There are thousand notes in the notebook of this weekend. We could write everything and publish it, or be doing it step by step. We have been decided by the second option. Thus, we will have more time to write and to settle down all the information that we have shared, and you will not have to face with a document of several pages length. Here is the first post. We hope that this series of articles reflects the exciting that is the development of a technology with a work philosophy so different from the traditional one.
Darragh Doyle
Friday. Time of departure: 7.20am. Very long trip, with many hopes put in what we are going to live during this weekend. Ahead we have 14 hours of trip and many things that we want to do. We are aware of that we will not be able to blog the conferences (it’s practically impossible to do it live) and that using twitter we will lose thousands of details, of impressions, that are impossible to transmit in 140 characters. We need more space. Much more.
We arrived at Kilkenny about 8pm, already unpacked, to attend to the speakers & sponsors dinner. First, some beer with the Automattic girls. And then, time to choose table to have dinner. We sat down with Jane Wells (UI Goddess), Paul Gibbs , Joost de Valk, Sheri Bigelow & Hanni Ross. Not a bad election 
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During the dinner (brightened up by Adam, Donncha‘s son, who didn’t stop talking and playing) we were speaking about a few things (thanks to Joost, who did not stop asking):
1) Core Plugins.
WordPress will shortly have an API in which we will be able to find a great list of functions to use in the creation of our plugins. It will be including in the WordPress core, and all the information will be added to the page of Plugin API that already exists.
2) WordCamp SF.
As you will sure know, we already have a date for WordCamp SF. Speakers list of this WordCamp is directly done by Matt, which assures us the best-ever quality possible and to be revealed a lot of information about the future of WordPress, WordPress MU, BuddyPress and the other projects of Automattic.
3) BuddyPress.
We were talking about the possible integration of BuddyPress in the WordPress Core. We have been discussing about this in Mecus last month, and now they have confirmed our suspicions. Although it makes sense, we do not like this path by several reasons:
- We are already working in the merging of WP and WP-MU.
- BuddyPress is an easy-to-install plugin. It have not sense to include more weight to the core having 1-click-install.
- Not everybody wants to install a social network (we have the contrary argument: not everybody wants to install a multiuser WordPress and it’s an installation option).
But it makes sense for WordPress people, of course. If we are talking about this possibility it’s becausse in the near future, when we want to install WordPress, it will ask us if what we want to install (single-user) WordPress or a multiuser WordPress. Why not to ask then if we want to install a social network? (We will talk about it in a future BuddyPress article).
We are aware that BuddyPress will be included in the Codex of WordPress.org, and won’t be a separate project like now. It’s getting more relevance everyday.
4) The Automattic girls.
They are brilliant. All of them. It’s very pleasant and an honor to share with them a dinner, beers, or whatever they propose. They are very concerned about their job: they are always speaking about WordPress. And they have included to our special agent in their list of their WP Evangelists.
5) VideoPress.
The new service of Automattic is beating hard. Although they know clearly that for them it’s not a profitable project, they also know that, by now, they had to offer a video service with HD support in addition to WordPress.tv for WordPress and the rest of services of Automattic.
VideoPress is already working in WordPress.com, and we will soon see a plugin with widget for all the blogs of external installations and services that are not associated to WordPress. Everyone who wants to use VideoPress will be able to do that, in any platform, and without the need of being associated to WordPress or to other services of Automattic.
6) GPL.
SEO & GPL have been the most repeated words of the WordCamp. We will dedicate them its own section, like to BuddyPress.
And, of course, if you want to make questions our comments are open 
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March 10th, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Como siempre, un placer leeros. Estaremos atentos a las nuevas entradas!
March 10th, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Me habéis dejado con las ganas de saber más.
sobre el tema de BuddyPress, yo no lo pondría en el Core, pero si que lo preguntaría en la instalación.
Igual ya se habló, y salió en la conversación que comentas.
Lo que se podría hacer es, si el usuario lo quiere, simplemente se lo descarga como plugin de forma automatizada, lo instala y lo activa.
Supongo que no sería una gran complicación.
Un saludo
March 10th, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Es una de las ideas
la ampliaremos cuando escribamos sobre la charla de BuddyPress, que dio para bastante 