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
(updating notes to help with 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))
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads and tasks on Trello after the meeting and send your updates.
Each week we have a contributor who has been with us for a while draft notes supported by one of the working groups. This is then worked on further by the wider group by Saturday morning and used to plan follow-ups, report back to linked teams, give feedback, and plan actions by the Monday 11:00 UTC meeting.
We now have a rota of volunteers to help with this initial draft. We are increasingly writing our updates for team meetings in such a way that they make it easier to be used in our new system of notes and actions and simply copied to the draft notes.
A big thanks to @YashwardhanRana and @lmurillom for doing these.
You can volunteer to be a note-taker for one of the future meetings. We currently have a rota. Please note that the initial draft is needed by the end of Friday each week.
This week a special welcome to new attendees @Thomas Giraud FTS, @nilovelez, @alexdriddle @YordanSoares and @Elizabeth Meyer.
Also, whether you’re a new contributor or not, please follow our team’s page on LinkedIn.
If you would like find a project to work on, these task may be worth checking out:
Notes & Actions
Thanks to @YashwardhanRana and @lmurillom for working on. Please review and add comments in suggestion mode.
For this week’s meeting, @lmurillom and @maedahbahtool will be doing notes, for next week it is @maedahbatool and the week of 28 October 2020 it is @ogelekler.
It’s time to celebrate and thank everyone for all their efforts during the last week.
And celebrating all of our marketing team members who have spoken at events these last two weeks.
Also @megphillips91 at the IBM global #CallForCode event with a WordPress project
Update on behalf of the group: @meher
A week of WordPress Translations, turned out to be a fortnight of WordPress Translations. Like Nilo (@nilovelez) suggested, our event may qualify for the Guinness World Records.
Interviews and onboarding videos are being added to the YouTube channel. They will move to WordPress.tv later in the year.
➤ How can I help? additional marketing and communications support is urgently needed to assist polyglots, reply in the 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/. thread, below or initially contact @meher in the main marketing channel. To get involved with onboarding videos, contact @OGlekler in the channel.
Update from: @webcommsat
Our collaboration time for this meeting will be dedicated to supporting the planning for the hard launch of the WordPress Learn platform. We are also finalising the draft for the Community P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. post and will be attending the Community meetings that cover this topic.
Update from coordinating team members: @lmurillom
We are all caught up on the spreadsheet until 26 October 2020, and we are one step closer to having a group of consistent collaborators. Thank you to those participating in this task since last week: @YashwardhanRana, @chaion07, @swetabhsuman8.
Please like and share our weekly LinkedIn post on the most interesting Meetups this week.
➤ How can I help? You can help amplify the social media promotions by retweeting/ sharing our posts which can be found on the WordPress Marketing Team’s LinkedIn page, and in other channels – search #OnlineWPMeetup. In the future, we will also be using the #OnlineWPMeetupNews to help 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. organizers who have replied to our survey. We will be continuing to work with @harishanker on this in the community team.
Update from co-ordinating group member: @webcommsat
Nothing further to report, waiting on other teams. Will update further when receive further replies from relevant leadership/ dev chat discussions.
Update from coordinating team members: @yvettesonneveld
We have had several planning meetings regarding the WordPress 5.6 About Page and Release Post.
If you’re not following along with the release process, please read these posts:
➤ How can I help?
Update from co-ordinating team members: @lmurillom
TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. Card: https://trello.com/c/eNghs0YZ
We continue to work with #WPDiversity to promote these workshops on a more consistent schedule, and we are still drafting social media posts.
This month, the format is using the new Learn WordPress platform, watching the workshops at your own time and pace and then joining in for live discussions and feedback. We have an upcoming workshop on 24 October 2020.
Thanks to @webcommsat and @meher for promoting the WordPress Diverse Speakers Workshop and the Learn WordPress platform and encouraging non-English language submissions for workshops throughout the WordPress Accessibility Day and WordPress Translation week celebration.
➤ How can I help? Search #WPDiversity 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. on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
The Make WordPress Marketing Team in collaboration with many contributors all across the globe prepared videos on “How to set up a 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/ and Slack account for the Make WordPress Channel” in different languages.
This is a series of videos with different language voiceovers and captions to assist Make WordPress Teams and Contributor Events, and most importantly to help would-be contributors get started. The video series will be moved to WordPress.tv in the future.
We have 14 languages right now and more are coming.
