Josepha 10:47 pm on January 21, 2021
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Big Picture Goals 2021

During 2020’s State of the Word, Matt reminded us of our overall roadmap for 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/. Much of that roadmap is on a multi-year timeline, and it can be hard to know what’s next with such a distant North Star. This post contains some near-stars for the year, but there are some things you should know before you read them.

These are intentionally broad

There is more to WordPress’ success than the code we write, or 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. freedoms we share. While the goals below are focused on shippable projects, I understand that there are supporting contributions (translations, testing/triage, 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, etc) that are part of these project goals.

These are intentionally incomplete

There are always small projects that arise over the course of our year. And there are big projects that we move forward in pieces over the course of multiple years. This project is too big for me to see everything all the time, and I rely on the information from team reps and the vision from project leadership to help navigate any surprises.

Just because a project isn’t written here, doesn’t mean it is forgotten or has no value to our overall success.

The Big Picture

  1. Full site editing: Bring into the Gutenberg pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, and subsequently WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., the ability to edit all elements of a site using Gutenberg blocks. This will include all in-progress features designed to help existing users transition to Gutenberg as well. Scope/Timeline: MVPMinimum Viable Product "A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future product development." - WikiPedia in the plugin by April 2021, v1 in Core by WordPress 5.8.
  2. LearnWP: Enable WordPress skills-leveling by providing workshops, pre-recorded trainings, and self-serve learning opportunities on learn.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/. Scope/Timeline: regularly publish new workshops and lesson plans, maintain a high pass rate on workshop quizzes to establish learner success and comprehension.
  3. Contributor tools: Decrease the manual overhead of maintenance work for teams through better tooling. Scope/Timeline: Varied, and pending additional testing.

How can you help?

As I mentioned above, I know that our code isn’t the only measure of our success. If you already know what sort of contribution you’d like to make, you can check out this list of teams (with links to their community sites) and team reps. If you’re not yet sure, here are the areas that each team falls into:

  • Development, Technology, Code: Core/Editor, Mobile, CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress./Tide, Security
  • Design, Product, UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it./UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing.: Design, Accessibility, Test, Triage
  • Community, Extending WP, Education: Community, Themes, Plugins, Polyglots, Training
  • Contributor Experience: MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress., Docs, Hosting, Privacy
  • Communications: Marketing, Support, WPTV

A Note on Specialized Groups

There are a couple of coordinated efforts that provide essential support to the progress of multiple teams.

  • Triage: The triage effort happens across multiple teams and has two purposes. One purpose is to make sure tickets are sorted and have all the elements needed for someone to work on them. The second purpose is to determine priority. Not everyone has the information to set priority, but anyone can help sort and replicate reported bugs!
  • Test: The testing effort also happens across multiple teams and has two purposes. One purpose is to try out features before they get to our users. The second purpose is to bring high quality feedback into our process early. A lot of that coordination happens on make.wordpress.org/test, but there are also frequently calls to participate on make.wordpress.org/core.

#goals

Chloe Bringmann 5:29 pm on October 20, 2020  

Quarterly Updates | Q3 2020

To keep all aware of big projects and efforts across WordPress volunteer teams, each team’s listed representative has shared an update from the start of the year. Listed below are their top priorities (and when they hope for it to be completed), as well as their biggest wins and Challenges. Have questions? I’ve included a link to each team’s site in the headings.

Accessibility 

  • Contacted: @nrqsnchz, @ryokuhi
  • Priority: The main focuses of the AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team for WordPress 5.6 are: moving the WordPress Accessibility Coding Standards from WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/. 2.0 to WCAG 2.1 and improving the documentation to include more resources and describe patterns and antipatterns; making the new default theme (Twenty Twenty-One) ready for WCAG AAA; creating a feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. to add a tool to generate an Accessibility Statement, as was done with Privacy Policy.
  • Previous Priority: Organization of WordPress Accessibility Day; review of the admin color schemes; creation of alternative views for WP List Tables; improvement of the “Howdy” fly-out menu.
  • Challenge: The team faced challenges in polarizing discussions among members and across teams around design and architecture choices. In addition, the team had difficulty tracking all of the development in the 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. editor.
  • Big Win: WordPress Accessibility Day happened on October 2-3 2020; there was a lot of positive feedback. In addition, the team is taking steps to include new contributors in the team by using the `good-first-bug` label more widely, both on CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. tickets and on 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/ issues

CLI 

  • Contacted: @schlessera
  • Priority: There’s one outstanding bug for v2.5.0, so that version will be released soon.
  • Previous Priority: The number one priority was getting 2.5.0 released.
  • Challenge: WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ has also opted into Hacktoberfest, as every year, so I’m hoping that will give a small uptick to current contribution levels.
  • Big Win: All of the compatibility hassles are solved, and tests are green across the board.

