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
Please add any comments on the related Marketing Tasks GitHub issue or 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/..
Our next meeting is 20 June, 2023 at 15:00 UTC.
Note: This post is backdated to the correct Notes posting date of June 12, 2023. Was published on July 14, 2023. – SR
If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on 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/. or via the team’s blog as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
Link to the start of the meeting on Marketing Slack to help with async contributions.
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and 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 after the meeting and send your updates.
You can find a link to the notes from the last meeting on 4 May 2022, thank you @yashwardhanrana
Thank you to our notetaking volunteers for the next few weeks. Please note the guidelines for Notetaking are being updated in the Marketing Team Handbook.The 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/ card for all aspects of each week’s meeting and any collaboration are linked below.
Please message @nalininonstopnewsuk in the channel if you are unsure how to add comments to the GitHub card. If you have suggestions for the agendas for these meetings, you can also add them to the card for the relevant week.
1 June 2022 – Any takers?
We are always looking for contributors to open the virtual coffee shop for the bi-weekly coffee break. Check out the GitHub card and add your name to the list! Thank you to @megphillips91 for opening last week’s coffee break.
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Update via: @lmurillom
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Our next Coffee break will be Thursday 19 May 2022 at 18:30/ 6.30pm UTC, facilitated by @jpantani. This bi-weekly social coffee break is held by the Make Marketing team for all WordPress Marketing contributors, and occasional guests. Stop by and meet some of the friendly faces marketing WordPress.Follow this Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations, and social activities. We also list important dates in this Forthcoming Diary Dates post.
It looks like there are no more updates, so we can close the meeting and continue to discuss individual items in their respective threads asynchronously.
A reminder you can get involved with the next meeting planning on this GitHub card for the meeting on 18 May 2022.
Thank you to @yvettesonneveld and @webcommsat for helping today too, and to my colleague 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. @lmurillom.
Update: link to meeting 2 June 2021
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 doesn’t work for your timezone and other commitments.
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.
Thanks to everyone who gave input into this week’s agenda. Let us know if you have an item for next week or our longer term planning.
Global Marketing Meeting on Wednesday 02 June 2021 at 14:00 UTC in the #Marketing channel on Slack. The Notes for last week’s meeting are reviewed in the subsequent meeting.
1. Welcome
2a. Attendance Thread
2b. New contributors
3. Review last week’s meeting notes and actions/updates
4a. Any updates from Josepha and Chloe
4b. Team Reps updates
5. Social Media Promotions
6. Collaboration session for WCEU preparation from marketing team. We also need volunteers to help with contributor stories and marketing info.
7. Diary dates
8. Any other marketing business (AOB)
9. End of weekly meeting and any update on collaboration sessions for rest of the week
9 June 2021 – No Global WordPress Marketing Meeting as the team will be supporting WordCamp Europe
The team is continuing to support on a number of initiatives and tasks. The key focus is around:
Updates on other tasks and previous meeting notes are in our team Google drive. The link is shared in the meeting and is pinned in our Slack channel. Summaries are posted on this blog.
Please find all the upcoming Diary Dates at this dedicated post
If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on 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/. or via the team’s blog as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
@meher covered the 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) and inclusion support today. If anyone has an accessibility issue or needs some help with using one of the contributor tools, please let us know.
Continue readingIf you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on 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/. or via the team’s blog as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
@nalininonstopnewsuk has been supporting members and reviewing systems in this area. If anyone has an 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) issue or needs some help with using one of the contributor tools, please let us know or include her (@Nalini on Slack) in your message.
@webcommsat mentioned that during last week’s devchat, Josepha shared the difficulties some contributors are having at this time and encouraged everyone to reach out to our friends.
Thanks to those who have been sharing the problems and impact of Covid with Abha and other members of the projects group in marketing, and we continue to be here for you.
We are very grateful to Josepha and Chloe for adding their voice of support and encouragement, and highlighting the generic information we have been able to brief them on over the months.
For anyone having ongoing acute or prolonged difficulties from the pandemic, we are a team and we will continue to support each other. I hope we can avoid people feeling alone and isolated.
