Sustainability Chat Agenda, November 22, 2024

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

Sustainability Team meetings start at 12:00 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.


These are the topics for this week’s meeting:

1️⃣ News and updates

➡️ Looking for feedback

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

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. Below are topics taken from our roadmap document, we would like to discuss during the meeting.

➡️ Social Sustainability

➡️ 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.

➡️ Environmental Sustainability

  • Create a web sustainability guidelines for WordPress, contribute to this new project
  • Start the development of the WordPress Sustainability Plugin that reports on your website’s sustainability and encourages you to make it more sustainable.

3️⃣ Open Discussions

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


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.