Notes: Global Marketing Meeting 7 July 2021

Link to the start of the meeting on the Make WordPress Marketing Slack.

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1. Welcome, introduction

These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues please do join the discussion threads after the meeting and send your updates. 

• The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
• Meeting Agenda: Social Media draft for 5.8 (link to the document can be found in this slack thread)
• Meeting facilitated by: @webcommsat
• Meeting notes: @meher
• Proofread: @lmurillom

2. Contributors and Notes

2A) Contributors

1. Attendees Slack Thread
2. New people and returners to the channel

• Get involved information
• Setting up Make WordPress Slack and WordPress.org accounts
• Examples of starter tasks

2B) Meeting Notes

Thanks to @oglekler who drafted last week’s notes.

A reminder to check the draft notes (link can be found in this slack thread) is circulated at the meeting every week. Please review and check your WordPress.org ID is listed on collaborations that you have actively contributed to. 

We rely on this to update the final notes and to show where we need extra contributors and how we are having an impact on the work requested from other teams.

Rota for drafting notes: 

• 14 July 2021: @ugyensupport
• 21 July 2021: @yashwardhanRana

3) Update on the release and Collaboration

• WordPress 5.8 RC2 was released about 12 hours ago. You can read more about it on this post.
• No updates from Josepha and Chloe with regards to the 5.8 release.

• In this meeting we did ongoing collaboration on social media relating to the 5.8 release
• More details about the collaboration can be found from this slack conversation.

4) Diary dates

• The Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations and social activities  
• If you are using Microsoft Outlook, follow this guide to embed Team’s Calendar in your own
• If you have difficulties or a need to embed our calendar into other tools, please share this and we will try to help 
• Upcoming Diary Dates are in this dedicated post.

Next Marketing meeting

Wednesday 14 July 2021, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in the #marketing channel on Slack.

Does your task need some time in the future agenda? Contact @meher and @webcommsat in the #marketing channel on Slack.

➤ How to get started?

We have a number of new contributors shadowing at the moment. So please do let us know if you would like some help.

If you were in the Marketing Team meeting and would like some extra help to get started to contribute to the project, contact @maedahbatool and @yvettesonneveld for information on future Contributors Onboarding events.

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