Community 

  • Contacted: @camikaos, @mariaojob
  • Priority: The current priority is engagement with WordPress users and community members through continued education and connection with Learn WordPress while providing support to our 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. and 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. organizers with online events.
  • Previous Goal: To facilitate the ongoing education of WordPress through online interaction. 
  • Challenges:  The team’s current challenges include a lack of consistent mentorship for organizers, uncertainty in the future of events, and discernable contributor fatigue.
  • Big win: Soft launch of Learn WordPress.

Core 

  • Contacted: @francina, @audrasjb
  • Priority: Continue to work on the 5.6 release.
  • Previous Priority: Successfully releasing 5.5 in August and preparing work for the remaining 2020 goals due in the 5.6 release later this year.
  • Challenge: Some tickets and tasks are delayed multiple times because of low engagement from component maintainers and committers. The jQuery rollout plan seems to be more difficult than expected.
  • Big Win: REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. password inclusion and kicking off WP 5.6 female-led release with over 40 women participating.

Design 

  • Contacted: @estelaris, @karmatosed
  • Priority: Reviewing tracking systems for design tickets; supporting the release and design cohort with focused work; iterating our processes to support the diverse designers contributing.
  • Previous Priority: Sync triages with releases.
  • Challenge: The ‘firehose’ and stream of meetings. Time Zones continue to be a challenge so things like having alternative meetings are being explored and limiting meeting frequency and times.
  • Big Win: Continuing to improve our documentation, and enabling tasks such as the about page to be easier for the next team.

Docs

  • Contacted: @kenshino
  • Priority: Develop an overall documentation information architecture; improve discoverability & usability on all documentation; Refine the “getting started” processes (video and text) for onboarding of contributors; apply the external linking policy in PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Developer Handbook; Google Season of Docs projects
  • Stretch Goal: We want to research and implement best practices of documentation in other CMS projects.
  • Previous Priority: Keep up with Gutenberg updates and handbook structure and updates.
  • Challenge: A lack of capacity to document our processes; WordPress official documentation doesn’t have proper editorial controls; Cooperation with other teams and staying current to new features; there is no official strategy or target of internationalization of Handbooks or DevHub. 
  • Big Win: We have started a Gutenberg user doc team; two projects were selected for Google Summit of Docs; formed an “Onboarding” team whose task is to develop communication with new contributors; started “Coffee break” zoom meetings once a month where team members can chat and get to know each other.

Hosting

  • Contacted: @amykamala @mikeschroder @jadonn
  • Priority: Priorities include PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. 8 Compatibility for distributed hosting tests, helping inactive test reporters start reporting again, and improving the process.
  • Previous Priority: The hosting team’s prioritized supporting communication between WordPress and WP Hosts to help assure synchronicity between the WordPress 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. Project and hosts that provide WordPress offerings, and improving engagement within the #hosting-community team.
  • Challenge: As with last quarter, the biggest challenge is consistency. The team has maintained more inertia this quarter, but there are periods of time that are more and less active, which have made long term projects harder to complete.
  • Big Win: Error reporting with the distributed tests has been improved, making it so that both errors and failures are displayed. This makes it easier to track down what test errors/failures are trending across hosts.

Marketing 

  • Contacted: @webcommsat, @harryjackson1221, @maedahbatool, @miker, @yvettesonneveld
  • Priority: Support 5.6 release marcomms, scheduling internal requests, ongoing communications-related onboarding tasks to support teams and WordPress events; improve understanding of the open source and WordPress to help new contributors get started; support for internal communications.
  • Previous Priority: Supporting the WordPress 5.5 release, marketing the diverse speaker training events, and contributor onboarding support leading to WCUS.
  • Challenge: Planning task delivery with limited advance information on contributor availability and with current circumstances affecting contributors’ hope to contribute regularly due to pressures from the impact of COVID; implementing adaptable workflows that can be replicated for new contributors.
  • Big Win: Improved cross-team collaboration, including wider Marcomms resources for 5.5, WordPress Translation celebration week, Learn WordPress launch and communications, and diverse speaker training; a more pro-active and strategic approach to social media campaigns, such as Online WordPress Meetups and Diversity Speaker Workshops

Mobile 

  • Contacted: @elibud
  • Priority: Port more core blocks, improve UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. and performance, and introduce block transformations before the end of 2020.
  • Previous Priority: Improve the block editor’s performance, add support for more blocks, and enhance currently supported blocks.
  • Challenge: The editor release process still takes a lot of time and attention, the testing infrastructure is not robust enough leading to failures/flakiness, and the ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. Native upgrade process is still slow.
  • Big Win: Robust biweekly releases with new features, blocks, block improvements, and bug fixes.

