Usually, WordPress teams vote for their Team Reps every year, whether or not the current reps want to continue. However, we (as a team) have the freedom to decide and adapt how to proceed.
There’s a trend for Team Reps to stay for two years, using the second year to train new reps. In the Community Team, for example, there are four Team Reps, so two are staying next year while the other two step down. They’re currently nominating two new reps who will be trained by the remaining reps.
The current Sustainability Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs Team Reps elected for the year 2024 were officially introduced after a voting process on November 15, 2023:
As the year is coming to an end soon, we would like to open the discussion on how to proceed in 2025.
Open invitation and proposal for 2025 Team Reps
Expectations for team reps can vary from team to team. In general, Sustainability team reps help to:
- Prepare for and run the sustainability team’s bi-weekly meetings in Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
- Providing as-required updates to other contributor groups.
- Generally representing the sustainability team across the project, or in the occasional chat.
- Maintain a high-level perspective and awareness on current team projects.
Team reps should expect to dedicate, at least, 1 to 2 hours per week to these activities.
Any active sustainability contributor can be a team rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts., so we invite everyone to give it some thought and nominate themselves as Team Reps in the comments of this post if they think they are a good fit for the role.
Self-nominations for Sustainability team reps will be open until January 7th, 2025 11.00 UTC.
The four actual team reps (@Nora Ferreirós, @Nahuai Badiola, @Csaba and @Thijs Buijs) are willing to keep their role as Team Rep for another year, officially until the 31st of December 2025.
Therefore, if nobody nominate themselves in the comments of this post or opposes to it before that date, the actual Team Reaps will continue on their role until the end of 2025. This will save the time inverted in putting together the election again if nobody else is interested in the position.
Please, leave your self-nominations, doubts and thoughts in the comments below before January 7th, 2025. Thank you!
This post has been reviewed by: @nahuai and @noradriana
