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1. Welcome, introduction, new contributors

1. These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads after the meeting and send your updates. 
   1. The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
   2. Meeting led by: @nalininonstopnewsuk, @oglekler, @webcommsat 
   3. Meeting notes and follow-up actions: @lmurillom, @meher, @webcommsat, @oglekler
2. Attendees Slack Thread
3. Welcoming new contributors – New Attendees Welcome Thread

@nalininonstopnewsuk has been supporting members and reviewing systems in this area. If anyone has 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) issue or needs some help with using one of the contributor tools, please let us know or include her (@Nalini on Slack) in your message.

Get involved – starter tasks for new and returning contributors, and those who have pledged to support the team and need assistance to get started

2. Meeting Notes

A big thanks to @meher, @oglekler and @lmurillom, for contributing to drafting, follow ups and actions from last week’s meeting notes. Note: Please review and add comments in suggestion mode – link in the Slack. These notes will be updated as appropriate.

A reminder to check the draft notes is circulated at the meeting every week. Please review and check your WordPress.org ID is listed on collaborations that you have actively contributed too. We rely on this to update the final notes and to put into our charts to show where we need extra contributors, and how we are having an input and impact onto the work assigned / requested from other teams. 

Rota for drafting notes:

• 14 April 2021: @meher
• 21 April 2021: @maedahbatool
• 28 April 2021: @YashwardhanRana

Actions:

You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed. We are excited to continue to expand our contributors who are helping draft the notes!

3. Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

Task Updates

People of WordPress

Update via: @webcommsat

• The People of WordPress meeting took place today, 7 April 2021 at 13:00 UTC. Thanks to @webcommsat and @nalininonstopnewsuk for leading the two calls and to those who assisted with IT for improved access. Thanks to @megphillips91, @oglekler, @meher, @yvettesonneveld, @geheren, @ashiquzzaman, @chaion07, @lmurillom, @sthakor, Laura, Roberto, Simone and others attending parts of the meeting on Slack, audio and video which they were able to. If you missed something, do let us know, and we will be glad to help. A followup meeting will be held with some of the US contributors. @michelleames, @marybaum and others who could not do the earlier time due to their timezone.

Actions

• Everyone has been allocated a group to start work on for at least one feature. We need first initial drafts and any issues back in two weeks (21 April 2021). Let us know if you could not make this first draft deadline. @meher and and @nalininonstopnewsuk will be circulating the documents for where you can work on the first drafts
• If anyone with a significant editorial background who volunteered was unable to join the meeting, please reach out to @nalininonstopnewsuk, @meher or @webcommsat and we can let you know the next update and catch you up.

Social Media Promotions: FSE, #OnlineWPMeetup, #LearnWP

Update via: @lmurillom  

• A big thank you to everyone working on this cycle of promotions and planning
• Thank you to those who are amplifying the most recent FSE Call for Testing, and Online Meetups on social.  

Actions

• We are still short of help on graphics works for this. We have had a number of volunteers who have not been able to give time at present due to the pandemic. This is now urgent. Thanks to @megphillips91 who has offered to create process actions in Photoshop to assist.  
• Please share and participate in the most recent FSE Call for Testing on LinkedIn and those published on Twitter. Look for the #FullSiteEditing hashtag too.
• Please share the the weekly #OnlineWPMeetup roundup on LinkedIn and the Meetups shared on the @wordpressevents Twitter feed.

Contributor Onboarding Guides 

Update via: @oglekler and @marks99

• @herculespekkas did the translation and checked it with @ifrountas as GTEGeneral Translation Editor General Translation Editor – One of the polyglots team leads in a geographic region https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. Further information at https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/glossary/#general-translation-editor..
• @makarand did the translation in Marathi and he also was GTE.
• @sippis found a volunteer for the Finnish version and is still seeking a volunteer for Swedish. 
• Captions have been translated. 
• We are following up with Patrick Edgett who has volunteered to help.
• Contributing Team of WCEU 2021 lead @webcommsat is working on Onboarding videos as well. 
• We are very pleased to welcome many of our WCEU organizers to work alongside the marketing team on onboarding video and other contributor events/ getting started communications.

