Category Archives: Chat Summaries

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

Sustainability Chat Summary, March 29, 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 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 Sustainabilitysustainability Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs Chat meeting took place on 22-03-2024 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 Sustainabilitysustainability Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs 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 Sustainabilitysustainability Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs Chat meeting took place on 08-03-2024 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 Sustainabilitysustainability Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs 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.

Nora Ferreirós 9:18 am on February 26, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, February 23, 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 23-02-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

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

  1. 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 and the last meeting’s comments here.
  2. WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines. Follow up on this project and read some guidelines on how the work is happening here.
  3. Sustainability Team self-approval system. This proposal has been approved and closed.
  4. Sustainability Team Badges. The process goes ahead without objections.
  5. Improving onboarding for new contributors and roadmap for mentors. It’s not currently clear for mentors or newcomers what we are working on, what’s next, how contributors should proceed for contributing (e.g. in the Google Docs documents or 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/ projects), the team’s priorities, etc. In order to improve this situation, some suggestions have been dropped:
    • Create a provisional onboarding post for being linked in the Welcome Box. This provisional information should be updated as projects and priorities progress or change. In the meanwhile, a proper and official onboarding guide should be created.
    • Create a clear and understandable roadmap for everyone, including newcomers.
    • Change the date and the time of meetings.
  6. Collaboration between 5ftF and the Sustainability Team. @patricia70 announced her aim to collaborate in the 5ftF project and to be a bridge between it and our team.
  7. Introducing the WordPress Core Trac Sustainability Focus. We celebrate this post the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team has just published.

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 23-02-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

Csaba (LittleBigThings) 2:32 pm on February 20, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, February 16, 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 16-02-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

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

  1. 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. See progress here. There was a discussion about whether it makes sense to use estimations (actual numbers) of CO2 emissions to compare the impact of web pages. Participants seemed to agree that (at least) spreading awareness is a good reason to do so.
  2. WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines. Follow up on this project here.
  3. The Welcome Box has been published on the site (see above :-)).
  4. The travel information page of WCEU 2024 has been updated with some contributions of our team.
  5. Sustainability Team self-approval system seems to get support and will be added to the handbook.
  6. Attract new contributors and engage the existing ones. A question was asked for a short introductory video about the sustainability team (as well as for other teams). Feel free to contribute.
  7. A post has been published about the Sustainability Team Badges.
  8. Open Website Alliance. Reflect on the formation of the Open Website Alliance which was the result of the collaboration between the Drupal Association, Open Source Matters (Joomla), the TYPO3 Association, and the WordPress Project around an open letter to the European Union. More info here.

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 23-02-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

Nora Ferreirós 5:46 pm on February 12, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, February 9, 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 09-02-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

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

  1. WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines. Follow up on this project and read some guidelines on how the work is happening here. We have been discussed about making the handbook also for attendees and not just for organizers.
  2. Welcome Box. We have been working in/discussing about the layout. You can follow up the progress and give your opinion here for helping to wrap up this task.
  3. Sustainability Team self-approval system. After publishing a post with some guidelines on how this protocol may work, some comments were left there.
  4. Attract new contributors and engage the existing ones. There have been some suggestions on what to begin with and how far we as a team should be responsible for.
  5. Sustainability Team Badges. Some thoughts and suggestions had been shared on the GH issue. The intention is to wrap up this at the next meeting by publishing a concept 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 summarizing what has been said so far.
  6. Open Website Alliance. We have shared more information about this topic and discussed about our role on here.
  7. WCEU Website – Traveling to Torino page. There have been some updates about this project from @malgra (WCEU Communications, Marketing & PR Team Lead).

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 16-02-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

Nora Ferreirós 11:30 am on February 6, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, February 2, 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 02-02-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

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

  1. 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 and the last meeting’s comments here.
  2. WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines. Follow up on this project and read some guidelines on how the work is happening here.
  3. Our participation as a Team in the Mentorship program and the question about attracting and engaging more contributors to the team.
  4. Feedback on the direction of the Five for the Future. 
  5. Sustainability Team Badges. Aside of sharing ideas, doubts and examples about which ones we should have and how they would be obtained, a GH issue has been creating for working on this.
  6. A self-approval system for moving forward. A way to prevent proposals from getting stuck due to lack of feedback has been suggested during this meeting.

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 09-02-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.

Csaba (LittleBigThings) 10:48 am on January 29, 2024  

Sustainability Chat Summary, January 26, 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 26-01-2024 12:00 UTC on the Sustainability channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Agenda

You can check the initial agenda here.

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

  1. 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 and the last meeting’s comments here.
  2. WordCamp Handbook with sustainability ideas/guidelines. Follow up on this project here and read some guidelines on how the work is happening here.
  3. Ideas about the Team Roadmap (here and here) or the admin tasks. Find some updates here.
  4. Our participation as a Team in the Mentorship program. Some ideas had been drop here and you can follow up the topic here. Find some updates here.
  5. The Sustainability table at WCEU 2024 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://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. We started to collect ideas about what we want to work on or discuss about in Torino. We are waiting for all the Team Reps to express their willing about leading the table.
  6. Some feedback was shared around the direction of the Five for the Future.
  7. How to promote sustainability at WordPress events.

Attendance

You can find the attendance thread here.

Next meeting

We look forward to seeing you next 02-02-2024 12:00 UTC. If you have any suggestions for the next meeting agenda, please, leave a comment on this post.