Notes: Global Marketing meeting 10 November 2021

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Link to the start of the meeting on the Marketing Slack to help with an async contribution.

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
• Meeting facilitated by: @webcommsat 
• Meeting notes: @majaloncar
• Proofread: @webcommsat and @meher 
• Follow up actions: projects and actions group, task co-ordinators 

2. 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
• Section ‘Get started’ on GitHub

3. Meeting Notes

A. Last week notes

A reminder to those who have notes pending to please finish them up as soon as possible and let @lmurillom or @meher know in the main #marketing channel when they’re done. We are updating 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/. with notes that have had links that need updating or ones that need copying over from the google doc, including some older items left in the google doc due to Covid-issues. Thanks to everyone for stepping in to help with this. 

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 help the team include everyone. 

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: 

• 10 November 2021: @majaloncar
• 17 November 2021: @femkreations OR @maedahbatool
• 24 November 2021: @YashwardhanRana

B. Notes group recruitment

Contributor opportunity:

• Would you like to help source the weekly agenda links and information from other teams – these are the links that have potential promotion opportunities or which we have been asked to assist with? 

D) GitHub

• Sessions on how to use this and to help those writing the how to material/ wiki are being planned.
• Next practical session will be 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/: we have had no date matches in people’s availability. We will run a poll instead for two dates and pick the one most people can do.
• This session is hoped to be focused on those new to using GitHub. 
• You will need a GitHub account set up and available to use in the online video session. 
• Please do start using our GitHub if you are comfortable with using the software Mapping tasks board

4. Updates relating to other Make Teams

a) 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/)

For awareness and potential promotions. Many of these links will be useful for work on marcomms for 5.9 

• About / Help Page – next bug scrub will be a brief one on Monday 15 November 2021 at 19:00 UTC in the core slack channel. This will be focused on tickets slated for 5.9. GitHub Marketing card to support contributors new to this area. Thanks to everyone who came on 8 November.
• @dansoschin mentioned WordPress 5.9 is on schedule with all planned features thus far. @annezazu created a nice summary video of what to expect in 5.9 that you can view at this link.

[Latest Update as of 24-11-2021]

• Read this article to know the Revised Release Schedule dates for 5.9
• Read this article to know what is coming in WordPress 5.9

b) Community-related items involving the Marketing team

• WPDiversity:
  Update from @lmurillom: We are working on the promos for the November 17 and 27 events! If you want to follow this task, take a look at this Github link. Please also follow the #WPDiversity hashtag on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook so you can engage with the posts.
• Month in WordPress, October 2021. Thanks to contributions from marketing.
  • 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. Organizer newsletter, November 2021 – @EidolonNight  mentioned that the due / target date for any material submissions was 11 November 2021. The email was sent on 15 November 2021.

c) Design team

• Proposals for improvement of background editor (2 Nov 21). Comments invited.
• As the development of the Gutenberg editor progresses, new features are being considered in how they can be intuitive for users and support their workflows. If you use the Gutenberg editor regularly, please read this article and share your thoughts.
• Feedback invited on discussion: how to show and access new features in the 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. editor (Gutenberg). Read more on this link.

d) Polyglot-related marketing

• The feature recap on WordPress Translation Day 2021
• #WPTranslationDay 2021 local events recap – if your locale is not featured, please let us know
• Organizer retrospective
• Polyglots appreciation nominations 2021
• Polyglots Monthly Newsletter sign-up
• Polyglot Newsletter, November 2021 – planning has started. Take a look at this Github link.

Action / Contributor opportunities:

Contributors needed to support WordPress Translation Day 2021 organizers editing and subtitling videos, working on interview write-ups, and photo editing. 

e) Training Team, cross-working with Marketing and Learn.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/

• A sprint is taking place in the Training channel on the Make WordPress Slack on 10-12 November, 2021 to explore a dedicated volunteer program for the Training team, similar to the Deputy program in the Community Team – comments from the Marketing and Community collaboration have been shared on this post. 
• This program is similar to Community Team’s deputies, but specific to the needs of LearnWordPress. Contributor opportunity
• Workshop/ lesson plan feedback/ queries sent to Training, awaiting final information for Marketing to prepare social media promotions. Contributor opportunities

5) Follow-ups/ discussions

1. Team reps nominations promotions
   Read more in this slack thread.

2. Ongoing discussions/ follow-up to the contributor ladder workshop.
   More details can be found in this slack thread.

6) Any other Marketing Team business

A) People of WordPress (POW)

• Please continue to promote the People of WordPress – October 2021’s feature on WordPress and e-commerce specialist Ronald Gijsel

Action / Contributor Opportunity:

• Please can you update the spreadsheet or the GitHub on any tasks you have or if you have got stuck. 
• Contact @lmurillom and @webcommsat in the main #marketing channel on Slack

B) Social Media Promotions

Update by @lmurillom:

• Thanks to everyone who shared social posts this and last week, including Meetups and #WPDiversity! 
• You can find updates on GitHub in the Rolling Tasks  and Mapping Tasks boards and on the Meetups and FSE repositories.

Actions:

• Share the weekly #OnlineWPMeetup roundup on LinkedIn 
• Share the latest WPDiversity promo on Twitter
• Keep an eye out for the upcoming #FullSiteEditing posts across all social platforms
• Please follow the @wordpressevents Twitter account

7) Diary dates

Update via: @OGlekler 

• 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.

Update as of 24-11-2021:

The Marketing Team Reps for the year 2022 Nominations post has been published. More information can be found at this link.

If anyone has any questions on team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. nominations or wants some help with the contributing ladder follow-ups, do reach out to current team reps @webcommsat and @yvettesonneveld in the main #marketing slack channel.

Next Marketing Meeting

Wednesday 17 November, 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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