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
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 7 October 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress 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/. #marketing channel.
If you are reading this agenda on another website and not the make.wordpress.org, please note that we may not be aware of any responses or offers to contribute you make on other sites.
If you are reading this from promotion in other Make Teams or are not yet active in the Marketing Team, there are details below of how you can get involved.
In response to feedback, testing, and in trying to continue to make contributing more inclusive, we now include:
This is where we also include highlights from what team members have been doing related to marketing in the WordPress community.
Plans can be found at: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2020/09/09/lets-celebrate-international-translation-day-together/
Resources: Recording of the livestream of 30 September on YouTube.
Interviews and onboarding videos are being added to the channel. They will move to WordPress.tv later in the year.
Get involved: additional marketing and communications support is urgently needed to assist polyglots, reply in the Slack thread, below or initially contact @meher In the main marketing channel. To get involved with onboarding videos, contact @OGlekler in the channel.
Update from team member: @lmurillom
Get involved: You can help amplify the social media promotions by retweeting/ sharing our posts which can be found on the WordPress Marketing Team’s LinkedIn page, and in other channels – search #OnlineWPMeetup . In the future, we will also be using the #OnlineWPMeetupNews to help 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. organizers who have replied to our survey. We will be continuing to work with @HariShankar on this in the community team.
Can you help with this curation and writing task? Contact @lmurillom on the Global WordPress #Marketing Slack channel.
Nothing further to report, waiting on other teams. Thanks.
Update from team member: @yvettesonneveld
We have had several planning meetings regarding the WordPress 5.6 About Page and Release Post.
If you have some understanding of WordPress releases, we would love for you to help us decide what features and benefits should be highlighted in these pieces of content.
You can do that either as a reply to the ticket:
Go to WordPress 5.6 About Page ticket on Trac.
Because we know not everyone comfortably uses / posts on TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/., we have also created a Google Form survey. It is quite self-explanatory
Get involved: do you understand the release process, can easily explain trac tickets or are a developer with a strong interest in marketing and communications? Contact @webcommsat and @oglekler
Comment on the Marcomms form to help the planning of the About Page for 5.6 or add your suggestions directly on Trac. The deadline is xxx.
Update from team member: @lmurillom
Get involved: Can you help amplify the social media promotions? Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
Reminder of shared calendar and how to use it: from @oglekler
Updates on socials from: @meher
You are always welcome to suggest ideas for inclusion at a future meeting to one of the team reps. Ideally by the Monday before the meeting.
The meeting will be formally closed at the end of all the collaborations sessions on Wednesday.
If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Thursday 8 October 2020, 13:00 UTC – Learn.WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ meeting.
Thursday 8 October 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @oglekler or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool.
Monday 12 October 2020, TBA – Planning and actions meeting, with a 10 minute coffee break drop-in for team members who are available.
Tuesday 13 October 2020, 19:00 UTC – WordPress Release 5.6 Marcomms planning meeting – let us (@MaryBaum @YvetteSonneveld @webcommsat ) know if you would like to suggest anything for this meeting of those co-ordinating the marketing.
Wednesday 14 October 2020, 5:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC – CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Dev Meeting in Global WordPress #Core Slack channel.
Wednesday 14 October 2020, 14: 00 UTC – Global Marketing Team Meeting in Global WordPress #Marketing Slack channel.
Thursday 29 October 2020, Around the World Quiz – time tbc