Continue reading(Updated 26 May 2021 – thanks for all the materials coming in)
We are supporting 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. Europe (WCEU) team in collating information to promote the Make Teams to a wider audience. The WCEU Contributing team is liaising with Make Teams on existing or new onboarding materials, Learn WordPress or WordPress.tv videos to highlight to attendees at this year’s WCEU event.
This year, there will be three days for the WordCamp running from 7 to 9 June 2021. A Contributor Experience, will be spread across the entire event rather than all being focused on one single day. This is partly in response to the ongoing Covid-problems across the world, the pressure on Make Teams at this time, and to recognize the difficulties and feedback on long day online events. It is also an opportunity to do things differently and give contributing a greater presence at a major WordPress event.
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/ Teams, with material ready or which could be easily be put together, have been invited to submit a live workshop idea [applications now closed] for inclusion in Track 2 on the WCEU 2021 online programme.
In addition, there are opportunities to provide pre-recorded and subtitled, informal walkthroughs of team’s tools or showing how to work through easy tasks. Attendees of the event will be able to go through these resources to help them understand more about how the Teams work and which ones they might like to join. Some of the pre-recorded content could be suitable to use or adapt on Learn WordPress in the future. Putting ideas and material together for WCEU’s on-demand resources section is also great way to test out content to use in other places.
Yes, of course. Work to bring materials together started with WordCamp Europe, the Marketing and other Make Teams a few years ago. We are building on this every year and sharing the knowledge with other camps and teams.
The WCEU team appreciate that not all teams’ work and content will lend itself to a live workshop for a more general audience. So there will be dedicated space on the WCEU website for resources and pre-recorded video links. Working alongside Learn WordPress, we will be highlighting materials that will be helpful to new and experienced contributors. We hope through this collaboration to bring more awareness to the free and expanding information haven. If you are not familiar with Learn WordPress and how it came about, check out the news story from its launch.
In partnership with the WCEU Contributing Team, we are continuing to collate short stories to promote contributors in the WordPress community and the work of the teams. If possible, we would like to be able to feature one contributor from each team on the WordCamp Europe website. These short features help to highlight the Make Teams and inspire others to connect and join.
We started these for WordCamp Europe in 2020, and working with Polyglots, Community and others, the list of translations continues to increase. If you could help with a voiceover and translating the subtitles in your native language, as well as synchronizing the video files, let us know in the Marketing channel on Slack. Check out the list of videos as they are published. The list on Learn WordPress will be updated ready for WCEU.
In the run up to 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. Europe Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. 2020, the Marketing Team will be running support and onboarding sessions. We’ve also made a video to help attendees sign-up for some of the tools ahead of the day.
The event for WordPress contributors at WCEU will take place on Thursday 4 June 2020. Tickets for the contributor event went live today on the WCEU 2020 website.
Onboarding support is a way for newer contributors to discover the open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. WordPress project and its Marketing Team, learn about the tools used and find ways to get involved. The support sessions will include help to:
During every Marketing Team weekly meetings there is an opportunity to welcome new contributors and to help them get started. The global Marketing Team meets on Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC in #Slack. Attendees who would like to contribute to the marketing area at WordCamp Europe (WCEU) are also welcome to come along.
More resources to help you get started using the tools in the Marketing Team Handbook.
You can join these informal, onboarding support sessions on:
These help sessions will be aimed at:
It will be a great way to come and meet team members.
There will be a sign-up list for each session to help us plan volunteer numbers and the use of video conferencing tools. This will also help us prepare assistance on particular tools.
As with all contributing events, we want to help make the WCEU Contributor Day experience positive and useful. We’re building on the set up we have used for other contributor events and feedback. This blog will be updated as the team has more details.
If you are an existing marketing contributor, please do connect with me or in the #marketing channel on Slack. As this year’s WCEU Contributor Day will run for five hours online, we will need to do more support on tools in advance. We’re keen to welcome even more team members to assist with this. You don’t need to be active on current tasks to help with onboarding, just experienced with helping others set up the tools we use.
We will add to this in the coming week.
Discover why contributing to WordPress benefits everyone
Contributor, WordPress Jargon glossary
Updates from the Marketing Team (22 April 2020)
How individuals contributed to the WordPress.org Marketing, WCEU 2019
Why your company should consider contributing to WordPress
#wceu-2020Could you help spread the word about WordPress and our amazing community? Join the Marketing table 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. Europe’s Contributor Day on 20 June 2019. You can also work on the many different tasks in the Contributing Area during the main conference days, 21 and 22 June.
In the Marketing Team, we work on research, blog posts, case studies, videos and a variety of other useful content. We have lots of exciting projects planned for this year’s event in June and are looking forward to meeting all the contributors who have booked.
The team focuses on marketing WordPress and its community to the wider world and internally to other teams within the project. You can get involved in both one-off or longer term tasks highlighting the amazing aspects of this global, open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. platform and its vibrant community.
We will be bringing a selection of these projects to WordCamp Europe’s Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., which is one of the biggest WordPress contribution events on the planet. Here are just some of the ways you can get involved.
You will not need fancy hardware to join the marketing table at WCEU. For most projects, all you will need is a laptop and a charger.
If you would like to help with filming video interviews, please bring audio and video equipment and a tripod, if you have them. If you want to work on subtitling videos or just need to focus a bit more, you may want to bring headphones.
We use several online tools to work together with WordPressers across the world. If you do not have an existing account, you can save some time by setting up in advance.
If you would like to know a bit more about the team or familiarize yourself with content creation guidelines, you can find more in the Marketing Team Handbook.
If you would like to learn how we use Trello, discover more at our First Time Here Trello Board, which works like a tutorial.
There are several projects you can choose to work on during WCEU’s Contributor Day. Just come along to the marketing table and we will help you pick a task or join one of the sub groups.
The WordPress.org Showcase consists of case studies demonstrating a range of great web solutions made with WordPress. We are in the process of redesigning this area of the website, and there’s lots of tasks available. We have a number of case studies ready to be written or adapted to the new format. We’re also looking to create an outreach plan or program to gather new case studies.
WordPress.tv holds thousands of great videos that we would like to use in marketing. To do so, we need to know which videos can be used for what. Also, these videos need subtitling (and you can help!)
So if you would like to help by reviewing videos to see whether they can be used for marketing, subtitle them, or even translate while subtitling them, we want to hear from you. We have videos selected in a number of different languages and this list is growing every week! You don’t need video experience to help with this task, but headphones will be useful to listen to the recordings.
We also have some great tools and videos to show you how easy subtitling can be.
Working with the awesome WordCamp Europe community and communications teams, we will be continuing our interview series. The wonderful community profiles encourage new joiners, promote diversity and inclusion, and help make connections. They can show people outside the community how open source works and how they can join in.
Our interviews and write-ups can be in written, audio or video form. Help us tell the story of the project and its people.
We enjoy sharing news and examples from contributor events. WordCamp Europe’s event with more than 500 attendees is an impressive example of what the community does and what it can achieve. Watch this video of contributor day at WordCamp Europe 2018 .
Covering the highlights of the event is an easy task for those getting started or who have journalistic or filmmaking backgrounds. We want to help capture some of the stories about what happens during the day, what teams are working on, and the experiences of attendees. If you enjoy filming and editing videos, this could be a great way to contribute. We will not have equipment for video or audio available, but you would be welcome to bring items you want to use.
Here are a few interviews from our series working with WordCamps:
We are constantly trying to improve our induction and onboarding process to help those new to the team. We are interested in suggestions from those new to the community as well as those joining from other Make WordPress teams. We want to continue to make contributing to the marketing team easier and an enjoyable experience. If you can’t join the team at this year’s WordCamp Europe, come along to one of our weekly meetings on Slack.
Read our feature on why you should consider becoming a contributor and hear from a number of others on their journey with WordPress.
Thanks to @siobhanseija and @yvettesonneveld for their contributions to this post and for leading the team at WCEU’s 2019 Contribution Day, and to @webcommsat for her work on the contributor series. Thanks to @harryjackson1221 for his work on the case studies and showcase. We would also like to thank the WordCamp Europe community and communications team for working with us on a number of contributor promotion items during the last year.
In our May 3, 2017, meeting, the Marketing the Community subgroup spent our time building a list of projects for Contributor Day. These are our meeting notes as well.
My goal for this day is to align your passion as a contributor in teams of two or three people. Let’s be agile.
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