Diary dates and forward planning as at w/c 24 August 2020. This will be updated after the meeting on 26 August.
Next meeting
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 26 August 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress SlackSlackSlack 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 involved.
Agenda
Introductions and review of notes
Welcome
Attendance We encourage asynchronous contributions in Slack for the 48 hours after a meeting (until 14:00 UTC on Fridays) to help with different timezones.
A special welcome to new attendees
Link to notes (including a review of draft summaries and actions in the Google document – thanks to @yvettesonneveld for working on last week’s).
Quick peek in our daily lives
Task, working groups and team celebration
6. Celebration time – let’s celebrate our WordPress Marketing accomplishments!
This is where we also include highlights from what team members have been doing related to marketing in the WordPress community.
Updates on tasks with deadlines in the next six weeks
7. Diverse speaker training working group promotions for August and September 2020
Get involved: Can you help amplify the social media promotions? Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
8. WordPress 5.5 Q&As and marketing resources
NOTE: more detailed collaboration will continue after the meeting at 15:15 UTC, 26 August 2020.
Diverse Speaker Training Workshop – let’s write some social media messaging
Video conferencing call for those supporting the Q&A and social media preparation tasks (from 15:15 UTC) We will use Google Meet with live captioning if needed, Slack, Make WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and tracTracTrac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/., GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ and Google Docs More on our Questions and Answers work to help promote WordPress Releases
Any other business/ awareness of other related Make WordPress tasks
12. AOB
You can also suggest to one of the team reps the day before the meeting if you have an idea for inclusion at a future meeting.
The meeting will be formally closed at the end of the collaborations session.
Diary dates
If you need accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (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) 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.
Thursday27 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @webcommsat or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool.
Monday 31 August 2020 – 19:15 UTC: Marketing Q&As and social media for WordPress 5.5.
Wednesday2 September 2020, 14:00UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting. Note, there will not be a collaboration session at 15:15 UTC on 2 September. It will be rescheduled to another day.
Thursday3 September 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video.
Staying Connected – advance event dates
Poetry competition now open
Entries now open
Closing date 31 August 2020, 17:00 UTC
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
Wednesday 26 August 2020, 17:00 UTC (NEW TIME) – fun social quiz for the team, organized by @majaloncar
Thursday 17 September 2020, 17:00 UTC – Around the World quiz organized by @meherand promoting different cultures and countries in the WordPress community. Followed by a short virtual coffee break.
Diary dates and forward planning as at w/c 17 August 2020.
Next meeting
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 19 August 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress SlackSlackSlack 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 involved.
Agenda
Introductions and review of notes
Welcome
Attendance We encourage asynchronous contributions in Slack for the 48 hours after a meeting (until 14:00 UTC on Fridays) to help with different timezones.
A special welcome to new attendees
Link to notes (including a review of draft summaries and actions in the Google document – thanks to @lmurillom for working on last week’s).
Quick peek in our daily lives
Task, working groups and team celebration
6. Celebration time – let’s celebrate our WordPress Marketing accomplishments!
This is where we also include highlights from what team members have been doing related to marketing in the WordPress community.
Updates on tasks with deadlines in the next six weeks
7. Marketing team feedback on the Help Hub recategorization
Get involved: Can you help amplify the social media promotions? Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
9. WordPress 5.5 Q&As and marketing resources
NOTE: more detailed collaboration will continue after the meeting at 15:15 UTC, 19 August 2020.
Diverse Speaker Training Workshop – let’s write some social media messaging
Video conferencing call for those supporting the Q&A tasks (from 15:15 UTC) Will be tasks lead @webcommsatsat – we will use Google Meet with live captioning if needed, Slack, Make WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and tracTracTrac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/., GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ and Google Docs More on our Questions and Answers work to help promote WordPress Releases
Any other business/ awareness of other related Make WordPress tasks
12. AOB
You can also suggest to one of the team reps the day before the meeting if you have an idea for inclusion at a future meeting.
The meeting will be formally closed at the end of the collaborations session.
Diary dates
If you need accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (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) 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.
Thursday20 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @webcommsat or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool.
Monday 24 August 2020
– 09:00 UTC: Notes and planning working group meeting – 19:15 UTC: Marketing Q&As and social media for WordPress 5.5.
Wednesday26 August 2020, 14:00UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting. This will be followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations relating to the Q&As and MeetupMeetupAll 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. resources.
Thursday27 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video.
