Notes: Global Marketing Team meeting, 06 June 2023

Please add any comments on the related Marketing Tasks GitHub issue or in the #marketing channel on the Make 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/. 

• This meeting was organized on 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 #236
  • Leading the meeting:@robinwpdeveloper
  • Taking notes: @sereedmedia 
  • Link to meeting start in Slack 
• Attendance:
  • 11 contributors
  • Link to attendance thread in Slack

Team News

• 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. @santanainniss is still out on leave.
• WCEU 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://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ is 8 June, 2023
  • 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 2023 Marketing Table Contributor Day preparation and organization #218
  • @rmartinezduque will be leading the WordCamp Europe Contributor Day table, assisted by @samaldersen
• Share your thoughts on the marketing team coffee breaks concept: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/137
  • Proposed new name: Coffee and Collaboration Session
  • Last week’s coffee break was hosted by @eidolonnight and focused on preparing for WordCamp Europe. @sereedmedia and @jpantani attended.

WordPress Publications

• Project news: Episode 57: The Power of WordPress Mentorship
• Community news: People of WordPress: Stefano Cassone
• Project news: May’s edition of Month in WordPress

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 updates

• Social Media stats
  • No stats this week

GitHub Issues

Open Issues

• Cross-team collaboration
  • WPPhotos campaign and the different ways to contribute #178 AND Capturing Marketing Photos for the WordPress Photo Directory #189
    • All WPPhotos-related tasks can be found together under the WPPhotos tag: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/labels/WPPhotos.

Closing Soon

• WordPress for Corporate Sized Entities #22
  • Will be converted into an Enterprise page conversation at some point
  • from @dansoschin: afew people have been thinking about with regard to updating copy/messaging/resources on the wp.org website as part of the site’s refresh.

Next Steps

Our next meeting is 13 June, 2023 at 15:00 UTC.

• Marketing Team meeting and weekly planning #242

Note: This post is backdated to the correct Notes posting date of June 12, 2023. Was published on July 14, 2023. – SR

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