Polyglots 

  • Contacted: @nao, @ocean90, @casiepa, @tobifjellner
  • Priority: As always, the core translation for the next release is the first priority. The next priority as a global team is to help inactive & under-resourced teams find new contributors and set attainable goals.
  • Previous Priority: Getting 5.5 translated by all active locales.
  • Challenge: More than half of the available locale teams are inactive, and active teams are struggling to process the review workload
  • Big win: Successful Translation Day event; more contributor involvement at the global level & within some of the reactivated/new teams

Security 

  • Contacted: @whyisjake
  • Priority: The security team is focused on prepping for the next security release.
  • Previous Priority: The team focused on furthering the work surrounding auto-updates in plugins and themes, and then in 5.6 transitioning that same effort to core auto-updates.
  • Challenge: Right now the security team is trying to get back to a regular cadence of security releases, with the goal to bundle releases with every minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality..
  • Big Win: We are really excited about auto-updates for plugins in themes from WordPress 5.5, and auto-updates coming to WordPress core in 5.6. Application passwords look great too!

Support 

  • Contacted: @Clorith
  • Priority: Retaining our volunteers across the international forums.
  • Previous Priority: Our top priority was prepping for the next major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality., 5.5.
  • Challenge: The biggest challenge is getting new contributors.
  • Big Win: The whole team has been handling the increase in help requests after WP 5.5, giving replies in a timely manner, and the work to translate helphub on the various languages who have access to it already.

Themes

  • Contacted: @williampatton @kafleg @acosmin @acalfieri @aristath @poena
  • Priority: The team will continue to focus on helping theme authors transition to more block-based themes.
  • Previous Priority: Helping theme authors transition to more block based themes.
  • Challenge: Theme suspensions and a lack of plan for the rebuilding of the theme directory.
  • Big Win: Reduced waiting time in the review queue; default theme; a full site editing theme added to the directory.

Tide 

  • Contacted: @derekherman, @jeffpaul
  • Priority: Update underlying infrastructure from Golang to Node.js to allow for broader contributions and make maintenance more feasible.
  • Previous Priority:  Resolve rate limiting and caching issues to allow v1.0.0 release.  ETA: Prior to COVID-19 we had targeted WCEU, but team member personal and professional delays likely mean v1.0.0 by WCUS.
  • Challenge: Finding contributors with experience with PHPCS, Golang, and Google Cloud Platform to help with enhancing Tide.
  • Big Win: Starting the progress of Node.js foundation build-out.

Triage 

  • Contacted: @desrosj, @sergeybiryukov
  • Priority: Continuing to bring the total number of tickets in TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. down to a more reasonable number, and to ensure that every ticket is accurate and actionable.
  • Previous Priority: We focused on lowering the total number of tickets in Trac to a more reasonable number.
  • Challenge: The two main team members have had their resources consumed by a combination of various active roles in recent releases and new contributor mentoring.
  • Big Wins: Despite considerable involvement in the last few release cycles, the team has managed to keep the overall number of open tickets roughly the same. The team is also proud of the mentoring efforts underway for the 5.6 release squad, educating them about ticket lifecycles and good triaging practices.

TV

  • Contacted: @nishasingh, @casiepa, and @rahuldsarker
  • Priority: Collect the WordCamp videos from organizers and make them public. Correct the speaker’s name and tags of submitted/ published videos.
  • Previous Priority: Remove the video and subtitle backlog so that by September all is published.
  • Challenge: More people join and actively work with us.
  • Big Win: Cleared the pending review videos queue. Within 20 minutes subtitle of a submitted WPTV’s video can be created in English.

With thanks to team leads for their quarterly updates and a special thanks to @angelasjin for her help with this post.

Josepha 9:10 pm on March 4, 2020  

WordCamp Travel and COVID-19

Over the past few months, the Global Community team and I have gotten many messages asking about COVID-19 and what it means for WordCamps. We’ve all been doing our best to be knowledgeable about the virus while responding in a level-headed way. Now seems like the right time to share some guidance on what to do next.

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. Travel and Contingency Planning

We should do our part, as members of a highly connected global community, to limit the spread of the virus while there are still so many unknowns.

TLDR: Current guidance advises that if you are planning an event scheduled between now and June 1, and there is any evidence of community transmission of COVID-19 in your area, we strongly recommend that you postpone the event until later in the year or 2021 and/or adapt to an online event.

  • As always, WordCamps are encouraged to embrace their local nature, showcasing the WordPress enthusiasts in your own area.
  • I’ve asked some experienced global community team deputies to research ways to support community-organized livestream events. Not to replace all WordCamps, but to offer an alternative for any that decide to cancel.

For the remaining 2020 WordCamps designed to gather international attendees (WordCamp Europe, WordCamp Centroamerica, WordCamp US), I’ll assist the global community team as they continue monitoring the situation while gathering information from organizing teams and providing the same support provided to WordCamp Asia.

