Notes: Global Marketing Team Meeting – 14 October 2020

(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))

Introduction

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 Notes

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.

How can I help?

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.

Welcoming new contributors

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:

  • creating social media posts to help promote online WordPress meetups
  • creating social media posts to help the diversity speaking Workshops

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.

Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

Celebrations Thread

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

Task Updates – deadlines in the next six weeks

7. International Day of Translation update

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. 

  • We had more than 45 different translators who translated different strings on International Translation Day.
  • Over the last of 2 weeks, we have done more than 20 interviews. These videos are being uploaded on a daily basis on the  YouTube channel.
  • The Venezuelan and Tamil communities had their events on Saturday 10 October 2020.  
  • Call for volunteers for 2020 Polyglots Survey [now closed]. The goal of the survey is to collect data to help inform and prioritize future projects. If you are able to support the initiative then please comment on the p2 post by @evarlese
  • Resources: Recording of the livestream of 30 September on YouTube.

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.

8. WordPress Learn Platform update

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. 

9. WordPress Meetups promotions for October & November 2020

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.

10. Sustainability marketing/ promotion to WordCamps and Meetups update

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.

11. WordPress releases marketing resources

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? 

  • 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 
  • If you have some understanding of WordPress releases, we would love for you to help us decide what features and benefits should be highlighted in these pieces of content. You can do that either as a reply to the ticket or a Google Form survey (now closed).

12. Diverse speaker training working group promotions for October 2020

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. 

13. Onboarding videos

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

Staying Connected Events and Activities

The Marketing Team Calendar

Update from coordinating team member: @oglekler

  • We have a calendar with our meetings, collaborations and social activities. Add it to your schedule and stay connected and informed!

Social Events

Update from team members: @meher, @maedahbatool 

  • Our different social happenings in the month of October are published as Diary Dates
  • The poetry challenge  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.  
  • @meher is hosting the Around the World Quiz on Thursday 29 October 2020, 18:30 UTC followed by the Virtual Coffee Break.

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]

Collaboration

Learn WordPress platform promotion

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.  

  • The attendees collaborated on the Learn WordPress social monitoring document – link in Slack 
  • There was work to refine CTAs, and work with the Training team on how to clarify wording, and how to recruit contributors to help with screenshots. 
  • There was discussion on what someone who wants to make a workshop needs to know. It needs to have learning objectives, comply with GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples. and be of broad interest.
  • We want to highlight that submissions do not have to be just in English and we want to encourage people from non-English locales to submit.
  • The objective of the social content the team worked on is to raise awareness of the Learn platform, its resources, and the distinction between workshops and lesson plans. Additionally, increase the number of non-English workshops, screenshot recruitments, and get to agreed wording for workshops so we can produce an FAQ for the full launch.
  • @courane01 from the training team helped us go over what exactly is needed to help with screenshots.

Diary Dates

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 15 October 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 for live captioning.
  • Monday 19 October 2020, 18:00 UTC – 19:00 UTC (revised TBC) – Planning and actions meeting, with a 10 minute coffee break drop-in for team members who are available.
  • Wednesday 21 October 2020, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team Meeting. Followed by collaboration sessions.
  • Wednesday 21 October 2020, 05:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC – DevChat Meeting in Global WordPress #Core Slack channel.
  • Wednesday 21 October 2020, 17:00 UTC – Final Deadline For Poetry Challenge submission (now closed)

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.

Notes: Global Marketing Meeting 7 October 2020

(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))

Introduction

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. 

Attended/Participated async

Meeting led by: @webcommsat, @yvettesonneveld

New Attendees Welcome Thread

Welcoming new contributors slack thread

Meeting Notes

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. 

How can I help?

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

Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

6. Celebrations Thread

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: 

  • @mikerbg at 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. Virginia Beach
  • @webcommsat at translation week, WordPress Accessibility Day and WordCamp Virginia Beach,
  • @megphillips91 at WordCamp Virginia Beach and WordCamp Philly
  • @michelleames at WordCamp Virginia Beach and WordCamp Philly
  • And all the people who spoke or were interviewed as part of translation week celebrations. 

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.

