webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 11:13 pm on November 22, 2021
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2022 Team Nominations for Marketing

This post continues the call for Marketing team reps for 2022. Details of how you can nominate and a timetable are in the sections below. We’ve included some background to recognize the thinking and efforts across the team to help get us to this stage.

We are posting our next Update and posts on what the team has been doing to help encourage contributors to get involved as a team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts., or in the many other ways to take part and learn more about different parts of the project.

Thanks to the other teams who have shared their write-ups and election processes, so we can adapt them below for marketing, and to Chloe and Josepha for their information to help finalize the arrangements today.

Team rep is a role focused on co-ordination and administration

For more information about these roles in the WordPress project, you can check the article about what it means to be a Team Rep. In summary from this post.

Team Rep is a leadership role that is mostly administrative in nature; it is not a Lead role. Letting go of the Team Rep title is not a loss of status, just a handing off of responsibilities. Someone who is a leader in a team can lead whether they are doing the team rep job or not.

Each team has team representatives (reps). Team reps are responsible for communicating on behalf of their team to other contributor teams and sharing this information back with their own team. They help represent the team internally, collaborate with other teams, raise, manage the meetings with contributions from others in the team, contribute to the agenda and notes, and address any issues.

How did we encourage and elect Marketing team reps in the past?

In Marketing, we have had a hybrid system during the last two years as we have wanted to move towards elections like some other teams. Since the start of the COVID pandemic, we expanded this approach on the path to full elections and to provide support and encouragement to anyone interested in becoming a team rep or another co-ordination and reporting role, such as, task co-ordinators and what we call in the team, our projects and actions groups.

In this hybrid approach, team members have been asked regularly to highlight contributors, suggest people for team reps, or put themselves forward for roles to help co-ordinate tasks or the team’s activities in specific areas. These nominations have been collated by the Team Reps and a check done with the person nominated to confirm they were happy to stand. When vacancies have arisen in the last two to three years, these have been allocated based on these nominations/ suggestions.

@yvettesonneveld, I, and others have suggested we move towards the approach used in some of the other teams and asked about a shared approach across the Make Teams to make it easier. So it is exciting that now all teams will be able to have elections. We realize that there have been some reservations about moving to a regular election and reducing the number of team reps, but we hope that together as a team we can work through any of these issues.

Please know that we continue to value everyone who is co-ordinating, organizing or helping on a task.

Six team reps and support group

Marketing has traditionally had a larger number of Team Reps to be able to co-ordinate and keep awareness of activity in the other Make Teams, and more similar to the Deputies idea in the Community team. This has been supported by wider projects and actions groups, often enabling the team to bring in specific skills, enable a greater welcome and support to team members and new contributors, and learn and share more about the WordPress community and contributor teams. This combined approach has been able to help address:

– the global nature of the team and wide skillsbase

– share the workload and encourage sustainability

– efforts to grow the diversity in terms of where the team members are based, skillset, and improve opportunities for asynchronous contribution for those in different timezones than the main meetings or for contributors with family, caring or work demands

Due to the pressures from the pandemic, we currently have maintained this larger Team Reps group plus our projects and actions groups. They all work together with the task co-ordinators, and the wider team is encouraged to join in, attend, input into all discussions.

The new project mapping system on the Marketing Team GitHub was also designed to enable this further. It will help as we move towards a smaller Team Rep group supported by the projects and actions group, and various task sub groups.

Aligning the team reps system across the Contributor Teams

Josepha would like to see two to three Team Reps in each Contributor Team. In her message to the Marketing Team, she has suggested to aim to ‘a mix of company sponsored and self sponsored folks’.

Having more than one Team Rep allows the individuals to share responsibilities, divide tasks and cover each other when needed.

As highlighted during the weekly Marketing meeting in the last few weeks, all WordPress Teams will be using an annual election process to select the new Team Reps (Josepha’s post). Each person will need to stand for nomination per year. This means that all existing team reps positions, including those recently nominated and appointed, will stand for election on a yearly cycle.

How do I nominate someone?

The team can have two to three Team Reps every year.

If you would like to stand or know someone who would be a great fit, please nominate them or yourself by adding a comment to this post. If you would like to chat more about the role or nominate someone privately, please contact one of the existing Marketing Team Reps (names on this link) who will be really pleased to share their experience.

Remember that, if someone nominates you, but you don’t feel like accepting at this time, it is completely fine to decline. Your nomination will be considered by the whole team only if you explicitly agree to it.

Timetable for nominations and elections

Following the model being used in other teams and we are aware that there are some major festivals and ongoing school holidays for those with other responsibilities, we want to allow for everyone to be able to be nominated and vote.

