Agenda: Global marketing meeting 25 August 2021

Update: Link to the meeting on Slack

This week the meeting will be abridged and last 30 mins due to people being away and the pandemic. It will take place 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/., at 14:00 UTC. This week’s meeting on Wednesday will be facilitated by @lmurillom and @vimes1984. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the agenda and last week’s tasks/ work.

  1. Welcome
  2. (i) Attendance (ii) New people and returners to the channel
    Get involved information
    Setting up Make WordPress Slack and WordPress.org accounts
    Examples of starter tasks
  3. Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions
    a) Notes links for review
    b) Notes group recruitment
    c) GitHub – we are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there. There will be a demo in September.
  4. Updates relating to other Make Teams: 
    1. community (including WPDiversity)
    2. coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE)
    3. polyglots – call for local events for WordPress Translation Day
    4. testing team – volunteers call for audit and update testing instructions on Make sites
  5. Any other Marketing Team business
  6. Diary dates

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Forthcoming Diary Dates

If you need 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 language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on 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/.. We are keen to try and help promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

This post is updated weekly. Meeting dates and additional updates are also published on the Make WordPress Marketing blog in our weekly agendas and meeting notes.

Weekly Global Marketing Team Meetings

The global Marketing Team meeting is held weekly on Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC.


The next few moths dates for the global Marketing Team meetings in the #marketing channel of the Make WordPress Slack will be:

  • Tuesday, 11 April 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, 18 April 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, 25 April 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, 02 May 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, 09 May 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, 16 May 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, 30 May 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, June 6 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, June 13 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, June 20 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, June 27 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, July 4 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, July 11 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, July 18 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, July 25 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, August 1 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, August 8 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, August 15 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, August 22 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, August 29 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 15:00 UTC
  • Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 15:00 UTC

The coffee break is held every two weeks. Currently it is held on every-other Thursday at 18:30. The link will be posted in the Marketing Slack channel before the event.

:calendar: The marketing team has a Google Calendar that lists meetings, collaborations and social activities. If you are using Microsoft Outlook, you can follow this guide to embed Team’s Calendar in your own calendar.

Monthly Deadlines

Month in WordPress Newsletter – Deadline to input/ review content is the first week of each month

Meetup Organizer Newsletter – Deadline to input/ review content is the 10th of each month

Polyglot Newsletter – Deadline to input/ review content is the 10th of each month


If you would like to help with updating this post on a regular basis, please let us know on its GitHub card.

This post was last updated on 31 January 2023 by @sereedmedia.

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Agenda: Global Marketing Team 23 December 2020

What are we working on?

The team is continuing to support Learn WordPress, Polyglots survey findings, and promoting the latest WordPress release.

We have lots of ways for contributors to get involved. Come to the weekly global meetings at 14:00 UTC on 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/. (more details below) or contribute async in the 48 hours after the meeting if this time does not work for your timezone and other commitments.

Contributor support sessions for early 2021 – open to those returning to the team and wanting a refresher and to those who have pledged to contribute under Five for the Future.

Follow and share our weekly highlight of WordPress 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. events and news on Marketing team LinkedIn Page. Keep up with the #WPDiversity and #LearnWP announcements on the 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. Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Agenda

Thanks to @meher and @lmurillom for working on the agenda for this week with input from the team. Let us know if you have an item for next week.

Global Marketing Meeting on Wednesday 23 December 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the #Marketing channel on Slack.

  1. Welcome
  2. Attendance Thread
  3. Review last week’s meeting notes and actions/task updates
  4. Updates and celebrating significant achievements and updates
  5. End of weekly meeting
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Agenda Agenda: Global Marketing Meeting 5 August 2020

Diary dates and forward planning as at w/c 3 August 2020.

The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 5 August 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global 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/. #marketing channel.

If you are reading this agenda on another website and not the make.wordpress.org, please note that we may not be aware of any responses or offers to contribute you make on other sites. 

