If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on the #marketing channel on SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. or via the team’s blog as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
1. Welcome, Introduction
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.
Last week’s notes can be read on this P2 post. Thank you @OGlekler for working on last week’s notes, and a reminder to those who have notes pending to please finish them up as soon as possible and let @lmurillom or @meher know when they’re done.
We are moving tasks from TrelloTrelloProject 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. to this GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/, and you can start following them there. There will be a demo on 17 September 2021 at 16:00 UTC.
We will be running the session live in response to feedback from contributors about the type of help they would like. Please register using this form to attend this session.
Actions:
We need testers and people who can write usage documents for the wiki. Please reply in this slack thread.
If you are more familiar with tasks in the team or have been facilitating a task, can you help with the migrationMigrationMoving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. of the files to GitHub and set up ‘how-to’ information? Please reply in the thread.
If you need accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
An email campaign to raise awareness amongst MeetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organizers has been sent.
They are still looking for feedback on Badges for Courses. The proposal is to enable learners to demonstrate what they have learned on Learn WordPress. Feedback from employers who may look at .org profiles when considering employment will be especially useful.
Training will host at least 1 subtitling session working session for LearnWP in conjunction with #polyglots Translator Day. It will be on 29 September 2021 at 10.00am UTC and there may be additional times as well.
WordCamp US 2021 – if anyone is interested in assisting with the creation of some posts for the WCUS website/blog, please contact @dansoschin in this Slack thread.
Thank you to those who amplified the posts we’ve put up on social media in the past week!
Actions:
If you have a couple of hours in the next week to help with social media posts on WordPress Translation Day, please let @lmurillom and @nalininonstopnewsuk know.
Please follow the WPTranslation Day social accounts to get updates on all the events:
The Team reps and projects and actions group have a collaboration session with the new sponsored contributors from Automattic next week.
Actions:
If you are new to the team and would like to join one of the team’s introductory or collaboration sessions,please let us know in this slack thread, and we will share dates of future events with you.
The contributor ladder/ journey working document is in GitHub in the Mapping board. Please do add your comments.
6. Diary dates
Please note this week there will be no coffee break as we are reviewing everyone’s preferred dates and times.
Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions a) Notes links for review b) Notes group recruitment c) GitHub – we are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there. There will be a demo on 17 September 2021 at 4.00pm UTC. Please let us know if you will be joining and your familiarity with GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ to help prepare the live session.
Updates relating to other Make Teams:
CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE)
Please note this week there will be no coffee break as we are still reviewing everyone’s preferred dates and times.
If you need accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Thanks to @webcommsat and @lmurillo for working on items for the agenda and liaising with other teams. Thanks to @meher and @yvettesonneveld for following up on notes and actions.
Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions a) Notes links for review b) Notes group recruitment c) GitHub – we are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there. There will be a demo on 17 September 2021 at 4.00pm UTC. Please let us know if you will be joining and your familiarity with GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ to help prepare the live session.
WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US 2021
Diary Dates
Please note this week there will be no coffee break as we are reviewing everyone’s preferred dates and times.
If you need accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Thanks to @webcommsat and @lmurillo for working on items for the agenda and liaising with other teams. Thanks to @meher for following up on notes and actions.
If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on the #marketing channel on SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. or via the team’s blog as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
1. Welcome, introduction
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.
3a. You will find the latest notes in our Notes Document for review. The link to the document can be found in this slack thread.
Thank you @ugyen for working on last week’s notes, and a reminder to those who have notes pending to please finish them up as soon as possible and let @lmurillom or @meher know when they’re done.
If you need accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
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
After every meeting, we now add a link to the start of the meeting in slack at the top of the weekly agenda on the P2P2P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. – MakeWordPres Marketing Team blog.
We are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there. There will be a demo in September 2021. More details with date and time to be announced soon.
Thanks to everyone who reshared #WPDiversity updates.
The Month in WordPress will be published on 2 September 2021.
The Month in WordPress has been published, please read it at this link.
WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US will take place online this year, on Friday, October 1 2021. Tickets are free and available on the WCUS site
2. CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE) updates
WordPress 5.8.1 RCRelease CandidateA beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. day is today, September 1, 2021.
