Sustainability Chat Summary, November 8, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 08-11-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

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

🗓️ Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

1️⃣ News and updates

No news during this meeting.

➡️ Looking for feedback

• #five-for-the-future call for feedback to help shaping the project.
• Feedback needed on the web sustainability guidelines for WordPress sections.

2️⃣ Come and Contribute

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

➡️ Social and Economical Sustainability

There was a very interesting discussion arising from the open call on the new 5ftF channel at #five-for-the-future. Some of the topics brought to the conversation were:

• The lack of structure of the contributors representation which makes it difficult for contributors to make decisions and influence the direction of the project.
• Why people do not make contributions that can be tracked as 5ftF.
• A proposal (draft) for a cross-CMS working group.
• Relationship between a useful and well-structured funding system for contributors and good coordination between contributor representation and governance.
• Governance models options and examples.
• The role of Sustainability Team on this.

➡️ Environmental Sustainability

• A new document has been created to start structuring the information on web sustainability guidelines for WordPress. Also, a decision on the sections is need in order to complete the structure and continue the information collection.

3️⃣ Open discussions

• Update about Sustainable events Handbook in Spanish.

👥 Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

👉 Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 22-11-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.