We are working on Persian and Bulgarian versions right now.
➤ How can I help? If you don’t see your language in the playlist, you can create captions and voiceover for your language. For more information go to the #marketing Slack channel and contact @oglekler
The Marketing Team Calendar
Update from coordinating team member: @oglekler
Social Events
Update from team members: @meher, @maedahbatool
➤ How can I participate?
If you want to participate in the Poetry Challenge, please submit the form before 21 October 2020, 17:00 UTC.
Please fill the registration form for the Around the World Quiz. [now closed]
Led by: @webcommsat
Attendees: @webcommsat, @MegPhillips91, @OGlekler, @lmurillom, @meher, @nalininonstopnewsuk, @yvettesonneveld, @chaion07, @YashwardhanRana, @tarif2100, @swetabhsuman8, @ugyensupport, @mikerbg
The attendees devoted the first 45 minutes to a collaboration on the Learn WordPress platform. A working group has been liaising with the Community and Training teams for a few weeks and held some marketing and communications sessions.
If you need 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.
Next Meeting
Wednesday 21 October 2020, 14:00 UTC, in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack.
Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, and updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days.
➤ How to get started?
If you were in the Marketing Team meeting and still don’t know how to get started to contribute to the project, contact @webcommsat (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) to get information about the next New Contributors Onboarding meeting.
(updated post for 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))
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads and tasks on Trello after the meeting and send your updates.
Meeting led by: @webcommsat, @yvettesonneveld
Welcoming new contributors slack thread
Each week we have a contributor who has been with us for a while draft notes supported by one of the working groups. This is then worked on further by the wider group by Saturday morning and used to plan follow-ups, report back to linked teams, give feedback, and plan actions by the Monday 11:00 UTC meeting.
We now have a rota of volunteers to help with this initial draft. We are increasingly writing our updates for team meetings in such a way that they make it easier to be used in our new system of notes and actions and simply copied to the draft notes.
A big thanks to @meher and @lmurillom for doing last week’s notes.
You can volunteer to be a note-taker for one of the future meetings. We currently have a rota. Please note that the initial draft is needed by the end of Friday each week
It’s time to celebrate and thank everyone for all their efforts during the last week at this slack thread.
Big thanks from across the project and credit @webcommsat and @meher for leading and a tremendous amount of work to bring WordPress Translation week-long celebrations together. Thanks too to @nao, @evarlese, @carike, @oglekler, @lmurillom, @MajaLoncar, @vimes1984, @MegPhillips91, @technocrews, @maedahbatool, @rahuldsarker, @kau-boy and @harishanker
Welcome to @fikekomala, @jellypixel who have joined the team and been working with the Indonesian Translation Team, and to @samahnasr who is also one of our new contributors. Thanks too to @mbigul, @ugyensupport and others for joining the closing event, and to all the locales, GTEs, panellists and interviewees.
@antialiasfactory translated 100 strings to Persian during WPTranslationDay and also translated and recorded the Persian onboarding video.
And celebrating all of our marketing team members who have spoken at official WordPress events these last two weeks including:
For the first-ever 24 hour WordPress Accessibility Day, we had lots of people familiar to the Marketing Team as members, supporters/ from other teams who work alongside us for specific projects. These included Accessibility event organizers @audrasjb, @chaion07, @joesimpsonjr, and we welcome new to the marketing channel inspired by the event, @sailla. We were pleased to be able to help promote the event and liaise with lead organizers including @joedolson. The list of all the organizers and volunteers of WordPress Accessibility Day.
We also welcome some more new contributors to the channel inspired Accessibility Day and some of the other recent WordCamps where we have had a presence. Thanks to everyone and wonderful to keep welcoming new people and renewing friendships with contributors who have been on the team for a while.
Update from: @meher
Interviews and onboarding videos are being added to the channel. They will move to WordPress.tv later in the year.
➤ How can I help? additional marketing and communications support is urgently needed to assist polyglots, reply in the Slack thread, below or initially contact @meher in the main #marketing channel. To get involved with onboarding videos, contact @OGlekler in the channel.
Update from: @webcommsat
We are finalizing the draft for the Community P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. post to assist with the full launch of the Learn Platform and will be attending the Community meetings later this week to cover this topic.
Update from coordinating team members: @lmurillom
We are all caught up on the spreadsheet until 17 October 2020, but we need more consistent collaborators.
