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Joe McGill 8:00 am on February 10, 2025
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Introducing Core Team Reps for 2025

Now that the nominations process for Core Team Reps has concluded, I’m pleased to announce that @francina and @audrasjb have agreed to serve as CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Reps for 2025 with @benjamin_zekavica joining them in a mentorship role to start the year. This team brings deep experience to the role, with both @francina and @audrasjb having served multiple times, going back to 2020. This structure ensures continuity while also allowing us to welcome new contributors to this role.

About our new Team Reps

Francesca Marano

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

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

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.

About the Team Rep role

The role of Team Rep in the WordPress project dates back to 2012. Anyone who serves as a “Team Rep” is responsible for communicating on behalf of the Core team to the other contributor groups via team updates, as well as occasional cross-team chats. While not formally part of the role description, folks serving in this role have also facilitated the Core team’s weekly Dev Chat meetings for the past several years. Full details on the Team Rep role is on the Team Update site.

The role is intentionally called “Team Rep” rather than “Team Lead” because it is primarily an administrative position. While people elected as Team Reps will generally come from the pool of folks that people think of as experienced leaders, the Team Rep role is designed to change hands regularly.

On behalf of @mikachan and myself (@joemcgill), thank you for allowing us to serve in the role during the past year. It’s an absolute honor to be able to support this amazing community of individuals who share their time, energy, and talents with the WordPress software project. Congratulations to our new Team Reps! We are confident that the role is in very capable hands.

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Sarah Norris 5:02 pm on December 17, 2024
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Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2025 Edition

Nominations are now closed. Thank you to everyone who responded.

This post kicks off the formal election process with a call for nominations for the 2025 CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Reps. For 2024, Joe McGill (@joemcgill) and Sarah Norris (@mikachan) have served as the elected Core Team Reps.

The Roles

In the WordPress open-source project, each team has on average one or two representatives, abbreviated as reps. For the historians out there, the roles go way back to 2012.

Historically with the Core team, 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. duration was around a year, though some reps stuck around longer if there was a particularly good fit.

Anyone who serves as a “team rep” is responsible for communicating on behalf of the Core team to the other contributor groups via weekly updates, as well as occasional cross-team chats. Reps are also consulted on Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., where they help to find someone within the Core team who will be at an event who can lead a Core table. Full details on the Team Rep role can be found on the Team Update site.

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 rep role is designed to change hands regularly.

This role has a time commitment of at least one or two hours a week.

The main tasks include:

  • Posting the weekly Dev Chat agenda, hosting the chats, and summarizing them (which can include writing and encouraging others to contribute to the summaries). More details on coordinating devchat are available in the Core handbook.
  • Keeping up with the current releases (mainly WordPress major and minors and 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/ bi-weekly releases) and communicating updates.
  • Keeping a watch on the moving parts of the team to report for quarterly updates (example).

How the election works

Please nominate people in the comments of this post. Self-nominations are welcome. The deadline is January 31, 2025 at 23:59 UTC. If there are fewer than 2 nominees who have accepted their nominations, the deadline will be extended.

Once the nomination period expires, a poll will be opened for voting. It will stay open for two weeks. The new reps will start their role in February 2025.

Disclaimer: if you are nominated, please don’t feel like you have to agree to say yes. The election poll will only include the names of the people who have agreed to be nominated. 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 or speak to the current team reps. Finally, for reference, these are the 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 nomination posts.

Thanks to @joemcgill for reviewing this post.

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Abha Thakor 2:42 pm on December 4, 2023
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Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2024 Edition

Updates:

  • December 14, 2023: extended the deadline to January 12, 2024.
  • January 16, 2024: extended the deadline to January 31, 2024.

Nominations are now closed.

This post kicks off the formal election process with a call for nominations for the 2024 CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Reps. For 2023, Tonya Mork (@hellofromtonya) and Abha Thakor (@webcommsat) have served as the elected Core Team Reps.

The Roles

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. For the historians out there, the roles goes way back to 2012.

Historically with the Core team, 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. duration was around a year, though some reps stuck around longer if there was a particularly good fit.

Anyone who serves as a “team rep” is responsible for communicating on behalf of the Core team to the other contributor groups via weekly updates, as well as occasional cross-team chats. Reps are also consulted on Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., where they help to find someone within the Core team who will be at an event who can lead a Core table. Full details on the Team Rep role can be found on the Team Update site.

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 rep role is designed to change hands regularly.

This role has a time commitment attached to it of at least a one or two hours a week.

The main tasks include:

  • posting the weekly devchat agenda, hosting the chats, and summarizing them (which can include writing and encouraging others to contribute to the summaries). More details on coordinating devchat are available in the Core handbook.
  • writing regular Core team recaps and posting it in the Updates blogblog (versus network, site).
  • writing the Week in Core post. In 2023, this has been kindly continued to be done with thanks to previous team rep @audrasjb.
  • keeping a watch on the moving parts of the team to report for quarterly updates (example).

How the election works

Please nominate people in the comments of this post. Self-nominations are welcome. The deadline is January 31, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. If there are less than 2 nominees who accepted their nominations, the deadline will again be extended.

