A proposal on the Make blog to modernize WordCamps. Some ideas include trying out new formats, topics, and focusing events for a subset of the community, such as for designers or contributors. People are invited to share their feedback and ideas.

The WordPress marketing team has organized a campaign called from Blogs to Blocks to celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of WordPress. It will run from today until May 27th. They will provide prompts each day and invite people in the community to participate. Information is here if you want to join in.

Robby McCullough of the Beaver Builder team published on their blog a post about why limited site licenses don’t make sense for GPL products. (note that he republished this article from 5 years ago as it is still relevant).

Scott Kingsley Clark on the Pods blog announces that the first beta of Pods 3.0 is available. A main feature of this release is conditional logic based on field values where you can show or hide a field based on the value of another field.

From the Oxygen blog, Elijah Mills shares a very nice video showing how to create your own mini CSS framework. The video uses Oxygen and some of its features, but the ideas can be used with other builders.

From the WebTNG newsletter comes an in-depth editorial looking at block themes and discussing reactions to Gutenberg and the Site Editor. The author suggests that viewing Gutenberg as a “dumpster fire” is a fallacy.

Joost posts on Twitter – Udemy got a 4 million dollar fine for fake discount prices. He says its time for some in the WordPress community to take note that it is an illegal practice.

The team behind Stackable Blocks has launched a new website, WPBlockTips, with helpful tips for working with the block editor. It looks like there are a few dozen tips so far.

Patchstack announces new plans and pricing. They have reimagined their offering and introduced a new Developer plan. They also are adding new reports.