Epidemics like COVID-19 are unpredictable and I’d rather err on the side of caution. I recognize “caution” is a subjective term, but here it means making decisions that align with the efforts of the world to contain the impact of this virus.

Resources and Kudos

Huge thank you to the members of the Global Community team who have been monitoring this evolving situation. Here are a few of the resources and metrics they’ve been using: 

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 10:30 pm on June 2, 2020
Tags: #OnlineWPMeetup, , , Meetup marketing, , WordCamp Europe 2020   

Marketing team update, 2 June 2020

Some of the highlights from the Marketing Team in the last few weeks are:

  • more than 40 introduction sessions
  • 10 videos to help with onboarding or showcasing the community
  • multiple projects and campaigns planning
  • support to new and longer-term contributors
  • planning support to contributor events
  • marketing skills sessions and training

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 promotions survey

We are trialling a survey to help WordPress Meetups with their marketing. If you are a Meetup organizer, we would value your time in completing this form. Thanks to those who provided feedback during the last few weeks.

#ContributorStory

This campaign continues and features are currently appearing on 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 2020’s website and its social channels. Please support it and celebrate the contributors who make WordPress. Thanks to Abha Thakor and Helen Odia for the latest editions and to the contributors featured.

More updates soon about how you can nominate a contributor for the next series.

Onboarding videos and preparation for WCEU

You can find our videos to help attendees set up 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/ and 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/. accounts for WordCamp Europe (WCEU) 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/.. A number of translated commentaries and captions are being added.

More long term versions for WordPress.tv and the Contributor Day Handbook on GitHub will be made after WCEU. Thanks to everyone who has been involved in making these. Let us know if you have presenting experience and can help with translating and recording voiceovers in other languages.

#onlinewpmeetup-2, #contributor-day, #contributorstories, #meetup-marketing, #wceu, #wordcamp-europe-2020

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 7:00 am on July 14, 2020
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Marketing team update – July 2020

We have brought together some of the work we are doing at the moment as a bi-monthly roundup. Do come along to the SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel if you have a background or experience in marketing and want to get involved.

What does that word mean?

We have been reviewing the WordPress and contributing jargon buster/ glossary. This builds on the work done on this at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe (WCEU).

Come and join the Marketing channel or reply below if you would like to work on this or suggest words you think should be included in the next update.
https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/handbook/wordpress-jargon-glossary/ 

WordPress release 5.5

From the marketing team, Mary Baum (@marybaum ) is the Marcomms Co-ordinator for the release. Yvette Sonneveld (@YvetteSonneveld ) and Abha Thakor (@webcommsat ) are also on the working group. We are finding opportunities for members to give feedback, including developers on the team. Thanks to everyone who has been supporting this.

WordPress 5.5 Beta 1 came out for testing last week. Do please consider how you can help with this. Update: Beta 2 launched on 14 July 2020.

We have even more marketing team members involved with 5.6! More on releases and what marketing is doing to support this work in future updates. You can understand more about developments in 5.5 by following the weekly dev meetings in the #core Slack channel on Wednesdays, 20:00 – 21:00 UTC. 

Onboarding videos

We are recruiting help to make different language versions of our onboarding videos to help non-native English speakers to connect with the global Make Teams and participate in contributor events.

We have a number of resources being developed including a video on how to join 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/ and Make WordPress Slack. These videos make it easier for new contributors, especially in advance of online contributor events. They are helping the Marketing Team, WordCamp Europe and other teams to support new joiners, and reducing onboarding time. We will be adding to the seven videos already voiced-over in different languages, with voiceovers being prepared in Spanish, Greek, French, Hindi, Italian, Romanian and more.

How you can help

As this has a marketing and outward looking focus, we need contributors with strong presenting voices who are confident translators. We also ask them to link in with the relevant locale and so we can promote information about their Slack channels too. If you can help, contact (@)abhanonstopnewsuk and (@)macgraphic in the Make WordPress Slack.

We are working towards getting more videos and other onboarding material ready for the WordCamp US contributor event.

You can find the videos we have completed so far on YouTube. Once all subtitled, they are being moved to WordPress.tv and the links will be updated on the WordPress Contributor Day Handbook on GitHub.

Next onboarding / introduction to contributing to the Marketing team

Tuesday 14 July 2020, 12:00 UTC via video-conferencing. A final reminder for anyone who wanted to come to this session, please register on the sign-up sheet.

These sessions cover:

  • working in Slack
  • collaborating in documents

Promoting WordPress Meetups

If you are a 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. organizer, help us to help you market your events by completing our survey. We continue to create materials in response to feedback and support organizing teams during the pandemic.

We hope many of our initiatives will help the community stay connected and to welcome new joiners. You can use #OnlineWPMeetup on your social channels to share your chapter events with others from a global audience.

