X-post: X-post: Meningkatkan Individu

Posting here since it spans +make.wordpress.org/design/ , +make.wordpress.org/community/ +make.wordpress.org/marketing/ +make.wordpress.org/meta/ .

My request: Let’s go back to how we used to elevate individual identity and contribution. Learn how to celebrate sponsorship in ways that encourage and cheer equally or more volunteers and people contributing in their spare time, and remember that’s how almost all of us started and how beautiful and fun that was.

To expand a bit on what I tried to say in the Q&A, I was referring to this tweet:

Krupa, sorry to use you as an example, but the giant SELF EMPLOYED on your badge shocked me, and led me down a path of thinking of all the ways my push to get companies doing what Automattic and Yoast has created some issues in its success, and the unintended consequences it’s maybe led us to.

I’m not saying someone deliberately created this bad badge design on purpose or maliciously, but I do want to know what led to a result here that everyone involved thought Name and Company was just fine, and no one advocated for personal info you could have on a badge, and that we have before in previous designs. I would suggest WEBSITE since we’re software trying to help people make websites, and want to encourage and promote that, then WordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ username, for same reason, maybe hometown because that’s usually one of the first things people ask and it’s interesting. I’d put all those things over the company, because the company for people who want to show it off is usually obvious from their shirt or buttons before you can read the badge.

@desrosj and @peterwilsoncc, Very sorry today for only being able to express disagreement in such a brief and unnuanced way. I’d love to get a Zoom when I’m feeling better so we can discuss and understand each other’s positions better.

Be a good conversationalist

I know I get annoyed when the first question someone asks when you meet is “what do you do for work?” Here are fun openers that are better, and how can that inspire how we experiment with badges.

Individual Complaints

I was first made aware of this issue by hearing complaints from core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. WP devs who said they feel like we doing so much more to recognize the contribution of companies. I’ve heard several versions of “it’s a bigger deal for me to contribute without being paid for it!”

Where else is this showing up?

• In every Five for the Future testimonial.
• Very much on the plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. and theme directories.
• In the business model of WordCamps.
• In a lot of our language and goals.
• In my presentations starting probably 6-7 years ago.

We’re measuring and celebrating inputs and contributions, not impact or results

I keep repeating this as the biggest thing we need to change in the WordPress culture and way of doing things. In hindsight, how silly is it to emphasize hours pledged in Five for the Future and not actual activity? And then check regularly if that activity is actually aligned with our goals, or perhaps working against them? (It has happened!)

When is more contribution a bad thing? How has our emphasis on participation, process, or inclusive consensus slowed us down, even as we add more people? Are we surprised, given The Mythical Man-Month figured that out in 1975! What have we lost, and who have we lost, as a result of the structure and processes we’ve created?

How am I so smart yet so dumb sometimes?! 🙂

Here’s a better version. The most powerful question from Jerry Collona: “How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want?” It works so well in all parts of life.