WordPress Translation Day 4 Meeting Notes (March 19, 2019)

This was the seventh weekly meeting for WordPress Translation Day 4 (Saturday, May 11, 2019). Here’s the meeting archive link.

Team Updates

New team members: @kartiks16 and @tokyobiyori on Outreach Team and @vrajshah705 on Communication Team (as a social media wrangler)

@bhargavmehta helped update bio cards on the Teams page
@bhargavmehta and @rohit will be helping @zetaraffix with design asset production management
Social media announcements/setup (may be posting in multi-language if possible). Please share & follow!
- Facebook page (WPTranslationDay)
- Facebook event
- Twitter (TranslateWP)
- Instagram (wptranslationday)
- Linkedin
Community media assets page + press page is in planning (like these from last time)
Upcoming: blog posts (calls), more contents, and local meetups will be added to the site

With help from @vedanshu of Community Team, gathered 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. chapter and country data
- At GWTD3, 23 Chapters from GWTD2 did not host a meetup. 71 could be 90+
- Out of 99 Countries, Only 42 Have Participated in Translation Day
- Currently, there are 715 Meetup Chapters across 99 Countries. Many new chapters were initiated this year. Let’s Welcome them to Polyglots
The team worked on dividing up the chapters to reach out. They can use more help if anyone wants to volunteer
Outreach status sheet is being prepared
@nao and others finished up blog post draft

@xkon + team launched https://wptranslationday.org on Sunday
@audrasjb is handling the event map
@nemanja will be handling the blog section
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There still are some more design tweaks to be done; please don’t publish posts/pages without checking first
The team won’t be using 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. for internal task tracking

@webcommsat updated the labels to mark status
@nao shared tasks that need volunteers or help with scoping (currently in the area of blog post & documentation writing only)
Teams are encouraged to create task cards that need volunteer(s), and set the label to green

Please file all docs/assets for the event under our Google Drive folder.
If you need to access the event’s Trello board & website dashboard, please message @nao or @webcommsat (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/. ID: @abhanonstopnewsuk) on Slack
Always refer to the event date as “May 11” not 11/5 or 5/11 to avoid confusion.
The official event title is “WordPress Translation Day 4” (“Global” is removed) and social media hashtag is #WPTranslationDay (no trailing “4”)