Governance is the way in which organizations get things done. The goal of The WordPress Governance Project is to introduce clarity and transparency in how the WordPress project is managed.
Author Archives: Rachel Cherry
Agenda for #general meeting: 8/13/19
About the meeting The general project meetings of The WordPress Governance Project take place every Tuesday at 4 p.m. UTC. Use World Time Buddy to confirm your local time. The meetings take place in the #general channel of our Slack account. Meeting agenda Discuss Advisory Board proposal and how to provide constructive input Status update: …
General meeting minutes: 07/02/2019
The following are minutes from the general project meeting on Tuesday, July 2, 2019. All documents for The WordPress Governance Project can be accessed on the project’s Google Drive. Props: Pat Lockley, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Rachel Cherry Agenda Summarize events and discussions at WCEU (Morten Rand-Hendriksen) Overview of next steps for the project Minutes Morten summarized WCEU …
General meeting minutes: 04/9/2019
The following are minutes from the general project meeting on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. All documents for The WordPress Governance Project can be accessed on the project’s Google Drive. Props: Pat Lockley and Rachel Cherry Agenda Review action items from March 26th meetingMake sure everyone knows how to join Trello boardNew: Team DriveNew: Automated tweetsDiscussion: Current …
Agenda for #general meeting: 4/9/19
Review action items from March 26th meeting Make sure everyone knows how to join Trello board New: Team Drive New: Automated tweets Discussion: Current project documents Discussion: Project research on existing governance Discussion: Project’s governance hypothesis Open floor
We have a Twitter account
In case you missed it, The WordPress Governance Project is now on Twitter! If you’re on Twitter, you can share and receive updates and other project information by following @wpgovernance. A big thank you to Cathi Bosco for creating all of the project’s artwork.
General meeting minutes: 03/19/2019
The following are minutes from the general project meeting on Tuesday, March 19, 2019. All documents for The WordPress Governance Project can be accessed on the project’s Google Drive. Props: Pat Lockley and Rachel Cherry Agenda Minutes from last meeting Meeting facilitator and secretary Project communication Open floor Minutes Rachel Cherry started the meeting. Pat Lockley …
Change in general meeting time
Going forward, our weekly general meetings will continue to take place Tuesdays at 4 p.m. UTC. If you just went through Daylight Saving then your meeting time will move back an hour. For example, if you’re located in Eastern Time in the United States, your meeting time went from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. You …
General meeting minutes: 2/19/2019
The following are minutes from the general project meeting on Tuesday, February 19, 2019. All documents for The WordPress Governance Project can be accessed on the project’s Google Drive. Props: Rachel Cherry and Pat Lockley Agenda Review of Personas/Scenarios/Stakeholders document Follow-up to working session on existing internal governance Review of project communication document Discussion of project tasks and …
Questions about existing WordPress governance
In order to define what governance can look like for WordPress, we must first understand its existing structure. The WordPress Governance Project is researching existing WordPress governance and asking a lot of questions. For example: How are project decisions made? Who do the WordPress teams report to? Who decides what users have core commit access …
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