Larissa Murillo 4:58 pm on June 23, 2020  

Notes: Global Marketing meeting 17 June 2020

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Introduction

These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. This is part of our diversity and inclusion support within the 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. 

Meeting Notes

Each week we have a contributor who has been with us for a while draft notes supported by one of the working groups. This is then worked on further by the wider group from Friday evening and used to plan follow-ups, report back to linked teams, give feedback, and plan actions by the Monday 11:00 UTC meeting.

A big thanks to @webcommsat and @lmurillom for doing last week’s notes.

How can I help?

You can volunteer to help with note-taking for one of the future meetings. Please note that the initial draft is needed by the end of Friday each week.

Welcoming New Contributors 

An extra warm welcome for those of you who joined then channel over the past few days.

New Attendees welcome thread: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1592402567306000

Task Updates

WCEU Follow-Up 

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

We have some outstanding tasks from WCEU work which need to be done by the end of this week.

How can I help?

If you were working on a task or assigned it in the run up to WCEU, please complete the update sheet in the WCEU folder so that we can send the marketing update to WCEU by the end of this week. If you’re not sure what needs doing, leave webcommsat a message in this thread: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1592403839345200 

WCUS Prep

Update provided by: webcommsat

Trello Card:  https://trello.com/c/kkVrc4sf 

  • We are working with camps and locales that are considering running contributor events, for events in the next six months.
  • The preparation for WCUS has already started and we are working with WCUS on this from marketing and from the WCEU team. megphillips91, mikerbg, oglekler have volunteered to help.

Staying Connected events and activities

Trello Card: https://trello.com/c/Ix7fNA05

Virtual Coffee Breaks are informal 30-minute coffee break gatherings for contributors to the Global WordPress Marketing team.

  • There was an issue with incorrect Coffee Break dates and times published in the agenda. yvettesonneveld has made corrections to the dates and added new ones. 
  • For the next few weeks, we only have coffee breaks on Thursdays at 19:30 UTC. We post a link in the marketing 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/. channel a few minutes before.

Collaborations

Online 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. Survey

Update provided via: nalininonstopnewsuk

Trello card: https://trello.com/c/oP3Sj8N1

Request: Please go through the survey which was promoted before and at WCEU: https://bit.ly/Onlinewpsurvey. If you have questions, new suggestions or something that may not be clear to someone in your locale, please reach out to meher and nalininonstopnewsuk. 

If you are a meetup organizer, then please fill it in with that hat. If you are simply testing it, please add your first name and the word ‘test’ as your last name. We can then remove this from the results. 

Next meeting

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 15:00 UTC, in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack. 

Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, and updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days.