Gutenberg Times Live Q & A: Rethinking WordPress Themes
Channel: Gutenberg Times
Date: 2019-12-12

Live Q & A will be about "Rethinking WordPress Themes" with ingenious Theme builders 
Ellen Bauer, http://elmastudio.de/en
William Patton, http://pattonwebz.com
Rich Tabor, http://richtabor.com

In September,  Matias Ventura, one of the lead developers of the Phase 1 wrote about Block Areas, that need to be defined. 
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/09/05/defining-content-block-areas

Felix Arnzt Introduced concept of block templates for full site editing
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/17512

Mark Uriane, design lead of Gutenberg Phase 2 and my co-host on the Gutenberg Changelog, explored and discussed “Block Patterns: Add ability for predefined block layouts to be added to a document”
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/17335

Last week, Riad Benguella, dev lead of Phase 2, published the documentation “Block-based Theme” that sparked some great discussions on GitHub (PR)
https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/developers/themes/block-based-themes/