# Untitled 4 Date: 2023 August 22 Tuesday 9:33 am Tags: #5ftF #communitysummit #WordPress --- # Goals / agenda 1. https://communitysummit.wordcamp.org/2023/session/refining-five-for-the-future-for-a-robust-wordpress-community/ 2. # Discussion notes - Strong participation from future companies - Data needed, planning, - accounting for contributions across teams including non-employee/staff - Understanding of Make team needs and priorities - How to work in sprints - Contributors seeking sponsorship - Time pledges: meaningless, team reps struggle to call in those listed, accountability, - Balancing the sponsored contributors - Where is 5 ftF a determining factor being used? - Narrative around why companies should contribute - marketing factor - What are the deliverables? Celebrate the work accomplished - Marketing and Meta - 2 versions of teams - - Working in public alongside non-sponsored contribs - Hard to make commitment and influence if the reality is that the others don‘t get to participate - Some teams have the elephant in the room - is influence equal? - Demystify the job description, - Company obligations - Invisible hours - Boundaries are less clear as people move between companies. Some of the conversations may not be worth having. - Less full time and more part time to mix the learnings back to ecosystem How can we identify priority needs and match to companies - 5 ftF Slack - How will decision makers in orgs consume the info? - What stats do teams need? - Why was the dashboard project dropped previously? - Incentives of participating - Highlight team‘s needs - Make Updates - community can see the needs - Sustainability - house 5 ft F , dashboards, - How do companies do 5 ft F? Some are already doing open source - Some teams are and aren‘t in the slack channel - Mentoring 5 ftF for companies - Call in the people that pledged - Should we have active contributor tracking? - Context of companies matter - Encourage education on 5 ftF during meetups When 5 ftF is factored in # Action items - [ ] Meeting Notes Distributed to the Team - [ ] Tasks & Projects Completed, Processed or Delegated - [ ] Key Dates Completed or Scheduled