3 November 2021: further share the planned timetable and post, and receive any comments.

From 5 November 2021: encourage nominations and promote in the Marketing Team 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/., with a regular open drop-in by 10 November for anyone who would like to consider being nominated or who has been by someone else. Previous team reps will be invited to come and share their experience, if they are available.

30 November 2021: close nominations. Share a list of nominations in the Slack and update this post. A link to how to vote, if needed, will be shared during the global Marketing Team meeting on Wednesday 1 December 2021 (updated date). This will give anyone unable to attend an opportunity to vote after the meeting.

10 December 2021: Close poll
(This is in line with other teams which are keeping their polls open until December 10, 2021 at 12:00 UTC to take account for the US Thanksgiving holiday and the WordPress next release. This timetable, draft post, and information for nominations were shared for comment and awareness/ consider nominations in the Marketing Team meeting on 3, 10 and 17 November 2021)

Please do considering standing, and do vote in an election to continue to support the team. This will build on the progress and achievements of the team gained with thanks to the efforts and dedication of all the team reps, members and wider project efforts since the Marketing team began.

Celebration date: invite all the previous team reps to a social and thank you on behalf of the team and community.

1 January 2022: As with other teams, like CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., new reps will start their role at the beginning of 2022.

Nominations

Nominations will remain open until 30 November 2021, 12:00 UTC. Please add your nominations as a comment on this post. You can nominate yourself or someone else if you think they would be a great fit.

Updates from meetings / drop-in 24 Nov:
– names will be published only if the nominee has confirmed they are happy to stand. We would like to share in Slack a list of all those nominated, including those who decided they did not wish to go forward at this time.
– you can still choose to stand/ confirm a team rep election nomination for a future election year if you opt not to be put forward for 2022. Please know that declining to stand will not be a barrier to ongoing involvement in the team / other Make teams, task sub groups, projects and action groups.
– you can also have informal chats with the existing team reps or the projects and action groups members if you are unsure about standing
– members can nominate more than one person
– you don’t need to be in a particular timezone nor country/ continent to be a team rep. Like now, team reps come from different continents and timezones
– you need to be on the Make WordPress Slack

Announcements

We will announce the results at the next team meeting after the election closes on 10 December 2021!

If you have any questions, please ask in the comments or in the Marketing Slack.

Thanks to @webcommsat, @yvettesonneveld, @meher, @lmurillom, @eidolonnight, @vimes1984, Dan Soschin and others in the marketing team meetings who collaborated or peer reviewed the nominations post before publication and sent information/ Q&As for updates.

#nominations, #marketing-team

#team-reps

Nicholas Garofalo 2:32 pm on October 21, 2021
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Make Marketing Workshop: Contributor Ladder

On Tuesday, 13 October 2021, a collection of Marketing Team reps and members attended a workshop with Josepha and Chloé to identify and map the various ways people contribute to Make Marketing. Everyone met virtually in Google Meet and a shared Mural board.

Attendees: @chanthaboune, @cbringmann, @webcommsat, @oglekler, @yvettesonneveld, @femkreations, @vimes1984, @nalininonstopnewsuk, @lmurillom, @meher, @callye, @dansoschin, @eidolonnight

Steps we took

  1. Josepha gave us a quick introduction to using Mural.
  2. We, as a group, added granular Marketing tasks that exist today. As an example, “People of WordPress” consists of numerous individual actions, each of which would be added as an individual card: draft copy, edit images, publish the post, etc.
  3. As a group, we sorted tasks into quadrants for difficulty and impact and then discussed their placement in the following order. These tasks were sorted based on how they are now, and not how we would like them to be. 
    1. High impact + high difficulty: These are tasks which are important to the WordPress project and community, but also difficult in that they may require a lot of time or resources like certain software.
    2. High impact + low difficulty: These tasks are high importance and relatively easy.
    3. Low impact + high difficulty: These tasks, while not typically important, do require substantial time and effort to complete.
    4. Low impact + low difficulty: These tasks are both low in important as well as difficulty.
  4. After organizing the first grid was complete, Josepha copied the cards to the second grid. We then sorted everything again, this time for access and knowledge required.
    1. High access + high knowledge required
    2. High access + low knowledge required
    3. Low impact + high knowledge required
    4. Low impact + low knowledge required
  5. The group had a few insights after this exercise:
    1. Most high-impact tasks require historical knowledge as well.
    2. The majority of tasks do not require high access.
    3. There is a good mix of impactful tasks which require neither high amounts of access nor high amounts of prior knowledge. This is great for new contributors, and we’re already seeing them take some of these on.
  6. The meeting wrapped up with the Mural board left open for additional comments and review, just in case we forgot anything.

