Sustainability Chat Agenda, September 13, 2024

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This week’s meeting will be hosted by @nahuai.

Sustainability Team meetings start at 11:00 UTC bi-weekly on Fridays. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the meeting by commenting in 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/. threads during the meeting and throughout the following days. Meeting notes will be published by the following Tuesday to also incorporate these asynchronous conversations.

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These are the topics for this week’s meeting:

1️⃣ News and updates

• We have published our roadmap for the remainder of 2024. Feel free to share.
• Don’t forget to request a badge if you contribute to the sustainability team, according to the decided criteria.
• Update: We have published the kick-off post for the project ‘Guidelines for making WordPress websites more sustainable’

➡️ Looking for feedback

Proposals and discussions on this blog and GitHub (General discussions).

• Feature overview of the WP Sustainability plugin and the guidelines: feedback and addings to the 2 documents are welcome
• WordCamp US is happening next week, we are looking for ideas/projects for WCUS’ Contributor Day & WCUS Contributor Day WP Sustainability Team agenda
• The summary of the first experiment of WordPress Contribution Health Dashboards has been published. This is the perfect moment to leave your feedback in the comments.

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.

2A. Social Sustainability

• Improve Sustainability Team handbook
• Leave your feedback on the Project Health Dashboards hangouts summary
• Adopt and integrate Open Collective
• 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.

2B. Economical Sustainability

• 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
• 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 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/ 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.

2C. Environmental Sustainability

• Create a web sustainability guidelines for WordPress, contribute to this new project
• 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.
• Create a better overview of WP Sustainability issues
• Create a template/pattern for a sustainability page for WordCamp sites
• The new default WP theme Twenty Twenty-Five is now being developed. Consider contributing to it to make it as sustainable as possible.

3️⃣ Open Discussions

Anyone is more than welcome to bring any topic for open discussion during the meeting.

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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.