Want to get involved? See the handbook and optionally drop into #design to chat. Most active design work happens in the block editor project, consider dropping into Needs design or Needs design feedback.
There’s a WordPress Component Library in Figma. Duplicate to edit, direct access is reserved for the design team.
The design team has never had an open call for reps, so let’s change that! Currently, I am the only 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. and this is a great opportunity to bring someone else on board. This process is heavily inspired by the community team. Since our team is still small, two team reps seem like plenty.
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 one or two (or more!) representatives, abbreviated in reps. The role goes way back to 2012 and is an established one across teams. You can learn more about the team rep role here.
A little note, it’s not called team lead for a reason. While the 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. Similarly, you don’t have to be considered a lead to step into this role.
I would like to suggest we consider a change in our process and after a year change all team reps. That would mean next year both myself and this new team rep would step down. To handover, we can hold nominations a few months before the term ends, to ensure mentoring. For this round, I will serve as a mentor for the new team rep to help get them started.
Here are the main tasks:
As a team rep, other tasks might fall to you in order to keep the team running, but in general, it’s a support role. On average the estimated time you would need for this role would be a few hours a week. With another team rep though, that time is shared.
This role is open to contributors of any level, not just full-time contributors. Like many good open-source processes, this work is done openly and can be shared. Also, because WordPress is a globally-minded project, if the team rep that is selected can’t make the current time, we can always discuss changing the meeting time.
Taking inspiration from teams that have done this before the suggested process would be:
If you want to nominate someone in private, please reach out to me (@karmatosed) on Slack.
Disclaimer: if you get nominated, please don’t feel like you have to say yes! We will add to the polls only 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”.