Video marketing and subtitling WordPress.tv videos

We’ve trained another 20 people to identify videos on WordPress.tv which could be used to market WordPress, its features and its amazing community.

We continue to work with the TV Team on this and prioritizing videos which need subtitling. Through this marketing campaign, we want to help more users be aware of and use these free resources in their work or hobby website projects.

Supporting contributor events

The work post WordCamp Europe and leading up to WordCamp US is continuing at pace. We have welcomed a lot of new members joining us from other teams or new to the project.

A very big thanks to @webcommsat , @OGlekler , @meher , @nullbyte, @marks99, @yvettesonneveld and @amethystanswers for leading various aspects and doing a tremendous amount of work during many months. Thanks too to every member of the team that is involved with the work and participates in working groups and tasks throughout the week on an ongoing basis.

Chloe Bringmann 8:08 pm on August 3, 2020  

Quarterly Updates | Q2 2020

To help all contributors stay aware of big projects and efforts across WordPress teams, each team’s listed representative has shared an update for the year so far. Below are their top priorities (and when they hope for it to be completed), as well as their biggest wins and struggles. Have questions? I’ve included a link to each team’s site in the headings.

Accessibility

  • Contacted: @nrqsnchz, @ryokuhi
  • Previous Priority:
    • We had three main focus for WP 5.5:
      • Accessible color schemes
      • Alternative WP List Tables views
      • Refine/replace the upper-right WP-Admin fly-out menu
    • WP 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) Day online event.
  • Priority:
    • Accessible color schemes for wp-admin: We started work on this but we will not be releasing anything with 5.5.
    • Alternative WP List Tables views: Currently milestoned for 5.5, but still not done yet.
    • Improve the “Howdy” menu: Still open.
  • Struggle: It’s a small team so cross-team collaboration is the key and most of our projects for 5.5 are stuck because we still need help from various teams.
  • Big Win: WordPress Accessibility Day organization team, 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. EI Online 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/., and the general team cohesion.

CLI

  • Contacted: @schlessera
  • Priority: The number one priority is getting 2.5.0 released, as it contains lots of compatibility fixes. However, it is currently a moving target as WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. is having a lot of subtle BC breaks recently.
  • Struggle: Development efforts have slowed due to reduced contributors and committers participating.

Community

  • Contacted: @camikaos, @mariaojob
  • Previous Priority: To have provided documentation, resources, and support to the community to support of virtual events while in-person events are not possible.
  • Priority: To facilitate the ongoing WordPress education – how to use it, how to build it, and how to make the community a stronger place through online interaction. 
  • Struggle:  The team’s current struggles include a lack of consistent mentorship for organizers, uncertainty in the future of events, and discernable contributor fatigue.
  • Big win: The community coming together in difficult times to continue supporting the WordPress project with education and outreach.

Core

  • Contacted: @francina, @audrasjb
  • Previous Priority: To achieve the remaining 2020 priorities across the two remaining releases in 2020 (5.5 and 5.6) while necessary mentoring work towards an all female release squad in 5.6 continued.
  • Priority: Successfully releasing 5.5 in August and preparing work for the remaining 2020 goals due in the 5.6 release later this year.
  • Struggle: Delaying release of navigation menus 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. and widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. screen in core to the 5.6 release in December.  Some tickets and tasks are delayed across multiple releases because of low engagement from component maintainers and committers.  Long-term/regular cross-team collaboration has proven difficult to set up and maintain.
  • Big Win: Shipping automatic updates for plugins and themes, block directory, XML sitemaps, and lazy loading in 5.5 beta 1.

Design

  • Contacted: @estelaris
  • Previous Priority: 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/ editor and WordPress releases: syncs to release dates.
  • Priority: The Design Team is focused on syncing triages with releases.
  • Struggle: The team is looking to increase the number of team members who can attend core/metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. triage.
  • Big Win: Figma reorganization and updating components.

Hosting

  • Contacted: @mikeschroder
  • Priority: The hosting team’s current priority is supporting communication between WordPress and WP Hosts to help assure synchronicity between the WordPress 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. Project and hosts that provide WordPress offerings, and improving engagement within the #hosting-community team.
  • Struggle: Consistency. There are periods of time that are very active and then periods of time that lull, which of course is to be expected but that inconsistency makes it hard to really see long term projects all the way through.
  • Big Win: A big win for the team was moving the Hosting Handbook to GitHubGitHub GitHub 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 opening it up for more contributors and continuing active maintenance and development on the WordPress PHPUnit Test Runner and Reporter framework for distributed automated testing of WordPress releases across multiple hosting providers’ environments.