Staying Connected – advance event dates
Poetry competition now open
Entries now open
Closing date 31 August 2020, 17:00 UTC
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
Wednesday 26 August 2020, 15:30 UTC – fun social quiz for the team, organized by @majaloncar
Thursday 17 September 2020, 17:00 UTC – Around the World quiz organized by @meherand promoting different cultures and countries in the WordPress community. Followed by a short virtual coffee break.
Diary dates and forward planning as at w/c 12 August 2020.
Next meeting
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 12 August 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress SlackSlackSlack 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 involved.
Agenda
Introductions and review of notes
Welcome
Attendance We encourage asynchronous contributions in Slack for the 48 hours after a meeting (until 14:00 UTC on Fridays) to help with different timezones.
A special welcome to new attendees
Link to notes (including a review of draft summaries and actions in the Google document – thanks to @meher for working on last week’s).
Quick peek in our daily lives
Task, working groups and team celebration
6. Celebration time – let’s celebrate our WordPress Marketing accomplishments!
This is where we also include highlights from what team members have been doing related to marketing in the WordPress community.
Updates on tasks with deadlines in the next six weeks
Get involved: – if you have a strong presenting voice and can help with doing voiceovers and liaise with your local GTEGeneral Translation EditorGeneral 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. on translated captions for these screen recording videos, please contact @webcommsat, @OGlekler or @marks99. – find examples of the video guides we are working on to help new contributors set up accounts on WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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 Make WordPress Slack.
7. MeetupMeetupAll 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. marketing updates
Get involved: If you are a Meetup organizer, please fill in our survey to help us help you in your marketing. Can you promote this to organizers in your network or locale?
8. Marketing team feedback on the Help Hub recategorization
Get involved: Can you help amplify the social media promotions? Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
10. WordPress 5.5 Q&As and marketing resources
NOTE: more detailed collaboration meeting will take place at 15:15 UTC, 12 August 2020.
Diverse Speaker Training Workshop – let’s write some social media messaging
Video conferencing call for those supporting the Q&A tasks (from 15:15 UTC) Will be tasks lead @webcommsatsat – we will use Google Meet with live captioning if needed, Slack, Make WordPress.org coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and tracTracTrac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/., GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ and Google Docs More on our Questions and Answers work to help promote WordPress Releases
Any other business/ awareness of other related Make WordPress tasks
13. AOB You can also suggest to one of the team reps the day before the meeting if you have an idea for inclusion at a future meeting.
The meeting will be formally closed at the end of the collaborations session.
Diary dates
If you need accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (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) 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.
Thursday13 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @webcommsat or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool.
Monday 17 August 2020 – 6.15pm/ 18:15 UTC- – Marketing Q&As and social media for WordPress 5.5.
Wednesday19 August 2020, 14:00UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting. This will be followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations relating to the Q&As and Meetup resources.
Thursday20 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video.
Thursday27 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video.
Staying Connected – advance event dates
Poetry competition now open
Entries now open
Closing date 31 August 2020, 17:00 UTC
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
Wednesday 26 August 2020, 15:30 UTC – fun social quiz for the team, organized by @majaloncar
Thursday 17 September 2020, 17:00 UTC – Around the World quiz organized by @meher and promoting different cultures and countries in the WordPress community. Followed by a short virtual coffee break.
The Global Marketing Team is currently working on a project to support the upcoming WordPress 5.5 Release. We have been bringing together questions from developer feedback and answering them in a document for each significant feature to be introduced in the forthcoming WordPress 5.5 release.
With a group of developers and communications people in the team, we are answering questions to the following changes in WordPress 5.5, based on the available information:
Lazy loading
Auto-update for plugins and themes
jQuery
Image editor
XML sitemaps
GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ update
BlockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. directory repository
If you want to help with these topics or want to contribute, join the #marketing channel or reach out directly to the following people in the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.: @nullbyte, @vimes1984, @abhanonstopnewsuk
Please be aware that there has already been significant work into the documents in a tight timescale, and we might not be able to include your ideas at this stage. Reach out to us first before you put work into these topics.
The final documents will be handed over to the documentation team to publish them on the developer hub.
We will be working on a end-user centred Q&A after the developer one, incorporating typical questions as users start to use the latest release and its features.
In the run up to WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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 DayContributor 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 SourceOpen 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:
create a WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ ID (video also available below)
set up SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., update your profile and join the Make WordPress Marketing channel. Slack is an instant messaging and collaboration tool used by the teams that ‘make’ WordPress
set up a Google username you would like to use for contributing to the project
use Google Docs collaboratively
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.
