Title: Nominations for Core Team Reps 2022 Author: Francesca Marano Published: October 26, 2021 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/francina/) [Francesca Marano](https://profiles.wordpress.org/francina/) 11:58 am _on_ October 26, 2021 Tags: [team reps ( 21 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/team-reps/) # Nominations for Core Team Reps 2022 This post kicks off the election process with nominations to replace [@audrasjb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) and [@francina](https://profiles.wordpress.org/francina/) as CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team reps. We have been in the role for over a year now, so 2022 marks the time to get new folks! ## The Role In the WordPress open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project, each team has on average one or two representatives, abbreviated as _reps_.  It is not called “team lead” for a reason. It’s an **administrative role**. While people elected as team reps will generally come from the pool of folks that people think of as experienced leaders, the team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. role is designed to change hands regularly. This role has a time commitment attached to it. Not a huge amount, it’s _at least_ two hours a week. Here are the main tasks: * Post the devchat agenda, host the chats, and summarizing them. [More details on coordinating devchat are available in the Core handbook.](https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/coordinating-devchat/) * Writing regular Core team recaps and posting it in the updates site ([example](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2021/10/11/core-team-update-september-2021/)) * Write the [Week in Review](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/week-in-core/) post * Keeping an eye on the moving parts of the team to be able to report for quarterly updates ([example](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2018/04/24/quarterly-updates-q1-2018/)) [Full details on the Team Rep role is on the Team Update site.](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/team-reps/) ## How the election works Please **nominate** people in the comments of this post. Self-nominations are welcome. The deadline is **10 November 2021**. After that, a poll will be opened for **voting**. It will stay open for about two weeks. The new reps will start their role on January 1st, 2022. If you want to nominate someone in private, please reach out to[ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/francina/) [@francina](https://profiles.wordpress.org/francina/) or [@audrasjb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/). _Disclaimer: if you get nominated, please don’t feel like you have to say yes. The polls will only include the names of the people that are responding positively to a nomination.  So feel free to reply with a “Thank you, but no thank you”._ If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments, we will be happy to reply. _Thanks to [@audrasjb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) for the peer review._ [#team-reps](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/team-reps/) ### Share this: * [ Threads ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/26/nominations-for-core-team-reps-2022/?share=threads) * [ Mastodon ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/26/nominations-for-core-team-reps-2022/?share=mastodon) * [ Bluesky ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/26/nominations-for-core-team-reps-2022/?share=bluesky) * [ X ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/26/nominations-for-core-team-reps-2022/?share=x) * [ Facebook ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/26/nominations-for-core-team-reps-2022/?share=facebook) * [ LinkedIn ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/26/nominations-for-core-team-reps-2022/?share=linkedin) 1. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/46e579e5809af6c797613c207eb35f9b2ef06b2008e48c03e63e6d801ad048d6? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 2. [marybaum](https://profiles.wordpress.org/marybaum/) 12:28 am _on_ November 5, 2021 3. I would be happy to be one of the reps, if y’all will have me. 4. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/241584c8900ae5ccd62ff4c9db7d58e58bc9e0dc0162d4bdcac2a916d586c7ed? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 5. [Francesca Marano](https://profiles.wordpress.org/francina/) 5:10 pm _on_ November 6, 2021 6. I support Mary as our next team representative! 7. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/290f2b7c28bb1f2b5a6ceccbfba43a7ee24abe3e2e0c35394f4be3d8f8c49c23? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 8. [webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/) 9: 31 pm _on_ November 17, 2021 9. [@marybaum](https://profiles.wordpress.org/marybaum/) is a really welcoming person when people get started in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and devchat, and signposting ways for people to learn more. I’ve had the pleasure of being on the release squad and several releases with Mary. It’s great to see her standing as a core team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.. Comments are closed. # Post navigation [← WordPress 5.9 Editor Update – 26 October](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/25/wordpress-5-9-editor-update-26-october/) [Dev Chat Agenda for October 27, 2021 →](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/27/dev-chat-agenda-for-october-27-2021/)