Marketing

  • Contacted: @webcommsat, @harryjackson1221, @maedahbatool, @miker, @yvettesonneveld
  • Previous Priority: Recruiting and training more active contributors to help increase our capacity so that we will be able to contribute more effectively.
  • Priority: Supporting the WordPress 5.5 release, marketing the diverse speaker training events, and contributor onboarding support.
  • Struggle: While a win in many ways, there is a significant number of new joiners to the marketing channel and on tasks since March 2020. Experienced contributors need the time to support them to learn about open source, WordPress, and marketing techniques.
  • Big Win: Efforts towards and during the three days of marketing contribution across different time zones with WordCamp Europe online. Also contributing to initiatives with WCEU for more marketing-orientated onboarding materials and videos.
  • Bonus Questions: The team is focused on improving the ratio between new joiners to the channel and people who pledge to the ‘Five for the Future’ project in relation to the number of consistently active contributors. Currently, 599 people pledge to contribute to the marketing team and we have 1381 people who have joined the channel.

Mobile

  • Contacted: @elibud
  • Previous Priority: The team focused on creating the groundwork for implementing new blocks and new features on the block editor. To improve the page template experience (a new way to create pages from pre-defined templates): support for new blocks and improved UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it..
  • Priority: The team has worked to improve block editor’s performance, add support for more blocks, and enhance currently supported blocks.
  • Struggle: Writing workarounds for some ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. Native issues can take more time than expected.
  • Big Win: Most of the mobile code is moved to the Gutenberg web repository, added support for three more blocks (buttons, pullquote, verse), and added more settings to several already ported blocks.

Polyglots

  • Contacted: @nao, @ocean90, @casiepa, @tobifjellner
  • Previous Priority: To increase the number of package releases & top 100 plugins/themes translation completion rate (ETA: ongoing).
  • Priority: The Polyglot team is focused on getting WordPress 5.5 translated by all active locales (ETA: End of August).
  • Struggle: Polyglots are looking for help in improving communication and conflict resolution skills among locale team members through better documentation and/or training.
  • Big Win: Reevaluation of our handbook by simplifying processes (SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/. + auto-releases) and rewriting/adding new pages.

Security

  • Contacted: @whyisjake
  • Previous Priority: The team’s top priority was to make progress towards the 5.4.1 release while working on some of the larger MFA items.
  • Priority: The top priority for the security team right now is furthering the work surrounding auto-updates in plugins and themes, and then in 5.6 transitioning that same effort to core auto-updates.
  • Struggle: Finding the time to work on security-specific tasks is probably the biggest struggle that the team has had in the last quarter.
  • Big Win: Seeing background updates for plugins and themes is a huge win for the WordPress community. It paves the way for a more secure and stable WordPress ecosystem going into the future.

Support

  • Contacted: @clorith
  • Previous Priority: The top priority of the Support Team was forum improvements. There was not a specified ETA as it relied heavily on meta involvement and whatever time was available for specific issues.
  • Priority: Our top priority right now is prepping for the next major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality., where we hope to have our documentation/Master List ready a few days before the 5.5 release.
  • Struggle: Our struggles have been inter-team communication on enforcement approaches to various guidelines and how to interpret said guidelines.
  • Big Win: We are proud of better engagement during weekly meetings. The last quarters promotions have brought some more active participants to meetings.

Themes

  • Contacted: @aristath, @williampatton, @acosmin, @acalfieri, @poena, @dingo_d, @kafleg
  • Previous Priority: Pave the way and ease transition to Full Site Editing and the new structure of themes.
  • Priority: The team will focus on helping theme authors transition to more block-based themes.
  • Struggle:
    • Recruiting reviewers
    • Difficult to plan for an uncertain future.
    • Lacking a clear plan for the rebuilding of the theme directory.
  • Big Win: Reduced wait times for theme reviews, theme-check pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party updated, more involved in Gutenberg development.

Tide

  • Contacted: @derekherman, @jeffpaul
  • Previous Priority:  The team’s work was to resolve rate limiting and caching issues to allow v1.0.0 release with a realistic ETA of v1.0.0 by WordCamp US.
  • Priority: Resolve rate limiting and caching issues to allow v1.0.0 release. 
  • Struggle: Tide development is dependent on having enough available contributors with Go coding, WordPress, and WordPress Coding Standards experience.
  • Big Win: Stabilizing infrastructure costs with support from Google.

Training

  • Contacted: @chetan200891, @jessecowens, @juliekuehl
  • Previous Priority: Development of a new theme for the Learn site. 
  • Priority: The Training Team is aiming to resume a consistent meeting as a means of inviting more people and reforming a leadership team that can manage meetings and related logistics. (ETA: End of August)
  • Struggle: An established meeting time has been the current struggle, due to geographic and time zone differences.
  • Big Win: Two new contributors participated in WordCamp EU 2020 contributor day!

