Marketing Team Notes — April 17th, 2019

Today’s Meeting

Meeting Attended By: @yvettesonneveld, @fike, @michelleames, @swinterroth, @abhanonstopnewsuk, @immeet94, @Kate Bolin, @ndidinkabu, @makewebbetter, @siobhanseija, @dhruvpandya, @miker, @Davide, @maedahbatool, @BreannMcDede

Notes Taken By: @fike

Slack Timestamp

New Person Thread

  • @Davide: Hi guys. I’m new here and I really need help on-boarding as this is my first time.

Celebration/Achievements in the Last Week

  • @michelleames: We had our grand opening yesterday.
  • @abhanonstopnewsuk: 10 more different language video suggestions from WordPress.tv for the marketing videos project. Including some in Japanese and Chinese. Thank you to all those who have contributed and spread awareness.

Task Lead Updates

  • @abhanonstopnewsuk: Sponsors document working with for community.
  • The two remaining questions from the community has been progressed at the 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://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. at WCLDN with the help of some of the community team members and sponsors present. In the next fortnight, we should be able to return this to the community to relook at, together with the survey questions suggested. A follow up with WCEU sponsors lead has come up from the latest review. Thanks again to everyone who has contributed.
  • @miker: We have talked for some time about improve the Five for the Future messaging from wp.org and at events. We are ready to start writing copy for the actual page. To this end, we have a meeting set up with @andreamiddleton at 3 PM EST on Friday.
  • The objective of this, in the short term, will be to write copy for the new page. The objective for the long term is to establish a communication channel, and process to better serve processes relating to 5ftF.
  • I haven’t actually confirmed a venue for this conversation on Friday, but my hope is that we can do it on this channel (to combat the proliferation of private limited use channels).
    There are a few 5ftF cards, but I have yet to create a card for this specific initiative.
  • I will have a card created and updated by the Friday meeting.

New Business

  • @abhanonstoponewsuk: Available to new people and existing team members.
  • Plugins: https://trello.com/c/cTgoVoy4
  • If you are interested/have knowledge of plugins to work on this card or already have your name down. We are trying to organize a meeting. We have not been able to get a date that has worked for everyone. To try and maximize availability and progress this, we will now have the majority of the meeting here on slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. and use zoom if we need to share screens, as has been suggested, to better understood the issues for plugins 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.
  • If you are a plugin developer and in the marketing, team insight would be particularly appreciated.