The Make Marketing team is currently inactive. Work on the WordPress Showcase remains open to contributions, and marketing amplification requests can be made via GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/. For those with marketing talents, we currently recommend connecting with the Community team to promote WordPress events or with one of the many other Make teams. For any other ideas or discussions unrelated to these contributing areas, you can use the GitHub discussion area or Make Slack.
Agenda: Global Marketing Team 28 October 2020
During this week’s marketing meeting, we will be working on some copy elements for the WordPress 5.6 About page. If you would like to participate, please read through the following documents to prepare:
- WordPress 5.6 About Page Trac Ticket
- Josepha Haden’s progress report post
- Mel Choyce’s post introducing the 2021 theme
- The WordPress 5.6 Beta 1 release post
General updates
Updates on other tasks and previous meeting notes are in our Google doc and the link is shared in the meeting. Members of our action group will update this blog with summaries of our previous notes as soon as we can can resolve a technical issue.
Diary
If you need accessibilityAccessibility 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) 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.
Wednesday 28 October 2020, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team Meeting. Followed by collaboration sessions from 15:15 UTC.
Wednesday 28 October 2020, 5:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC – DevChat Meeting in Global WordPress #Core 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.
Thursday 29 October 2020, 18:30 UTC – Around the World Quiz
Quiz form registration link http://bit.ly/Oct2020Quiz
Thursday 29 October 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, Marketing.
If you need live captioning to participate, please let @OGlekler or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool for live captioning.
Wednesday 4 November, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team Meeting in #Marketing Slack channel. Followed by collaboration sessions.
Wednesday 4 November 2020, 5:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC – DevChat in #Core Slack channel
Thursday 5 November 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, Marketing.
If you need live captioning to participate, please let @OGlekler or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool for live captioning.
WordPress 5.6 release schedule
- Tuesday 20 October – WordPress 5.6 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. release 1
- Tuesday 27 October – WordPress 5.6 Beta release 2
- Monday 1 November – WordPress 5.6 Beta release 3
- Tuesday 10 November – WordPress 5.6 Beta release 4
- Tuesday 17 November – WordPress 5.6 Release CandidateRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. 1
- Tuesday 1 December – WordPress 5.6 Release Candidate 2
- Monday 7 December – WordPress 5.6 Release Dry run
- Tuesday 8 December – WordPress 5.6 Release