Introducing Core Team Reps for 2025

Francesca Marano is the Head of Partnership at Patchstack, a cyber security company helping companies and software developers to identify & patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. vulnerabilities in open-source code. Francesca co-led the release of WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ 5.3, 5.4, 6.2, and 6.3. She mentored multiple releases, including 5.6, the first-ever women and non-binary squad. She served as the Core Team global representative and previously as the Community 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.. One of the things she is most proud of is the blogblog (versus network, site) C+B, which she founded in 2013. It helped many creative female entrepreneurs find their path throughout the years. As an accomplished educator, community leader, and public speaker, you can find her around the world talking about WordPress, community, open-source, women in tech, leadership, and small businesses.

Jb Audras hails from Ardèche (France), is currently the CTO of Whodunit, a well-known French WordPress agency, and is one of the WordPress Core Committers. He started using WordPress in 2007, has already served as the AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team Rep and Core Team Rep a few years ago. Jb led multiple maintenance and security releases and played a key role in a dozen major releases, most recently as the Core Tech Lead of WP 6.6 or Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. Lead for WordPress 6.8. When not contributing to WordPress, Jb can be found in various cliffs, seeking new climbing challenges.

Benjamin Zekavica is a web developer from Aachen, Germany, with 16 years of experience in the field. A dedicated WordPress user since 2013, he has been actively involved in the community since 2015. He contributed to WordPress 6.5 as the Design Lead and has been working on the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ project since version 5.0. Beyond development, Benjamin is deeply engaged in the WordPress community, serving as a mentor for the Core Team and actively participating in WordCamps as an attendee, volunteer, organizer, and speaker. His passion for open-source collaboration and community building makes him a valued contributor to the WordPress ecosystem.