Resharing @annezazu post from FSE channel – The monthly blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. theme meeting in #themereview will take place on September 1, 2021 at 16:00 UTC. More information can be found in this slack thread.
3. Polyglot-related marketing updates
WordPress Translation Day runs from 1 to 30 September 2021
WordPress Translation Day, which takes place across September 2021, is using a different slack this year. We will need to make the spreadsheets etc available to any additional collaborators joining us from marketing.
Action
Please follow the WPTranslation day social accounts to get updates on all the events: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Please Share, Retweet and Like the posts directly from the official channels, instead of copy-pasting the text and publishing as a new post. You can also add your own message when you share so we can get a variety of posts. Thanks!
Thank you to @webtechpooja for helping in adding the transcript for the Hindi onboarding video.
b. Any Other Business
If anyone has any update on their task which they are working on, please do let the team know in this slack thread or in the main channel of threads are difficult.
7. Diary dates
Please note this week there will be no coffee break as we are reviewing its dates and times.
If you have still not selected your preferred time slot please do submit this form. The last day for submission is 6 September 2021.
Update: Link to the start of the meeting on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Links to posts highlighted during the meeting are below.
Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions a) Notes links for review b) Notes group recruitment c) GitHub – we are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there. There will be a demo in September.
Updates relating to other Make Teams:
Community (including WPDiversity) – update via @lmurillom
CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE)
Today is WordPress 5.8.1 RCRelease CandidateA beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. day
This week the meeting will be abridged and last 30 mins due to people being away and the pandemic. It will take place in the Marketing channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., at 14:00 UTC. This week’s meeting on Wednesday will be facilitated by @lmurillom and @vimes1984. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the agenda and last week’s tasks/ work.
Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions a) Notes links for review b) Notes group recruitment c) GitHub – we are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there. There will be a demo in September.
Updates relating to other Make Teams:
community (including WPDiversity)
coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE)
Updates relating to other Make Teams: coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE), polyglots (including WPTranslationDay), community (including WPDiversity), training and Learn WP
If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on the #marketing channel on SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. or via the team’s blog as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
1. Welcome, introduction, new contributors
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. The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
A big thanks to everyone for coordinating and editing drafts from past meeting notes which will be up shortly in the P2P2P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/.. As a few people are on personal holidays and others are unwell due to Covid, we are a little behind on finalizing and transferring Notes from google docs and will post updates in the coming weeks.
Thank you to @lmurillom for drafting and publishing last week’s notes and @webcommsat for preparing the agenda with the team and other Make Teams.
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 to. We rely on this to update the final notes and to put them into our charts to show where we need extra contributors, and how we are having an input and impact on the work assigned/requested from other teams.
You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings, please contact @lmurillom and @meher. 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. Action
@webcommsat asked if anyone else has an action from recent weeks/months to update on, that did not come up later in the agenda under specific make teams. Please do feel free to add your updates in this slack thread.
Read the social media pack published in this post.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this social media pack. The collaboration task is to create an HTMLHTMLHTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. click to share links only for Twitter for each of the social posts mentioned on the pack. More details on this task can be found in this Slack thread.
@eidolonnight had some concerns about the click-to-tweet implementation. More details can be found in this Slack thread.
@webcommsat mentioned that as with amplification packs, the idea is that people will adapt the text for their networks. In terms of the click to share, this is something we are testing only to see if it can work and easily enable adaptation as there are new features coming on Twitter and Facebook. More details can be found in this Slack thread.
If any contributor to the collaborations is missing from the document, please do add your name in this Slack thread as we are trying to finalize the list and know not everyone added their details
A big thanks to everyone, especially to those who have spent a lot of hours on these and other tasks.
How do you search for WordPress new features / releases information? Fill in the form and help us share this.
GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/
You will see that thanks to the feedback and testing we have updated names of repositories and with GitHub’s new functions it will lend itself even more to taking over the majority of roles of our TrelloTrelloProject 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. board that we have been changing due to ongoing changes in the free account.
