# Contributor Leadership Roles - Community Summit 2023 Date: 2023 August 23 Wednesday 3:35 pm Attendees: Tags: --- # Goals / agenda 1. # Discussion notes - What are you hear to learn or figure out? - How committers and core developers identified - How are team reps chosen? - Leadership roles and how we think about the objectives we are trying to achieve - Sticking around to contribute - Determination of commit access - Diversity in the handover or expansion of leadership - Non-committers can suggest a committer - https://nacin.com/2014/02/07/how-wordpress-chooses-committers/ - Committers are majority sponsored - https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/about/organization/ - Lead developers: Final decision makers, DRI, how to move something forward, do you have the big picture and trust from the community - Arbitrary, useless - Commit to a decision and move forward - Committers are not inherently people that want to drive things forward - Showing the path to start - Cap expectations - What is a lead responsible? Decision makers - Lead organizers for events - Team rep vs lead - Locale managers are leadership roles - On and off board - How does leadership transfer apply as we consider younger contributors - Knowledge transfer, energy transfer and ongoing continuity of vision concerns - Balancing the need for quality vs speed as we continue to expand our systems - Leaderships roles and titles - who do we think of that for? What is the motivation for that? - Retention and attraction - Knowing who to talk to - Personal satisfaction - Do you think of titles as trailing or leading? When you are already doing the job or want to be given to be pushed to achieve - Unofficial leadership roles like FSE outreach - # Action items - [ ] Meeting Notes Distributed to the Team - [ ] Tasks & Projects Completed, Processed or Delegated - [ ] Key Dates Completed or Scheduled