Dev Chat Summary for June 3, 2015

This post includes updates since the dev chat last Wednesday.

@johnjamesjacoby packaged and released BP 2.3.1 last Friday, June 5th. This is a maintenance release.

We’re pleased to announce the newest member of the BuddyPress Core Team, @hnla (Hugo Ashmore). He is a long-time BuddyPress core contributor, Forums Moderator, Co-Lead of the BP Codex, completed the new BP companion stylesheets for the Twenty Fifteen and Twenty Fourteen themes in this recent dev cycle, and has many tasks scheduled for this year. Hugo is a freelance frontend developer based in London who enjoys Sunday Roast or Curry. Congratulations @hnla!

We’re happy to share the news that @dimensionmedia (David Bisset) is the newest BP Rockstar. @dimensionmedia has organized the first U.S. BuddyCamp (and second ever after BuddyCamp Vancouver) in 2013 and continued to do so in 2014 and 2015. That makes him a Rockstar in our books! To top it off, @dimensionmedia is one of the founding members of WordCamp Miami and has organized the event for the last six years. Quite amazing, really. Congratulations @dimensionmedia!
You can view the archived livestream for the morning and afternoon BuddyCamp sessions (you need to create a livestream.com account to do so): A.M. sessions – http://livestream.com/accounts/13701773/events/4081950 P.M. sessions – http://livestream.com/accounts/13701773/events/4081959

@im4th has given a 40-minute grand tour of the “BuddyPress Ocean” last Friday, June 5th, aboard possibly the first ever “floating WordCamp” in Lyons. He has just posted about the event at our BuddyPress.org blog. He has included images, links to his slideshow, and gists for making BuddyPress work for you in different scenarios, among other tidbits.
Check out https://buddypress.org/2015/06/boarding-the-wordcamp-lyon/
#wclyons photos by Manuel Schmalstieg are available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/kinetoskop/sets/72157653729160548

@im4th presenting the BuddyPress ocean. Image by Éric Wayaffe

Mark your calendars! The first BuddyCamp outside of North America has been greenlighted. Our very own @DJPaulGibbs and @karmatosed are co-organizers of the first BuddyCamp in the U.K. which will be happening on August 8, 2015 in the beautiful seaside city of Brighton, a 2-hour drive south of London. The calls for speakers and sponsors are now open!
Keep an eye on the BuddyCamp Brighton site as things develop over the coming weeks @ http://brighton.buddycamp.org/2015/

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