Title: Notes: Global Marketing Meeting 1 September 2021
Author: Olga Gleckler
Published: September 8, 2021
Last modified: May 3, 2024

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oglekler/) [Olga Gleckler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oglekler/)
1:00 pm _on_ September 8, 2021     
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# Notes: Global Marketing Meeting 1 September 2021

If you are reading these notes on a website other than the [Make WordPress Marketing](https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/)
blog, please contact us on the [#marketing](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA)
channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
or via the team’s blog as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites
to be able to reply or help involve you.

## **1. Welcome, introduction**

These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to 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. 

 1. The meeting discussions on the [Marketing team on Slack](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA)
    can be found at [this Slack thread](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1630504952009900)
 2. [Meeting Agenda](https://wp.me/p72A3H-24e)
 3. Meeting led / facilitated by: [@webcommsat](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/),
    [@meher](https://profiles.wordpress.org/meher/), [@lmurillom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lmurillom/),
    [@nalininonstopnewsuk](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nalininonstopnewsuk/)
 4. Meeting notes: [@oglekler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oglekler/), [@lmurillom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lmurillom/)
    and [@meher](https://profiles.wordpress.org/meher/)
 5. Follow up actions: projects and actions group 

[**Get involved – starter tasks for new and returning contributors, and those who have pledged to support the team and need assistance to get started**](https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2020/12/02/get-involved/).

## **2. Contributors**

 1. [Attendees Slack Thread](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1630505123013900)
 2. [New people and returners to the channel](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1630505275015500).
 3. [Welcome message can be found on this thread.](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1630505275015500)
 4.  a. [Get involved information](https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2020/12/02/get-involved/)
     b. [Setting up Make WordPress Slack and ](https://learn.wordpress.org/workshop/set-up-a-wordpress-org-account/)
        [WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/)[ accounts](https://learn.wordpress.org/workshop/set-up-a-wordpress-org-account/)
     c. [Examples of starter tasks](https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2020/12/02/get-involved/)
     d. [Section ‘Get started’ on GitHub ](https://github.com/wpmarketingteam/Marcomms-START_HERE)

## **3. Meeting Notes**

**3a**. You will find the latest notes in our Notes Document for review. The link
to the document can be found in [this slack thread](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1630505972029500).

Thank you [@ugyen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ugyen/) for working on last week’s
notes, and a reminder to those who have notes pending to please finish them up as
soon as possible and let [@lmurillom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lmurillom/)
or [@meher](https://profiles.wordpress.org/meher/) know when they’re done.

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 on Slack](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA).
We will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote
inclusion and diversity in the team.

**Rota for drafting notes:**

8 September 2021: [@majaloncar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/majaloncar/)
15 September
2021 [@femkreations](https://profiles.wordpress.org/femkreations/)

#### 3b. Notes group recruitment / Action

 1. You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings, please contact [@lmurillom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lmurillom/)
    and [@meher](https://profiles.wordpress.org/meher/) in [this slack thread](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1630506022030700)
 2. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help
    with actions and follow-ups that might be needed

After every meeting, we now add a link to the start of the meeting in slack at the
top of the weekly agenda on the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to
the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at [https://make.wordpress.org](https://make.wordpress.org/)–
MakeWordPres Marketing Team blog.

### **3c. **󠀁[**GitHub**](https://github.com/wpmarketingteam)󠁿

We are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there. There 
will be a demo in September 2021. More details with date and time to be announced
soon.

Thank you to [@tantienhime](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tantienhime/), [@arpitgshah](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arpitgshah/),
and [@femkreations](https://profiles.wordpress.org/femkreations/) who volunteered
to join tasks in this area.

## 4. **Updates relating to other Make Teams**

### **1. Community updates**

 * Thanks to everyone who reshared [#WPDiversity](https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/tag/wpdiversity/)
   updates.  
 * The Month in WordPress will be published on 2 September 2021. 
 * The Month in WordPress has been published, please read it at [this link](https://wordpress.org/news/2021/09/the-month-in-wordpress-august-2021/).
 * 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](https://central.wordcamp.org/about/).
   US will take place online this year, on Friday, October 1 2021. [Tickets are free and available on the WCUS site](https://us.wordcamp.org/2021/)