The people who have expressed interest are @YashwardhanRana, @chaion07, @swetabhsuman8 and @Tarif2100. We will divide the work in this group.
Please like and share our weekly LinkedIn post on the most interesting Meetups this week.
You can help amplify the social media promotions by retweeting/ sharing our posts which can be found on the WordPress Marketing Team’s LinkedIn page, and in other channels – search #OnlineWPMeetup.
In the future, we will also be using the #OnlineWPMeetupNews to help 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. organizers who have replied to our survey. We will be continuing to work with @harishanker on this in the community team.
Update from coordinating team members: @webcommsat
Nothing further to report, waiting on other teams.
Update from coordinating team members: @yvettesonneveld
We have had several planning meetings regarding the WordPress 5.6 About Page and Release Post.
If you’re not following along with the release process, please read these posts:
➤ How can I help?
Update from one of the co-ordinating team members: @lmurillom
We continue to work with #WPDiversity to promote these workshops on a more consistent schedule, and we are still drafting social media posts.
We started the October event promotions, and the latest workshops are from October 6-8 and there is one on October 24 2020. This month, the format is using the new Learn WordPress platform, watching the workshops at your own time and pace and then joining in for live discussions and feedback.
Thanks to @webcommsat and @meher for promoting the WordPress Diverse Speakers Workshop and the Learn WordPress platform and encouraging non-English language submissions for workshops throughout the WordPress Accessibility Day and WordPress Translation week celebration.
Please engage with our latest posts on #WPDiversity:
Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
Update from coordinating team member: @oglekler
Update from team members: @meher, @maedahbatool
Virtual Coffee Breaks are informal 30-minute coffee break gatherings for contributors to the Global WordPress Marketing team.
For this week we have a Virtual Coffee Break planned for Thursday 8 October 2020 at 20:30 UTC
This activity was of interest to a lot of people but most participants did not make the deadline therefore your last chance to submit is 21 October 2020, 17:00 UTC. Get your creative energy running.
Rules reminder:
If you want to participate in the Poetry Challenge, please submit this form before 21 October 2020, 17:00 UTC.
Led by: @webcommsat
Attendees: @webcommsat, @MegPhillips91, @OGlekler, @lmurillom, @meher, @nalininonstopnewsuk, @yvettesonneveld, @chaion07
If you need 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.
Wednesday 14 October 2020, 14:00 UTC, in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack.
Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, and updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days.
If you were in the Marketing Team meeting and still don’t know how to get started to contribute to the project, contact @webcommsat (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) to get information about the next New Contributors Onboarding meeting.
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 7 October 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 promotion in other Make Teams or are not yet active in the Marketing Team, there are details below of how you can get involved.
In response to feedback, testing, and in trying to continue to make contributing more inclusive, we now include:
(updated notes to help with 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))
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads and tasks on Trello after the meeting and send your updates.
Meeting led by: @webcommsat
Each week we have a contributor who has been with us for a while draft notes supported by one of the working groups. This is then worked on further by the wider group by Saturday morning and used to plan follow-ups, report back to linked teams, give feedback, and plan actions by the Monday 11:00 UTC meeting.
We now have a rota of volunteers to help with this initial draft. We are increasingly writing our updates for team meetings in such a way that they make it easier to be used in our new system of notes and actions and simply copied to the draft notes.
A big thanks to @chaion07 for doing last week’s notes.
You can volunteer to be a note-taker for one of the future meetings. We currently have a rota. Please note that the initial draft is needed by the end of Friday each week.
It’s time to celebrate and thank everyone for all their efforts during the last week.
Update from: @mikerbg
The Marketing team has been increasingly active with our messaging and collaboration with other teams. Now is the time for us to build on this momentum and expand our team by adding @meher as a Team Rep.
She has been an active and enthusiastic contributor since joining the team, and is a frequent presence in Marketing meetings and events. She is also somebody with a deep understanding of the WordPress project and commitment to see it succeed. Meher has also shown herself to be a positive and constructive influence on the team, and is somebody that is truly dedicated to our goals and objectives. Meher has been a member of the Marketing Team, a WordCamp organizer and translation supporter for over six years!
As a Team Rep, we look forward to watching Meher’s continued growth and development. In this role she will take a more active role in running team meetings and collaborations, reviewing marketing content, cross-team planning and alignment with other contributor groups.
Please join us in thanking @meher for becoming a team rep in addition to all of the outstanding things she already brings to the group.