Come and meet the Marketing Team sessions
You can join these informal, onboarding support sessions on:
(Monday 11 May 2020, 19:30 UTC)
(Tuesday 12 May 2020, 15:00 UTC)
Monday 25 May 2020, 19:30 UTC
Tuesday 26 May 2020, 15:00 UTC
Wednesday 3 June 2020, 14:00 UTC – usual Marketing Team meeting held on Slack
this will focus on any remaining support needed to help WCEU Contributor Day attendees and final preparations With volunteers. Event attendees will be welcome to join too
Wednesday 3 June 2020, 15:00 – 15:30 UTC – online meeting for volunteers/ those supporting marketing team onboarding at WCEU. This will be held on Zoom.
Videos to help you set up WordPress.org and Slack ID
Who can come to these sessions?
These help sessions will be aimed at:
WCEU Contributor Day attendees who would like to contribute to the project’s Marketing Team
individuals who have recently joined the team – this is not limited to those who will be going to WCEU
longer term contributors who would like a refresher on the tools
more experienced contributors who want to help others who are new to the team
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.
How do I offer to help with onboarding?
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.
Publishing for @lmurillom. These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. This is part of our diversity and inclusion support within the 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 from Friday evening and used to plan follow-ups, report back to linked teams, give feedback, and plan actions by the Monday 11am 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 for doing last week’s notes. Thanks to @lmurillom for stepping in for this week to cover illness of one of our colleagues.
How can I help?
You can volunteer to help with note-taking for one of the future meetings. We currently have a rota here. Please note that the initial draft is needed by the end of Friday each week. Action: Contact @lmurillom if you have been in the team for a while and would like to take part with this.
We have new people on our channel and are happy to welcome @Luis@Asia Ryćko-Bożeńska @Davinder Singh Kainth @Taha D @udit mehra @Trish Brumett @Saad Sharif Ahmed @Venkat . Action: contact @maedahbatool if you would like some help in getting started and to add your name to the next onboarding event list.
Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration
Celebrations
Let’s give a shout out to the following folks for all their efforts and time which they have invested in getting the work of the team done.
@nalininonstopnewsuk, @webcommsat, @lmurillom, and the marketing team were highlighted by the community team for our work on messaging and marketing of the diverse speaker workshops.
With WordPress 5.5 released last night, we have asked for space in September’s MeetupMeetupAll 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. newsletter and Month in WordPress for another promotion of the Online Meetup Marketing survey. We are getting a lot of responses from different organizers about how we can help to market their chapter programs and recruit attendees.
The amazing number of hours from @OGlekler, @vimes1984, @nullbyte, @annezazu, and @desrosj for working alongside @webcommsat on the Q&As for the 5.5 release. And to all who have contributed and continue to do so. A big shout out to the WordPress Release Squad too and Marcomms team lead by @marybaum and including marketing team members @webcommsat and @yvettesonneveld
@webcommsat (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) is mentioned as a Noteworthy Contributor to the WordPress 5.5 release. She is leading a number of the new communications initiatives including the Question and Answer work and is always highlighting our team.
@majaloncar for all her support across the onboarding and marketing tasks
A lot of meeting organizers have been in touch with the marketing team and thanked us for our efforts in marketing their meetup chapter and continuing to promote the survey to a larger audience.
Thanks to @OGlekler for continuing to help progress this ongoing task.
Waiting to be published:
Norweigan — @Martin Owren has completed and will be merged this week.
Bangla — @technocrews made the captions and we are waiting for GTEGeneral Translation EditorGeneral 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. to progress
Bulgarian — @mmikov completed the translation, we will check with GTE and then progress.
Macedonian – @Georgij has finished, we will check with GTE and then progress
Persian – @antaliasfactory has volunteered for Persian
Hindi – @rahuldsarker has been working hard but facing some technical issues with rendering the onboarding video, which is being looked at with his colleagues from WordPress.tv. Hopefully, we should get the video out soon.
How can I help?
If you have a strong presenting voice and can help with doing voiceovers and liaise with your local GTE on translated captions for these screen recording videos, please contact @webcommsat, @OGlekler, or @marks99.
With the focus on WordPress 5.5 released last night, @webcommsat has asked for space in both the September 2020 Meetup newsletter and Month in WordPress for another promotion of the survey.
