Remkus' Roundup: Gutenberg news, new conferences & more!

It’s time for my weekly roundup again. This week of WordPress news has been an interesting one. So, let’s dive right in.

The focus of last week was mostly on the release date WordPress 5.0 with the inclusion of Gutenberg as a primary goal. As you can imagine, there was a lot of discussion on the various blogs about the suggested release dates. As soon as there’s something new to be mentioned about those release dates, we’ll let you know here. But for now, let’s dive right in!

WordCamp Nordic

An interesting new WordCamp was announced this week by lead organizer Marco Martins: WordCamp Nordic. As you can probably gather by its name, it focuses on the Nordic, or Scandinavian, countries in Europe. The first edition will take place in Helsinki, Finland and will include a Contributor Day and a Community Day additional to the event day itself. And yes, there will be saunas. How can you not when you’re in Finland, right?

If you’d like to know more about it, you can read WP Tavern’s interview with the organizers or head straight to the site of WordCamp Nordic.

I’m glad WordCamp Nordic is finally happening after two years of talking about it. I’m also excited to see other kinds of regional WordCamps happening outside of WordCamp Europe and WordCamp US.

WooSesh

WooSesh, an online conference about WooCommerce will host its first edition on October 18 and 19. If you build WooCommerce stores in any way, this all-new virtual conference for WooCommerce is for you. They have a very interesting line up of speakers and to top it all off, attendance is for free. Check out their website for more information.

Core Privacy Component Roadmap

Heather Burns, who led the introduction of the privacy component in WordPress 4.9.6 has suggested a roadmap. If you’d like to stay updated and/or help out, now would be a great time to get involved.

Gutenberg Release Candidate 1

The last versions of a software before go live are called Release Candidates. The Gutenberg project has released the first Release Candidate this week. If you’d like to know more about what exactly is in Gutenberg RC1, Mattias Ventura explains all in his introduction post. By the way, if you’re curious what’s planned for Gutenberg after it’s been included in WordPress Core, phase 2 and its focus was announced as well last week.

SiteGround WordPress Ambassadors

One of our WordPress hosting partners, SiteGround, announced they’ve started sponsoring, what they’re calling, SiteGround WordPress Ambassadors. So, much like our Yoast Diversity Fund, they’re helping out people being able to speak at WordCamps who otherwise might not be able to. I think this is a great example of contributing back to the WordPress Project and I’d love to see more companies in the WordPress ecosphere doing things like this.

That’s it for me for this week. Enjoy your weekend!