Sustainability Chat Agenda, June 21, 2024

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This week’s meeting will be hosted by @noradriana

Sustainability Team meetings start at 12:00 UTC bi-weekly on Fridays. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the meeting by commenting in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. threads during the meeting and throughout the following days. Meeting notes will be published by the following Tuesday to also incorporate these asynchronous conversations.

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These are the topics for this week’s meeting:

1️⃣ News and updates

• An update from WCEU and WCEU’s 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/..

➡️ Looking for feedback

Proposals and discussions in https://make.wordpress.org/sustainability/ and GitHub (General discussions).

• The Sustainable Events Handbook section has been added to the team handbook. You can make suggestions (or small corrections) directly editing the page content on 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ (on each page you will see a “edit” option with the Github icon).
• During WCEU’s Contributor Day a start has been made with the feature overview of the WP Sustainability plugin and the guidelines that will become a crucial part for education. Feedback and addings to the 2 documents are welcome.

2️⃣ Come and Contribute

These are some of the priority projects and tasks to be taken forward. Are you a newcomer? Check our good first issues.

• Improve Sustainability Team handbook 
• Leave your feedback on the Project Health Dashboards hangouts summary.
• Adopt and integrate Open Collective
• Create a draft to collect information about the efforts made by the WCEU’s organizers in favor of environmental sustainability.
• Let’s create a better overview of WP Sustainability issues 

3️⃣ Open Discussions

Does anyone have an open discussion topic they’d like to bring to the team?

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You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Sustainability Team, read through our handbook) to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #sustainability Slack channel at any time.