We continue to promote the survey to help the meetup chapters for their events. We have received considerable informal feedback and useful questions relating to promotion opportunities.
If you’re looking for a beginner task or one with a lower time commitment, please help keep the social promos sheet for Online WordPress Meetups updated. Liaise with @lmurillom for induction on this task.
We had productive collaborations the past two weeks and spent some time looking at how this can impact the strategic SEO for WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/.
We have a target of Friday, August 14, to provide consolidated feedback to the HelpHub team. @mikerbg is currently working on that feedback and will share it with the rest of the marketing team soon.
How can I help?
If you have feedback, please feel free to contribute to either this Slack thread or as comments on the Trello card or documents (linked on the card).
We have been working for weeks with the Diversity Speaker Outreach program led by @jillbinder, helping create and execute a marketing plan to promote the Speaker Training in August and September 2020.
With the demands of 5.5 release on many of our working groups (thank you to everyone who has worked so hard for weeks from the team and wider), we have some tight deadlines for next week’s events.
We are measuring how effective the marketing team is able to be in amplifying and targeting messages.
How can I help?
We need people who are familiar with writing social media for organizations to help and we have some tight deadlines.
Are you experienced at writing social media messages for organizations or campaigns? Come and collaborate on the next batch of social media draft posts. If you can help let @webcommsat (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) know.
You can also help by amplifying social media promotions. Search #WPDiversity on the WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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.
We are working on a pilot project to support the WordPress 5.5 Release. We’ve brought together questions from developer feedback and answered them in a document for each significant feature to be introduced in the WordPress 5.5 release.
The Q&As for Devs are at the final fact-checking stage.
We are now working as a priority on 5.5 Q&As for nontech users
The Meetup promotions about 5.5 include slides which we are working on.
How can I help?
We need researchers, devs, marketers, communicators to collaborate on the 5.5 Q&As for nontech users. Please reach out to @webcommsat (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) or @OGlekler if you’d like to help.
The Meetup promotions regarding the 5.5 release include slides we have been asked for. If anyone else is able to help with this, please reach out to @webcommsat (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) as soon as possible.
Participants: @OGlekler, @MegPhilips91, @lmurillom, @webcommsat, @Nalini, @meher Task: We’re working with the Diversity Speaker Outreach program, helping create and execute a marketing plan to promote the Speaker Training in August and September 2020. We have some tight deadlines for next week’s events and need to finalize the social media messages.
How can I help?
We need people who are familiar with writing social media for organizations to help and we have some tight deadlines. If you can help let @webcommsat (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) know.
You can also help by amplifying social media promotions. Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook, and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
We have a collaboration focusing on Q&As for 5.5 at 15.15 UTC.
Task: We are working on a pilot project to support the WordPress 5.5 Release. We have brought together questions from developer feedback and answered them in a document, and are now looking towards the non-tech end-user Q&As.
We are formatting the non-tech user Q&As and linking out to the corresponding final Dev Q&A document.
@OGlekler will co-lead the segmenting the Marketing contributor base, in order to determine how many Devs we have, and specifically what kind of WordPress development they specialize in. This will help us in all upcoming marketing collaborations where Dev input is needed.
We need to work on the presentation on 5.5 for Meetups, adding a few items to Nemanja’s PowerPoint, and learning about what other information the Meetups need. Task co-ordinator: @vimes1984
How can I help?
We need researchers, devs, marketers, communicators to collaborate on the 5.5 Q&As for non-tech users. Please reach out to @webcommsat (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) or @OGlekler if you would like to help.
The Meetup promotions regarding the 5.5 release include slides wHi hi have been requested. If anyone is able to help with this, please reach out to @webcommsat (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) or @OGlekler as soon as possible.
@ugyensupport is organizing the mini translation day for the Dzongkha language, locale “dzo”, aiming for it to be in September, but the date to be confirmed.
It would be in two parts: 1 hour on a Zoom meeting and 2 hours collaborating on Slack.
For the Dzongkha language, @ugyensupport will find a volunteer to translate, record voice, and merge with the original onboarding video for Slack and Make WordPress. @OGlekler will be available to give guidance on this.
We cannot use Translation day graphics to avoid confusion. Instead, we will use graphics that were produced for the Italian mini-event.
@MegPhillips91, @lmurillom, @OGlekler, @webcommsat will work on delivering the marketing pack for this event and linking it with other events on the day. Abha is liaising with @nao in Polyglots.