If you are reading this from other Make Teams or are not yet active in the Marketing Team, we have included ways you can get involved in the agenda below.

Agenda

  1. Welcome, attendance, notes (including a review of draft summaries and actions in the Google document).
    We encourage asynchronous contributions in Slack for the 48 hours after a meeting (until 14:00 UTC on Fridays) to help with different timezones.
  2. Quick peek in our daily lives
  3. A special welcome to new attendees

Task, working groups and team celebration

4. Celebration time – let’s celebrate our WordPress Marketing accomplishment! 
This will be combined with highlights from last week’s collaborations to allow us more time for collaboration work.

Summaries of tasks from the last week 

5. Onboarding videos 
These videos are being added to the WordPress Contributor Day Handbook on GitHub.

Get involved: If you can have a strong presenting voice and can help with doing voiceovers and liaise with your local GTEGeneral Translation Editor General Translation Editor – One of the polyglots team leads in a geographic region https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. Further information at https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/glossary/#general-translation-editor. on translated captions for these screen recording videos, please contact @webcommsat@OGlekler or @marks99
Examples of the step-by-step video guides to help new contributors set up accounts on WordPress.org and Make WordPress Slack.

6. 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. survey promotions and updates 
Get involved: If you are a Meetup organizer, please fill in our survey to help us help you in your marketing. Can you promote this to organizers in your network or locale?

7. Diverse speaker training working group promotions for August 2020.
Get involved: Can you help amplify the social media promotions? Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on TwitterWordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.

8. WordPress 5.5 Q&As (collaboration meeting 15:15, 5 August 2020)
Get involved: can you assist in this work? Contact @webcommsat and @oglekler

9. Staying Connected events and activities – latest diary dates

Collaborations

10. Collaboration time

  • Marketing team feedback on the Help Hub recategorization will be led by @mikerbg. We intend to use Google Meet with live captioning, Slack and Google Docs. Trello card.
  • Video conferencing call for those supporting the Q&A tasks (from
    15:15 UTC
    )
    Will be tasks lead @webcommsatsat – we will use Google Meet with live captioning if needed, Slack, Make 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/ coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/., 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/ and Google Docs
    More on our Questions and Answers work to help promote WordPress Releases

Any other business/ awareness of other related Make WordPress tasks

10. AOB 
You can also suggest to one of the team reps the day before the meeting if you have an idea for inclusion at a future meeting.

Planning for the week

11. Sub meetings in the forthcoming week.

The meeting will be formally closed at the end of the collaborations session. 

Diary dates

If you need 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 language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Thursday 6 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @webcommsat or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool.

Friday 7 August 2020
– 10am/ 10.00 UTC – Q&As for developers/ Meetups for WordPress 5.5
– 6.15pm/ 18:15 UTC- Second follow-up meeting to accommodate timezones
If you are involved in these tasks, please confirm which meeting you will be attending by Thursday 09.00 UTC to help us plan. Thanks.

Monday 10 August 2020 – Planning meetings (times tbc)

Wednesday 12 August 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting. 
This will be followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations relating to the Q&As and Meetup resources.

Thursday 13 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video. 

Monday 10 August 2020, (Time tbc) – Q&As and related WordPress 5.5 release.

Thursday 13 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video.

Staying Connected – advance event dates

Poetry competition now open

  • Entries now open 
  • Closing date 31 August 2020, 17:00 UTC
  • Minimum two verses (stanzas), maximum four 
  • Can be song lyrics, poem or guzzle
  • Can be in another language accompanied by an English translation
  • Can work on an entry individually or with one other person
  • Fun event

Wednesday 26 August 2020, 15:30 UTC – fun social quiz for the team, organized by @majaloncar

Thursday 17 September 2020, 17:00 UTC – Around the World quiz organized by @meher and promoting different cultures and countries in the WordPress community. Followed by a short virtual coffee break.

Useful resourcesThanks

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