#GWTD4 Planning Meeting – 19 Feb 2019

13:00 UTC – Polygots-events 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

Meeting Attendance

@nao, @webcommsat, @jordicueuas, @tobifjellner, @Stefano76, @zetaraffix, @audrasjb, @ibdz, @xkon. @casiepa (asynchronous).
Notes taken by @abhanonstopnewsuk

Discussion on Local team’s role

  • One of our main goals for GWTD is to get more people involved in translating. But just posting call for 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 isn’t usually enough.
  • Outreach team can help by talking to more localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ teams and inviting them to organize local events, prepare for the meetup, and mentor new or inexperienced GTEs
  • @jordicuevas, Local Team Lead, to arrange to contact GTEs and meet with the team
  • @jordicuevas requested to identify regions and teams that can use some helping hands and assign team members to reach out to them directly (@nao)
  • Marketing/ Communications – Discussion on finding to capture data from this research and to identify the GTEs who needed operational and marketing information, and for this to be done in a good data handling manner. This could also be used for enabling them to offer marketing ideas, advise of their promotions and provide quotes or short videos for the wider publicity.
  • Register of interest form – discussed for translators to be able to register for information about the event and partipating
  • Call for organizers – on the P2p2 "p2" is the name of the theme that blogs at make.wordpress.org use (and o2 is the accompanying plugin). When asked to post something "on the p2" by a member of the Polyglots team, that usually means you're asked to post on the team blog https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/. and through other identified channel (further discussion to be arranged between local and communications teams)

Website

https://wptranslationday.org/htmlarchive/gwtd03/

  • Register of interest form to be updated including data handling and permissions statement, year, etc
  • privacy page to be created
  • call for organizers
  • Website

Community-events MeetUp Newsletter

  • Request to be sent to include GWTD4 date and deadline for future issues before the event

Storage of files and for future events

  • Discussion of where could store paperwork in draft, visual assets to be of more use to the existing planning, GWTD4 and future events.
  • Discussion on whether there was a shared MakeWordPress area, if the MakeWordPress website had a system of collating form information easily in the same way as WordCamps websites for processing requests for RSS feeds or volunteer submissions.
  • Post meeting, @casiepa shared a link to a Google shared folder for the current team.
  • A 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. board has been created in draft by @abhanonstopnewsuk which captured communications and marketing elements emerging. Contact her to be added to the board with your Trello ID and email address it is inked.
  • @audrasjb started a base architecture for the website. Will add a card to the Trello board with a link to the google doc. Has a few question about 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/ repositoryWordPress Localization Repository The WordPress Localization Repository at https://i18n.svn.wordpress.org/ is a Subversion repository where official WordPress translations are maintained. See Working with the Translation Repository for details. access and also about the siteground server access to. Base architecture is at a design-free stage. @casiepa to look at what information SiteGround paperwork he has. The site is a flat, htmlHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. site at the moment
  • Sub groups can create tools which assist them as long as they are linked, where appropriate, from the main organization channels.

Next meeting: Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00 UTC



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