Next steps

  1. Team members who could not participate live should review notes and the Mural for our next Marketing Team meeting.
  2. Josepha will review the Mural boards. She will be looking specifically at the types of tasks that are very high-impact, or have high access required. The goal is to have a healthy number of sponsored contributors to take these on.
  3. Josepha will observe how certain tasks could be re-categorized with different expectations and/or processes.
  4. These insights will be shared in a future team meeting and the Make Marketing P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/..
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#contributing, #marketing, #marketing-team, #meeting-notes, #new-contributors

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 1:44 pm on December 1, 2021
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Help contribute to social media materials for 5.9 release

When you can help?

Global marketing meeting from Wednesdays 8 December and 15 December 2021, at 14:00 UTC (time tbc on whether this will be extended to 15:00 UTC), drop-in sessions, and asynchronously during this period.

What will we be collaborating on?

We will be researching and writing social media draft copy for the WordPress 5.9 release. As in previous releases recently and promotions, we will draft posts for editing into a social media amplification pack. We will cover in the main Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn channels. We hope to much more closely align this with the work in #Training and #Documentation.

The posts will be able to be reshared and adapted by others in their own networks, by meetups and users wanting to share the benefits, latest features and showcase the community of contributors.

The main confirmed information source will be the final version of the About Page text, which should be committed later today for Release CandidateRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. 1. We will also have a contact of the technical writer this time to help verify items too. Thanks to the group who worked on the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. information flow to marketing, and the revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. on this to reflect on the 5.8 experience .

Can you give a few hours to help in the live collaborations or asynchronously?

Please let @webcommsat (@ abhanonstopnews 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/.), @marybaum, or @yvettesonneveld if you can help with this.

You can let us know in the thread of this message or the Marketing channel on the Make WordPress Slack channel.

We welcome people joining to shadow during the meeting too. Just let us know so that the team can check-in with you during the meeting and support you.

Thanks to everyone for your involvement in supporting the next WordPress release.

#5-9

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 1:56 pm on December 1, 2021  

Agenda: Global Marketing Team Meeting, 1 December 2021

Today’s Global Marketing Team meeting will be focused on collaborations and answering any queries on tasks.
Link to the start of the meeting held on the Make WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Marketing channel.

  1. Welcome
  2. (a) Who is with us (b) New people to the channel (c) Social, fun question
  3. Notes and final additions for the Update
  4. Updates on 5.9
    1. Help us test 5.9 features https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/11/30/help-test-wordpress-5-9-features/
    2. WordPress 5.9 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 was released and is available for testing. Thanks to everyone who took part with this before and yesterday. https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/wordpress-5-9-beta-1/ 
    3. A look at WordPress 5.9 https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/a-look-at-wordpress-5-9/
  5. State of the WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. update – meeting Slack link on the social media information
  6. WordPress Annual Survey – meeting Slack link to the information
  7. People of WordPress update – latest feature
  8. Month in WordPress Newsletter update – GitHub card
  9. Team nominations update and meeting times – Slack link to item
  10. Collaborations (below)

10. a) More collaboration on the contributor ladder

We hope to be able to do some more on this today and have been trying to sort out some tech access issues. Even if we can’t access the board, we will be able to explore some of the questions and chart where some of the cards could go on the board.
If we can not do this in today’s meeting, we will arrange a new date and find a date that works better for more people.
More details – the original post. UPDATE: Nicholas will be adding a new screenshot to the post after the collaboration and some notes. Please do add further comments directly on the post before the meeting on 8 December 2021.

10. b) Learn WordPress social media collaboration task [reminder of this task for asynchronous contribution]

To continue to draft and review social media posts for a direct usage on channels and available to be adapted.

Channels: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

  • Draft posts on the video workshops in the 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/ card (linked below) for these three channels.
  • Mark up items which would benefit from an image or where an image exists which could be sized and used.
  • Include any social media tags following a search on those channels, that could be relevant. The main tag we use is #LearnWP

Resources

The Google document we will be using will be shared in the meeting and has been posted at 13:00 UTC in the channel.

The video workshops to be promoted and any further discussion items for the card (Marketing GitHub).

Links to more on this collaboration and other items for this week will be updated on this post later today for anyone wanting to contribute async. Thanks in advance.

10. c) About page / social media / working with Training, Documentation and CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. on 5.9

We will cover an update on 5.9. From next week, as the About page content is coming together, we will be able to start more work on the draft socials posts and search. More details.

The next catch up on the About Page will be in the Core Slack channel on Friday 3 December 2021, at 19:00 UTC. Link to the beginning of the collaboration in the Make WordPress Core channel.

Thanks to @yvettesonneveld, @meher, @nalininonstopnewsuk, @lmurillom, and @marybaum for additional contributions to this agenda.

