The Marketing team promotes WordPress to current and future users and contributors. We create and amplify campaigns to support the growth of the WordPress project.
Our work is tracked on the Marketing Tasks Board on the WordPress organization’s GitHub. If you are planning a Marketing Table at a Contributor Event, please let us know in the Slack channel.
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Diary dates
The Marketing to Developers team met for the second time, following up on ideas generated at the 18th of January 2017 meeting.
You may visit the Marketing channel (here’s the Slack thread for this February 15th meeting), or you may comment on this post.
Recap of Goals/Scope: Marketing WordPress to Developers: this subgroup focuses on helping developers understand how, when, and why to use WordPress when developing websites. Providing information for theme and pluginPlugin 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 developers would also fall in this categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging.: development related information, technical use cases and examples, technical best practices. (Read about the other marketing subgroups in The Four Horsemen of WordPress.org Marketing)
We also felt it’s important to getting the word out to the rest of the community about the Marketing for Developers subgroup.
There are no updates from members on the items from last month’s meeting.
**Sara reminds: The meeting can serve as a working hour for the volunteers – to start making progress.
If any of the volunteers want to start working on Marketing to Developers project ideas, just speak up in the #marketing channel and dedicate the time to it.
The team started two GDocs (all related docs in the Marketing to Developers subgroup folder on GDrive)
The subgroup discussed using TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. to start adding notes and collaborate on the ideas instead of making a separate GDoc. @hardeepasrani is going to work on drafting what that could look like and share with the group.
See you at the next monthly meeting – here’s the full schedule of meetings in 2017.
The subgroup will collaborate on the Why WordPress (for Developers) and How to get started as a Developer and follow up on progress in the next monthly meeting.
