{"id":611,"date":"2025-08-20T19:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/aaron-jorbin-a-wordpress-book-club\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T19:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:36:36","slug":"aaron-jorbin-a-wordpress-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/aaron-jorbin-a-wordpress-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Jorbin: A WordPress Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a previous job, we had an engineering book club. Once a week we would meet and discuss a chapter of a book. It was a good opportunity to hear multiple perspectives on an author\u2019s work, to see who agreed with the author and where people thought the author was off-base. <\/p>\n<p>I would like to bring this concept to WordPress, especially to fellow Core Contributors. For the first book, we will be reading <a href=\"https:\/\/producingoss.com\/\">Producing Open Source Software<\/a> by Karl Fogel. This is a book that has greatly influenced my perspective on open source and software development in general.<\/p>\n<p>The club will meet on Google Meet on Tuesdays at <a href=\"https:\/\/time.is\/1500_in_UTC\">16:00 UTC<\/a> (edit: This was originally 15:00 UTC. Moving to not conflict with recurring meetings of multiple WordPress teams) for one hour with the following schedule:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2 September 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/producingoss.com\/en\/preface.html\">Preface<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/producingoss.com\/en\/introduction.html\">Chapter 1. Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li>9 September 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/producingoss.com\/en\/getting-started.html\">Chapter 2. Getting Started<\/a><\/li>\n<li>16 September 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/producingoss.com\/en\/technical-infrastructure.html\">Chapter 3. Technical Infrastructure<\/a><\/li>\n<li>23 September 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/producingoss.com\/en\/social-infrastructure.html\">Chapter 4. Social and Political Infrastructure<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/producingoss.com\/en\/money.html\">Chapter 5. Organizations and Money: Businesses, Non-Profits, and Governments<\/a><\/li>\n<li>30 September 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/producingoss.com\/en\/communications.html\">Chapter 6. Communications<\/a><\/li>\n<li>7 October 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/producingoss.com\/en\/development-cycle.html\">Chapter 7. Packaging, Releasing, and Daily Development<\/a><\/li>\n<li>14 October 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/producingoss.com\/en\/managing-participants.html\">Chapter 8. Managing Participants<\/a><\/li>\n<li>21 October 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/producingoss.com\/en\/legal.html\">Chapter 9. Legal Matters: Licenses, Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While not an official WordPress event, the <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/handbook\/community-code-of-conduct\/#our-expectations\">expectations from the WordPress Community Code of Conduct<\/a> will apply and at my sole discretion, violations may result in individuals not being invited to continue. Additionally, participants are also encouraged to blog their thoughts on each chapter. <\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are interested, please leave a comment on this post<\/strong>. I will be getting in touch with respondents. If there is an overwhelming interest, I may need to restrict attendees or run a second meeting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Props to <a href=\"https:\/\/jonathandesrosiers.com\/\">Jonathan Desrosiers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tammielister.com\/\">Tammie Lister<\/a> for discussing this idea with me, <a href=\"https:\/\/pattiereaves.com\/\">Pattie Reaves<\/a> for starting the club at PMC and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmc.com\/\">PMC<\/a> PEP team who ran the club I was a part of. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/aaron.jorb.in\/a-wordpress-book-club\/\">A WordPress Book Club<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/aaron.jorb.in\/\">Aaron Jorbin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a previous job, we had an engineering book club. Once a week we would meet and discuss a chapter of a book. 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