Category Archives: Chat Summaries

Nora Ferreirós 12:35 pm on May 13, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, May 10, 2024

The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 10-05-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

News

Looking for feedback

  • Input for the handbook around sustainability. It has been made a proposal for taking the WCEU as the deadline for the publication of the first version of the handbook. It has been discussed the roadmap and the work has been distributed and assigned to the contributors who have volunteered for the task.

Looking for volunteers

  • Contributors are welcome to help meet the deadline for the publication of the first version of the Handbook.

Projects updates

  • Conversations with Performance Team have been initiated in order to find the best approach for the WP Sustainability plugin.

Open discussion

  • It has been point out the need to better define the sections of the meetings, but no changes or proposals have been made.
  • It has been discussed the need to find a formula to develop the social and economic areas of the team in collaboration with other teams and groups. Some proposals have been shared but we are still looking for a solution that can be implemented. Discussions with contributors from other teams and groups continue, pending further updates and proposals.

    Attendance

    You can find the attendance thread here.

    Next meeting

    Remember our meetings are biweekly now!

    We look forward to seeing you next 24-05-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

    Csaba (LittleBigThings) 2:14 pm on May 8, 2024  

    Sustainability Chat Summary, April 26, 2024

    The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 26-04-2024 11:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

    Agenda

    You can check the initial agenda here.

    We have been working on the topics contributors prioritized in the last meetings:

    • Introduction of new meeting format and agenda: bi-weekly meetings from now on. Please share in the comments if you have remarks on this.
    • Onboarding experience for (new) contributors. The goal is to create clear guidelines for a smooth onboarding experience for all the tools —our blog, GitHub and Slack— we have available. Some pending or active issues about this topic:
    • WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines. Learn how to contribute to this here and follow up on this project here. Some related topics:
      • Create a draft to collect information about the efforts made by the WCEU’s organizers in favor of environmental sustainability.
      • Having a first version by WCEU in June?
    • 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 supported by the WP Sustainability Team. Follow up on this project here.
      Share the advances made on Yoast 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/..
      For context, some issues were brought out from the previous meeting:
      • Narrow down the candidate of tools for measuring websites weight or carbon emissions. Check it in GH.
      • Discuss if we want to use any of the existing plugins as starting point or we want to create one from the scratch.
    • Finalize the meeting’s template as used by the Training Team: how will we choose (active) issues to discuss? Folks working on them can present them during the meeting.
    • Some thoughts on the Recap of the Contributor Working Group’s Mentorship are here.

    Attendance

    You can find the attendance thread here.

    Next meeting

    We look forward to seeing you next 10-05-2024 11:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

    yellowlime 3:36 pm on April 23, 2024  

    Sustainability Chat Summary, April 19, 2024

    The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 19-04-2024 11:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

    Agenda

    You can check the initial agenda here.

    We have working on the topics contributors prioritized in the last meetings:

    1. Creating a better overview of WP Sustainability issues to improve onboarding and contributing experience
    2. Create a draft to collect information about the efforts made by the WCEU’s organizers in favor of environment
    3. WordPress Sustainability Plugin supported by the WP Sustainability Team
    4. Define the Sustainability Team meeting’s template items taking the Training Team’s one as a reference
    5. Share the key takeaways from the Yoast Contributor Day
    6. Welcome to the new joiners
    7. Registration for WCEU’s Contributor Day

    Attendance

    You can find the attendance thread here.

    Next meeting

    We look forward to seeing you next 26-04-2024 11:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

    Nahuai Badiola 11:27 am on April 15, 2024  

    Sustainability Chat Summary, April 12, 2024

    The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 12-04-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

    Agenda

    You can check the initial agenda here.

    We have working on the topics contributors prioritized in the last meetings:

    1. Onboarding experience for (new) contributors.
    2. WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines.
      • Proposal on the development of a protocol/process/form/template for asking all the WC organizers about their effort (if any) integrating sustainability (both logistical and thematic) into their events. WCEU could be the pilot event for this, once it is finished.
    3. WordPress Sustainability Plugin.
      • Further discussion about the best way to obtain the page weight and then calculate the CO2 emissions.
      • 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 will be the main focus of Yoast’s Contributor Day next week.
    4. Talked about how to contribute to the social and economic part, including the collaboration with 5ftF project.
    5. Registration for WCEU’s Contributor Day.

    Attendance

    You can find the attendance thread here.

    Next meeting

    We look forward to seeing you next 19-04-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

    Nora Ferreirós 2:58 pm on April 8, 2024  

    Sustainability Chat Summary, April 5, 2024

    The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 05-04-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

    Agenda

    You can check the initial agenda here.

