Sustainability Chat Summary, August 30, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 30-08-2024 11:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

• Start of the meeting in Slack.
• Meeting led by @yellowlime
• Notes taken by @littlebigthing

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

News

• Now that the team badges are already set up, people involved on the team can request them according to the decided criteria.

Looking for feedback

• Feedback on WP Sustainability Team Roadmap proposed at the previous meeting: finalized the document for publication on this blog.
• Feature overview of the WP Sustainability plugin and the guidelines:
  • a post is coming up on this blog about the guidelines
  • it will be followed up as a GithubGitHub 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/ project
  • suggestions to collaborate with the Training team to make it a Learn WordPress project and perhaps write about it on the developer blog?
• WCUS’ Contributor Day & WCUS Contributor Day WP Sustainability Team agenda

Come and contribute

Social sustainability

• Improve Sustainability Team handbook
• Leave your feedback on the Project Health Dashboards hangouts summary
• Organizations sponsoring non-staff
• Adopt and integrate Open Collective

Economical sustainability

• Update on getting funding for the WP Sustainability PluginPlugin 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

Environmental sustainability

• Improve the Sustainable Events Handbook section.
• Create a draft to collect information about the efforts made by the WCEU’s organizers in favor of environmental sustainability.
• Let’s create a better overview of WP Sustainability issues
• Create a template/pattern for a sustainability page for WordCamp sites

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

Don’t forget that our meetings are biweekly now. We look forward to seeing you next 13-09-2024 11:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.