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Marketing Team Notes — April 3rd, 2019
Today’s Meeting
Meeting Attended By: @siobhanseija, @immeet94, @fike, @makewebbetter, @harryjackson1221, @amandagorman, @reimark, @phil, @jonoalderson, @FahimMurshed, @yvettesonneveld, @maedahbatool, @ryanbickett
Notes Taken By: @michelleames
New Person Thread
- @fike: Hi! Nice to e-meet you all. I’m Fike from Indonesia, I’m working full time as a freelancer, but mostly working as Caldera Forms’ content manager. Already in the 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. board. Would love to take notes next week.
Celebration/Achievements in the Last Week
- @siobhanseija: @Fahim Murshed who joined us earlier today, noticed a broken link in https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2018/11/07/how-to-create-a-business-website-with-wordpress/ so we fixed that right away. Thanks again for taking the time to notify us Fahim.
- @michelleames: Things are ramping up nicely for WCUS — the website, social, sponsors, etc. are really in motion. We have an all-organizer meeting this afternoon with all 53 organizers in Zoom.
- @harryjackson1221: We have a rough draft of the wireframe for the Showcase submit a site form!
- @jonoalderson: Lots more movement on dot org SEO. Making progress!
- @siobhanseija: Just noticed this in #wptv: We just past the 10,000 mark for videos. We now have over 10,000 videos available for viewing on WPTV. :tada:
Task Lead Updates
- @siobhanseija: This is actually @joostdevalk’s project but definitely worth mentioning: he got a sign off from #design for the new mobile page! TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4096
- @harryjackson1221: WordPress Showcase Redesign Organization and Requirements https://trello.com/c/SdIcVK6q/257-showcase-redesign-organization-and-requirements We have created the wireframe for the new form to be used for collecting info about possible showcase entries from the site. We also agreed upon a meeting time, which is 1500 UTC on Mondays (I think), or 10am EST. If you wish to be added, let us know and we can recreate the DM and share the macro goals.
- The Showcase Trello Board https://trello.com/b/Ono8rTJK/case-studies-showcase.
- We have been working on adding the case studies to this board. I wanted to talk with the rest of the team about reworking the previous case studies. Should they be moved to this board for the rework? That could be great work to be done during Contributor Days at upcoming camps.
- @siobhanseija: Just checked the Trello board and I don’t think there is anything left that is urgent for now, especially as a lot of team members are busy preparing for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Torino and WordCamp London this weekend. And there may be other WordCamps taking place as well!
New Business
- @siobhanseija: Well, I have an important PSA! As the clock has changed for part of the team, the meeting time changes after today! *We will meet an hour earlier than we did today.* For everyone unsure of the meeting time next week, check https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/ after today! It’ll show you the correct time in your own time zone.
- @siobhanseija: Quite a few contributor days this week, so if you have any projects you could use some help on… pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me! I’m trying to work out what there is to work on, for both London and Torino and maybe others that want to work on marketing.
- @siobhanseija: Also, if you’re attending a WordCamp contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ in the near future and would like to work on marketing but don’t know how: let us know! We can help you find and/or prepare work. It’s probably time to start thinking a bit more about WCEU (WordCamp Europe) as well as June is approaching.