Agenda Global Marketing Team meeting – 29 July 2020

Diary dates for the w/c 29 July 2020.

The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 29 July 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. #marketing channel.

Thank you to the Team Reps group and members for their contributions towards this document. If you are reading this 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.

Agenda

  1. 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.
  2. Quick peek in our daily lives
  3. 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.

Summaries of tasks from the last week

5. Onboarding videos 
These are added to the WordPress Contributor Day Handbook on GitHub when complete. If you can help with these, please contact @webcommsat, @OGlekler or @marks99.
Examples of the video step-by-step guides to set up WordPress.org and Make WordPress Slack accounts.

6. 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. survey promotions and updates
If you are a Meetup organizer, please fill in our survey to help us help you in your marketing.

7. Diverse speaker training working group event promotions
You can help amplify the social media promotions – search using #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn.

8. WordPress 5 Marketing and HelpHub update

9. Staying Connected events and activities

Collaborations

10. Collaboration time

  • Marketing the Tide Team – the third session of this collaboration which will be led by @mikerbg and with a member of the Tide Team. We intend to use Google Meet with live captioning, Slack and Google Docs.
  • Video conferencing call for those supporting the Q&A tasks
    15:30 UTC
     (later start than usual for this week only).
    More on our Questions and Answers work to help promote WordPress Releases

Any other business/ awareness of other related Make WordPress tasks

11. 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

12. Sub meetings in the forthcoming week.

The meeting will be formally closed at the end of the collaborations session.

Diary dates

If you need 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) support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel, and we are keen to try and help.

Tuesday 28 July 2020 – 14:00 UTC – gathering comments on HelpHub recategorization relating to Q&A and ‘how to’ marketing / communications information. @estelaris from the design team will be with us. Trello card.

Wednesday 29 July 2020, 14:00 UTC – Global WordPress Marketing Team including the third session collaborating on the Tide team promotion.

Wednesday 29 July 2020, 15.30 UTC – meeting for those supporting the 5.5 ReleaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software. Q&A

Thursday 30 July 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing

Monday 3 August 2020 – Planning meetings (times tbc)

Monday 3 August 2020 – 14:00-14:30 UTC – Q&As for developers/ Meetups for WordPress 5.5. Second follow-up meeting, if needed for Q&A and action group: 18:15 UTC.

Wednesday 5 August 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting.
This will be followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations relating to the Q&As. 

Thursday 6 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.

Wednesday 12 August 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting 
This will be followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations/ sub meetings.

Thursday 13 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video.

Useful resources

#marketing-team

#5-5, #new-contributors, #tide

Q&As to help promote 5.5

The Global Marketing Team is currently working on a project to support the upcoming WordPress 5.5 ReleaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software.. 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
  • GutenbergGutenberg The 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
  • BlockBlock Block 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 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/.: @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.

#5-5

Global WordPress Marketing Team meeting – 22 July 2020

For diary dates for the coming week, please view section at the end of this post.

The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 22 July 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. #marketing channel.

  1. Welcome, attendance, notes (including a review of draft summaries and actions in the Google document)
  2. Quick peek in our daily lives
  3. A special welcome to new attendees

Agenda

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.

Summaries of tasks from the last week (Make WordPress Marketing Slack)

5. Onboarding videos 

6. Staying Connected events and activities

Collaborations

7. Collaboration time

  • Marketing the Tide Team – ongoing collaboration from last week which will be led by @mikerbg. Next week, we will also be collaborating on this area during the meeting. We will be using Google Meet with live captioning, Slack and Google Docs.
  • After our weekly meeting on Slack
    15:15 UTC
     (after the main part of the marketing meeting)
    This will be video conferencing call to continue work on a number of follow up tasks from the meetings and contributing events.

Diary dates

If you need 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) support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel, and we are keen to try and help.

Monday 20 July 2020, 10:00 UTC (changed time for this week) Planning meeting

Tuesday 28 July 2020 – 13:00 UTC – follow ups on diversity working group event marketing and Q&As relating to 5.5 releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software..

Tuesday 28 July 2020 – 14:00 UTC – gathering comments on HelpHub recategorization relating to Q&A and ‘how to’ marketing / communications information

Wednesday 29 July 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting 
with the third session collaborating on the Tide team.
This will be followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations/ sub meetings.

Thursday 30 July 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing

Date TBC Q&As for developers/ Meetups for WordPress 5.5

Useful resources

#marketing-team

Support for new contributors to marketing

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WCEU 2020

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:

  • create a WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ ID (video also available below)
  • set up 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/., 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.

Useful resources

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

#contributor-day #WCEU

#wceu-2020

Global Make WordPress Marketing Meeting Agenda – 15 July 2020

Diary dates for the coming week

Marketing Team update – 14 July 2020
Marketing Team update – 2 June 2020

The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 15 July 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. #marketing channel.

  1. Welcome, attendance, notes (including a review of draft summaries and actions in the Google document)
  2. Quick peek in our daily lives
  3. A special welcome to new attendees

Task and 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.

5. Onboarding videos

6. Staying Connected events and activities

Collaborations

7. Collaboration time

  • Ideas to promote contributing to Tide
  • After our weekly meeting on Slack
    15:15 UTC
    (after the main part of the marketing meeting)
    This will be video conferencing call to continue work on a number of follow up tasks from the meetings and contributing events.

