Please add agenda items by commenting below.
This week’s meeting will be hosted by @littlebigthing.
Sustainability Team meetings start at 12:00 UTC bi-weekly on Fridays. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the meeting by commenting in Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. threads during the meeting and throughout the following days. Meeting notes will be published by the following Tuesday to also incorporate these asynchronous conversations.
These are the topics for this week’s meeting:
1️⃣ News and updates
- @celigaroe shared that she is have been granted a 2 hours/week sponsorship by Weglot to invest in the Sustainability Team. 🥳
So she will help the team reps writing the Chat Summaries (and with other tasks) from now on, starting this week.
- WordCamp 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. Netherlands was held last weekend and two of the team reps (and other team members) assisted so they could share any update it happened during the event.
➡️ Looking for feedback
Proposals and discussions on this blog and GitHub (General discussions).
- Updates on the WordPress Sustainability Plugin.
- It has been opened an issue to proceed in the inclusion of our ‘Sustainable Events Handbook’ in the ‘WordCamp Organizer Handbook’. The issue explains what it is done until now and what we need from the team now (a review of the content to get the final proposal for that handbook).
- It has been opened another issue to create 12 tips for sustainable events to be included one by one in 2025 monthly newsletters to events organizers. This was suggested by @unintended8 (@ciudadanob in Slack) and @celigaroe has created a proposal (linked in that issue) to ask for the Team’s feedback on those tips.
- Team Reps voting/renewing for 2025. In the thread of the previous Slack meeting the only feedback was the suggestion of maintaining the actual team reps for the next year.
This is not decided yet, so this is the perfect time to postulate yourself as a team 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 the next year.
2️⃣ Come and Contribute
These are some of the priority projects and tasks to be taken forward. Are you a newcomer? Check our good first issues. Below are topics taken from our roadmap document, we would like to discuss during the meeting.
➡️ Social Sustainability
➡️ Economical Sustainability
- Getting funding for the WP Sustainability Plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and its Guidelines
- Find out how we can partner with organizations outside the WP ecosystem that deal with the same challenges within the world of open-source. As discussed here and here.
➡️ Environmental Sustainability
- Create a web sustainability guidelines for WordPress, contribute to this new project
- Start the development of the WordPress Sustainability Plugin that reports on your website’s sustainability and encourages you to make it more sustainable.
3️⃣ Open Discussions
Anyone is more than welcome to bring any topic for open discussion during the meeting.
You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Sustainability Team, read through our handbook to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #sustainability Slack channel at any time.