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Awareness about the impact of carbon emissions by the web and understanding how to build and work in a more eco-friendly way. -
Guidance for WordPress event organizers to organize events in a more sustainable way. -
Creation and promotion of eco-friendly themes and plugins.
Why a Sustainability Team?
Team definition
What has the sustainability initiative done so far?
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A first “ Now we have a sustainability channel in Making WordPress Slack, what should we do? ” blog post has been published on Make WordPress Project Updates. This has built on sustainability efforts and research with WordCamps and Meetups in previous years. -
The Make WordPress #sustainability channel has grown towards almost 200 members in less than a year. -
There are weekly #sustainability Slack meetings on Friday, 11:00 UTC. Meetings are announced at https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/ . Notes are taken from every meeting. -
Multiple contributors are working on a Google document about Making WordCamp more sustainable , bringing together the previous efforts by contributors in the community for raising awareness and sharing resources through the community and marketing teams. The document focuses on suggestions and tips for how events can be more environmentally sustainable and raise awareness. This is a great example of how a Sustainability team can support and work together with other teams. Once the document is finished, the latest version will be shared with the Community Team to add it to the WordCamp 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 . and meetup Meetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/ . A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organizers handbook. Materials will also be shared with the Marketing, Community and Training teams, and explore opportunities for further awareness raising and case studies. -
The WP Sustainable plugin , published by the WordPress Hosting team, has been discussed regularly during the weekly meetings in the Sustainability Slack 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/ . channel. Contributors have provided suggestions for how the evolving plugin Plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party can improve. The group has had talks with the WordPress Hosting team, the WordPress Hosting team feels it makes more sense to let the plugin be a canonical plugin for the Sustainability team. -
Some of the channel contributors had led a sustainability table at WordCamp Barcelona 2023 Contributor Day Contributor 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/ . . You can check the summary published at the #sustainability Slack channel . -
There will be a sustainability table during WordCamp Europe 2023 on Contributor Day . -
The group is presenting a sustainability workshop at WordCamp Europe 2023 .
The WordPress Sustainability team’s goals
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Creating and spreading awareness about digital sustainability .
As the most used CMS in the world , WordPress has a significant influence on the impact websites can have on the environment. Often we don’t know how this impact is generated, and what we can do as individuals to reduce the impact. Creating awareness about the impact on the environment is essential to make WordPress a more sustainable ecosystem. -
Increasing sustainability during WordPress events.
WordPress events are increasingly thinking about sustainability and need encouragement, support and further development. By producing and maintaining a section on sustainability for the Community handbook, the team will help organizers with a growing reference guide on how they can be as sustainable as possible. -
Building an ecosystem that leads on sustainability.
WordPress is a leader in terms of its user base, in influencing website trends, and the size of its community. It’s also a project that stands out in its values. We believe WordPress, as an ecosystem, can lead on sustainability by acknowledging the necessity to act.
We invite you!