Agenda: Global Marketing Meeting 11 November 2020

[Updated 17/11/20: item in diary dates]

We have a number of collaborations to work on at this week’s Global Marketing Meeting on Wednesday 11 November 2020 at 14:00 UTC. This will be followed by our dev group working on questions and answers after the main meeting at 15:30 UTC

Agenda

  1. welcome
  2. Hello to new people in the channel from this last week
  3. Link to notes from last week
  4. Significant achievements
  5. Collaborations (a) polyglots-related and (b) training/ Learn WordPress related. (Update: extra time was spent on polyglots-related collaboration with the availability of one of the Global Polyglot Mentors)
  6. Update on forthcoming meetings and Staying Connected socials
  7. Collaboration on 5.6 (from 15:15)
  8. Collaboration – actions team (if you would like to shadow or get involved in the project management work we do, let us know)
  9. End of weekly meeting and collaborations (resume again at devchat at 20:00 UTC for those involved in Release 5.6)

General updates

Updates on other tasks and previous meeting notes are in our Google doc and the link is shared in the meeting.

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 11 November 2020, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team Meeting. Followed by collaboration sessions from 15:30 UTC.

Wednesday 11 November 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 12 November 2020, Collaborations and support to community and other teams for the 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. Newsletter for November 2020

Thursday 12 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.

Wednesday 18 November, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team Meeting in #Marketing Slack channel. Followed by collaboration sessions.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 5:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC – DevChat in #Core Slack channel

Thursday 19 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 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
  • Wednesday 2 December – WordPress 5.6 Release Candidate 2
  • Monday 7 December – WordPress 5.6 Release Dry run
  • Tuesday 8 December – WordPress 5.6 Release