Welcome to Sustain WP, a limited podcast series about digital sustainability and WordPress. I'm your host Nahuai Badiola and in this episode I will be talking about how the sustainability initiative was created and then become into an official team.

In the episode 1, I talked briefly about it with Hannah Hannah but in this episode I wanted to look back to the process of how we arrived to have an official WordPress Sustainability Team, what we have done so far and what are we planning to do.

For that I'm joined by Nora Ferreirós, Thijs Buijs and Csaba Varszegi which have been behind the WordPress Sustainability initiative from the beginning.

Some of the points we talked about are:

• Nora’s question in WordCamp Europe 2022
• WordPress Sustainability Slack channel creation
• The first time we got in contact with the Sustainability initiative
• First post on Make WordPress on November 2022
• What we did as initiative:
  • Weekly Slack Meetings (starting in November 2022)
  • Write the document with guidelines for more sustainable WP events
  • Work on a plugin to display environmental data on WordPress
  • Proposal to establish a WordPress Sustainability Team.
  • Share the vision https://oursustainablewp.org/
• WordPress Sustainability Team creation WordCamp Europe 2023(June 2023)
• What are we doing right now?
  • Brief review of the voting process. The team has official Team Reps now.
  • Set workflows in place
• What are we planning to do
  • Decide which projects from the roadmap we move forward
  • Consolidate the guidelines for more sustainable WP events
  • Open to new contributors and ideas

Join the WordPress Sustainability Slack channel

If you are interested on contributing on any of the topics we mentioned, or you want to bring a new one, you can start by joining the Sustainability Slack channel.

Resources

• WordPress Sustainability Slack channel
• Now we have a sustainability channel in Making WordPress Slack, what should we do? (Make WordPress)
• Proposal: establishment of a formal WordPress Sustainability Team (Make WordPress)
• Our Sustainable WP
• How the WordPress Sustainability Team was born during WordCamp Europe 2023 (Make WordPress)
• Guidelines to make WordPress events more sustainable (Collaborative GDoc - WP Sustainability Team)
• Roadmap for the WordPress Sustainability Team (Collaborative GDoc)
• Roadmap for the WordPress Sustainability Team (Github)
• WordCamp Europe 2024
• WordCamp Europe 2024 train routes (Choo-Choo travel agency)
• Sustainability as an umbrella term post (GWF)

Nahuai Badiola I'm a WordPress developer, theme and plugin creator, I also write WP code tutorials and I'm passionate about web sustainability.

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