Sustainability Chat Summary, December 6, 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 06-12-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

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

🗓️ Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

1️⃣ News and updates

• A member of the team has been granted a sponsorship of 2 hours/week through 5FTF project to invest in the Sustainability Team.
• Two Sustainability Team Reps and other members assisted to WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Netherlands and highlighted some interesting talks:
  • Resurrecting the Dead, by Juliette Reinders Folmer
  • How to make your own website more sustainable (Zo verduurzaam je je eigen website), by Charlotte Bax.
  • Greener, Better, Faster, Stronger, how websites can become eco-friendly and resilient, by Simon Kraft.

➡️ Looking for feedback

• Inclusion of the ‘Sustainable Events Handbook’ in the ‘WordCamp Organizer Handbook’: feedback requested to review the content to be included.
• Inclusion of 12 monthly tips for sustainable events in 2025 newsletters to events organizers: feedback requested to review the proposed tips.
• Collecting lanyards at the end of a WordCamp: Opinions and ideas regarding possible hygiene issues requested in this thread.
• Team Reps voting/renewing for 2025: As the 4 team reps are willing to stay on their role, a P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. Post will be published inviting people to join and selfnominate. If there is no opposition or new nominees, we will skip repeating the election this year and they will stay on their role until the end of 2025.

2️⃣ Come and Contribute

➡️ Social Sustainability

• Update and links to interesting discussions regarding financial funding to contributors though Open Collective, Open Source Collective and 5ftF program, emphasizing the importance of transparency and reporting, which could be supported through tools like the Contribution Health Dashboards. Main mentioned threads fromFive for the Future 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/. channel:
  • Enabling/crediting financial contributions to promote and fund the project during Giving Tuesday.
  • Feedback request: What are your thoughts and hopes for the 5ftF program.

➡️  Environmental Sustainability

• Web sustainability guidelines for WordPress: We have arrived to the phase of proposing an initial structure for the document.
• WordPress 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: While we figure out how to move the plugin from Csaba’s repo to our Sustainability Team GitHub repository, we will continue testing and working it on Csaba’s repo. Please, check and leave your feedback on this issue and this Gdoc of ‘needs to haves’ and ‘nice to haves’.

👥 Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

👉 Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 10-01-2025 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.