Notes: Marketing Team meeting, 30 January 2024

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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ card #360
  • Leading the meeting: @bernard0omnisend
  • Taking notes: @ninianepress
  • Link to meeting start in Slack 
• Attendance:
  • 11 contributors (6 async)
  • Link to attendance thread in Slack

Team news

• [Urgent] At least one more person is needed as a table lead for WordCamp Asia this year. If you or someone you know is attending in person and would be interested in being a table lead for the Marketing Team, please nominate yourself or them in a comment on this issue by today.
• [Urgent] The issue People of WordPress: Sunita R #261 is going live tomorrow so please submit your feedback and edits in GitHub ASAP. If you’d like to contribute to other People of WordPress posts, please see the issues open in GitHub. For more details, check out the corresponding Slack message.
• Process Proposal: Moderating the New Showcase is still open for feedback and needs volunteers.

WordPress publications

• Project: Proposal: Updates to Five for the Future from the Community Summit
• Developer Blog: How to disable specific blocks in WordPress
• MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.: X-post: Proposal: Pilot program to test GatherPress on the WordPress.org network as a Meetup alternative
• Design: Design Share: Jan 15-Jan 26

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

• No updates were provided this week.

New issues

• Marketing Team Slack onboarding message when you join the channel #355
• WordPress 6.5 Release Marketing & Communications Plan Overview #356
• WordPress Creator Connections: Connecting Influencers to Affiliate Programs #357
• [AMPLIFY]: [WordPress Photo Festival 2024] #358
• Supporting the WordPress Foundation through a Google Ads Grant #359

Recently updated issues

This is not a list of all issues from the Marketing Team GitHub in Slack. This is a compilation of items that had discussion in Slack during the week.

• Marketing Team management
  • Showcase Guidelines and Content Moderation #221
    • Contributors are needed.
  • Update Marketing Team guidelines to create exceptions for Project Leadership #347
    • In progress and contributors are needed to add their voice.
  • 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. Asia 2024: Marketing Table Lead Nomination – 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/. #348
    • A table lead is urgently needed. Please comment on this issue if interested.
  • Marketing Team Slack onboarding message when you join the channel #355
    • In progress and contributors are needed.
  • WordPress 6.5 Release Marketing & Communications Plan Overview #356
    • Open for Marketing Team review and contributors are needed.

• Cross-team collaboration
  • [AMPLIFY]: [WordPress Photo Festival 2024] #358
    • Now complete.
  • Supporting the WordPress Foundation through a Google Ads Grant #359

• Project marketing
  • The Month in WordPress: January 2024 Edition #343
    • Edits are needed by 6 February, 2024 at 14:00 UTC.
  • WordPress Creator Connections: Connecting Influencers to Affiliate Programs #357

Closing soon

• WordCamp Asia 2024: Marketing Table Lead Nomination – Contributor Day #348
• Help create a plan for short form video on Tik Tok #114  AND Develop shortform video content and related copy with Learn Team #187
• Add ideas to the WP Campaigns Social Content Brainstorm doc #191
• #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks campaign #220
• Share and help collect #WPPhotos stories #238
• Celebrating Pride Month and WordPress Diversity #240
• Familiarize yourself with the WordPress Brand Writing Style Guide #241

Recently closed

• Showcase (migrated reference file) #55
• Request: Learn monthly GA stats report for Training #338
• [AMPLIFY]: CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Editor Improvement post on Robust revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. #352
• [AMPLIFY]: Global sponsors 2024 individual thank you posts #353

Open floor

• No issues or updates were mentioned.

Next steps

• Our next meeting is 6 February, 2024 at 15:00 UTC.
• GitHub card for the next meeting: #362

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