Task Updates – deadlines in the next six weeks

7. International Day of Translation update

Update from: @meher

  • We had 45 different translators who translated different strings on International Translation Day.
  • We have made 7 interviews, these will be published later this week on the YouTube channel.
  • The Venezuelan community is having their translation event this Saturday, October 10, 2020 12pm – 8pm UTC.
  • We will do a live event on Saturday time to be announced soon. Plans for the event.
  • Resources: Recording of the livestream of 30 September on YouTube.  

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.

8. WordPress Learn Platform update

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. 

9. WordPress Meetups promotions for October & November 2020

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.

➤ 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.

10. Sustainability marketing/ promotion to WordCamps and Meetups update

Update from coordinating team members: @webcommsat

Nothing further to report, waiting on other teams.  

11. WordPress releases marketing resources

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:

  • WordPress 5.6 Release Kickoff post.
  • Josepha Haden’s release update post.
  • Mel Choice’s Introducing the WordPress 2021 theme post.
  • WordPress 5.6 About Page Ticket on Track.

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 
  • If you have some understanding of WordPress releases, we would love for you to help us decide what features and benefits should be highlighted in these pieces of content. You can do that either as a reply to the ticket or a Google Form survey

12. Diverse speaker training working group promotions for October 2020

Update from one of the co-ordinating team members: @lmurillom

Trello Card 

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:

➤ How can I help?

Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages. 

Staying Connected Events and Activities

The Marketing Team Calendar

Update from coordinating team member: @oglekler

  • We have a calendar with our meetings, collaborations and social activities. Add it to your schedule and stay connected and informed! 

Social Events

Update from team members: @meher, @maedahbatool 

  • Our different social happenings in the month of October will be published as Diary Dates
  • Congratulations to the 3 winners for Science Quiz organized by @MajaLoncar during the WordPress Translation min event.

Virtual Coffee Break

Trello Card 

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 

Poetry Challenge

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:

  • 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

➤ How can I participate?

If you want to participate in the Poetry Challenge, please submit this form before 21 October 2020, 17:00 UTC.

Collaboration

International Day of Translation tasks

Led by: @webcommsat 

Trello Card

Attendees: @webcommsat, @MegPhillips91, @OGlekler, @lmurillom, @meher, @nalininonstopnewsuk, @yvettesonneveld, @chaion07

  • The attendees collaborated on the WordPress Translation Week social monitoring document
  • Worked on agenda for Saturday October 10 closing event and reached out to participants
  • Gathered WPTD visual assets

Diary Dates

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 8 October 2020, 13:00 UTC – Learn.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/ meeting.
  • Thursday 8 October 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.
  • Monday 12 October 2020, TBA – Planning and actions meeting, with a 10 minute coffee break drop-in for team members who are available.
  • Tuesday 13 October 2020, 19:00 UTC – WordPress Release 5.6 Marcomms planning meeting – let us (@marybaum @yvettesonneveld @webcommsat) know if you would like to suggest anything for this meeting of those coordinating the marketing.
  • Wednesday 14 October 2020, 5:00 UTC & 20:00 UTCCoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Dev Meeting in Global WordPress #Core 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/. channel.
  • Wednesday 14 October 2020, 5:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team Meeting in Global WordPress #Marketing Slack channel.
  • Thursday 29 October 2020, Around the World Quiz – time tbc 

Next Meeting

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. 

➤ 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.

Agenda: Global Marketing Team Meeting 7 October 2020

Next 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.

Agenda

In response to feedback, testing, and in trying to continue to make contributing more inclusive, we now include:

  • how you can get involved with particular tasks within the agenda on the Marketing blog
  • this and our other measures are aimed at helping people contribute async due to their timezone or other schedules, and 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) during the meeting
  • enable us to cover even more items during the weekly meeting and collaborations
  • provide a clear sign-post for new contributors and those coming back to the team after a break, and highlight the wide range of activities
  • enables other teams to get involved with, support and request help more easily
  • Thanks for all the feedback. Abha
Continue reading

#core, #marketing, #onlinewpmeetup, #onlinewpmeetupnews

Notes: Global Marketing Team Meeting – 23 September 2020

(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))

Introduction

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. 

Attended/Participated async

Meeting led by: @webcommsat  

Meeting Notes

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. 

How can I help?

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.

Welcoming new contributors

New Attendees Welcome Thread

Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

Celebrations Thread

It’s time to celebrate and thank everyone for all their efforts during the last week.

