Each start of the week, there will be a summary post for this team sharing what happened last week and setting out some plans for the week ahead.

This is a new briefer format to get the week started:

• Work done:
  • PR added for readme.
  • Discussions continued: Goal discussions continued within repo began for Q4, WP 6.9 and a more general. Note: the goals will be posted on this site once formed in discussions, they won’t only happen there or have decisions made there, however it’s easier to start there than 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/..
• Feedback wanted:
  • Goals for WordPress 6.9.
  • Goals for Q4.
  • General goal collection for beyond Q4 and wider focus.
• Looking forward: work planned this coming week
  • Post summary on contribution recognition discussions from Slack.
  • Post goals if enough discussion comes up.
• Slack: can be found in #core-program.

If you don’t see anything mentioned here you would like called out please mention in comments.

#this-week

Each start of the week, there will be a summary post for this team sharing what happened last week and setting out some plans for the week ahead.

This is a new briefer format to get the week started:

• Work done:
  • There is a new repo with a PR on readme that is in discussion. Discover more in handbook page what this repo is for.
  • Discussions opened: Goal discussions within repo began for Q4, WP 6.9 and a more general. Note: the goals will be posted on this site once formed in discussions, they won’t only happen there or have decisions made there, however it’s easier to start there than 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/..
  • The handbook now have a number of new pages and updates:
    • Communication: this is a new page outlining the initial process.
• Feedback wanted:
  • Goals for WordPress 6.9.
  • Goals for Q4.
  • General goal collection for beyond Q4 and wider focus.
• Looking forward: work planned this coming week
  • Post summary on contribution recognition discussions from Slack.
  • Post goals if enough discussion comes up.
• Slack: can be found in #core-program.

If you don’t see anything mentioned here you would like called out please mention in comments.

#this-week

Each Monday (or as close as possible), a summary of what happened last week across 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/. and other communications will be posted here. The goal is simple, to make async communication and keeping up with this team easy and flow states improved as other teams are contributed to.

As with any process on this team, please give feedback for anything you would like to see improved, iterated or adjusted. This team is made better with each piece of feedback.

Slack happenings

These are focused on the #core-program team Slack itself as a summary, wider work is called out in the next section.

• The new team was announced and got started by welcoming everyone into Slack. Introductions were started as everyone got settled in
• A thread was started around communication patterns for the team. This will become a post (or posts) this week. In it the following were proposed:
  • Weekly async check-ins: starting on Monday and done within Slack.
  • Having a repo and project board to potentially also allow longer form discussions / ideas for the team.
  • To not have for now sync meetings unless requested.
  • For ideas around this make site and to find more voices that are doing this work to post on it.
  • To have very soon a list of goals for this team. However, being clear none are set yet.

If you don’t see anything mentioned here you would like called out please mention in comments.

Work done

• The Core Program make site saw a number of rapid fixes along the way to get it up and running. Including being able to subscribe.
• Collaboration with the WP Credits team to give feedback on potential labels within the a thread (and across multiple channels). Suggested using a label and learning from GSOC / Hacktoberfest. Will continue to collaborate where possible on this.
• Documented how to add a subscription box to make sites (no documentation before).

Did you do something this week from this team? That’s awesome, please raise it up in the comments of this post.

Get involved

Things are just getting started but already there are some things you can help with:

• The thread in Slack around the team’s proposed communication patterns is looking for feedback before being made into a post.
• You can now sign up for email updates on this site using the subscribe option.
• The team itself can be joined at #core-program on Slack.

Plans this week

These are the ones known about. As the team grows we can surface more people’s work within these teams.

• Start the team handbook.
  • First section will be team communication and include the weekly post.
• Finish setting up the make site for the team, including setting up the info section.
• Post the Slack communication thread items on this make site for feedback before taking action.
• Fix the hitches in the team not showing up yet for pledges and then find a place to document how to add a team for pledges (not documentation on this yet).

If you have any plans of things you are going to do please share them as a comment.

#this-week