@ugyensupport needs to present certain information to be specified additionally before the event and identify new and experienced contributors for interviews(men and women).
@rahuldsarker is planning to have a similar event in India at the same time. This will help to get more impact on social media.
Wednesday 19 August 2020, 2pm UTC, in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack. Please check the diary dates for the coming week.
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 are unsure of how to get started to contribute to the project, contact @maedahbatool to add your name for the next New Contributors Onboarding meeting, likely to be in mid-September 2020.
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.
An opportunity was given for review of the previous week’s notes in the Google document. Once any suggestions are made, the notes are then added to the Marketing blog.
How can I help?
You can volunteer to be a note taker for one of further meetings. Please note that the initial draft is needed by the end of Friday each week.
Let’s give a huge shout out to the following folks for all their efforts and time which they have invested in getting the work of the team done.
Thanks to @Nalini@webcommsat@meher and Laura! for organising the Online Scavenger Hunt, that took place on 1st August 2020, and thanks to @majaloncar for allowing us to use the Zoom account for the Scavenger Hunt and some of our meetings.
A big round of applause to @webcommsatfor being awarded fellowship of the international CIPR for outstanding contribution to communications, public relations and the profession as a whole, strategic and innovation work, bridging between organizations/ tech and communications and taking into account her work with Make WordPress. Please join us in giving her a shoutout here and on Twitter!
The editing and synchronising work for these videos is tremendous and a big star of the week goes to @OGlekler for her patience, good spirits, and endurance with getting these to the finish line. These videos are being added to the WordPress Contributor Day Handbook on GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/.
Waiting to be published:
Norweigan — @Martin Owren we are waiting from GTEGeneral Translation EditorGeneral 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. to approve
If you can have a strong presenting voice and can help with doing voiceovers and liaise with your local GTE on translated captions for these screen recording videos, please contact @webcommsat, @OGlekler or @marks99.
Examples of the step-by-step video guides to help new contributors set up accounts on WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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 Make WordPress Slack are here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCVEqsAbLffcS1Rx-COZ5CZBOmXZJEe6k
With the focus on 5.5 release, we have asked for space in September’s MeetupMeetupAll 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. newsletter and Month in WordPress for another promotion of the survey.
We have gathered a lot of informal feedback too and some useful trends. We will pass any non-marketing information to the Community team.
We continue to highlight the survey in a variety of channels.
How can I help?
If you can help with further promotions of the meetup survey, please let @meher know.
If you can help with writing social media posts, please do reach out to @lmurillom.
If you don’t have much time or feel you aren’t ready to get involved with other tasks, please collaborate with keeping the Meetup marketing sheet updated. If you have any questions, please reach out to @lmurillom.
@webcommsat and @nalininonstopnewsuk have worked with @jillbinder and the Diverse Speaker Training Group on a marketing plan to promote the support available across the year. We have been working on the materials needed to put the plan into action.
We will be focusing on getting the Marketing team wider members to utilize the social media packs.
We are measuring how effective the marketing team is able to be in amplifying and targeting messages.
How can I help?
If you have a strong interest in promoting diversity, please join this working group’s next meeting in Slack. Additionally, please use the social media pack for these events because we need wider take-up for promotions from the marketing team.
You can help amplify social media promotions. Search #WPDiversity on the WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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.
Are you experienced at writing social media messages for organizations or campaigns? And keen to support diversity in the WordPress community? Come and join the group working on the next batch of social media draft posts that need to start going out from early next week. If you can help contact @webcommsat (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) or @lmurillom
We are currently working on a pilot project to support the WordPress 5.5 Release. We have been bringing together questions from developer feedback and answering them in a document for each significant feature to be introduced in the forthcoming WordPress 5.5 release.
The initial drafts and research are being reviewed/fact-checked
We have had discussions with other teams to help further this planning
Please be aware that there has already been significant work into the documents in a tight timescale, and we might not be able to include your ideas at this stage. So please reach out first before you put work into these topics.
Staying Connected events and activities
Entries for the Poetry Challenge are now open. Closing date 31 August 2020, 17:00 UTC.
We have a Coffee Break on Thursday 13 August 2020, 19:30 UTC.
Fun social quiz on Wednesday 26 August 2020, 15:30 UTC organized by @majaloncar
Task: Documentation is being moved from the old Codex and the categorization of articles that worked 5 or 10 years ago are not necessarily the same that work now. In order to continue with the design of documentation, the Docs team needs to define a new structure that is clear and fulfills the user’s needs. They would like input from Marketing regarding the re-categorisation of content and the audience segmentation.