Update from coordinating team members: @nalininonstopnewsuk and @lmurillom
We continue to work with #WPDiversity in promoting these workshops and drafting social media posts and discussing messaging with the Diverse Speaker Team.
The next workshops we will promote are taking place in late September and October.
➤ How can I help? Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
Update from coordinating team member: @lmurillom
We’re promoting #WordPress Meetups that are helping improve understanding of how to use the platform, improve it further and participate in the community.
The Online 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. promotions are currently updated on the spreadsheet through October 1 2020, and we are sharing them on our LinkedIn Page.
In the future, we will also be using the #OnlineWPMeetupNews to help Meetup organizers who have replied to our survey. We will be continuing to work with @harishanker on this in the community team.
➤ How can I help?
Update from co-ordinating team member: @webcommsat
We are working with the community, training and other teams on the marketing and communications for this new platform.
➤ How can I help?
Update from co-ordinating team member: @webcommsat
We highlighted the work we have been doing with this cross team in the devchat last week on core as there are discussions to continue to help improve the visibility of sustainability across the project.
Update via co-ordinating team member: @webcommsat and @oglekler
There will be updates on release-related marketing after the meeting.
➤ How can I help? Do you understand the release process, can easily explain tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets or are a developer with a strong interest in marketing and communications? Contact @webcommsat and @oglekler
Update via co-ordinating team member: @webcommsat
➤ How can I help? This is a big celebration of the translators in our community and to highlight the need for more translators. Please join in. You do not have to be a translator to take part in marketing of this. We need writers, monitors, photo editors, organizers and more. Lots of great first tasks and for those more experienced too.
Update via: @yvettesonneveld
Facebook is deprecating the open oEmbed code that allows WordPress users to embed WordPress posts. Come October, these embeds will start showing up as links only. Previously embedded posts should remain unchanged. It looks like the next minor version of WordPress (5.5.x) will already discontinue support of the Facebook blocks. If you’d like to read more about this, I’ll add links in the thread. Since this may cause confusion and frustration for users, the release MarComms team recommended creating content targeted to informing non-technical users. We will keep you posted on next steps.
The link to the calendar is appearing regularly on the Slack channel.
Please contact @OGlekler if you have problems adding or viewing the Calendar.
Virtual Coffee Breaks are informal 30-minute coffee break gatherings for contributors to the Global WordPress Marketing team.
This activity was of interest to a lot of people but most participants did not make the deadline therefore your last chance to submit is 30 September 2020, 17:00 UTC. Get your creative energy running.
Rules reminder:
➤ How can I participate? If you want to participate in the Poetry Challenge, please submit through this form before 30 September 2020, 17:00 UTC.
Collaboration led by: @mikerbg
Slack thread with link to the document
Wednesday 7 October 2020, 14:00 UTC, in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack. Please note that the week of September 30 we have #WPTranslationDay Celebration Week and will not be having a meeting.
Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, and updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days.
➤ How to get started?
If you were in the Marketing Team meeting and still don’t know how to get started to contribute to the project, contact @yvettesonneveld to get information about the next New Contributors Onboarding meeting.
If you need 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 24 September 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @oglekler or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool.
Friday 25 September 2020, 12:00 UTC – Learn WordPress marcomms meeting
Friday 25 September 2020, times tbc Translation week update
Monday 28 September 2020, 19:15 UTC – Marketing releases and social media updates and drop-ins translation week marketing.
Tuesday 29 September 2020, 19:00 UTC – WordPress Release 5.6 Marcomms planning coordinations meeting – let us (@marybaum, @yvettesonneveld and @webcommsat) know if you would like to suggest anything for this meeting of those coordinating the marketing.
Wednesday 30 September 2020, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team Meeting will be devoted to supporting the WordPress Translation week celebrations. Help is needed all day on Wednesday please and for part of the day on Sunday 4 October 2020.
Thursday 1 October 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break. on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video. We also hold short coffee breaks on Monday and Tuesday to be inclusive of other timezones when we have enough demand and a team rep is available. These are posted on the marketing channel on Slack. Please feel free to come along. They normally are at the beginning of collaboration sessions.
Diary dates and forward planning as at w/c 21 September 2020. This will be updated after the meeting on 23 September.
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 23 September 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 promotion in other Make Teams or are not yet active in the Marketing Team, there are details below of how you can get involved.
In response to feedback, testing and in trying to continue to make contributing more inclusive, we now include:
