Marketing the Community – October 10, 2017 Meeting Notes

If you’re interested in contributing, please have a read through our chat and the items listed below and leave a comment with which you’d like to help build!

You can read the whole meeting in Slack here.

Recap of Goals/Scope

Marketing the WordPress Community: this subgroup feel strongly that the community is a very big selling point of the software, and promoting some of the things that are coming out of the community would raise awareness and encourage adoption of the software; that could include raise awareness about accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) or internationalization advancements, or even helping local groups with marketing materials or resources for their community. (Read about the other marketing subgroups in The Four Horsemen of WordPress.orgWordPress.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/ Marketing.)

Happenings During Today’s Meeting

Our Trello Board

We decided to add the recipient of the work and where the content will be published (community or marketing) to all of our 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. cards along with a due date. Thanks for that suggestion @mcdwayne.

We published “Strategy and content to provide content support for meetups with low content.”  

That being finished, we moved on to the video curation document that @jenblogs4u started; we will work finalizing the copy for it this month.

Attendance: @andreamiddleton @maedahbatool @bridgetwillard @skarjune @mcdwayne @mrahmadawais @harryjackson1221 @vishalmukadam @afshanadiya @gounder @westcounty.media

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