Title: Test Team Reps: Call for Nominations
Author: Pooja Derashri
Published: August 13, 2024
Last modified: October 2, 2024

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webtechpooja/) [Pooja Derashri](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webtechpooja/)
10:43 am _on_ August 13, 2024     
Tags: [team-reps ( 17 )](https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/team-reps/)

# Test Team Reps: Call for Nominations

**Update** 1: This call for nominations has been extended to [2024-10-01 00:00](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20241001T0000).(
see [comment](https://make.wordpress.org/test/2024/08/13/test-team-reps-call-for-nominations-4/#comment-3261)
below).

**Update 2**: Nominations for the 2024-2025 term are closed.

It’s time again to nominate the Test Team Reps who will serve for the next 12 months!

This Call for Nominations is open until [2024-09-23 00:00](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20240923T0000).
Please leave a comment identifying your nominee(s) before then.

For a quick refresher of Team RepTeam 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. roles across the project,
please see [the Team Reps post on Team Updates](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/team-reps/).

## The Role

Reps in the Test Team perform primary and secondary (or backup) duties to help support
team chats, make updates to the team’s blog and handbook, remove blockers, keep 
a pulse on team objectives, and promote testing opportunities within the WordPress
project.

As a reminder, **Reps are not called “team leads” for a reason.** While people elected
as Team Reps will generally come from the pool of folks that people think of as 
experienced leaders, the Team Rep role is designed to change hands regularly.

Test Team Rep duties include:

 * Write weekly [Test Team Update](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/tag/test/)
   posts, and post to [Team Updates](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/).
 * Write weekly [Week in Test](https://make.wordpress.org/test/category/week-in-test/)
   posts, and post to [Make WordPress Test](https://make.wordpress.org/test/).
 * Write agenda for bi-weekly `<test-chat>` sessions ([example](https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/07/19/test-chat-agenda-for-july-20-2021/)).
 * Run alternating weekly `<test-chat>` ([example](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C03B0H5J0/p1626181220122300))
   and `<test-triage>` ([example](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C03B0H5J0/p1625576610036600))
   sessions in [#core-test](https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-test/).
 * Write `<test-chat>` session recaps, and post to [Make WordPress Test](https://make.wordpress.org/test/).
 * Run Test Scrub sessions in [#core-test](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C03B0H5J0)
 * Help new contributors with their WordPress Testing related queries.
 * Help raise awareness for testing needs, especially for upcoming releases.
 * Raise issues or red flags that other teams should be aware of or discussing.
 * Participate in quarterly update progress reports ([example](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2021/04/15/quarterly-updates-q1-2021/)).

These duties are shared between the primary and secondary Reps (see **Rep Responsibilities**
on [the Team Rep page](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/team-reps/#team-rep-orientation)).

### Qualifications

A Rep is an active team member who is reliable and trusted, advocates for and is
knowledgeable of one or more areas of testing, and wants to represent, nurture, 
and grow the team to better serve the WordPress open sourceOpen Source Open Source
denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and
may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing
model, see GPL. project.

Test Team Reps must be committed to showing up and performing regular duties, and
should expect a time commitment of at least 2-4 hours per week. Reps serve for a
term of one year.

## How Test Team Elections Work

### Step 1: Call for Nominations 📣

The first step is to reach out to the community with a Call for Nominations (this
post!)

Please nominate in the [comments of this post](https://make.wordpress.org/test/2024/08/13/test-team-reps-call-for-nominations-4/#respond).
You can write a comment as simple as “I nominate @the_persons_username.” Self-nominations
are also welcome by leaving a comment such as “I nominate myself.”

Private nominations can be submitted by contacting [@webtechpooja](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webtechpooja/)
or [@ankit-k-gupta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ankit-k-gupta/) in SlackSlack
Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/).

**If you’ve been nominated**, please _accept_ or _decline_ the nomination as a reply
to the same comment.

**⏰ The deadline for nominations is [2024-09-23 00:00](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20240923T0000)**

After the deadline, each nominee will be contacted to discuss qualifications and
to confirm their acceptance of the nomination.

If you get nominated, please do not feel like you have to say “yes”. It’s okay for
you to decline the nomination if you don’t feel like this is the right fit for any
reason. “Thank you, but no thank you!” 😉

### Step 2: Vote for Team Reps 🗳

An election will happen only if there are more than two accepted nominations within
the nomination period; otherwise the nominees will become the new Test Team Reps.

If held, the election will be conducted by an anonymous poll ([example](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/12/01/community-team-reps-submit-your-votes-2/)).
The poll will remain open for 2 weeks.

### Step 3: Announce Team Reps 🎉

Once uncontested nominations have been accepted, or in the event of an election 
the voting period has passed, the new Test Team Reps will be announced in a post(
[example](https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/08/03/test-team-reps-for-2021/)).

## Time to Nominate!

Are you ready? It’s time to nominate folks to serve as our Test Team Reps for the
new term! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments.

_Props to _[@ankit-k-gupta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ankit-k-gupta/)_ for 
review of this post._

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 2.   [Pooja Derashri](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webtechpooja/)  11:45 am _on_
     August 13, 2024
 3.  I would like to nominate [@krupajnanda](https://profiles.wordpress.org/krupajnanda/)
     and [@oglekler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oglekler/) as next year’s test 
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      *  [Krupa Nanda](https://profiles.wordpress.org/krupajnanda/)  12:23 pm _on_ 
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      * Thank you for nominating me and I accept the nomination! 🙇‍♀️
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      * Thank you, [@webtechpooja](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webtechpooja/) for
        the nomination.
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     for next year’s Test Team RepTeam 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..
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 9.   [Olga Gleckler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oglekler/)  9:25 pm _on_ August
     13, 2024
 10. Thank you to everyone who nominated me, it was a pleasant surprise. I accept the
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 18.  [Narendra Sishodiya](https://profiles.wordpress.org/narenin/)  9:58 am _on_ September
     2, 2024
 19. I want to nominate [@oglekler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oglekler/) and [@krupajnanda](https://profiles.wordpress.org/krupajnanda/)
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 23. I nominate [@oglekler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oglekler/) and [@webtechpooja](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webtechpooja/)
     for Test Team Reps next year. They are skilled, dedicated, and committed to quality.
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