Sustainability Chat Summary, September 13, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 13-09-2024 11:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

• Start of the meeting in Slack.
• Meeting led by @nahuai
• Notes taken by @noradriana

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

News

• Guidelines for making WordPress websites more sustainable. Following the recent publication of the post, there has been a conversation about the format and structure of the guidelines in terms of possible publishing platforms. It has been concluded that the best option for now, is to open a discussion on the GitHub project and ask people who are more familiar with those platforms (or anyone else who can shed light on the subject) to give us their opinion.

Contributions

Economical sustainability

• @yellowlime has reported progress in the search for funding for the WP Sustainability Plugin and its Guidelines.

Environmental Sustainability

• WCEU 2025 organizers are already working on the environmental sustainability of the event. With the aim of helping them, the task of creating a template/pattern for a sustainability page for WordCamp sites.
• If you are interested on contributing to make the new default WP theme Twenty Twenty-Five more sustainable, you can learn here how to do it.

Open discussions

• A new contributor (thank you @ipajen!) has brought the following topic: Is WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ using green power? This question generated an interesting conversation and some possibles answers. We’ll include the topic on the next meeting’s agenda to go into more depth.

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 27-09-2024 11:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.