Agenda: Global Marketing Meeting, 6 October 2021

The meeting will start at 14:00 UTC in the marketing channel on the Make WordPress Slack.

We include more detail and links in our agenda posts to help those who want to contribute further to the meeting in their own timezone. It also helps provide more time in meetings for collaboration work and an easier point of reference for the links. After the meeting, a link to the Slack meeting is added to this agenda to support asynchronous contribution in the 48 hours after the weekly live session.

1. Welcome
   
2. (i) Attendance – who is with us? (ii) Welcoming new people, returners and visitors to the channel
   Get involved information
   Setting up Make WordPress Slack and WordPress.org accounts
   
3. Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions
   a) Notes links for review –  29 September 2021 (Google docs link will be re-shared in the meeting
   Previous notes: 22 September 2021, 15 September 2021, 8 September 2021
   b) Admin recruitment – Would you like to help with the weekly agenda links? Let us know in the Marketing 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/. It is a great way to get to know what’s happening in the project. We continue to recruit notetakers. Come and chat about how you can join the rotas.
   c) GitHub – thanks to everyone who came to the introduction to 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/ repositories and updates from the testing and pilots, the background to how we arrived at using GitHub, and our tools for our new contributors. Further sessions will be announced for October and November. The form continues to be available for expressions of interest for future sessions and to help identify attendees’ familiarity with GitHub.
   
4. Updates relating to other Make Teams
   • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-related items (including releases, FSE, GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/)
     • Request from the Test team: support extenders make their test suites compatible with the modernization of the WordPress Core PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php Test Suites. What the changes mean and step-by-step instructions are available at: Changes to the WordPress Core PHP Test Suite (27 September). @marybaum will help facilitate this during the meeting to help those unfamiliar with this area of testing: how can we help extenders find out about this including drafting social media copy. Volunteer opportunity: to help facilitate ideas on this, please do volunteer.
     • For awareness:
       • WordPress 5.8.2 has been deferred (4 October)
       • 5.9 planning round-up (3 September)
       • 10th challenge of the Full Site Editing (FSE) Outreach program – “Pattern Party”. Announcement post has the testing instructions. Deadline: October 13, 2021. You can join in further at #fse-outreach-experiment Slack channel.
   • Community Team
     • Month in WordPress for September 2021
     • Deadline 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 – next deadline for marketing, 11 October 2021
     • For information:
       • Updated guidelines for in-person WordCamps
   • Documentation Team: new workflow for reporting issues, using a new GitHub Repository
   • Polyglot-related marketing: WordPress Translation Day 2021 running from September
     • Volunteers needed: working with photos and text for the follow-up stories
   • Training Team, cross-working with Marketing and LearnWordPress.org
     • Request for feedback, wordsmithing, and elevating/amplifying the content: A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team – this is similar to Community Team’s deputies, but specific to the needs of Learn.
     • Proposal: Ensuring high-quality video contributions to Learn WordPress  – who can create courses, record well produced and high quality videos? This will be the main collaboration and discussion for today (more below).
     • Proposal: Learner achievements on profiles – feedback requested from individual learners and employers who may review WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profiles of job applicants
       
5. Collaboration/ Discussion
   • Proposal for ensuring high quality video contributions to LearnWP
     • GitHub issue for Marketing discussion on 2021/9/29. You can continue adding to this Google doc for the discussions. Comments from previous weeks have been sent to the team.
   • Marketing and Training Team collaboration on wording following the Learn WordPress Needs Assessment
     
6. Any other Marketing Team business
   • Onboarding videos
   • Showcase
   • People of WordPress – September’s feature on Yordan Soares
   • Social Media Promotions (#WPDiversity, #WPTranslationDay, #OnlineWPMeetup)
     
7. Diary Dates

Help during meetings

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. 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.

Weekly agenda planning

If your Make Team is working or planning something that could be shared with Marketing or have a follow-up, please let us know in the Make WordPress Slack channel on a Monday. We will be shortly sharing a new form to help teams log forthcoming interview requests.

To take part in the follow-ups and agenda planning, please share your interest in the Make WordPress Marketing Slack. You can also follow agenda planning in this developing Rolling Tasks board on the Marketing Team’s GitHub.

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