@Jeffro - I guess I sort of consider the developer chats to be like city council meetings. Most people don't have the time, or a good reason, to attend these meetings, but they still like to catch up with what happened in their local paper the next day.

So of course, I consider you our reporter, attending all these meetings and taking notes so that we don't have to show up and get in the way! I can understand why the core developers wouldn't want a wave of end users coming in and being disruptive or distracting. But I hope they'll allow you to continue to report on these meetings and keep the community up to speed.

@Dan Cole - I think Jane mentioned something in the last episode about setting up more general chats that would include the wider WordPress community.