Displaying 1 To 7 Of 7 Comments WordCamp Fayetteville Around The Corner Yeah, I do like that there is finally a WordCamp within 2 hours of where I live. That is enough time to travel to the WordCamp and leave, so I won’t have to stay at a hotel. I’ll be at the Raleigh WordCamp as well. So I have two great weeks planned out where I’ll be doing a lot of work. Well, I’m seeing my family this week, so it isn’t all work, mostly play, but I had wished I had finished some stuff before the trip so that I would have more time to hang with family. » Posted By Jacob Santos On May 21, 2010 @ 3:31 PM On the topic of attempting to get more women, then good luck. What I tried to say and I left it out and went off on a tangent is that PHP community is trying to do this as well for the PHP engine as well. There are many women who are programmers and only so many of them. Majority of programmers are men, just how it is. Read what the PHP Engine developers and community has to say about this and try to get involved with them first and see how they were able to succeed or why the failed (as a guy, a female only zone is something I respect and dutifully ignore completely as it has nothing to do with me, as a man). I don’t see it as the male programmers being biased or insulting towards female programmers. In fact, I would be happy to see more of them, because they are such a rarity. I think that when you have them, they either feel as if they shouldn’t tell anyone they are female because of the harassment from male programmers at the novelty (who damn near ruin it for the rest of us) or because of the feeling that they might be required to “prove” themselves to their male counterparts. That and the real world effects it as well. Women are still expected to hold the fort and is referenced by a few (well, accurately only one woman in the PHP community) of the women in the amount of time they have available to contribute to any community. Again I went off on a tangent. There is already a movement in the PHP core community that can be drawn from in order for research and having an example for how to start. Learning from those that have already tried is a good way to start. All I have to say is that I wouldn’t mind seeing more female programmers in a completely creepy way if you will, but not that creepy. » Posted By Jacob Santos On January 11, 2010 @ 5:49 PM 1) Just because you have a code of conduct for the community doesn’t mean everyone or even most people are going to read it or know about it. Furthermore, segregating developers or contributors because they’re a jerk doesn’t much improve situations. Well, there are different level of being a jerk. Changing ones personality or priority of code of conduct is difficult and most likely will get into more arguments over how one should attack and go off from the base points. 2) I don’t know how Jane expects to get more women to contribute to core of WordPress. There are only so many women who program in PHP overall, so in order to get that number up, you either need to persuade women who are contributing on other projects to come to contribute for WordPress, get women to spend their time from chores, managing households, etc to work instead on WordPress (I guess the man could get off his ass and do some of it), or train more women to be PHP programmers and give them an incentive to work on WordPress. I think the problem is also of money, why do people expect that everyone is willing to work on a project that gives them no monetary reward for doing so. Only a small percentage of programmers are willing to work on WordPress and even then not for long. If you have someone work on WordPress for more than a year then they have commitment. I think I only contributed for 2 years before I started to think about all of the other projects I put off during those two years. A few of them that once completed could earn some money. » Posted By Jacob Santos On January 10, 2010 @ 5:43 PM WPWeekly Episode 79 – Alex King And WPHelpCenter Ryan is correct, it is bbPress. » Posted By Jacob Santos On November 20, 2009 @ 5:22 PM New User Features in WordPress 2.8 @JD Hartley I think the premium subscriber was probably something that was added in a plugin and they’ve just now added it to where the drop down allows you to select the role or the plugin hooked into the filter that allows for the dropdown to display it. I’m running 2.9-rare and I’m not seeing it. Well, perhaps you also need to enable registering, but I don’t think that is the case. @Ryan Well, yes and no. The point of using the timezone is to offset the time from GMT+0, WordPress already does this, so there wouldn’t have to be a change. The change is basically to allow the timezone to dictate the offset. If you set the timezone, then you don’t need to do some crazy (but simple) math to get the time, which could be incorrect. The normal date functions will just work, so you get the advantage of faster calculations (C is faster than PHP). » Posted By Jacob Santos On June 16, 2009 @ 3:16 PM The GMT+/- timezones are actually deprecated in PHP, so choosing them is not the best to do. However, given that they’ve been deprecated for years in PHP, it is unlikely that they are doing away any time soon. Still, you might upgrade to PHP 6.0 in the far future and say “WTF?” » Posted By Jacob Santos On June 15, 2009 @ 5:13 PM @jeffro – It would only be a violate to use the name, if the name is Trademarked. Also, it would be extremely difficult to trademark the common name (Thesis Theme might be possible or at least you would hope). Copyright does not include names but works, ideas, and a few other published works. The only part that is copyrighted with Thesis, is the images, styles, and maybe functions that were written by the author. GPL is a license, which is inherited in WordPress, so products dependent on the software must also be GPL or the developer is in violation of the GPL. You can get around this by creating your own API and using hooks, which aren’t GPL. The issue has always been: A guy creates a theme like Thesis, with similar name. Another guy comes around that owns Thesis and believes, albeit incorrectly, that it is in his rights to stop Thesis like theme from being published. This right here is the problem. With what information I have, no code, or anything has been used from the original Thesis, because if the guy had, then yes, it would be a violation, granted if the original author had written it. Well, GPL does take away some of my rights as the copyright author. I can’t pick and choose who gets my software other than by selling it. Also once someone has my GPL code, they can use it as they wish, as long as they do not violate the GPL in the process. Now, as the author, I’m allowed to use my code in non-GPL or another license. » Posted By Jacob Santos On May 1, 2009 @ 10:08 AMComments Posted By Jacob Santos
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