Let’s form some goals for Q4

[karmatosed]

Let’s get within the next week or so ideas here on the goals to focus on for Q4. The first ones I am going to suggest are based on looking at the conversations in Slack, the summit notes and original goals for this team.

It’s worth noting that having small goes and large goals is good. However, having tasks from goals that can be done and given to people is key. I am going to try and suggest things that give us options to work on areas can both be ‘documentation’ but also delivery.

Another thing worth noting is this is a first suggestion, if you have other ideas please surface them. We form these together.

Goal Proposals

This work falls into some key areas:

Discovery

This work is auditing, not deciding. The work will be existing and gathered. Most likely part of this is documenting for a start in the program team handbook.

• Handbook discovery: look at each team’s handbooks and document what each has. This can then open opportunity to share examples and discover opportunities to improve even.
• Roadmap discovery: Collect and document all roadmaps there are. Also look at how roadmaps are formed on teams and suggest ways to do this for teams, opportunities even for iteration.
• Community summit discovery: What tasks should come under this team from the Community summit? This will likely lead to later goals. This starts with collecting and parsing out.

Iterating

Being able to start work more easily is key for contribution. One aspect perhaps this team can think of is providing kits and soothing papercuts in flows.

• New team setup: ensure that if someone wants to create a new team it’s easily documented and also has a guide. What is missing? What needs documenting? What needs fixing.
• Improving recognition of invisible core contributions: This is a bigger goal but one has come up. Specifically what the core program team will focus on needs to be around those teams, to work on the problems with recognitions there. A lot of this goal can come from the discussions so far in team and Summit notes.

New

Sometimes new things are good to also create and giving space for goals that draw on the knowledge of those in this team might be useful.

• Tips and tricks: this is a lower-hanging piece but from using GitHub CLI to copy labels to other things, we all have things we can share.
• Establish team: A goal we should keep in mind is to make sure the Core Program team itself has a full handbook and flourishes, it’s great to focus on everyone else but let’s also look at our own team.

There are lots of things we can do, this is about what we can do in Q4. In honesty this is a long list for that and could be cut shorter happily. The point is to have I would suggest work in both discovery, iterating and new at all times for the team to keep us flowing between types of tasks. It is also different types of work so will appeal to different contributors.

Once we have all the ideas, a post on make.wordpress.org/program will be made outlining the ideas. These then can have more input. The idea is with each collaboration the refinement can happen. Finally, they can be decided and focused on.

[annezazu]

I'm curious most about the roadmaps and how we can ensure there's consistency in how they are surfaced, even as I understand they will likely be written differently. Having a similar place each are visible and available that folks can look for feels like a big win for getting involved.

Another area that comes to mind is establishing AI guidelines as this cuts across all the teams and feels like something the Program team could facilitate standardizing.

[peiraisotta]

I shared a wider goal here, and as an immediate goal and preparatory step, may I suggest that by the end of 2025 this team connects with the contribution teams to identify these projects and assign points of contact, so that in 2026 we can move toward the larger goal of creating such pages/dashboards?

[4thhubbard]

Thank you @karmatosed, I am so excited to see this come to fruition! I agree that it is a bit too much for q4. A shared roadmap, easy contribution start up, and recognition I think are great priorities to start now. @felipevelzani has been looking into recognition and those would be strong starting points.

[karmatosed]

Thanks everyone. I am now going to close this and focus on a summary post on make to get the Q4 and beyond goals out.