Actions: 

• We are looking for help with the contributor orientation tool. Could you take part with a small task group? We especially want to involve new contributors in this. Let @oglekler and @webcommsat know if you have time to give to this in the next two months. 
• If you speak Portuguese (Brazil) and can help with the onboarding video for this locale, please reach out to @oglekler.
• If you speak Persian and can help with the onboarding video for this locale, please reach out to @oglekler.
• If you can help with a language that is not in this playlist, contact @oglekler to find out how to get started contributing in your own language.

Translation Day mini events planning

Update via: @nalininonstopnewsuk, @webcommsat and @meher

• Thanks to everyone who filled in the form on potential mini translation day events or interest. 
• The consensus was to do a promotion to coincide with WCEU potentially in June and focus energies on mini events all being in the week of International Translation Day at the end of September. 
• We had 48 responses on this question on the form, which reinforces the previous comments and the ongoing demands and effect of the pandemic. 
• @nao confirmed she is available to collaborate on this in early June, but later on may be too busy for her with WC Japan (June 20-26) and the Japanese translation workshop.

Actions: 

• We will liaise with @evarlese and others on these dates and the feedback on the form that has been running since the last translation days in October, and work with @nao around her availability. 
  
  DevChat
• Update from @nalininonstopnewsuk – we have a group who attend weekly and if any of the marketing team are around and wanted to shadow, let me know. One of the devs in our team can help you get started.

4. Collaborations and Planning

Topic: Flow chart for gathering information on Releases

Task: Document the current information flow when a WordPress version is released, and then suggest an improved flow to aid in Q&As, marketing materials, linking with Learn WordPress regarding releases and more.

• Thanks to @vimes1984 @marks99 @nalininonstopnewsuk @marybaum @meher @lmurillom @oglekler who have been working on this with @webcommsat. 
• We are a little behind schedule due to a number of external issues in the team due to the pandemic. 
• If you can help, let us know in this slack thread.
• More updates on this next week.

Topic: Content Series Brainstorm

Task:  We are brainstorming potential content series for 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//news. These should be meaningful, engaging, relevant to our audience and be produced through sustainable and repeatable processes.  

Actions:

• Please continue to add to the shared document asynchronously.  

5. Forthcoming Diary Dates

If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Upcoming Diary Dates are in this dedicated post. 

A reminder about our Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations and social activities. 

6. AOB and Further Action Items

• 5.7 release Q and As: has anyone moved this document? It is not in our shared folder. If you have edited it and may have moved it accidentally, please let @meher know.
  
• Focus on FSE: we have continued to collaborate with other teams, and Josepha has shared some thoughts on the importance of showing the WordPress community and wider about the many benefits. Please continue to help us share the FSE collaborations with @annezazu and improve the understanding of it for non tech users in the team, which we can then share with the FSE for any wider use they may have for it.
  
• Month in WordPress in April 2021: we are now onto April’s newsletter supporting @harishanker and the community team. Do you have anything else that needs to go in this edition? We will also be working with them in the future on some ideas for making the newsletter easier to read and more visual. We are gathering volunteers for this and will be talking with the design and 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. team. Working document link in Slack.

• The 2020 Annual Meetup Organizer Survey has been published. 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, please answer it and share it with your co-organizers!

• Month in WordPress for March 2021 is out!
  
• WCEU 2021 has opened their call for speakers. Deadline is 24 April 2021. Remember the Marketing team will be present at 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 a few of our contributors are actively involved in the organisation of the event – make sure you attend!
  
• If you are facilitating a starter task, please let us know what updates are needed for our starter task page and any extra contributors needed in our Monday update on the channel.
  
• We have a weekly, relaxed coffee break and a drop-in session where you can just come along. Thanks to all those who have volunteered to run relaxation type content at these sessions. .

Global meeting times

Following feedback and surveys, we are changing the Global Marketing meeting time to accommodate as many people as possible.

• 6 January 2021 to 24 March 2021 inclusive, 15:00 UTC
• 31 March 2021 until 31st October 2021 inclusive, 14:00 UTC
• 3 November 2021 until Daylight Saving Time change in Europe, 15:00 UTC

Next Marketing meeting

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in the #marketing channel on Slack.

Does your task need some time in a future agenda? Contact @lmurillom on #marketing channel on Slack.

➤ How to get started?

If you were in the Marketing Team meeting and would like some extra help to get started to contribute to the project, contact @maedahbatool for information on future Contributors Onboarding events.