You are welcome to ask questions on Marketing Team Channel on the Make WordPress Slack. You can join work on this project asynchronously, please reach out to @webcommsat (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack), @lmurillom or @mikerbg (@miker on Slack).
Task: We are working on a pilot project to support the WordPress 5.5 Release. We have brought together questions from developer feedback and answered them in a document.
How can I help?
We are in a review/fact checking phase right now, so please reach out directly to @OGlekler, @webcommsat or @vimes1984 if you would like to participate.
Next meeting
Wednesday 12 August 2020, 2pm UTC, in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack. Please check the diary dates for the coming week.
Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, and updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days.
If you are new or returning to the Marketing channel and want help to get started, contact @maedahbatool. She will also be able to add you to the list for the next New Marketing Contributors Onboarding event.
Diary dates and forward planning as at w/c 3 August 2020.
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 5 August 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress SlackSlackSlack 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 other Make Teams or are not yet active in the Marketing Team, we have included ways you can get involved in the agenda below.
Agenda
Welcome, attendance, notes (including a review of draft summaries and actions in the Google document). We encourage asynchronous contributions in Slack for the 48 hours after a meeting (until 14:00 UTC on Fridays) to help with different timezones.
Quick peek in our daily lives
A special welcome to new attendees
Task, working groups and team celebration
4. Celebration time – let’s celebrate our WordPress Marketing accomplishment! This will be combined with highlights from last week’s collaborations to allow us more time for collaboration work.
Get involved: If you can have a strong presenting voice and can help with doing voiceovers and liaise with your local GTEGeneral Translation EditorGeneral 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. on translated captions for these screen recording videos, please contact @webcommsat, @OGlekler or @marks99. Examples of the step-by-step video guides to help new contributors set up accounts on WordPress.org and Make WordPress Slack.
6. MeetupMeetupAll 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. survey promotions and updates Get involved: If you are a Meetup organizer, please fill in our survey to help us help you in your marketing. Can you promote this to organizers in your network or locale?
7. Diverse speaker training working group promotions for August 2020. Get involved: Can you help amplify the social media promotions? Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
8. WordPress 5.5 Q&As (collaboration meeting 15:15, 5 August 2020) Get involved: can you assist in this work? Contact @webcommsat and @oglekler
9. Staying Connected events and activities – latest diary dates
Collaborations
10. Collaboration time
Marketing team feedback on the Help Hub recategorization– will be led by @mikerbg. We intend to use Google Meet with live captioning, Slack and Google Docs. Trello card.
Video conferencing call for those supporting the Q&A tasks (from 15:15 UTC) Will be tasks lead @webcommsatsat – we will use Google Meet with live captioning if needed, Slack, Make WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and tracTracTrac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/., GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ and Google Docs More on our Questions and Answers work to help promote WordPress Releases
Any other business/ awareness of other related Make WordPress tasks
10. AOB You can also suggest to one of the team reps the day before the meeting if you have an idea for inclusion at a future meeting.
Planning for the week
11. Sub meetings in the forthcoming week.
The meeting will be formally closed at the end of the collaborations session.
Diary dates
If you need accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (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) 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.
Thursday6 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @webcommsat or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool.
Friday 7 August 2020 – 10am/ 10.00 UTC – Q&As for developers/ Meetups for WordPress 5.5 – 6.15pm/ 18:15 UTC- Second follow-up meeting to accommodate timezones If you are involved in these tasks, please confirm which meeting you will be attending by Thursday 09.00 UTC to help us plan. Thanks.
Monday 10 August 2020 – Planning meetings (times tbc)
Wednesday12 August 2020, 14:00UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting. This will be followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations relating to the Q&As and Meetup resources.
Thursday13 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video.
Monday 10 August 2020, (Time tbc) – Q&As and related WordPress 5.5 release.
Thursday13 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video.
Staying Connected – advance event dates
Poetry competition now open
Entries now open
Closing date 31 August 2020, 17:00 UTC
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
Wednesday 26 August 2020, 15:30 UTC – fun social quiz for the team, organized by @majaloncar
Thursday 17 September 2020, 17:00 UTC – Around the World quiz organized by @meher and promoting different cultures and countries in the WordPress community. Followed by a short virtual coffee break.
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 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 group. 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 11am 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 help with async contribution to be more inclusive of other timezones and working / family timings.
