The WordPress Sustainability Team has defined a roadmap for their activities during the final months of 2024. It touches on the 3 topics the team is prioritizing: environmental, social and financial sustainability.
A. Environmental:
- Develop guidelines (as a handbook) for making WordPress websites more sustainable.
- Start the development of the WordPress 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 that reports on your website’s sustainability and encourages you to make it more sustainable.
- Applying feedback received on the Sustainable Events Handbook and creating awareness on the handbook’s existence.
B. Social:
- Launch demonstrations of Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., Training, and Community team contributor dashboards by WCUS.
- Evaluate, then expand to additional teams if interest suits.
- Identify who is available and interested in mentoring for the next new contributor mentorship cohort and identify areas they can onboard, including ways new contributors can see an impact during the cohort.
- Determine if/how we can work with the Contributor Working Group on contributing to and extending Five for the Future (5ftF); revisit and formulate next steps.
- Support the development of the Global Contributor Handbook.
- Share findings of the contributor dashboards with 5ftF organizations and how they can use the data in decision-making.
C. Economic:
- Lead by example. We want to get funding for our contributions (for points A1 and A2).
- 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.
- Determine if we can leverage GitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Sponsors and Open Collective to sustain the WordPress project and community; IF yes, work through the implementation steps.
- Determine if we can leverage and extend the FundOSS fundraising format to raise funds for teams and priority projects; If yes, work through the implementation steps.
Your support on achieving our roadmap goals is very welcome. You can do so by:
