topics (how-to, programming, SEO, multi-language sites, etc) as well as &#8220;QuickRounds,&#8221; which will showcase Greek projects based on WordPress. I&#8217;m especially intrigued by the &#8220;WordPress vs. Expression Engine&#8221; session. Whenever people compare different publishing platforms, it&#8217;s interesting to see which features they highlight. I hope someone gets video from this one and posts it to the <a href="http://wordpress.tv/category/wordcamptv/">WordCamp section of WordPress.tv</a>.</p>
<p><strong>March 6–7: <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/">WordCamp Ireland</a>.</strong> WordCamp Ireland will be in Kilkenny, and for such a geographically small country, it&#8217;s got an impressive list of <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/info/speakers/">speakers</a>, including <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/">Donncha O Caoimh</a>, lead developer of <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a>. The program includes three tracks: Intro, Blogger, and Developer, and I think this will be the first WordCamp I&#8217;ve heard of that is deliberately <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/about/family-and-partner-friendly/">family-friendly</a>, with on-site child care. They&#8217;re also going to have a charging station for mobile devices, which is clever. It&#8217;s not confirmed yet, but I think I&#8217;ll be at this one, too.</p>
<p>If you want to attend a WordCamp but don&#8217;t know of one near you, check out <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp.org</a> for the official list (updated frequently). That&#8217;s also where you would start if you wanted to <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/guidelines/">organize a WordCamp</a> in your area. </p>
<p><em>*Developer chats are held Thursdays at 21:00 UTC in the #wordpress-dev channel at irc.freenode.com. </em></p>
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<p>January 8–9: <a href="http://atlantawordcamp.com/">WordCamp Atlanta</a><br />
January 23: <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/">WordCamp Boston</a><br />
January 30: <a href="http://www.wordcamp.gr/">WordCamp Greece</a> in Thessaloniki<br />
January 30: <a href="http://id.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Indonesia</a> in Jakarta<br />
February 27: <a href="http://2010.wordcampfukuoka.com/">WordCamp Fukuoka</a><br />
March 6–7: <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/">WordCamp Ireland</a> in Kilkenny<br />
March 27–28: <a href="http://wordcamptoronto.com/">WordCamp Toronto</a></p>
<h4>NORTH AMERICA</h4>
<p><strong>January 8–9: <a href="http://atlantawordcamp.com/">WordCamp Atlanta</a>.</strong> First WordCamp of the year, and it&#8217;s already sold out &#8212; twice! They changed to a bigger venue based on demand, from Georgia Tech to the Atlanta campus of Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). They&#8217;re still letting people onto <a href="http://wordcampatl.eventbrite.com/">the waitlist</a>, if you&#8217;re interested. A guaranteed way to get in would be to <a href="http://atlantawordcamp.com/sponsor/sponsorship-opportunities/">sponsor</a> the event, and they&#8217;re taking last-minute sponsors right now. Atlanta will have sessions on Friday evening and all day Saturday. I&#8217;ll be opening the Saturday program with <em>WordPress Resolutions: What to Expect in 2010</em>. After a day of design, development and content track sessions, Lead Developer <a href="http://markjaquith.com/">Mark Jaquith</a> will take the closing slot for a Town Hall-style Q&amp;A.  The <a href="http://wordcampatl.eventbrite.com/">attendee list</a> (follow link, scroll down) includes a number of WordPress core contributors, theme/plugin developers, and support providers as well as proof that Atlanta has a strong WordPress user base.</p>
<p><strong>January 23: <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/">WordCamp Boston</a>.</strong> I think WordCamp Boston is trying to one-up every WordCamp the organizers have been to, including the awesome NYC from November, and it looks like they might succeed. From <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/">Doc Searls</a> and <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/">David Weinberger</a> as keynote speakers to the multiple-track, unconference and Ignite sessions to the sweet-looking venue and the party plans, this one has got it going on. I credit it in part to the fact that they are one of the few WordCamps to follow the advice of having an organizing team of more than just 2 or 3 people, so the work is better distributed. I see a number of familiar names on the <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/registration/attendees/">attendee list</a>, but even more that I don&#8217;t know, so I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting the Boston WordPress community. They&#8217;re still <a href="http://wordcampboston.com/registration/">selling tickets</a>, so if you&#8217;re in the northeast, you should try to make it. I&#8217;ll be at this one also, talking about how the merge with MU will affect the WordPress admin (by then we should have started figuring it out!).</p>