    We have working on the topics contributors prioritized in the last meetings:

    1. Onboarding experience for (new) contributors.
      • The Sustainability Team’s self-approval system has been included in the Handbook.
      • A “good first bug/issue” kind system has been proposed.
    2. WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines.
      • Proposal on the development of a protocol/process/form/template for asking all the WC organizers about their effort (if any) integrating sustainability (both logistical and thematic) into their events. WCEU could be the pilot event for this, once it is finished.
    3. WordPress Sustainability Plugin.
      • The Must Haves & Nice to Haves list has been updated with more suggestions.
    4. Create a meeting’s template that resembles the Training Team one.
      • There is a concern about the workload that our team can take on compared to those with sponsored distributors (in terms of following their methodologies).
      • There is a consensus on the benefits of adapting the Training Team template to our possibilities and needs in order to facilitate the work of managing meetings.
      • Proposal to a different approach form meetings: conceive them as a moment to compile updates and share the work done during the week, rather than to move projects forward.
    5. WP Playground team new tool for editing Handbooks.
    6. Registration for WCEU’s Contributor Day.

    Attendance

    You can find the attendance thread here.

    Next meeting

    We look forward to seeing you next 12-04-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

    Csaba (LittleBigThings) 11:17 am on April 3, 2024  

    Sustainability Chat Summary, March 29, 2024

    The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 29-03-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

    Agenda

    You can check the initial agenda here.

    We have working on the topics contributors prioritized in the last meetings:

    1. Onboarding experience for (new) contributors
    2. WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines.
    3. WordPress Sustainability Plugin.

    Attendance

    You can find the attendance thread here.

    Next meeting

    We look forward to seeing you next 05-04-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

    yellowlime 12:06 pm on March 26, 2024  

    Sustainability Chat Summary, March 22, 2024

    The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 22-03-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

    Agenda

    You can check the initial agenda here.

    We have working on the topics contributors prioritized in the last meetings:

    1. Onboarding experience for (new) contributors
    2. WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines.
    3. WordPress Sustainability Plugin.
    4. Some topics were added during the meeting and can be reviewed here.

    Attendance

    You can find the attendance thread here.

    Next meeting

    We look forward to seeing you next 29-03-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

    Nahuai Badiola 12:00 pm on March 18, 2024  

    Sustainability Chat Summary, March 15, 2024

    The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 015-03-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

    Agenda

    You can check the initial agenda here.

    We have working on the topics contributors prioritized in the last meetings:

    1. Newcomers onboarding – general Sustainability handbook. There is already a “Get involved” section that covers the basics and it was discussed to add the Track Sustainability focus link.
    2. WordPress Sustainability Plugin. Progress was made on the discussion and also decided what to do with WPSustainable 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 which is now closed (since it’s original creator it’s not able to maintain it). Also a proof of concept, of one of the plugins we are exploring was shared.
    3. WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines. We continued working on it.
    4. Talk about the upcoming Yoast Contributor day, during which we’ll have a Sustainability table. All the team members will attend, we hope to see you there.
    5. The official post for the self-approval system was posted and shared.

    Attendance

    You can find the attendance thread here.

    Next meeting

    We look forward to seeing you next 22-03-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

    Nora Ferreirós 4:05 pm on March 11, 2024  

    Sustainability Chat Summary, March 8, 2024

    The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 08-03-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

    Agenda

    You can check the initial agenda here.

    We have worken on the topics contributors prioritized in the last meetings:

    1. WordPress Sustainability Plugin. It has been proposed to set 31st March as a deadline for generating a shortlist (with pros and cons) for tools to use to measure site weight/emission.
    2. Newcomers onboarding – general Sustainability handbook. Many things have been proposed, asked and moved forward.
    3. Achievements so far. A new section has been created to announce the team’s achievements.
    4. TGV alternative short bus-route to travel to WCEU24
    5. Link to tickets with sustainability focus.

    Attendance

    You can find the attendance thread here.

    Next meeting

    We look forward to seeing you next 15-03-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

    yellowlime 5:07 pm on March 2, 2024  

    Sustainability Chat Summary, March 1, 2024

    The WordPress Sustainability Chat meeting took place on 01-03-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

    Agenda

    You can check the initial agenda here.

    We have worken on the topics contributors prioritized in the last meetings:

    1. Onboarding experience for (new) contributors
    2. WordPress Sustainability Plugin supported by the WP Sustainability Team
    3. WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines. Follow up on this project and read some guidelines on how the work is happening is here.
    4. Celebrate that we have now a new WordPress Core Trac Sustainability Focus
    5. Open floor for other suggestions
    6. Discussion about different time(zone) for our meetings
    7. Sustainability Team Badges. A formal decision has been published

    Attendance

    You can find the attendance thread here.

    Next meeting

    We look forward to seeing you next 08-03-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.