The Global WordPress Marketing Team markets WordPress and its community to the wider world.
Agenda: Global Marketing Meeting, 13 October 2021
The meeting will start at 14:00 UTC in the marketing channel on the Make WordPress Slack.
What you will find in our detailed agenda:
– more detail and links to help those who want to contribute further to the meeting in their own timezone or immediately after the meeting
– to help provide more time in meetings for collaboration work and an easier point of reference for the links
– to help with 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)
– after the meeting, a link to the Slack meeting is added to this agenda to support asynchronous contribution
- Welcome
- (i) Attendance – who is with us? (ii) Welcoming new people, returners and visitors to the channel
Get involved information
Setting up Make WordPress Slack and WordPress.org accounts - Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions
a) Notes links for review – 6 October 2021
b) Admin recruitment – Would you like to help source the weekly agenda links and information from other teams.
It is a great way to get to know what’s happening in the project.
c) Notetakers – join our group of contributors taking part in producing notes and updates
c) GitHub – sessions on how to use this and to help those writing the how to material/ wiki are being planned. The next session will be on 27 October 2021, 17:15 UTC. - Updates relating to other Make Teams
- CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-related items (including releases, FSE, 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/)
- For awareness:
- WordPress 5.8.2 has been deferred (4 October 2021)
- DevChat agenda for 13 October 2021
- Plans for 2022 default theme for WordPress 5.9 (6 October 2021)
- The 10th challenge of the Full Site Editing (FSE) Outreach program – “Pattern Party”. Announcement post has the testing instructions. Deadline: Today – October 13, 2021. You can join in further at #fse-outreach-experiment 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.
- Do you have questions or concerns about Full Site Editing? Share the on this post by 27 October 2021.
- Block Theme Switching (8 October 2021)
- 5.8.1 release social – in review
- For awareness:
- Community-related items
- For sharing: the published Month in WordPress for September 2021
- For information:
- Documentation Team: new workflow for reporting issues, using a new GitHub Repository
- Polyglot-related marketing: Volunteers needed to support WordPress Translation Day 2021 organizers editing and subtitling videos.
- Training Team, cross-working with Marketing and 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/
- Request for feedback, wordsmithing, and elevating/amplifying the content: A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team – this is similar to Community Team’s deputies, but specific to the needs of LearnWP.
- Proposal: Ensuring high-quality video contributions to Learn WordPress – who can create courses, record well produced and high quality videos? – this has now closed and last week’s collaboration is being summarized.
- Proposal: Learner achievements on profiles – feedback requested from individual learners and employers who may review WordPress.org profiles of job applicants
- CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-related items (including releases, FSE, 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/)
- Collaboration/ Discussion
- Reaching extenders: test 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. changes. We will be discussing how to best help extenders make their test suites compatible with the modernization of the WordPress Core PHP Test Suites and drafting potential communications/ social copy. Link to working document in Slack.
- Reaching extenders: test 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. changes. We will be discussing how to best help extenders make their test suites compatible with the modernization of the WordPress Core PHP Test Suites and drafting potential communications/ social copy. Link to working document in Slack.
- Any other Marketing Team business
- People of WordPress – September’s feature on Yordan Soares
- Social Media Promotions (#WPDiversity, #WPTranslationDay, #OnlineWPMeetup)
- Yoast 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/.
- Diary Dates
Help during meetings
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.
Weekly agenda planning
Does your Make Team have an item which needs action or input from Marketing? We are working on a new form to help teams log forthcoming interview requests.
Volunteer to help in the agenda preparation in the Make WordPress Marketing Slack.
Follow agenda planning and other tasks as we add them to Rolling Tasks board in the Marketing Team’s GitHub.