  • We had 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. Virginia Beach this weekend, and it was a great success! Shoutout to @arnelcus and @mikerbg for their hard work as members of the organizing team. There were great talks by @mikerbg, @MegPhillips91 and @webcommsat. Abha’s talk persuaded no less than 7 people to express interest in becoming a contributor.
  • @michelleames and @MegPhillips91 will be participating in WordCamp Philadelphia. 
  • We are becoming more active in our LinkedIn page, publishing info on online WP Meetups and publishing our Marketing Team Agenda. Thank you to @Tarif2100 who suggested sharing the agenda on our page and to @lmurillom and @webcomms for keeping the page updated.
  • In preparation for the mini-events to celebrate International Translation Day, we are continuing to prepare voiceovers in different languages for the video “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 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/. account for the Make WordPress Channel”. @fikekomala recorded this for Indonesian, @jdy68 is working on the French version, and @ugyensupport is working with the locale 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. for Dzongkha.  

New Team RepTeam Rep A 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. Announcement

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.

Task Updates – deadlines in the next six weeks

Diverse speaker training working group promotions for September and October 2020

Update from coordinating team members: @nalininonstopnewsuk and @lmurillom

Trello Card 

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.

Promoting Online WP Meetups  

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? 

  • Search and share from the #OnlineWPMeetup hashtag on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. 
  • Share and like the weekly #OnlineWPMeetup posts published by the Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn.
  • If you have experience writing social copy, please contact @lmurillom
  • If you’re a newcomer who wants a beginner, straightforward task, please contact @lmurillom
  • If you are a meetup organizer, please fill out the survey.

WordPress Learn platform full launch

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? 

  • If you have a background in training, course and workshop marketing, or are interested in supporting end users and WordPress events, this may be the task for you. Please express interest in the thread. 

Sustainability awareness / promotion for WordCamps and Meetups

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.

Our last post on this topic

WordPress releases marketing resources

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

WordPress Translation Day 

Update via co-ordinating team member: @webcommsat

  • Week-long celebration starting on Monday
  • More details of the Translation celebration
  • If you are planning to take part in some way during the week of International Translation Day, please fill in this form to help with planning and promotion [Link now closed] to help locales with the planning and preparation.
  • The rota for locales wanting to do a drop-in on polyglot events. Just select the hour you will be hosting the drop-in on the Google Sheet. We will include it in the promotions too.
  • If you can help with sharing this rota or organizing arrangements, please let us know.

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. 

Facebook oEmbed Update

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.

Staying Connected Events and Activities

The Marketing Team Calendar

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 Break

Trello Card

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 at 20:30 UTC  

Poetry Challenge

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:

  • 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

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

HelpHub Recategorization

Collaboration led by: @mikerbg 

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Slack thread with link to the document

  • There has been a great collaboration on the feedback for the HelpHub Categorization.
  • We have this document with some consolidated feedback and are collaborating to resolve any outstanding comments and suggestions.
  • A huge thanks to the great work of everybody who participated. 
  • The final document was posted on P2 

Next Meeting

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.

Diary Dates

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.

Ongoing Marketing Team work

  • Onboarding videos
    We made a voice over of “Set up a WordPress.org and Slack account for the Make WordPress Channel” video in Macedonian, Norvegian, Turkish, Russian, English UK, English US, Serbian, German, Spanish (EU), Spanish (LA), Dutch. In progress: Bulgarian voiceover, captions for voiceover in Bagla and Gujarati.

    You can participate
    If your language isn’t on this list, we need your voice! Let’s make the start of a new contributor’s journey easier. Contact @OGlekler and @marks99 to get involved.
  • WPTranslation Week 30 September – 4 October 2020
    Call for social media writers and translators
    Contact @webcommsat to get involved.

Agenda: Global Marketing Team Meeting 23 September 2020

Diary dates and forward planning as at w/c 21 September 2020. This will be updated after the meeting on 23 September.

Next meeting

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.

Agenda

In response to feedback, testing and in trying to continue to make contributing more inclusive, we now include:

  • how you can get involved with particular tasks within the agenda on the Marketing blog
  • this and our other measures are aimed at helping people contribute async due to their timezone or other schedules, and 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) during the meeting
  • enable us to cover even more items during the weekly meeting and collaborations
  • provide a clear sign-post for new contributors and those coming back to the team after a break, and highlight the wide range of activities
  • enables other teams to get involved with, support and request help more easily
  • Thanks for all the feedback. Abha
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