The meeting was asked to review the notes from the previous week in the Google doc.
How can I help?
You can volunteer to be a note taker for one of further meetings. Please note that the initial draft is needed by the end of Friday each week.
Thanks to @OGlekler for supporting many of the tasks and actions for this meeting.
Thanks to @webcommsat for giving her ongoing project management background to helping us restructure the board and to @nalininonstopnewsuk, @OGlekler, @meher and @lmurillom who will be working further with her on the systems.
Ongoing thanks to @NaliniNonStopNewsUK for working on some of our accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (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) areas
The editing and synchronising work for these videos is tremendous and a big star of the week goes to @OGlekler for her patience, good spirits and endurance with getting these to the finish line. Thanks also to @webcommstat and @marks99 for their work editing these.
Published this week on YouTube and will be added to the GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ WordPress Contributor DayContributor DayContributor 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/. Handbook. Thanks to contributors for recording voiceovers and to @OGlekler for editing and synchronizing the videos.
If you are experienced at translating from English into your native language and have presentation skills, we would like your help. We are particularly looking for volunteers for Japanese and Mandarin (Standard Chinese), contact @oglekler, @lmurillom or @marks99 (@macgraphic on Slack) for details.
WordPress MeetupMeetupAll 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 could use a hand with organizing, facilitating and promoting online gatherings. A team of contributors created a survey, and we’d love your help getting it out to these organisers.
Thanks to @webcommsat for sharing the survey at the Italian mini-WordPress Translation Day, and planning with the community team on including it in their promotions.
Thanks to @lmurillom for keeping the Meetup marketing spreadsheet updated. We do have a few marketing team members who have volunteered in the past to help keep the sheet updated and it would be so helpful if you continue to be involved with the task.
How can I help?
If you can help with further promotions of the meetup survey, please let @meher know.
If you don’t have much time or feel you aren’t ready to get involved with other tasks, please collaborate with keeping the Meetup marketing sheet updated. If you have any questions, please reach out to @lmurillom.
We’ve been working on an ongoing marketing plan that can be put in place and creating the materials needed to put the plan into action.
Do you dread public speaking? Even experienced #WordCamp and Meetup speakers can get nervous. Register for the free #WPDiversity workshops starting next week from 28 July 2020, 5-6 pm UTC. Get help overcoming your fears. https://t.co/b1YK7WPlMl#WordPress#WPSpeakers
— WordCamp CentralWordCamp CentralWebsite for all WordCamp activities globally. https://central.wordcamp.org includes a list of upcoming and past camp with links to each. (@wordcampWordCampWordCamps 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.) July 23, 2020
Do you want to speak at #WordCamp but not sure what subject to choose? Join the #WPDiversity for a series of 3 workshops including how to pick a topic for your first talk that people would love to attend. Events begin 28 July 2020, 5-6pm UTC. https://t.co/b1YK7WPlMl#WordPress
Help new speakers from your local community to speak at your #WordPress Meetups. And make your event more diverse and engaging! Learn how in an online workshop from the Diverse Speaker Training team on 18 July 2020, 5-7pm UTC. #WPDiversity#WPSpeakershttps://t.co/7HlRItafM8
@webcommsat has included promotions for this week’s workshop on the WordCamp Twitter and Facebook, and the Make WordPress Marketing LinkedIn. Please promote these to your networks. Some examples from the social media pack are above.
We’re monitoring the use of the social media pack for these events, and want to encourage a wider take-up for promotions from the marketing team.
@jillbinder, who leads the diverse speaker training group based in Community, said they have had a lot more sign-ups for the workshops since the WordCamp and other targeted marketing promotions. From our analysis, the majority of the success has come from the WordCamp promotions @webcommsat gave thanks to @angelasjin for her help in enabling this and to the targeting of communities and influencers (thanks to @Nalini and @meher for their considerable efforts here too).
We will be focusing on getting wider members of the Marketing team to make greater use of the social media packs. The packs are also available to the Diverse Speaker Training team to use.
If you have a strong interest in promoting diversity, please join this working group’s next meeting in Slack. Additionally, please use the social media pack for these events to help increase the take-up for promotions from the marketing team. This will help to amplify the social media promotion.
All you need to do is search using #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and retweet and like. You can also target the information to Meetups and potential speakers who would benefit from the training.
We are currently working on a pilot project to support the WordPress 5.5 Release. We have been bringing together questions from developer feedback and answering them in a document for each significant feature to be introduced in the forthcoming WordPress 5.5 release.
