Marketing Meeting 2019, December 4

Meeting timestamp on Slack for full notes

Notetaker: @siobhanseija

Attendance

@miker, @Meg Phillips, @Megan Geissinger, @OGlekler, @maedahbatool, @siobhanseija, @Arslan Ahmed, @harryjackson1221, @Matthias Bathke, @aurooba, @nullbyte, @Michelle Frechette (she/her), @mta1, @scottjones @abhanonstopnewsuk

#MakeWordPress Marketing Successes of the Past Week

@siobhanseija: We just had a great cross-team Zoom chat about supporting contribution events. Thanks for organizing @webcommsat.

@Matthias Bathke: The German Marketing Team had a meeting just before 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. Düsseldorf. Based on feedback from @nullbyte they discussed improving their communication with the international marketing team. Also thanks to @grafruessel for a discussion on improving the onboarding process for contributors in spe. The team has decided to adopt the international vision for their team. They have decided on six goals for the team and assigned them to attendees. Click for the full overview.

@raym: Completed the December Monthly Showcase review.

Task Lead Updates

WordPress Release Schedule

@mikerbg‘s update on: WordPress Release Schedule.

Worked on a draft in last week’s meeting, ready for review before publishing today. Mike and @aurooba worked on the content during the meeting.

Take-away from this discussion: there are different users such content could be focused on, like 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/theme devs, WP businesses, end-users, and so on. Mike proposes making a different article with a focus on end-users.

Diversity Speaker Training Marketing

@aurooba‘s update on: Diversity Speaker Training Marketing.

Aurooba feels stalled and could use some help/input, especially with writing up different scenarios of what the community is lacking. For example a11yAccessibility 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), age, etc. Some other thoughts and input were offered in the discussion. Read it all in this thread.

Take-away from this discussion: we could start creating “Calls for Contributors” for various issues. A card was created for that: [Call for Contributors] Creating outreach scenarios for the Speaker Diversity Training Template.