Calling all CSS “Gurus”, well everybody that is interested in CSS to voice their opinions about The big CSS overhaul in 3.3.

Our student GSoC blog is up and running, for anyone who wants to follow along this summer. http://gsoc2011.wordpress.com/

WC Vancouver (aka Developers) Coming Up May 5

Cross-posting from wordcamp.org:

WordCamp Vancouver is coming up on May 5. The organizers call it a developer focus, though I would probably amend that to be “professional” as there are also sessions about design, information architecture and content strategy, etc.

They recently lowered the ticket price to $40. They’ll be selling tickets for another 5 days, so if you’re a developer or WordPress professional in the Pacific Northwest (or would like to become one!), I highly recommend attending.

Ian Stewart (iandstewart) and Lance Willett (lancewillett) will be driving Twenty Eleven theme development during 3.2. You’ll be seeing commits from them for the remainder of the 3.2 cycle as they get our new default theme into shape. Follow the action and provide feedback on ticket 17198.

The Distraction Free Writing mode has been in trunk since yesterday. Would appreciate comments, suggestions, opinions, etc. Bug reports should probably go on #17136.

2011 GSoC Students Announced

Google has announced the students who were selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code program this year. WordPress is once again a participating organization, and will have 12 students working with us this year. We were awarded the 15 slots we requested, but based on how we distributed the mentors (and how many students applied for the same projects), we donated 3 slots back to the pool so other organizations could use them (no need for us to be greedy, right?). Introducing our 2011 GSoC students/projects:

• Document Revisions – Ben Balter: Mitcho, duck_, and Jorbin
• File Uploader Upgrade – Jacob Gillespie: Koop, azaozz
• Local Storage Drafts backup – Mihai Chereji: Filosofo, mitcho (assist from azaozz and koop)
• Learn.wordpress.org – Stas Suscov: Jeremy Boggs, Jtrip (others in ad hoc manner)
• Enhanced emails – Wojtek Szutnik: Aaron Campbell and Justin
• Threaded Comments – azram19: Westi and Koop
• Extending WP Webservices – Prasath Nadarajah: Thorsten and Eric Mann
• Language Packs – Marko Novakovic: Nacin and Nikolay
• Refresh Android app UI – Anirudh S: Dan Roundhill and Isaac
• Full-throttle Trac Annihilation – Jakub Tyrcha: Dion, duck_ and scribu
• WordPress Move – Mert Yazicioglu: Pete Mall and Brian Layman
• Template Versioning – David Julia: Ocean90 and Nacin (with possible assist Koop)

We’ll be setting up the group blog for students this week and will announce it here when it’s up and running. All the project descriptions will be available there, along with links to student blogs.

List of all projects accepted into GSoC 2011.

There are 56 tickets in the 3.2 milestone marked has-patch, needs-testing. 18 with needs-patch. It would be great if everyone capable of doing so would help test these and report on them this week, since freeze is coming up on the 30th, and at that point anything not in will be punted. The leads are all working on specific things, so these tickets are in need of loving attention. Namely, yours.

Help, as always, is greatly appreciated.

We have a checkbox in profiles where people can say “I make my living from WordPress.” As of today, 19,932 people have checked that box.

It’s a neat data point, but also makes me curious about more.

I’d love to have a yearly survey we promote when we do a release to ask questions of the WP community that we’d love answered, perhaps collecting (and refining) them on a Codex page throughout the year.

What would you ask?

GSoC mentors who have not posted their selections to the mentor blog and need to do so today if they still want to be mentors: @nacin, @dkoopersmith, @dd32, @johnjamesjacoby, Mitcho, Thorsten, @viper007bond, @filosofo, Brian Layman, Chris Jean, ocean90, Russell Fair. If anyone on this list does not know what I’m talking about, they should leave a comment saying as much immediately so I can walk you through it if you missed the original emails. We’ll be doing mentor-student matching tomorrow, so this is it.

I’m going to be upgrading the /extend/themes bbPress install to bring it up to the same level of bbPress where the ideas and plugins and support forums are. This is to allow the login cookies to integrate properly across the whole site.

This means that parts of the themes directory will be non-functional or broken for short periods of time as I track down issues with it. These times should be short and as minimal as possible.