The Team Representative selection period each year is a special time where folks in the community affirm work ethic and confidence. The Training Team’s processes is designed to ensure fresh leadership and new perspectives guide the team while upholding team values from year to year. This year, the team is looking for two new reps to join current team 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. @digitalchild in 2025.
In October, members of the Training Team nominated seven contributors from the team. Current team reps (Jamie Madden and Kaito Hanamori) reached out to each nominee to confirm whether they accept their nomination before being added to the poll. Of these seven nominated, only two accepted their nominations. Two others mentioned that, while not being available to be a full-time rep, they’d like to be listed as a backup rep, should the need arise.
As only two nominees accepted their nomination and the team is looking for two additional reps, current team reps decided to skip the poll and move directly to the vetting process. We believe both nominees meet the criteria of a team rep and would be excellent representations of the Training Team to the WordPress project.
It is with great excitement we announce Jonathan Bossenger and Muhibul Haque will be joining Jamie Madden as Training Team reps for 2025! Keep reading below to find out more about next year’s team reps.
Jonathan Bossenger – @psykro
Jonathan Bossenger was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. He currently lives in the suburbs with his wife and two growing sons. After spending his first 5 years of life after high school working in retail, Jonathan pivoted to software development and hasn’t looked back.
In 2011, he started doing some WordPress development work, and in 2015, he attended his first WordCamp 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. in Cape Town. This led to contributions in the areas of documentation, core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., and, finally, community, where he was the most active. As a Community Program Supporter (aka Community Deputy) and WordCamp mentor, Jonathan’s focus was helping to grow WordPress meetups and WordCamps in Africa.
Jonathan joined the Training Team with the 2020 launch of Learn.WordPress.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/ and contributed the first developer-focused video tutorial on Learn. In 2022, he was hired at Automattic as a sponsored contributor to the training team, hosting workshops and creating video lessons for developers.
After hours, Jonathan enjoys spending time with his busy family and their extracurricular activities, keeping fit with regular workouts, and practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu. His hobby is gaming, and he is currently working through his backlog of ever-growing Steam games.
Muhibul lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he enjoys life with his wife and their three-year-old son. He started his professional career in 2011, focusing on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). While working in SEO, he realized the importance of having skills in web development, which sparked his interest in this field. In 2014, he made the full switch to work as a WordPress Developer, applying his skills in customization and development. Since then, he has been building his expertise and enjoying the creative challenges that come with developing dynamic websites.
Muhibul first became active in the community at WordCamp Sylhet in 2023, which inspired him to get involved with open-source projects. Since then, he is active on Training team and taken different roles like Training Team Administrator, Content Creator and now Training Team Representative. He is also active on Core, Themes, Docs, WPTV and Community Team as contributor.
When not working, he enjoys spending time with his family and loves to travel. Seeing new places and experiencing different cultures gives him fresh energy and inspiration.
Jamie Madden has been involved in open-source long before WordPress’ first release. He made his first contribution to the Red Hat kernel in 1999. Since then, he’s been contributing to the WordPress documentation, testing, and, of course, Training Team.
Jamie has been an active contributor in the Training Team since July 2022, and joined us as a Faculty Member in September that year lending his Subject Matter Expert and Editor expertise to the team.
We have a full spotlight on Jamie out in this post, so please give it a read if you’d like to learn more about him!
You can reach out to the Training Team Reps in the #training channel in the Make WordPress Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