Once nominations period expires, then a poll will be opened for voting. It will stay open for two weeks. The new reps will start their role in February 2024.

Disclaimer: if you are nominated, please don’t feel like you have to agree to say yes. The election poll will only include the names of the people who have agreed to be nominated. 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 or speak to the current team reps. Finally for reference, these are the 2020, 2021 and 2022 nomination posts.

Thanks to @hellofromtonya and @marybaum for reviewing this post.

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Jb Audras 10:18 pm on December 20, 2022
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Introducing new Core Team Reps for 2023

Now that voting for CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Reps has concluded, @marybaum and @audrasjb are pleased to announce that the new Core Team Reps for 2023 are Tonya Mork (@hellofromtonya) and Abha Thakor (@webcommsat)!

Both of them will officially be our new Core Team Representatives starting January 1st, 2023.

More info: results of the election – detailed results (PDF – 314Kb)

Tonya Mork

Tonya is a leader, architect, engineer (software and electrical), coach, and learner. She became hooked on contributing during the 5.5 release cycle as she prepared to join the 5.6 squad. She’s a full-time contributor, Core Committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component., and Build/Test Tooling co-maintainer. She’s served in various release squad roles including the 5.9 Release Coordinator, 5.9 Core Tech Lead, 5.7 Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. Lead, and 5.6 Triage Lead.

Outside of the project, she’s likely best known as a developer educator and for her journey into WordPress (read on HeroPress, and People of WordPress). She lives in a small fishing village on the shores of Lake Michigan (in the US) with her spouse (celebrated their 36th anniversary this year) and their little doggie (who thinks he’s a cat).

Tonya Mork @hellofromtonya

Abha Thakor

Abha Thakor is an experienced communicator, and digital professional, with a speciality in tech and communities, voice technology, research and innovation. She has been actively involved as a volunteer in WordPress core since the 4.8 release. She has been a notable contributor and on a number of release teams, and encouraged cross team collaboration. She is a component maintainer and involved with helping new contributors get involved with core and the wider project.

She is a meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organizer and been an organizer for local and Europe-wide WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. and core translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. events, with a focus on encouraging contributors globally and supporting inclusion.

She is also involved in the following projects:

  • Core development blogblog (versus network, site)
  • FSE experiment
  • Release documentation and Learn WordPress tutorials
  • Contributed to supporting dev chat for the last 18 months

From @audrasjb and @marybaum (the outgoing Core Team Reps), we’re excited to see these two wonderful contributors step up to their new role and are looking forward to a fruitful and productive year ahead for the team!

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Jb Audras 11:46 pm on December 2, 2022
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Core Team Reps for 2023: Submit Your Votes

Two weeks ago we opened up nominations for new CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Reps to replace @marybaum and me. Nominations have closed, so now it’s time for voting!

You can find the poll below. Since we’re aiming to elect two reps, you can vote for up to two people.

What Are Team Reps?

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. Some teams have more than two, but for the sake of sanity sticking with two for now keeps things simpler. And for the historians out there, the role goes way back to 2012.

Historically with the Core team, 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. duration was around a year, though some reps stuck around longer if there was a particularly good fit.

Anyone who serves as a “team rep” is responsible for communicating on behalf of the Core team to the other contributor groups via weekly updates, as well as occasional cross-team chats. Reps are also consulted on Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., to help find someone on the Core team who will be at an event who can help lead a Core table.  Full details on the Team Rep role is on the Team Update site.

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 rep role is designed to change hands regularly.

This role has a time commitment attached to it. Not a huge amount, but it’s at least one or two hours a week.

Here are the main tasks:

Then… let’s get ourselves two new reps!

Where Can I Vote?

Vote here!

You can vote for up to two people at the same time, but once you have submitted your vote you won’t be able to vote again.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments. @marybaum and I will be happy to reply. Thanks!

This poll will remain open until Friday, December 16, 2022 at 23:59 UTC, after which team reps will be chosen based on the votes received.

Co-authored by @audrasjb and @marybaum.

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Jb Audras 2:27 pm on November 14, 2022
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Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2023 Edition

This post kicks off the election process with nominations to replace Jb Audras (@audrasjb) and Mary Baum (@marybaum) as CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team reps. Jb has been in the role for a couple years and Mary for a year, so 2023 marks the time to get new folks to help!

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. Some teams have more than two, but for the sake of sanity sticking with two for now keeps things simpler. And for the historians out there, the role goes way back to 2012.

Historically with the Core team, 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. duration was around a year, though some reps stuck around longer if there was a particularly good fit.

Anyone who serves as a “team rep” is responsible for communicating on behalf of the Core team to the other contributor groups via weekly updates, as well as occasional cross-team chats.  Reps are also consulted on Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., helping find someone within the Core team attending an event who can help lead a Core table.  Full details on the Team Rep role is on the Team Update site.

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, remember that the team rep role is designed to change hands regularly.

This role has a time commitment attached to it. Not a huge amount, but it’s at least one or two hours a week.

