Category Archives: Chat Summaries

Nahuai Badiola 2:33 pm on November 25, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, November 22, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability 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 10:11 am on November 11, 2024  

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.

🗓️ 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) 7:53 am on November 6, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, October 25, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability 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 6:00 am on October 18, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, October 11, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability 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 4:13 pm on September 30, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, September 27, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability 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.

Nora Ferreirós 6:41 pm on September 16, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, September 13, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability 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

  • Guidelines for making WordPress websites more sustainable. Following the recent publication of the post, there has been a conversation about the format and structure of the guidelines in terms of possible publishing platforms. It has been concluded that the best option for now, is to open a discussion on the GitHub project and ask people who are more familiar with those platforms (or anyone else who can shed light on the subject) to give us their opinion.

Contributions

Economical sustainability

Environmental Sustainability

Open discussions

  • A new contributor (thank you @ipajen!) has brought the following topic: Is WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ using green power? This question generated an interesting conversation and some possibles answers. We’ll include the topic on the next meeting’s agenda to go into more depth.

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 27-09-2024 11:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

Csaba (LittleBigThings) 6:48 am on September 4, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, August 30, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 30-08-2024 11:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

News

  • Now that the team badges are already set up, people involved on the team can request them according to the decided criteria.

Looking for feedback

Come and contribute

Social sustainability

Economical sustainability

  • Update on 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

Environmental sustainability

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

Don’t forget that our meetings are biweekly now. We look forward to seeing you next 13-09-2024 11:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

Csaba (LittleBigThings) 10:05 pm on August 20, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, August 16, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 16-08-2024 11:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

News

  • Now that the team badges are already set up, people involved on the team can request them according to the decided criteria.
  • WordPress Sustainability Team’s 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/ has been added to the directory created by Open Sustainable Technology.
  • Discussion around the focus of the sustainability table for the upcoming 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. US.

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

Open discussions

Topics raised can be found here, feel free to share your thoughts.

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

Remember our meetings are biweekly now and that there will be no meeting on August 23.

We look forward to seeing you next 30-08-2024 11:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

Nahuai Badiola 2:08 pm on July 22, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, July 19, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 19-07-2024 11:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

News

  • Web sustainability guidelines for WordPress. The idea is to take existing information and examples (such as this one and this one) to create a manual focused on WordPress and its particularities, rather than on the web in general.
    One of the main points that was debated is “who” should we have in mind when writing it. We agreed that there could be 2 potencial different readers, people who work with WordPress (developers and designers) and “casual/simple” users. So making a document that’s appealing to both it’s not easy.
    We could prioritize one for the initial guideline. Further discussion is needed.

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

Remember our meetings are biweekly now and that there will be no meeting on August 2nd.

We look forward to seeing you next 16-08-2024 11:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

Nora Ferreirós 3:46 pm on July 8, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, July 5, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 05-07-2024 11:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

News

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

Projects updates

Open discussion

  • WP Sustainability Team Roadmap. @yellowlime has proposed to set up a road map with main objectives of the WP Sustainability Team for the remaining months of 2024. He has also proposed some issues for comment:
    • On the environmental topic:
      • Start the development of 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 guidelines for making websites more sustainable.
      • Applying feedback received on the Sustainable Events Handbook and creating awareness on the existence of the handbook.
    • On the social topic:
      • Defining actionable steps, how we can work more closely with other teams and initiatives (DEIB, Five for the Future, Community Team) on this topic.
    • On the economical topic:
      • Leading by example: securing funding for the development of a WP Plugin and its guidelines.
      • Finding out how we can partner with organizations outside the WP ecosystem that deal with same challenges within the world of open-source..

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

Remember our meetings are biweekly now!

We look forward to seeing you next 19-07-2024 11:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.