The initial drafts and research are being reviewed.
We have had discussions with other teams to help further this planning
There has been ongoing project management for delivery and planning of how people can get involved, led by @webcommsat.
There was a meeting with the Docs team on planning inclusion in the HelpHub. Thank you to @milana_cap and @estelaris.
A big thank you to all who have been working with @webcommsat on this and to @marybaum for her encouragement.
Please be aware that there has already been significant work into the documents in a tight timescale, and we might not be able to include your ideas at this stage. That’s why it’s important to reach out first before you put work into these topics.
Documentation is maintained manually by contributors and is being moved from the old Codex. The structure is 17 years old and the categories that worked 5 or 10 years ago are not necessarily the same that work now. In order to continue with the design of documentation, the Docs team needs to define a new structure that is clear and fulfills the user’s needs. They would like input from Marketing regarding the re-categorization of content and the audience segmentation.
This is the task that we will collaborate on during this meeting
Thanks to everyone who attended the meetings and to @estelaris for sharing how we can give ideas
How can I help?
Please reach out to @mikerbg (@miker on Slack) or @lmurillom if you would like to participate in this task.
Celebrating WordPress in Italian, the WPTranslation mini event ran from 9am to 1pm CEST (7am to 11am UTC) on Saturday 25 July 2020. It was run using Zoom and the Italian WordPress Slack. This was the third mini-event under the banner of #WPTranslationDay in 2020.
Well done to the Italian Polyglots for a wonderful event.
A big shout out to @darkavenger who we have adopted into the marketing team.
Thanks too to all the GTEs for their sharing and enthusiasm to work with Marketing and the WordPress Translation Day Team.
The social posts shared by the Marketing team members can be found on the WordPress Translation Day social channels.
— WPTranslationDay at #ItalianPolyglots mini-event (@TranslateWP) July 25, 2020
How can I help?
The Italian mini-event has now taken place, but you can always help #WPTranslationDay mini events by following the briefing shared in the Marketing Slack and retweeting to your relevant networks or sharing with potential attendees.
Staying Connected events and activities
Fun video idea by @nalininonstopnewsuk showing the different countries team members are based or come from to promote diversity and cross-cultural sharing.
Online Scavenger Hunt on Saturday 1 August 2020,1.30pm UTC. Thanks to @nalininonstopnewsuk, Laura and @meher for organizing it and @Majaloncar for allowing us to use her Zoom account.
Next Virtual Coffee Break on Thursday 30 July 2020, 19:30 UTC.
Originally we were going to be discussing our collaboration with the Tide team, but we will be rescheduling that conversation to accommodate the Tide team members. Today, we are discussing the HelpHub task.
Task: Documentation is being moved from the old Codex and the categorization of articles that worked 5 or 10 years ago are not necessarily the same that work now. In order to continue with the design of documentation, the Docs team needs to define a new structure that is clear and fulfills the user’s needs. They’d like input from Marketing regarding the re-categorization of content and the audience segmentation.
The links to Google docs and sheets can be found in the Slack meeting itself or through Trello.
How can I help?
Get familiar with the background for this task by checking the following resources.
You are welcome to ask questions on Marketing Team Channel on Make WordPress Slack. You can join work on this project asynchronously, please reach out to @lmurillom or @mikerpbg (@miker on Slack).
Additional items discussed after the main meeting
WP Marketing Videos
@webcommsat reported that this task has a lower priority compared to other tasks which have more pressing deadlines, namely ones related to the releases and contributor events.
@OGlekler and @SwetabhSuman8 together with our regular contributors to this task are working on marketing reviews of particular videos which will be featured in content in the next few months.
@OGlekler is creating subtitles for videos which have been prioritised for promotion – contact her to take part.
We need more volunteers to review videos and create drafts for content according to the content plan.
A video instruction session will take place, likely in September, from @PascalCasier in the WordPress.tv team. This will focus on creating subtitles in semi automatic mode to improve our efforts. We need volunteers to create the machine generated TTML files for our subtitling work with WPTV. https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1594853731012900
If you don’t see your task on these notes, please jump in and let us have an update in the Slack.
Next meeting
Wednesday 5 August 2020, 2pm UTC, in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack. Please check the diary dates for the coming week.
Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, and updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days.
If you want some help getting started in contributing to the marketing team and to add your name to the list for the next New Contributors Onboarding meeting, contact @maedahbatool.