Triage

  • Contacted: @sergeybiryukov, @desrosj
  • Previous Priority: The top priority was to bring the total number of tickets in TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. down to a more reasonable number, and/or ensure that every ticket is accurate and actionable.
  • Priority: The top priority continues to be decreasing the total number of tickets in Trac down to a more reasonable number, and/or ensure that every ticket is accurate and actionable.
  • Struggle: Availability/resources. The two main team members have had their resources consumed by a combination of various active roles in recent releases and personal time off.
  • Big Win: Despite considerable involvement in the last few release cycles, the team has managed to keep the overall number of open tickets roughly the same (though slightly higher). The team is also proud of the mentoring efforts underway for the 5.6 release squad, educating them about ticket lifecycles and good triaging practices.

TV

  • Contacted: @nishasingh, @casiepa, @rahuldsarker
  • Priority: Remove the video and subtitle backlog so that by September 2020, all are published.
  • Struggle: Finding time and volunteers. COVID brought fewer videos to WordPress.tv, but also less time to work on the backlog. We are slightly increasing the volunteers and actively looking for new ones. Also, finding volunteers who can work on the subtitle, means find the solution (shortcut) to submit the subtitle more.
  • Big Win: New Team reps! Also, improving the publication workflow by using AWS and new volunteers.

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 8:58 pm on April 22, 2020
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Marketing Team update – 22 April 2020


In the team we are:

  • working on how people can contribute to the Marketing Team at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe’s online 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/. in June 2020
  • supporting Online WordPress Meetups together with the Community Team. If you are organizing an online 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., do use #OnlineWPMeetup to help us support you
  • working on documents for the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team to highlight the work of the release team and component maintainers
  • continuing to work with WCEU Contributing Team on contributor stories and onboarding guides
  • rolling out a package of support for team members during the public health emergency and helping them to keep connected. This includes Virtual Coffee Breaks and informal ways to show how the team continues to contribute to the global WordPress project. For example, a photo mosaic
  • continuing to provide ways for newer contributors to get involved. This includes running collaboration sessions to help people contribute ideas, learn more about the tools and work of the project, and find ways to get involved.

    • You can find out more about the work of the Marketing Team at https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/

    Come and join our meetings on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. on Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC.

    #marketing #ContributorStories #contributor-day

    Julie Kuehl 7:55 pm on May 16, 2019
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    Training Team Update for 16 May 2019

    It’s been a while since the Training Team has posted an update here. We will work on getting better at that. But there have been a few things of note that have happened recently, so here’s a quick summary:

    1. We have moved our meeting time to 1300 UTC on Thursdays.
    2. We have defined our criteria to earn profile badges with the team: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/guidelines/team-profile-badges/
    3. We are working on improving the team’s Handbook and on-boarding information.
    4. We are working on developing the templates for the learn.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/ site’s redesign.
    5. We have moved from Waffle.io to ZenHub to manage our GitHubGitHub GitHub 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/ repos.
    6. We have found a solution to display lesson plan slides from GitHub. We were using RawGit for that, but are now going through a GitHub Page.
    7. We have some automations in place in GitHub to 1) help identify lesson plans in need of work and to support our efforts in 2) building lesson plans (especially slides) and 3) in building the learn.wordpress.org site.
    8. We are making plans for Contributor Days at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Calgary and at WordCamp EU.

    And there have been many new faces in the #training channel willing to help!

    Josepha 9:33 pm on March 6, 2020
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    Update: Progress on Goals

    At the end of last year, I posted an update on the goals we had for 2019. While I mentioned that most of those goals will continue into 2020, I didn’t have a full concept of what we should target and when. I have a better idea now that everyone has started working on things.

    WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

    I’ve organized our remaining projects around our remaining releases for the year. In each group below, there are three different states of readiness: Feature PluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. for things that are still in testing, Complete for things that are stable and ready to merge, Ship for things that are final and being packed in the release.

    These are educated guesses. For most of them the sooner we can get them ready for testing the better!

    WP5.4 – March Release

    • Feature Plugin: Automatic updates for plugins and themes.
    • Complete: Functionality for navigation block behind experimental flag in the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.
    • Complete: Block directory in testing behind experimental flag in the plugin.
    • Complete: Convert the Customizer to support blocks. 
    • Ship: Update WordPress Core to include current releases of the 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/ plugin.

    WP5.5 – August Release

    • Feature Plugin: Automatic updates functionality for major WordPress Core releases (opt-in).
    • Complete: Convert the widgets-editing areas complete.
    • Complete: Functionality for full site editing complete behind experimental flag in the plugin.
    • Complete: Global styles behind experimental flag in the plugin.
    • Ship: Update WordPress Core to include current releases of the Gutenberg plugin.
    • Ship: Navigation menus 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. in Core.
    • Ship: Automatic updates for plugins and themes in Core.
    • Ship: Block directory in Core.
    • Ship: XML Sitemaps 
    • Ship: Lazy Loading 

    WP5.6 – December Release

    • Ship: Automatic updates for major WordPress Core releases (opt-in).
    • Ship: Update WordPress Core to include current releases of the Gutenberg plugin.
    • Ship: Widgets-editing and CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. support in Core.
    • Ship: Full site editing in Core.
    • Ship: Global styles in Core.
    • Ship: Default theme.