Thanks for all the reports of cards being deleted, which sadly we have no control over. But the GitHub setup will avoid a lot of this and we have done a lot of testing with those who need to give us information too, especially from CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
If you want to join any of the meetings and contribute or shadow someone, all details can be found in our calendar and our main #marketing Slack channel.
Internal actions spreadsheet:
continue to use this to help re-find messages on slack and information provided by other teams. If you love spreadsheets and want to help with this, come and join the projects and actions groups. Volunteers needed: two of our previous contributors are currently not able to give time due to the pandemic, and we would appreciate an extra hand as we work on how this integrates with how we use GitHub. More info and links at https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1628693861205500
Actions
We will be running live walkthroughs of GitHub starting next week and looking for volunteers to help write wiki content to help those less familiar with GitHub and aimed at specific tasks.
We know from our tests that this proved to be more effective in helping people use and update the tasks rather than generic help information.
We need some more hands! Please reply to this thread if you have experience writing copy for social media.
E) Any marketing and communications related updates from Core, Community, Polyglots, Training
Core team
Please share this later call on Full Site Editing. Thanks to @annezazu for highlighting.
Training Team
Updates from the Training Team Reps via: @courane01
Who can Learn help – think of it like our audience/user type/customer avatarAvatarAn avatar is an image or illustration that specifically refers to a character that represents an online user. It’s usually a square box that appears next to the user’s name.
We’d like to collaborate with marketing around the keywords for lesson plans. These plans will form the basis of other media content on the site. Each month we’ll have several new lessons. Ideally SEO research should be done in advance. Ex: Query loop lesson plan – what keywords are people using for this functionality? And GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ has renamed this already I think, so I’d expect the new name in 5.9.
Content audit plugin request – did we want to finish how that proposal is drafted? Target audience: any devs (ideally existing dev teams) to help build this out. We met about this roughly a month ago – before the revision tool preview.
We’ve got an upcoming work day for captioning all the videos on Learn for accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility). Would you like to help promote that?
More details on the SEO phrases for Lesson plans can be found in this Slack thread.
Polyglots TeamPolyglots TeamPolyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. & WPTD Team/ WordPress Translation Day 2021
If you have questions about the event as a prospective attendee after reading the Community post and the event page, please let @jillbinder know.
If this is an area you are interested in supporting, please contact @nalininonstopnewsuk in the Slack channel or on the p2 blog post.
Community Team-led/ MeetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. Newsletter
A lot of people had volunteered for this task but we have not heard back from everyone. We do understand that there may have been job changes including outside the sector, impact from the pandemic, work crises or family demands. We appreciate letting the team know on tasks please and we will try and support anyone needing extra assistance on the task. We wish everyone well and hope they are safe.
Actions
We need volunteers for this task. If you have experience in writing and editing and can help us catch up, please do let us know in this thread or in coming weeks in the marketing channel on slack. Experienced copy-editor and image editing help will be particularly appreciated.
5. Any other business
A) Visual indicator for skills required for tasks
Anna: can we create or use an emoji to add to each task update on slack to show what skill levels were needed. This could work like the idea proposed for GitHub tooI and what was done by the WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe contributor team this year.
Actions Contributors needed to help create this working with the contributor ladder.
Contributors needed to help further with the GitHub board being developed and tested.
B) Returning more to pre-covid information provision for weekly meetings
Changes the team made in response to feedback and requests for help:
adding more info into our slack meetings in response to requests for this so that people can contribute async due to timezone issues made more difficult with home and work changes caused by the pandemic and lockdowns/ self-isolating
this also means that it can take a lot longer to run through the meetings
Solution proposed: we have piloted adding a lot more of the info into the agendas on the blog site and, where possible, asking task updates to add to the google doc ahead of the meeting. This also reduces any pressure people feel to type or dictate fast during the meeting. We would like to try and return to meetings completing within the hour and any big collaboration moved to the end of the meeting making it easier for people joining from other teams. Further details in meeting slack https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1628696923251000 Feedback requested on solution: if this causes anyone a difficulty or if particular information would still be useful during the meeting.
4. 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 will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
The weekly meeting will take place in the Marketing channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., at 14:00 UTC. We publish a link to the Slack discussion on this post after the meeting.
meetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. presentation
Any marketing and communications related updates from coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., polyglots, training