At the community summit, we talked about finding a way to bridge the gap between the contributor groups here and the communities working on sister projects like bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org., BuddyPress, and GlotPress, which are all considered “official” but are still separate software projects (despite lots of personnel overlap). One of the suggestions we talked about was having a rep from each project report here and join team reps for chats etc, but we never really moved forward on that.
I’m going to reach out to the leads of each project and see what they think about participating more closely with the 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/ contributor groups represented here. In the meantime, current reps, could you discuss with your teams and see if anyone has any concerns about this idea? We’ll take a yea/nay vote next week on how to proceed.
Related: https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2013/09/05/new-team-reps/#comment-3298