    WordPress Programs

    These goals don’t depend on the Core release cycle, so it’s harder to assign dates to them. My best guess is around our major regional events, but I’m open to suggestions.

    Contributor Experience

    • Reduce number of open issues in TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/..
    • Updates to the theme directory.
    • Speaker feedback tool.
    • SEO updates 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. network.

    User Experience

    • Block patterns
    • Block-based themes

    Where We Collaborate

    Coordination of work on WordPress Core can be found in #core and #core-editor (though there are a lot of feature-specific channels as well). Much of the contributor experience coordination is done in #meta and #meta-wordcamp. User experience coodrination happens in #design and #themes. All contributor teams document their efforts on their team sites. 🙂

    For a concept of the long term roadmap, keep an eye on the Roadmap page; it’s updated frequently.

    #planning #goals #updates

    webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 5:00 pm on September 3, 2020
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    Marketing Team update for August 2020

    Promoting new features and benefits from WordPress releases

    For the working group focused on this, the last few months have been very busy. As a pilot working with other teams, we have researched and produced a series of questions and answers on 5.5 for end users and a social media pack. We hope the Q&As will be available soon on the HelpHub and thank everyone who has been involved from the team, the Release Squad, and the documentation and coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. teams. We are also finalizing promotional material for Meetups.

    We’re also working with the release squad and polyglots to explore how we can promote the meeting times to encourage more contributors across timezones to be involved. From this week, DevChat for 5.6 takes place on Wednesdays ay 05:00/ 5am UTC and 20:00/ 8pm UTC in the core SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel.

    🎉Supporting new contributors update

    🆕 We continue to have a good influx of new joiners to the Marketing channel, either as visitors from other teams to assist with specific tasks or new contributors to the team itself.

    If you have recently joined or wanting to get involved, our weekly meeting agenda is a good starting point for how to get involved in shadowing on a task or getting more actively involved. It also has our diary of events and meetings.

    These are posted on the Make WordPress Marketing blog which you can find at https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/

    🕑 We meet for our global weekly meeting on Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC, followed by collaboration sessions. These are great opportunities for joiners to the channel and contributors to learn more about our tasks and the team. We encourage asynchronous involvement with the meeting for 48hours after it takes place as we know the meeting time may not work for everyone.

    ☕ We have a virtual coffee break on Thursdays at 19:30 UTC. In addition there are a number of meetings during the week at different times as part of our commitment to inclusivity and providing opportunities across the timezones.

    💻 We are planning our next induction session later this month. Let us know if you would like to attend. We cover the tools we use as well as provide a brief introduction to some of the areas we are working on.

    ✍️ Urgent tasks/ rolling or soon deadlines

    • if you have experience of researching for or writing social media for organizations or brands, we have lots of tasks for you
    • if you are an experienced developer or familiar with explaining the tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. or GitHubGitHub GitHub 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/ process, we have release-focused tasks you can join. Contact myself (@abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) or @meher to get involved
    • are you fluent in writing and speaking another language and have good presenting skills? Then you could help the project with our onboarding videos. Contact @OGlekler and @marks99
    • interested in promoting diversity within the project and in tech through drafting social media posts? Contact @Nalininonstopnewsuk and @lmurillom

    Contributor events

    We have supported a number of small group contributor events at recent WordCamps and Meetups, as well as some led by workplaces.

    If your 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., 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. or organization is planning a WordPress contributor event for staff, come and chat to us about marketing tasks we could plan for you.

    Translation promotions

    We continue to work with the wonderful #polyglots on marketing WordPress translation opportunities and achievements. We are focused on mini WordPress Translation Day events being planned for the end of September and beginning of October 2020 to coincide with International Translation Day celebrations. Could you support this promotion?

    WPDiversity workshops promotion

    We have a social media pack available to help promote these important events by the Diverse Speaker Training Group in the Community Team. These free to attend workshops offer support for members of marginalized or underrepresented groups. Contact myself , @nalininonstopnewsuk and @lmurillom to find out how you can use the prepared social media posts in your networks.

    You can also help amplify the message by simply retweeting the messages on the WordCamp Central Twitter and Facebook accounts. They are tagged #WPDiversity in these channels. Help us promote the September 2020 events.

    Meetup marketing and glossary update

    Thanks for all the messages from about promoting Meetups and suggestions for the glossary. Please keep them coming in. Thanks to the community team for helping us promote these areas.

    Useful links

    Quarter 2 – 2020 Team updates, August 2020

    Marketing team update – July 2020

    Marketing team update – June 2020

    #marketing-team