Track: Woodrow Wilson D

  • Communication and collaboration: finding your way around WordPress

    The WordPress project both generates and processes a lot of information on a regular basis. Even for tenured contributors, it can be challenging to know where or who to go for much needed information. On each team and across the project, who should be responsible for disseminating information, and how can communication practices be streamlined…

  • PHP version support

    Currently, WordPress does not officially fully support PHP 8.0+. This discussion will focus on how WordPress can support and align with modern PHP versions, and how to drop support for PHP versions that are end-of-life (“EoL”). There is urgency to this as PHP 8.0 will be EoL in November, and PHP 7.4 reached EoL last…

  • Open Source participation in global legislation

    Historically, the WordPress project has avoided taking clear public stances on legislation as it appeared across the world, instead relying on our sustaining/underwriting corporations to advocate for the best positions. Increasingly, WP is being asked to weigh in or participate in taking a collective stand with other FOSS projects in our field. Are our current…

  • Exploring how the Accessibility Team can support Making WordPress teams

    The Accessibility Team would like to explore how it can become a shared resource and best support Make Teams and the WordPress project as a whole. The current challenges are that this small team struggles to track where they could be helpful across the WordPress project, and they would like a stronger system that allows…

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  • Lunch

  • Handling Trust & Safety (“T&S”) in the WordPress ecosystem: content moderation and sensitive content

    WordPress has many community-led initiatives and directories with user-submitted content, like the Pattern Directory, the Photo Directory, Openverse, Themes, Plugins, and Support Forums. These areas hold user-submitted content, whether text or other media. However, each team has its own methods to evaluate its content, and its own moderation practices. This discussion aims to better understand…

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  • Building trust in WordPress CMS and plugin security

    People who work in open source have a stronger understanding of how we ensure security of the CMS and plugins. For new users and consumers, it can be alarming to read or hear about vulnerabilities found in WordPress plugins and themes. This conversation will focus on how we can talk about security best practices and…