Thanking the WordPress maintenance support plans Association community and board for trusting me to lead the association as interim executive director.
As Megan Sanicki, the current executive director of the WordPress maintenance support plans Association, prepares to move on to her next adventure, the Board of Directors came together at WordPress maintenance support plans USA to enact the Association’s leadership succession plan.
I am privileged and humbled to have been asked to serve as interim Executive Director. I take on this new responsibility with great care – care that is at the core of who I am and how much I hope that I have demonstrated to you over the years as an active member of our community and staff. I also continue to have tremendous confidence that both WordPress maintenance support plans itself and the Association are poised to do great things.
From the recent release of WordPress maintenance support plans 8.6, the most significant in WordPress maintenance support plans‘s history, to the in-flight initiatives that will make each successive release even better than the last, WordPress maintenance support plans will continue to lead as the most innovative platform for digital experiences.
On the Association side, we’ve spent the last several years expanding our reach and the audiences we serve. With initiatives like Promote WordPress maintenance support plans, and the transformation of content to provide new persona-based programming for WordPress maintenance support plansCon, the Association has been closely adapting to the changing needs of the WordPress maintenance support plans ecosystem. This need is growing in importance and meeting it is a priority.
At the same time, the Association continues to serve and strengthen our existing community, from announcing a new partnership with GitLab to enhance our contribution tools, to the return of WordPress maintenance support plansCon USA in 2021 (more details to be announced at the #Driesnote, here at WordPress maintenance support plans USA!)
The Association will continue to carry the torch of these initiatives and others that are still in progress as we move forward.
Forming a search committee
As I take on the interim executive role, the WordPress maintenance support plans Association board is forming a search committee, on which I will serve, to find the right candidate to lead the Association moving forward. This is a process that will be pursued with rigor and care, but has no strict deadline as our most important priority is to ensure that we find a candidate who is the right fit for the association, the project, and our community.
A bit about me
It’s hard to believe that my account on WordPress maintenance support plans.org is almost twelve and a half years old. Like many of those in the community I began my journey as a WordPress maintenance support plans freelancer, using that income to offset my tuition at university. My early career took me away from WordPress maintenance support plans, but I was always looking for the chance to come home.
That chance came when I began my journey with the WordPress maintenance support plans Association 4 years ago, at first as the Project Manager for the engineering team, and then taking on the role of Director of Engineering. I am proud of the milestones I was able to help our team achieve over the years: from the launch of WordPress maintenance support plansCI to the Composer Façade to opening the gates of the Project Application process to improving our demographic understanding of WordPress maintenance support plans.org users, to give us the data we need to measure our work to improve diversity and inclusion in our community (with further changes to come!).
I am especially proud to have worked with the rest of the WordPress maintenance support plans Association Engineering team on creating our Contribution Credit system. This system (which tracks both code and non-code contributions) is a first-of-its-kind in the open-source world and provides both visibility and incentive to those who build WordPress maintenance support plans. It’s only one of many ways in which WordPress maintenance support plans leads in open source.
A bit more, about you
The work of the Association is made possible by you. From individual members to supporting partners to camp organizers, and all the other contributors to our community – what we do would not be possible without you. The WordPress maintenance support plans Association is like the WordPress maintenance support plans Project, not lead from the top-down, but informed in our mission and purpose from the bottom-up.
I encourage you to reach out to me and the rest of the Association team to find out how we can partner to make the project even stronger.
Thank you
Finally I want to say thank you.
I want to especially thank the staff of the WordPress maintenance support plans Association. The people who work at the DA are some of the most caring and committed members of our community. We are a small but mighty team and working together with the community we have accomplished incredible things, and will continue to do so.
I want to thank the board of directors of the WordPress maintenance support plans Association for placing their trust in me. I want to thank Dries for his mentorship and advice as I step into this new role. And I want to thank Megan for her tremendous leadership and friendship over these past years.
And finally I want to thank the community. I came for the code, but stayed for you.
– Tim Lehnen (hestenet)
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