The following are minutes from the general project meeting on Tuesday, March 26, 2019.
All documents for The WordPress Governance Project can be accessed on the project’s Google Drive.
Props: Pat Lockley and Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Agenda
- Minutes from last meeting
- Meeting leader and secretary
- Anything to add to the agenda?
- Review action items from March 19th meeting.
- New: Trello board.
- New: Twitter handle.
- Update on Stakeholders document.
- Moving governance research forward (recruiting etc)
- Open floor
Minutes
- On minutes from last meeting, only dissent on the agenda was about reducing agenda items, Morten commented that today’s agenda was mostly announcements.
- Morten facilitated the meeting, Pat took minutes
- Morten asked if there was anything we needed to add to the agenda
- Pat pointed to reducing agenda item discussion. Item was punted to Open Floor
- Morten asked about Action Item updates:
- Setup TeamDrive
- In progress.
- Setup Trello
- Done. Access required.
- Set up automated tweets from bank of tweets
- In progress.
- Share the word about getting involved and what we’re working on
- Ongoing.
- Setup automated tweets when blog posts are published
- In progress.
- Set up automated tweets for meeting reminders
- In progress.
- Remkus is gonna help find our “what governance means” messages
- Punted to next meeting
- Cathi is gonna tidy up our logo and create a Twitter header image
- Done. Everyone applaud Cathi for a job well done.
- Push the recruitment for research help
- Ongoing.
- Everyone sign up for at least one of the research items and do the research
- Ongoing.
- Setup TeamDrive
- A Trello board for the project has been created. Find it and contribute at https://trello.com/b/UhHUYOUf/the-wordpress-governance-project.
- Pat asked about joining, board status needs to be confirmed
- Cathi suggested the board would be a good idea to maintain a series of links to resources
- Morten asked for a volunteer to manage the board, Pat volunteered.
- A new Twitter handle for the project has been created. Follow it and share its tweets at https://twitter.com/wpgovernance.
- Morten said the twitter handle would soon auto tweet and asked people to retweet and share tweets from the project
- ACTION everyone share tweets
- Pat suggested having a channel for tweet ideas, Morten suggested that as an agenda item for the next meeting
- ACTION Morten / Rachel add to agenda for next meeting
- Morten asked Cathi for an update on the Stakeholder document.
- Cathi said we are collecting input, edits and comments on 3 new Stakeholder entries – please check out Enterprise, Frellancers, & Publishers…
- once we finalize our work we can update the website by adding these 3 …
- We’d like to get them updated by Friday.
- Morten asked Cathi if she could write a small blog post about it so it could be shared. Cathi agreed.
- ACTION Cathi to write blog post
- ACTION Everyone – feedback to Cathi on the document
- Morten moved onto recruitment for the governance work
- Morten asked for ideas and suggestions for this issue as it’s a persistent problem
- Everyone discussed lack of time as a key issue for lack of progress
- Morten suggested creating a Governance Hypothesis and then testing models against that
- Morten suggested using a blog post to create conversation
- ACTION Morten write a blog post
- Cathi will make accompanying graphic for blog post
- Morten turned to open floor
- Morten acknowledged the request for shorter agendas.
- Pat raised that the form belongs to him, Morten said we’d deal with it once we had a team drive.
- Morten closed the meeting at 16:55UTC
Action items
- Morten / Rachel work on getting people access to Trello board.
- Everyone join the WP Governance Project Trello board.
- Everyone follow and share Tweets from @WPGovernance.
- Morten / Rachel discuss adding #tweet-suggestions or similar channel in Slack.
- Cathi to write short blog post to recruit input on new stakeholder personas.
- Everyone provide feedback on new stakeholders.
- Morten to write blog post about Governance Hypothesis.