The Marketing team promotes WordPress to current and future users and contributors. We create and amplify campaigns to support the growth of the WordPress project.
Our work is tracked on the Marketing Tasks Board on the WordPress organization’s GitHub. If you are planning a Marketing Table at a Contributor Event, please let us know in the Slack channel.
You can be part of the #marketing channel on Slack. Join our next Weekly Marketing Chat at: Tuesday 15:00 UTC.
Diary dates
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.
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 Twitter, WordCamp 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
10. Collaboration time
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.
11. Sub meetings in the forthcoming week.
The meeting will be formally closed at the end of the collaborations session.
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.
Poetry competition now open
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.
