This week the transcription was done on the fly during the meeting so its not as fluid as it normally is/will be. Here's the Raw log of the meetup

Update on open task items

• 1.5.1.1 was released. Woot. The people are happy. MCincubus: "It's the solid base we've been wanting..."
• WordPress Resource Center and Theme Viewer
  • Photomatt: I set up shadow an account he put the theme stuff on so I think that's taken care of now

Codex Cleanup Week

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Codex:Cleanup
• relle: SIGN UP NOW and we'll have a schedule within in a week or so. We are doing it a little differently. It's nine days not a weekend. We will be asking for volunteers to sign up and to request assignments. We will be handing out homework.

WP Groups

• WordPress User Groups = WPUGS, email relle about your local meetup

State of the Codex

• It is awesome and will get awesomer

Holes in Documentation

• skippy: working example of home.php as a splash page.
• User:Lorelle/Articles_Wanted is the place to say what's missing
• We desperately need documentation and advanced technique articles.

State of the Forum

• New tag for the forums: "Needscodex" for when someone looked for an answer in the codex and didn't find one
• Are or are not "Your WordPress" posts in Forum going off the Latest Discussion list - do we need to warn or just do?: YourWordpress is got the boot off the front page of /Support

What's Next?

• 1.5.2 or 1.6 (1.6 goals and suggestions)
  • Decision in a week
• Backup Day/Week
  • Relle and podz are working on documentation for backing up your wp and sponsoring a day/week for people to backup their WP installs
  • WP 1.5 Database Manager by GaMerZ
    • Screenshots of its functionality: Backup DB, Delete DB, Manage DB, Optimize DB, Restore DB, Run SQL Query
  • One Click Backup Plugin and Screenshots of it
  • photomatt: and the hackers can focus on integrating backup for 1.5.2

Assigned Projects

• theme gardener - moving 3-6 themes into wp-themes.org and cleaning them up, to be distributed on /extend/themes - Mike Little
• bbPress - another core dev for the bbpress project, focus would be integrating WP user system and extending profiles - mdawaffe
• OpenID - someone to investigate writing a OpenID authentication plugin - firas is team leader bravo- will deliver newz in a week
• Wiki Working Group - new mailing list
• TortoiseSVN tutorial - Firas

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