Title: Make WordPress Community – Building Local Communities

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#  People contributing to Community

 Help bring contribution tracking to this team.

 We don't yet have automated contribution tracking for the **Community** team. Sponsors,
recruiters, and team reps can't see who is shipping verified work — only a list 
of people who opted in.

 **You could lead this. Here is the path:**

 1.  
     ### Review the team handbook
     
 2.  Read it cover to cover. Understand what this team works on, how decisions get 
     made, who the team reps are, and what existing recognition looks like.
 3.  [Open the Community Handbook](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/)
 4.  
     ### Join the team on Slack
     
 5.   Most coordination happens in `#community` on the Make WordPress Slack workspace.
 6.  [Get a Slack account](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
 7.  
     ### Attend one or two team meetings
     
 8.  Meeting times are in the handbook. Show up, introduce yourself, listen. Do not
     propose anything yet — just get a sense of the rhythm and the open work.
 9.  
     ### Propose a metrics discussion
     
 10. Once you have earned standing in the team, propose a discussion (in a meeting 
     or async) to define what counts as a verified contribution. What types of work?
     What weights? Which signals should be tracked, and which intentionally ignored?
 11. 
     ### Collect, store, and cache the agreed metrics
     
 12. Wire the agreed signals into the wp.org data pipeline alongside the existing Trac
     and GitHub aggregation. Add per-source ingest, indexed storage, and hour-cached
     aggregation matching the existing pattern.
 13. 
     ### Wire this page up
     
 14.  Update `inc/contribution-metrics.php` to include the team and its new data source,
     then add the team's slug to `TEAMS_WITH_DATA`. This page will switch from this
     guide to the contributor directory automatically.