Celi Garoe 5:54 pm on December 10, 2024  

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.

🗓️ Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

1️⃣ News and updates

➡️ 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

➡️  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.

Nahuai Badiola 2:33 pm on November 25, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, November 22, 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 22-11-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

🗓️ Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

1️⃣ News and updates

➡️ Looking for feedback

  • Updates on the WordPress Sustainability Plugin: We are looking for alternatives to PSI APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. for measuring the page size to reduce the response file size. And we invite you to test the 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 leave your feedback here.
  • Team Reps voting for 2025 up to discussion. Usually, 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. Please share your thoughts with us here.

3️⃣ Open discussions

👥 Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

👉 Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 06-12-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

Nora Ferreirós 2:34 pm on November 20, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Agenda, November 22, 2024

Please add agenda items by commenting below.

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

Sustainabilitysustainability Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs 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.

Nora Ferreirós 10:11 am on November 11, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, November 8, 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 08-11-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

🗓️ Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

1️⃣ News and updates

No news during this meeting.

➡️ Looking for feedback

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

👥 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.

Csaba (LittleBigThings) 7:52 am on November 8, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Agenda, November 8, 2024

Please add agenda items by commenting below.

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

Sustainabilitysustainability Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs 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

  • Not a new topic, just a friendly reminder that you can request a badge if you contribute to the sustainability team, according to the decided criteria.

➡️ 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.

Csaba (LittleBigThings) 7:53 am on November 6, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, October 25, 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 25-10-2024 11:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

News and updates

  • During Yoast’s Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. we have worked on the resources for our guidance to make WP sites more sustainable and made decisions about the 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 we’re working on, including some new contributors.
  • Just a friendly reminder: you can request a badge if you contribute to the sustainability team, according to the decided criteria.

Looking for feedback

  • Proposals and discussions on this blog and GitHub (general discussions).

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

  • Funding for the WP Sustainability Plugin and its guidelines: @Danny Moons and Merel Witteman are willing to partner with us on sustainability topics. They are sponsored by, amongst others SIDN.nl, to create awareness about sustainability and web. We work on joining forces together.
  • 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: read about targeting and formats and add resources and references. Also, see above for the summary from Yoast’s Contributor Day.
  • Start the development of the WordPress Sustainability Plugin that reports on your website’s sustainability and encourages you to make it more sustainable. Read the output of Yoast’s Contributor Day and a couple of issues to be solved before we continue (feel free to add issues/questions).

Open discussions

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 08-11-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

yellowlime 5:05 pm on October 23, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Agenda, October 25, 2024

Please add agenda items by commenting below.

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

Sustainabilitysustainability Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs Team meetings start at 11:00 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.

yellowlime 6:00 am on October 18, 2024  

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.

Nahuai Badiola 10:11 am on October 9, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Agenda, October 11, 2024

Please add agenda items by commenting below.

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

Sustainabilitysustainability Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs Team meetings start at 11:00 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).

  • Even if was some weeks ago, since we didn’t hear anything about yet we invite all those who has attended to provide feedback on their experience at the WCUS Conference or Contributor Days regarding sustainability.
  • Training Team is working on a Learning Pathway for designers that includes a lesson focused on sustainability. @ironnysh asked to give feedback on this. This is specially important to all the contributors interested on working on the guidelines project as we are still discussing the publishing format(s) and this can be a good reference.

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.

➡️ 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.
  • 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

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.

Nahuai Badiola 4:13 pm on September 30, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, September 27, 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 13-09-2024 11:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

News

Looking for feedback

Contributions

Economical sustainability

Environmental Sustainability

  • Some updates regarding the creation of the web sustainability guidelines for WordPress were done. You can contribute with your feedback here.
  • There were also some updates regarding the sustainability plugin. Since one of the goals of the 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 is to be incorporated into WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., there were some technical limitations that were blocking the project (mainly trying to avoid 3rd party services calls). So it’s been proposed to build a first version without those constrains to test it and gather feedback. Then we could work on removing dependencies (we have an open line with the Green Web Foundation to achieve, at least part of this, in the future).

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

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