WordPress Photo Directory Gets Its Own Make Team
The WordPress Photo Directory is taking off, growing to more than 1,400 approved free photos in under two months. After a successful call for testers and volunteer photo moderators, the directory has an enthusiastic team of contributors ready to move the project forward. Angela Jin’s pitch for photo moderators resonated with a lot of people for a couple reasons – it outlined an approachable time commitment (1-2 hrs/wk) and didn’t require any special skills beyond appreciation of photography: Photo Directory Moderators can expect to spend 1-2 hours in coming weeks learning about the Photo Directory and current moderation tools, and discussing future best practices. To keep the Photo Directory a thriving resource, Moderators are needed for the foreseeable future, perhaps dedicating up to an hour of their time each week. Nearly two dozen people responded to this call. It was a good strategy for building a wide base of contributors instead of depending on a smaller team that would be required to devote more hours. This week Jin formalized the new contributor group, announcing the Photo Directory as a new WordPress Make team. Collaboration is now happening at the new #photos channel in WordPress Slack and the team will begin…
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