Here are the main tasks:

How the election works

Please nominate people in the comments of this post. Self-nominations are welcome. The deadline is 2 December 2022.

After that, a poll will be opened for voting. It will stay open for two weeks. The new reps will start their role in January 2023.

If you want to nominate someone in private, please reach out to @audrasjb, @marybaum, or @jeffpaul on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at 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. Finally for reference, here are the 2020 and 2021 nomination posts.

Thanks to @marybaum for co-authoring and to @jeffpaul for reviewing this post.
Special thanks to @webcommsat who helped a lot the current team reps on a number of tasks this year.

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Francesca Marano 5:27 pm on November 24, 2021
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New Core Team Rep for 2022

After a call for volunteers, I’m pleased to announce that the new CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 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. for 2022 (and beyond) is Mary Baum (@marybaum)!

Mary Baum

Mary is the owner of RacquetPress. She is a self-taught developer, and she is a woman of many talents and hobbies: from online fabric, product design, 3D to landscape and macro photography. She is a self-proclaimed tennis bum.

Mary has been part of multiple release squads in different roles since 2019. She is also the maintainer of two components, Help/About and Quick/Bulk Edit.

Headshot of Mary Baum

I, @francina, am stepping down and @audrasjb will continue until another team representative is found. Do not hesitate to reach out to him or ask in #core if you have questions about the role.

I am excited to see Mary stepping into the role and helping Core with all the adminadmin (and super admin) tasks needed to keep the team moving.

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Francesca Marano 11:58 am on October 26, 2021
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Nominations for Core Team Reps 2022

This post kicks off the election process with nominations to replace @audrasjb and @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:

Full details on the Team Rep role is on the Team Update site.

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 @francina or @audrasjb on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at 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 for the peer review.

#team-reps

Jeffrey Paul 2:17 pm on June 3, 2020
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Core Team Reps for 2020+

Now that voting for CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Reps has concluded, I’m pleased to announce that the new Core Team Reps for 2020 (and beyond) are Francesca Marano (@francina) and Jb Audras (@audrasjb)!

Francesca Marano

Francesca is the WordPress Community & Partnerships Manager at SiteGround, one of the largest independent web hosting companies where the quality of service stands above it all. Francesca is also part of the global WordPress Community Team and co-led the release of WordPress 5.3 and 5.4. One of the things she is most proud of is her blogblog (versus network, site) C+B, which 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 hosting, WordPress, community, open-source, women in tech, and small businesses.

Jb Audras

Jb hails from Ardèche, France and is currently CTO at Whodunit, a well-known French WordPress agency. He started using WordPress in 2007 and became Widgets and Menus components maintainer a few years ago. Jb 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 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. over the last 2 years, took the role of release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release. on half a dozen of minor releases, and helped as focus lead on WP 5.3, WP 5.4 and now on WP 5.5. When he’s not contributing to WordPress, Jb loves to listen over and over to the same good ole Neil Young songs, stare at marvelous landscapes, hiking and rock climbing.

From myself and @helen (the outgoing Core Team Reps), we’re excited to see these two wonderful contributors step up to their new role and are looking forward to a fruitful and productive year ahead for the team!

#team-reps

Jeffrey Paul 3:21 am on May 15, 2020
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Core Team Reps: Submit Your Votes

In April we opened up nominations for new CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Reps to replace myself and @helen. Nominations have closed so now its time for voting!

You can find the poll below. Since we’re aiming for two reps to be elected this time, you can select up to two people to vote for.

What Are Team Reps?

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.  Some teams have more than two, but for the sake of sanity sticking with two for now keeps things simpler.  And for the historians out there, the role goes way back to 2012.

Historically with the Core team, 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. duration was around a year, though some reps stuck around longer if there was a particularly good fit.

Anyone who serves as a “team rep” is responsible for communicating on behalf of the Core team to the other contributor groups via weekly updates, as well as occasional cross-team chats.  Reps are also consulted on Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., helping find someone within the Core team attending an event who can help lead a Core table.  Full details on the Team Rep role is on the Team Update site.

It is not called “team lead” for a reason.  While people elected as team reps will generally come from the pool of folks that people think of as experienced leaders, remember that the team rep role is designed to change hands regularly.

This role has a time commitment attached to it.  Not a huge amount, but in my experience, it’s at least one hour a week.

Here are the main tasks:

  • Writing regular Core team recaps and posting it in Updates
  • Keeping an eye on the moving parts of the team to be able to report for quarterly updates (example)
  • Occasionally helping release leads with devchat agenda posts, chats, and summaries

More details on coordinating devchat are available in the Core handbook.

Over the year, the team might decide to add one or two people to help: some teams have up to five, six people, depending on how much work there is. For now, we’re going to be electing two team reps and, if the need arises later in the year, we can elect further people to serve in this role.

Ok then… let’s get us two new reps!

Where Can I Vote?

You can vote in the public poll here. You can vote for up to two people at the same time, but once you have submitted your vote you won’t be able to vote again.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments.  I will be happy to reply (or look to past team reps for input)… thanks!

This poll will remain open until Thursday, May 28, 2020, after which team reps will be selected based on the votes received.

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