Notes: Global Marketing Meeting, 02 February 2022

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Meeting Notes

A reminder to those who have notes pending to please complete them and share in the marketing channel with @yvettesonneveld, @EidolonNight, @DanSoschin, or @nalininonstopnewsuk. 

Notes should follow this general template and be completed (and shared) for publishing on this blog within a few days following the meeting, ideally by Friday. This provides ample opportunity for contributors to provide comments and updates ahead of the next meeting.

Note-taker rotation:

• 09 February 2022 – Santana Innis
• 16 February 2022 – Ugyen Dorji
• 23 February 2022 – Jonathan Pantani
• 02 March 2022 – TBD
• 09 March 2022 – TBD
• 16 March 2022 – TBD
• 23 March 2022 – TBD
• 30 March 2022 – TBD

1. Welcome & Introductions

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 via Slack, or add your comments to this post.

• Agenda
• Discussions took place here on Slack
• Meeting facilitated by: @yvettesonneveld, @EidolonNight, @DanSoschin, @nalininonstopnewsuk
• Meeting notes: @DanSoschin
• Notes reviewed by: @yvettesonneveld

2. Participants & How to Contribute

• Attendees of this Meeting (Slack Thread with WordPress IDs) Approximately 16
• Social question of the week – “Favorite time of the year”
• How to get involved with marketing in WordPress
• Setting up Make WordPress Slack and WordPress.org accounts
• Additional information on getting started via GitHub

3. Notes from the Last Meeting

• Notes from last week’s meeting (26 January 2022)
• Call for note takers for future meetings
  • Santana, Ugyen, and Jonathan all volunteered

4. Project Updates

1. Social Media
   • As always, we continue to ask that everyone help with WordPress Social Media Amplification on the platforms of your choice. We continue to promote FSE, Learn, Releases, etc.
     • Specifically, this week, please share news of the new News design. This is launching in a week or so, and we want to let everyone know what to look forward to. Please see the links below to share within your networks for spreading the word.
     • Twitter
     • Facebook
     • Instagram
     • Linkedin 
   • Along with the 5.9 release, I’d like to share that we are helping promote the Openverse project and the new WordPress Photo Directory. This post introduces Openverse’s new features and might help understand the different between both projects: https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/2022/01/25/everything-you-need-to-know-about-openverse-and-the-wordpress-photo-directory/.
2. WordPress 5.9
   • Josepha published proposed major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality. timing for the year: Proposal: 2022 Major Release Timing
   • Preliminary Roadmap 6.0 (January 26, 2022)
   • Our Three Big Ideas for 2022!
   • Big Picture Goals 2022
   • WordPress 5.9 retrospective (please leave your comments by February 14, 2022)
3. LearnWP
   • Last week, we promoted the LearnWP Social Learning Spaces program and would love it if folks would share this content within their networks. –> https://twitter.com/WordPress/status/1487180438347128836
   • Also, we promoted LearnWPs FSE course –> https://twitter.com/WordPress/status/1486681903986102273
   • We also have lesson plans to promote to 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. groups and Workshops.
     • Workshop: https://learn.wordpress.org/workshops/?series=&topic=&language=&captions=&wp_version=3525
     • Lesson plans: https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plans/?wp_version%5B%5D=3525
4. Newsletter
   • The Meetup Organizer Newsletter and Polyglots Newsletter continue to perform well.
5. People of WordPress
   • The January edition has been postponed due to the changes in the release schedule, and is hoped to be out very soon.
   • Can everyone working on other months’ editions can you please share on the 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/ card for that week.
   • Thank you to @webcommsat, @marybaum, @hellofromtonya, @cbringmann, @meher, @martinezreyes, who have been helping bring the interviews and images together too. 
6. GitHub
   • Part of our GitHub has moved over to the WordPress organization umbrella. Thanks to @abhanonstopnewsuk, @meher, @vimes1984, and @Chloé Bringmann who have been working on this. It has been a lot of work the last few weeks and with the new release overlapping. We needed to move some of the materials overdue to the release and Learn WordPress to avoid the links breaking.
   • So bear with us as we work through the migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies.. Some of the combinations of the repos have not worked and this is being managed to resolve.
   • We have a couple of issues that GitHub itself needs to assist with as some of our boards can not be updated in the new WordPress organization due to the new projects board GitHub is trialing.
   • The training team is migrating to GitHub from TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. as well.
   • The Docs team recently migrated from Trello to GitHub/are in the process of migrating.
7. WordCamp EU 22
   • The team has been asked for whether it will be able to support a marketing table at this year’s contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ in 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. Europe in Porto, Portugal in June. Please share with the team if you will be attending contributor day.
8. WP Diversity
   • New events will be coming out and we will be updating the documents on how we support the WPDiversity team.
   • If you are interested in helping with this, please reach out to @nalininonstopnewsuk.

5. Open Floor

• Yoast contributor day on 04 February 2022
• Working on an updated coffee hour calendar for future dates (TBD)
• Summary of a marketing contributor Zoom collab session held on 31Jan22

6. Team Rep Updates

• The Marketing Team is pleased to announce the new team reps for 2022: 
  • Nicholas Garofolo
  • Nalini Thakor & Larissa Murillo in a role-shared position 
  • Larissa will fully take on her role in mid-February.
  • Several incumbent team reps and long term contributos are working with the new team reps to transition responsibilities, and obtain access to tools and platforms.
• Celebration of the WordPress Marketing Team
  • Once again, a big shoutout and thank you to @meher, @ogleckler, @webcommsat, @maedahbatool, @harryjackson1221, @yvettesonneveld for all they have done as team reps and far beyond. Thankfully, most of them will continue to share their expertise with our team and/or the WordPress project. (Thank you to the outgoing reps).
  • We would like to mark the 9 years of this team and have invited all the contributors who have previously supported as team reps. This party will take place on February 17th at 15:00 UTC.
• @EidolonNight is sharing this transitioning doc with open questions

7. Calendar & Upcoming Events

• 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 calendar
• If you have difficulties or a need to embed our calendar into other tools, please reach out via the Marketing Slack channel.
• Upcoming Diary Dates are in this dedicated post.
• Our next meeting willl take place on Wednesday 09 February 2022 @ 15:00 UTC
• To get on the agenda, please visit our Slack and share your post, or leave a comment on these notes.

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