Update May 6, 2024: The Make Marketing blog is temporarily closed to new activity. Current marketing focus and processesare shifting to a new experimental project called WordPress Media Corps. Check out the WordPress Media Corps Initial Roadmap to learn more.
Any marketing contributors wanting to participate or follow along with this new project can join the WP Media Corps site and Slack channel.
Work on the Showcase remains open to contributions, and marketing amplification requests can be made on GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/. For any other ideas or discussions unrelated to these contributing areas, you can use this GitHub discussion area.
The Global WordPress Marketing team is coordinated, supported, and planned jointly by Make WordPress contributors. Thank you to everyone who contributes.
Thank you to the following contributors for their contributions as Marketing Team RepTeam RepA 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.: (in order of term)
A number of additional contributors support and complement the work of the Team Reps in our projects and actions task groups.
Many of the existing and previous team reps have also participated as part of the projects and actions / task groups to help joint working across the team and with other teams. Amongst other things, the groups enable specific tasks to be focused on and co-ordinated, support the administration tasks within such a wide and global team covering many timezones, providing a way for people to expand their contribution in the team, and help with current and future sustainability.
Contributors in these groups (updated 2021) include: Abha Thakor, Meher Bala, Olga Gleckler, Yvette Sonneveld, Mike Reid, Maedah Batool, and Harry Jackson, Larissa Murillo (@lmurillo), Christopher Churchill (@vimes1984), Mark Smallman (marks99), Nalini Thakor (@nalininonstopnewsuk with a focus on access and mentoring), Femy Praseeth @femkreations, Shanta Nathwani (@tantienhime), Maja Loncar (@mloncar), Ugyen Dorji (@ugyensupport), and Yashwardhan Rana (@yashwardhanrana).
Thanks to previous members who joined for specific tasks or as part of supporting administrative, including Meg Phillips (@megphillips91), Carike (@carike), Jillian Maxwell (@JillSMaxwell), Mizanur Rahaman Mizan (@technocrews), Rahul Sarker (@rahuldsarker), Ahmed Chaion (@chaion07), Tim Butara (@agiledrop), Robert Windisch (@nullbytes), Michelle Frechette (@michelleames), and others who helped taking the work in these groups forward, and supporting the Marketing Team.
The team has sought to encourage members to join task action groups, mentoring support and generally get involved, and putting themselves forward to become part of the projects and actions groups on a regular or specific basis.