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 team is continuing to support on a number of initiatives and tasks. The key focus is around:
We have lots of ways for contributors to get involved. Come to the weekly global meetings at 15:00 UTC on 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/. (more details below) or contribute async in the 48 hours after the meeting if this time doesn’t work for your timezone and other commitments.
Contributor support sessions for early 2021 – open to those returning to the team and wanting a refresher and to those who have pledged to contribute under Five for the Future.
Follow and share our weekly highlight of WordPress Meetup events and news on Marketing team LinkedIn Page. Keep up with the #WPDiversity and #LearnWP announcements on 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. Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Thanks to everyone who gave input into this week’s agenda. Let us know if you have an item for next week.
Global Marketing Meeting on Wednesday 13 January 2020 at 15:00 UTC in the #Marketing channel on Slack.
1. Welcome
2a. Attendance Thread
2b. New contributors
3. Review last week’s meeting notes and actions/task updates
4. Celebrations of Marketing Team achievements
5. Update on tasks
6. Collaboration sessions – including contributing for social media posts to promote the Induction sessions, monthly promotions, and more.
7. Tasks for the week
8. Diary dates
9. Any other business
10. End of weekly meeting and update on collaboration sessions for rest of the week
Updates on other tasks and previous meeting notes are in our team Google drive. The link is shared in the meeting and is pinned in our Slack channel. Summaries are posted on this blog. We have a short gap of posts from earlier in the year due to access and resource issues, thanks to @lmurillom who is working through these.
Marketing Team homepage
WordPress Quarter 3 2020 Update (Quarter 4 update coming soon)
Four induction sessions are planned for both newer contributors and those who have been in the team for some team but need more assistance to help them contribute.
In order to be a part of all the induction sessions, please sign-up for the events to be held on:
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.
Monday 11 & Tuesday 12 January 2021, collaborations on People of WordPress and Quarter 4 reporting.
Wednesday 13 January 2021, 14:00 UTC, in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack.
Wednesday 13 January 2021, 05:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC – DevChat in #Core Slack channel
Thursday 14 January 2021, 19:30 UTC – Virtual coffee break, Marketing Slack channel.
Induction session dates are above.
Following feedback and surveys, we are changing the Global Marketing meeting time to accommodate as many people as possible.