Diary dates

Monday 13 July 2020, 11:00 UTC Planning meeting

Tuesday 14 July 2020 – planning meetings follow-on from Monday

Tuesday 14 July 2020, 18:30 UTC Meeting with WPDiversity group on social media messaging for the July events. Followed by working group debrief.

Wednesday 15 July 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting
This is followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations/ sub meetings.

Thursday 16 July 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on Zoom

Thursday 16 July 2020, 08:00 UTC FAQs for developers/ Meetups brainstorm for 5.5 [UPDATED DATE]

Wednesday 22 July 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting
This is followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations/ sub meetings.

In addition there will be sub-meetings on supporting the diversity speakers training group’s next workshop, contributing events, 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. marketing and more. Dates and times will be shared on this page and in the channel when confirmed.

#marketing-team

Agenda Global Marketing Team – 8 July 2020

Diary dates for the coming week

This will take place on Wednesday 8 July 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. #marketing channel.

  1. Welcome, attendance, notes
  2. Quick peek in our daily lives
  3. A special welcome to new attendees

Task and 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.

5. Onboarding videos

6. Staying Connected events and activities

Collaborations

7. Collaboration time – on Zoom and Slack.
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a) Working on onboarding materials and video planning
b) Social media promotions to help promote the next group of Online WordPress Meetups

After our weekly meeting on Slack
15:15 UTC (after the main part of the marketing meeting)
This will be video conferencing call to continue work on a number of follow up tasks from the meetings and contributing events.

Diary dates

Monday 6 July 2020 and Thursday 9 July 2020 – training on social media for WordPress use

Tuesday 7 July 2020, ongoing meetings to support WordPress releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software. 5.5

Wednesday 8 July 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting
This is followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations/ sub meetings.

Wednesday 8 July 2020, Team Reps to meet on contributing task.

Thursday 9 July 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on Zoom

NEW – Tuesday 14 July 2020, 12:00 UTC – onboarding familiarization and refresher on collaborative working in the Marketing Team. This is for both newer and team members who have been in the team for a longer time but who have not found a way to contribute as yet.
Please use this Google Form to let us know if you will be coming or if you can help others. This is open to newer contributors and those who have been in the team longer but would like more help to get involved with contributing to documents. Please note, these sessions will only run if take up is sufficient.

Wednesday 15 July 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting
This is followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations/ sub meetings.

In addition there will be sub-meetings on supporting the diversity speakers training group’s next workshop, contributing events, 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. marketing and more. Dates and times will be shared on this page and in the channel when confirmed.

#marketing-team

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Agenda for meeting 1 July 2020

Diary dates for the coming week

This will take place at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. #marketing channel.

  1. Welcome and attendance
  2. Quick peek in our daily lives
  3. A special welcome to new attendees

Task and 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.

5. Onboarding videos

6. Staying Connected events and activities

Collaborations

7. Collaboration time – on Zoom and Slack
Come and write social media promotions to help promote Online WordPress Meetups

After our weekly meeting on Slack
15:15 UTC (after the main marketing meeting)
This will be video conferencing call to continue work on a number of follow up tasks from the meetings and contributing events.

Diary dates

2 July 2020, 18:30 UTC – Social in the marketing channel
This will be followed by a shorter Virtual Coffee Break at 19:30 UTC

2 July 2020, 14:00 UTC – Marketing working meeting on developer-related tasks and feedback on excitement about 5.5

6 July 2020, 12:00 UTC – group working on social media tweets for Diversity Speaker Training events.

6 July 2020, 19:00 UTC – onboarding/ familiarization with collaborative working in the Marketing Team.
Please use this Google Form to let us know if you will be coming or if you can help others. This is open to newer contributors and those who have been in the team longer but would like more help to get involved with contributing to documents.

8 July 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting
This is followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations/ sub meetings.

8 July 2020, Team Reps to meet on contributing task.

In addition there will be sub-meetings on supporting the diversity speakers’ training next workshop, contributing events, 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. marketing and more. Dates and times will be shared on this page in the channel when confirmed.

Agenda – Marketing Team Meeting 24 June 2020

This week’s meeting will take place at 14:00 UTC. This agenda has been shared on 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. and in the team. In future, we will also post a draft agenda on this P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. on Mondays.

All welcome to join the channel to be involved in the work of the Marketing Team. Global WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. #marketing channel.

  1. Welcome and attendance (please add your 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/ IDs)
  2. Quick check-in our daily lives
  3. A special welcome to new attendees
  4. Celebration time (let’s celebrate our WordPress Marketing accomplishment!)
  5. Working group and collaboration updates
    1. Last week’s video collaborations follow-ups
    2. video marketing
    3. WordPress Meetups and survey promotion
    4. subtitling/ and WPTV meeting
  6. Outstanding items and follow-ups from WCEU
  7. Onboarding videos:
    1. Can anyone who is also a Polyglot help take forward any of the available language voiceovers and captioning?
  8. Staying Connected
    1. Virtual Coffee Break: Thursday 25 June 2020, 19:30 UTC
    2. Quiz date planning. Thanks to Yoast we will be running a WordPress quiz in the marketing team, provisionally planned for Thursday 2 July 2020 at 18:30 UTC based on times people can attend..
  9. Collaboration time
    1. Additions to glossary and jargon in WordPress eco-system
  10. After our weekly meeting on Slack
    1. 15:15 UTC (after the main marketing meeting) – video conferencing call on Zoom continuing work on a number of follow up tasks from the meeting.
  11. Any other business
  12. Date and times of next meeting and any sub groups

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