Channing: Cool. Thank you everyone for coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[podcast music begins]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josepha Haden Chomphosy, Executive Director of the WordPress Project: Hello everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing. I’m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Here we go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Channing: I’m a design director at Automattic, and I’m a co-lead of the WordPress.org design team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josepha: Channing is a product and visual designer based in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Channing: We are a group of full-time designers who are sponsored by Automattic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lee Moreau, Host of The Futures Archive podcast: Channing’s work is all about contributing to the open source WordPress project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Channing: It’s kind of similar to Wikipedia, in the sense that it’s maintained by volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Channing: A typical day involves spending a lot of time on GitHub, where much of the development for the WordPress project takes place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Channing: You know what, why don’t I just share this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Channing: This is a block locking feature, that merged just the other day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Channing: Working in open source can be complicated, it’s not always a linear process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Channing: That’s the scary and exciting thing about working in open source, is like getting comfortable with sharing work that is very much<\/em> in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Channing: Having the solid foundation of a community is what makes that collaboration possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Josepha: If I recall correctly, this is the first time that you are like leading part of a release. So what would you say was the most challenging part of that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Channing: There might be some features that need to stay in the Gutenberg plugin for a while and get more testing before they get released to a much wider audience in a major WordPress release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Channing: Ok, what would the implications of those decisions be within the UI?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Channing: Design has started to play such a more important role in the WordPress project over the past few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Channing: It’s definitely an exciting turn for the brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Channing: It can be hard to wrap your head around how many people are really interacting with what you’re working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Channing: The ideas could come from anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Channing: Thank you. Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Channing: Cool. Thank you everyone for coming. [podcast music begins] Josepha Haden Chomphosy, Executive Director of the WordPress Project: Hello everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing. I’m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Here we go. Channing: I’m a design director at Automattic, and I’m a co-lead of the WordPress.org design team. Josepha: Channing is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3981","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingritter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingritter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingritter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingritter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingritter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingritter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingritter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3981\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingritter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}