Sustainability Chat Summary, October 11, 2024

The WordPress Sustainabilitysustainability Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs Chat meeting took place on 11-10-2024 11:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

News

Looking for feedback

Contributions

These are some of the priority projects and tasks to be taken forward. Are you a newcomer? Check our good first issues.

Social sustainability

Economical sustainability

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

Environmental Sustainability

Open discussions

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 25-10-2024 11:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.