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.
You can be part of the #marketing channel on Slack. Join our next Weekly Marketing Chat at: Tuesday 15:00 UTC.
Diary dates
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads and tasks on Trello after the meeting and send your updates.
The meeting discussions on the Marketing team 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/. can be found at:
https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1586959272220000
Meeting led by: @mikerbg
Meeting notes: @maedahbatool, @yvettesonneveld
Attended: @maedahbatool, @chaion07, @mikerbg, @timbb, @oglekler, @webcommsat, @simonasn, @harryjackson1221, @darls, @yvettesonneveld, @michelleames, @megphillips91, @mta1, @antialiasfactory, @lmurillom, @SatishPatel, @sharaz, @gkibria69, @arnelcus, @thisisyeasin @abdulwahab
Update provided by @webcommsat
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. card: https://trello.com/c/1KagUPpT
The 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. Europe team is working on an online Contributor Day, to be held during the first online WCEU. This online contributor day will take place on 4 June 2020.
Update provided by @webcommsat
Since most in-person events are not permitted in many countries due to the public health emergency, many WordPress MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. groups now meet online. We’re working with the Community Team with marketing the WordPress Meetups, interviewing organizers and working on promotions.
Thanks to @meher and @chaion07 who have been working with @webcommsat on this during the last week, and to others who have volunteered.
If you would like to work on this, please contact @webcommsat
Thanks to everyone involved. @yvettesonneveld is working on the component maintainers document later this week and we will be finalizing this next week for the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team.
Thank you to all who have contributedFirst, a huge thanks to everyone who has been contributing and assisting and to @mikerbg for co-ordinating. More research and work will take place this week and feedback has been invited fromSubstantial progress was made, and we’re waiting for additional feedback from the Core Team.
Update provided by @webcommsat
Trello card: https://trello.com/c/5sN6ODcf
The global WordPress Translation Day usually takes place mid May. With WCEU taking place early June, that was not possible for 2020. There is ongoing work on this event, including encouraging polyglots to work together and smaller scale events. One is this Friday for the French-speaking WordPress community. @webcommsat has been asked to support the community-wide marketing and is also representing the global WordPress Translation Day team. Thanks to @audrasjb and other team members which are co-ordinating the French-language event.
Thanks to @webcommsat for this contributor mosaic idea and to @michellefrechette, @macgraphic and other contributors during the virtual coffee breaks this week for exploring ways to do this. The original concept was for a wall of pictures to highlight how contributors are still staying connected, reduce the sense of isolation and show that members are continuing to contribute to the global WordPress project.
Michelle will be co-ordinating this task. She will create ‘walls’ of 16 photos with messages from contributors.
Update provided by @miker and @webcommsat
Trello card: https://trello.com/c/Ix7fNA05
Virtual Coffee Breaks are informal virtual sessions held on web conferencing tools. They take place several times a week. If you’re on a limited bandwidth connection, or rather use video for other reasons, you can also connect with audio-only.
Marketing team members can check the latest schedule and join.
Feedback about the Virtual Coffee Break sessions amidst this global crisis of coronavirus outbreak has been incredibly positive and well-received. Some changes to times have been made to accommodate more timezones. These will be reviewed again at the end of next week.
Thanks to @webcommsat, @yvettesonneveld, @JillianSMaxwell, @timbb, @maedahbatool, @nullbyte, @Meg Phillips, and @Michelle Frechette for working to support this provision. Thanks to everyone who attended.
If you’re able to help volunteer and are available regularly for one or more of the weekly time slots, and/or if you’re willing to act as the web conference provider using your Zoom Pro account, please contact @webcommsat or @JillianSMaxwell.
Update provided by @webcommsat and @Tim Butara
Trello card: https://trello.com/c/8XKGUx3h
The working group met on 14 April 2020 and included an introduction to newer contributors on writing for the WordPress marketing, background to the project and answering questions. The group has been exploring users’ questions to developers of plugins and themes, and typical communications a developer may want to make available to help users, particularly at this time.
Marketing team members were asked to share (from their own experience) what questions they typically have when considering or installing a 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. The group would continue to work on this during the week and at its next meeting. New contributors with an interest in this area were invited to join (more below).
Update from: @yvettesonneveld
Some Team Reps have been flooded with personal messages. We understand it may be scary to add to the conversation publicly, particularly if you are new to the project. But please scroll through the Slack history. We’re really helpful and inclusive here. Please add to the conversation in the slack Channel and only use direct message for topics that have confidential elements. It may be scary at first, but we promise you it will be fun really soon. Several new contributors confirmed their positive experiences.
If you would like to suggest something for the agenda for this week’s meeting, please contact @yvettesonneveld on Slack.
