Title: Call for design team rep nominations Author: Tammie Lister Published: March 16, 2020 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) [Tammie Lister](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) 4:16 pm _on_ March 16, 2020 Tags: team-reps    # Call for design team rep nominations 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. ### What does a team rep do? 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](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/team-reps/) and is an established one across teams. You can learn more about the team rep [role here](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/team-reps/). 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:** * Ensuring a meeting agenda happens along with notes. We have note-takers who are not team reps and post agendas, so this is co-ordination. The team rep adds agenda items to a shared document. * Run the weekly design team meeting in 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/). * Write a fortnightly update post for [make.wordpress.org/updates](https://make.wordpress.org/updates)? * Give quarterly updates on the team when asked. * Triage and keep track of the team TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: [https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing.](https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing) inbox. This is used to fuel any meetings. * Call for new team reps when the time comes at the end of year tenure. 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. ### The process Taking inspiration from teams that have done this before the suggested process would be: * A call for nominations in the comments on this post. Self-nominations are welcome. These will close in on 27th March. * After the closing date votes will be made on those nominations for a week. * The votes will be tallied, followed up with people, and then announced. If you want to nominate someone in private, please reach out to me ([@karmatosed](https://profiles.wordpress.org/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”._ [#team-reps](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/team-reps/) ### Share this: * [ Threads ](https://make.wordpress.org/design/2020/03/16/call-for-design-team-rep-nominations/?share=threads) * [ Mastodon ](https://make.wordpress.org/design/2020/03/16/call-for-design-team-rep-nominations/?share=mastodon) * [ Bluesky ](https://make.wordpress.org/design/2020/03/16/call-for-design-team-rep-nominations/?share=bluesky) * [ Facebook ](https://make.wordpress.org/design/2020/03/16/call-for-design-team-rep-nominations/?share=facebook) * [ X ](https://make.wordpress.org/design/2020/03/16/call-for-design-team-rep-nominations/?share=x) * [ Reddit ](https://make.wordpress.org/design/2020/03/16/call-for-design-team-rep-nominations/?share=reddit) * [ Email ](https://make.wordpress.org/design/2020/03/16/call-for-design-team-rep-nominations/?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Call%20for%20design%20team%20rep%20nominations&body=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fdesign%2F2020%2F03%2F16%2Fcall-for-design-team-rep-nominations%2F&share=email) 1. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9100789a9a960b5f6e2d4e77670647ca82222f268e853923d43c36bc3a9e114c? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 2. [chaion07](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chaion07/) 4:18 am _on_ March 18, 2020 3. Hi [@karmatosed](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) 4. My name is Ahmed and I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I would like to nominate myself for the Position of ‘Design 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.’. I feel like the mentoring opportunity that you mentioned in this write-up is something I seriously do not want to miss out. I believe this opportunity is a great way to be getting involved deep into WordPress as a contributor. I am excited to be “**self nominating myself**” _as much as intimidating this might sound like for anyone_. 5. I don’t know if I have to write something additionally but it would be great if you can instruct me with the details for the next steps. 6. Thank you! 7. Regards Ahmed 8. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0c00bc6bb79905cd73ec1cb0f22bf813f7f34f46ee670d018b30b5569b2924dd? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Tammie Lister](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) 6:23 pm _on_ March 18, 2020 * Thank you for your self-nomination. Next steps are to see who else is nominated or self nominates and then a post will be made asking for voting. - ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9100789a9a960b5f6e2d4e77670647ca82222f268e853923d43c36bc3a9e114c? s=32&d=mm&r=g) - [chaion07](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chaion07/) 3:07 am _on_ March 19, 2020 - Thank you so much for the reply [@karmatosed](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) Eagerly waiting for the experience. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9100789a9a960b5f6e2d4e77670647ca82222f268e853923d43c36bc3a9e114c? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [chaion07](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chaion07/) 7:32 am _on_ March 19, 2020 * Hi [@karmatosed](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/), * I am reconsidering the “**Self-nomination**” issue. I had a great conversation with “paaljoachim” (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/) ID) and I came to realize that I misunderstood the whole concept of 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.. I feel that I still need a lot more experience which I can simply earn by attending more meetings and gradually get involved by interacting within more people from the WordPress Ecosystem. * I, therefore, am withdrawing my nomination to help allow the spot for more deserving and experienced people to be considered. * Maybe in a matter of Year or two I shall come back being nominated by someone else as the ripple effect that I believe in 🙂 * Regards Ahmed 9. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c5876422a37fd6194f1443154e5b8dc0920c99df2e3cc83f3d146bf34992abc5? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 10. [Mark Uraine](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mapk/) 2:49 pm _on_ March 18, 2020 11. I nominate [@estelaris](https://profiles.wordpress.org/estelaris/). She’s been involved in the meetings, has created mockups for metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. projects, and continues to be a contributing voice in the community. 12. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0c00bc6bb79905cd73ec1cb0f22bf813f7f34f46ee670d018b30b5569b2924dd? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Tammie Lister](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) 6:21 pm _on_ March 18, 2020 * +1 for Estelaris, she has consistently been a valued contributor and part of the note-taking scribe squad for a while now. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5437f5b6124c08e8d9ab5f8a4b6a97cf3f6966aee694ef98417db8bdcc13b937? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Mel Choyce-Dwan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/melchoyce/) 7:09 pm _on_ March 18, 2020 * +1 13. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/689b569e6dfc388a309c6fd404489269a658b2c6d55ec1dda17574f1ac79eb51? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 14. [ibdz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ibdz/) 7:13 pm _on_ March 18, 2020 15. Can I nominate [@mapk](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mapk/)? 16. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c5876422a37fd6194f1443154e5b8dc0920c99df2e3cc83f3d146bf34992abc5? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Mark Uraine](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mapk/) 2:50 pm _on_ March 30, 2020 * Thank you so much for the nomination, [@ibdz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ibdz/)! I appreciate your trust with this, however, I’d like to remove my name from nominations due to my work load right now. Thank you! Comments are closed. # Post navigation [← Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #45](https://make.wordpress.org/design/2020/03/13/gutenberg-phase-2-friday-design-update-45-2/) [Design Meeting Agenda for Wednesday 18 March 2020 →](https://make.wordpress.org/design/2020/03/17/design-meeting-agenda-for-wednesday-18-march-2020/)