Agenda, WordPress global Marketing Team meeting, September 14, 2022

The weekly WordPress Marketing Team meeting will be held in the #marketing channel of the Making WordPress 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/. on Wednesday September 14, 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Asynchronous contribution is welcome. The GitHub ticket (#110) for this week’s meeting planning.

  1. Welcome to the team and visitors. Useful links will be shared to help those new follow along in the meeting.
  2. Getting to know each other
    a. Who is with us today – contributors attending live and asynchronously
    b. Social question of the week
  3. Notetakers and coffee break facilitators – volunteer opportunities
    a. Notes from the meeting on September 07, 2022. Thank you to @webcommsat for writing and @nalininonstopnewsuk and @lmurillom for reviewing.
    b. Could you volunteer to draft a future meeting note? Add yourself to 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ card for the week or share during the meeting on Slack. The guide is being updated – if you have other suggestions to help with 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 to support contributors who are new to adding content to WordPress in particular, please message @nalininonstopnewsuk.
    c. Volunteer for our bi-weekly coffee break (GitHub card #23). More on helping to facilitate a coffee break (updated guide).
  4. Projects and Task Updates
    Marketing Team GitHub board and check-ins on cards.
    a. Update on 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/ social media accounts
    b. Forthcoming WordPress releases and Full Site Editing, including any update on the 6.1 product walkthrough
    c. Contributor Events updates – let us know if you know of any others taking place that are planning Marketing tables.
    d. Newsletters
    e. Campaigns
    f. Any other Make WordPress events
  5. Diary/Calendar Dates
    – Next week’s meeting and planning – September 21, 2022 (GitHub #111)
    – Follow this Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations, and social activities.
    – The team lists important dates in this Forthcoming Diary Dates post.
  6. Open Floor
    If you have an item, please do add it to this week’s planning card to help the team reps highlight your request.

How you can get involved with the planning and weekly meetings

Each meeting week has its own card on the Tasks board in the WordPress Marketing Repository.

You can add suggestions for the agenda, link to updates on GitHub tickets/ cards or Google documents.

You can give an asynchronous update on a task if you are unlikely to be able to attend the team meeting. The team works across the different time zones, and all contributions are very welcome. To add to a GitHub card, you just need to have a GitHub account, which is free to set up.


Thank you to contributors who have made suggestions and given feedback,
and assisted with updating the blog and GitHub cards this last week.

#agenda, #marketing-team