<p><strong>March 27–28: <a href="http://wordcamptoronto.com/">WordCamp Toronto</a>.</strong> The last two Toronto WordCamps have been really good. I heard there would be one in March, but their site right now is just <a href="http://wordcamptoronto.com/">taking emails</a> for notification. I&#8217;ve contacted the organizer to see what&#8217;s up, and he says the site will likely go live this week. They&#8217;re looking for volunteers to help organize this year&#8217;s event, so if you&#8217;re interested, it would be a great opportunity to get involved. Believe me, volunteering at a WordCamp is one of the best ways to make sure you meet a lot of other attendees.</p>
<h4>ASIA</h4>
<p><strong>January 30: <a href="http://id.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Indonesia</a>.</strong> WordCamp Indonesia will be in Jakarta again this year. I love how they worded the beginning of their <a href="http://id.wordcamp.org/conference-sessions/">sessions</a> page. &#8220;Come in, we’ll get you breakfast and coffee, you’ll register, there’ll be networking. It’ll be great.&#8221; There will be a single track of sessions, but there are several time slots set aside for ad-hoc discussion and breakout sessions.</p>
<p><strong>February 27: <a href="http://2010.wordcampfukuoka.com/">WordCamp Fukuoka</a>.</strong> WordCamp Fukuoka is just getting its site up, too, so check back periodically a little later for more information. One of their visiting speakers will be <a href="http://noel.io/">Noel Jackson</a>, developer of the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This">Press This</a> bookmarklet as well as themes like <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2">P2</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/monotone">Monotone</a>/<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/duotone">Duotone</a>.</p>
<h4>EUROPE</h4>
<p><strong>January 30: <a href="http://www.wordcamp.gr/">WordCamp Greece</a>.</strong> WordCamp Greece will be held in Thessaloniki, and they expect about 100-150 people to attend.The program includes regular sessions on the usual topics (how-to, programming, SEO, multi-language sites, etc) as well as &#8220;QuickRounds,&#8221; which will showcase Greek projects based on WordPress. I&#8217;m especially intrigued by the &#8220;WordPress vs. Expression Engine&#8221; session. Whenever people compare different publishing platforms, it&#8217;s interesting to see which features they highlight. I hope someone gets video from this one and posts it to the <a href="http://wordpress.tv/category/wordcamptv/">WordCamp section of WordPress.tv</a>.</p>
<p><strong>March 6–7: <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/">WordCamp Ireland</a>.</strong> WordCamp Ireland will be in Kilkenny, and for such a geographically small country, it&#8217;s got an impressive list of <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/info/speakers/">speakers</a>, including <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/">Donncha O Caoimh</a>, lead developer of <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/">WordPress MU</a>. The program includes three tracks: Intro, Blogger, and Developer, and I think this will be the first WordCamp I&#8217;ve heard of that is deliberately <a href="http://www.wordcampireland.com/about/family-and-partner-friendly/">family-friendly</a>, with on-site child care. They&#8217;re also going to have a charging station for mobile devices, which is clever. It&#8217;s not confirmed yet, but I think I&#8217;ll be at this one, too.</p>
<p>If you want to attend a WordCamp but don&#8217;t know of one near you, check out <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp.org</a> for the official list (updated frequently). That&#8217;s also where you would start if you wanted to <a href="http://central.wordcamp.org/guidelines/">organize a WordCamp</a> in your area. </p>
<p><em>*Developer chats are held Thursdays at 21:00 UTC in the #wordpress-dev channel at irc.freenode.com. </em></p>
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