### **2. CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE) updates**

 * [Social media amplification pack](https://wp.me/p72A3H-1ZI) for WordPress Release
   5.8. [@cbringmann](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/) or [@harishanker](https://profiles.wordpress.org/harishanker/)
   just following up if the link to the pack was added to the 5.8 new page.
 * Fill [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSez-dOY3mUSPPZKolXkllbL-FAH18704OM39az0hwMZ6P7P2A/viewform)
   for, Informal media monitoring and How do you search for WordPress Release Information
 * Tell us [what’s your favorite feature for 5.8](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_2llymf79-h5sgTiprz7Kw4Gr4cbDHh-AAdAQfiArXlHksg/viewform)
 * WordPress 5.8.1 RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential
   to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge.
   day is today, September 1, 2021.
 * Resharing [@annezazu](https://profiles.wordpress.org/annezazu/) post from FSE
   channel – The monthly blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe 
   units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage
   using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may
   have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single
   consistent API and user experience. theme meeting in [#themereview](https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/tag/themereview/)
   will take place on September 1, 2021 at 16:00 UTC. More information can be found
   in [this slack thread](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1630506775042100).

### **3. Polyglot-related marketing updates**

 * WordPress Translation Day runs from 1 to 30 September 2021
 * [Local mini-events for #WPTranslationDay](https://wptranslationday.org/wptd-2021/local-events/)
 * [Global events for WordPress Translation Day](https://wptranslationday.org/wptd-2021/global-events/)
 * Thank you to the WPTD organising team that includes many marketing team members.
   [
   More below]

### **4. Training team updates**

 * [Learner Achievement Badges](https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/08/10/proposal-learner-achievements-on-profiles/)
 * [Translation Days](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2021/07/13/wordpress-translation-day-2021-planning-call-for-organizers/)
 * [Windows Testers needed for Dev Testing Environment](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1630426703031600)
 * Proposed [Sprint for September](https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/08/30/september-2021-team-sprint/)
 * [Brand guidelines](https://learn.wordpress.org/meta/handbook/brand-usage-guidelines/)
   have already been finalised and published. [@hlashbrooke](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hlashbrooke/)
   has confirmed these only apply to Learn WordPress and not other aspects.
 * The team is working on a schedule for updating marketing.
 * The team is planning to have a course, Introduction to WordPress, completed this
   month and would love that to be promoted once done.

## **5. WPTranslationDay collaboration opportunity**

 * If you have a couple of hours in the next week to help with social media posts
   on this, please let [@lmurillom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lmurillom/) and
   [@Nalininonstopnewsuk](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nalininonstopnewsuk/) know
   in [this slack thread](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1630507869062700).
 * WordPress Translation Day, which takes place across September 2021, is using 
   a different slack this year. We will need to make the spreadsheets etc available
   to any additional collaborators joining us from marketing. 

#### Action

 * Please follow the WPTranslation day social accounts to get updates on all the
   events: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/TranslateWP), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/WPTranslationDay/),
   [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wptranslationday/) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wptranslationday/).
 * Please _Share_, _Retweet _and _Like_ the posts directly from the official channels,
   instead of copy-pasting the text and publishing as a new post. You can also add
   your own message when you share so we can get a variety of posts. Thanks!
 * Email drafts from [@EidolonNight](https://profiles.wordpress.org/eidolonnight/)
   [@erica](https://profiles.wordpress.org/erica/) and [@harishanker](https://profiles.wordpress.org/harishanker/)
   for an email campaign on WPTranslationDay for feedback can be found in [this slack thread](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1luVN1bGmSTemY6Y8nHbGbV0zWp7gMOde_culW4C0rG8/edit?usp=sharing).
   UPDATE: this has been now completed.

## **6. Any other Marketing Team business**

### **a. Onboarding videos**

**Update from the task group via** [@meher](https://profiles.wordpress.org/meher/)

 * Thank you to [@webtechpooja](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webtechpooja/) for
   helping in adding the transcript for the Hindi onboarding video.

### **b. Any Other Business**

 * If anyone has any update on their task which they are working on, please do let
   the team know in [this slack thread](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1630507608055500)
   or in the main channel of threads are difficult.

## 7. Diary dates

Please note this week there will be no coffee break as we are reviewing its dates
and times.

If you have still not selected your preferred time slot please do [submit this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7cz6fcPeL8StpMSDDrj8g5j7TnZC3uQV3WaBKU_z8RLoGwQ/viewform).
The last day for submission is 6 September 2021.

### **Upcoming Diary Dates are in this**󠀁[** ****dedicated post**](https://wp.me/p72A3H-1Nr)󠁿**. **

A reminder about our Google[ Calendar with meetings, collaborations, and social activities](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/2?cid=NDQyN2g1cnZrN2EwYXA5Y3VpNDI5OGYzY3NAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ).

Thank you to [@webcommsat](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/) [@nalininonstopnewsuk](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nalininonstopnewsuk/)
and [@lmurillom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lmurillom/) for facilitating the
meeting and everyone who attended.

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