#marketing-team

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 11:00 am on November 3, 2021  

Agenda: Global Marketing Team Meeting, 3 November 2021


The meeting will start at 14:00 UTC in the marketing channel on the Make WordPress Slack. All welcome.

Link to the start of the meeting on the Marketing 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/. to help with async contribution.

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
  1. Welcome
  2. (i) 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
  3. Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions
    a) Notes from previous meetings for review
    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 for coming weeks – 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 practical session will be 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/: we are looking for a new date as the previous one clashed one school holidays and the changes with daylight saving. A new poll for a replacement date will be shared.] Please sign-up to help with training planning. This session is hoped to be focused on those new to using GitHub. You will need a GitHub account set up and available to use in the online video session. Please feel free just to get stuck in if you are comfortable and to let us know on dates.
  4. 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/)
    • Community-related items involving the Marketing team
      • WPDiversity
      • Month in WordPress, October 2021
      • 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 newsletter, November 2021
    • 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/
      • Feedback/ promotions requests
      • A sprint is planned on November 10-12 to explore a dedicated volunteer program for the Training team, similar to the Deputy program in the Community Team – comments from the Marketing and Community collaboration have been shared on this post. This program 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 summary from the collaboration shared.
  5. Collaboration/ Discussion
    • Team reps nominations post
    • Next update post
    • Learn WordPress social media drafting on new lesson plans etc. We will be continuing the work on this. New contributors welcome.
    • 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.
  6. Any other Marketing Team business
    • People of WordPress – October 2021’s feature on WordPress and e-commerce specialist Ronald Gijsel
    • Social Media Promotions
  7. 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 that 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.

Thanks to @yvettesonneveld, @meher, @nalininonstopnewsuk, and @webcommsat for contributions to the agenda and links this week.

#LearnWP, #marketing, #marketing-team

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 2:51 am on December 2, 2020
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Get Involved – starter tasks

This post is regularly updated by the team – last update July 2021

Do you want to be involved in this area of WordPress? Have you pledged to contribute to the Marketing team? Whether you’re new to the channel or are a returning contributor, there are so many ways for you to get involved.

Available tasks to help new and returning contributors

We are updating tasks, and and to promote access and inclusivity, we also make links available on this blog in addition to our weekly meetings and project tools. Below are just some of the ways you can get involved. Some of the links below go to the Marketing Team channel 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/.. If you do not already have an account on Slack, you can follow the information on our contributor pages and videos to help you set this up.

Easy first tasks

1) Collate a spreadsheet list of WordCamps running contributor events

What to include:

  • Published WordCamps which will be running a contributor event in the next six months from December going into 2021;
  • Language-based WordCamps. For each please include the dates (year-month-date), link to the website info, contact for the contributor event, language of the event. Please also add columns for ‘marketing table’, ‘contributors supporting’ and ‘extra info’, as well as any others you will think will be useful.
  • For reference, a link to this information will be added to the TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. card to help you find it in the future.
  • There is a Google sheet to get you started.
  • Schedule from WordCamp CentralWordCamp Central Website for all WordCamp activities globally. https://central.wordcamp.org includes a list of upcoming and past camp with links to each.: https://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/

Once complete, this will be merged with other data being collected and added 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/.

More details: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1606748733271400

2) Create a Resources file to showcase 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. promotions and help smaller camps and teams with ideas for images, logos and visuals

There is a Trello card for reference, and the Google Drive to store items is linked in the card.

Who might like to do this task:

  • First easy task for an individual or a small group. There is help available for drafting a post later on in the task.
  • Also good for someone with an interest in design or in creating structures and resources. Specialist design experience not necessary.
  • Could be done async to suit your timezone and work patterns

Useful source links:

More details: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1606749787280300

Deadline for resources phase: (revised) 1 September 2021

3) How to get started with WordPress as a developer and links to resources on WordPress.org, WordPress.TV and Learn WordPress

This task is being updated to create content as part of the release, Learn WordPress, Training Team and dev chat promotions.

What is needed:

  • A person or a small group with a dev background to take this task forward
  • A previous outline is on the Trello card.
  • This would work alongside the questions and answers for developers and be supported by the group working on that too
  • Promoting the resources that are available and being developed for Learn WordPress, #Training Team, WordPress.tv (prioritizing the list of videos which market WordPress as a platform), and help show a longer term journey to show developers how they can keep up to date and get involved with the release, add tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets and attend dev chats.

More details: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1606752598292600

4) WordPress Resolutions for 2022

What is needed:

Two to three people to work on updating this and creating a draft post for the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/..

Who might like to do this task:

Much work has already been done on this so it would be a good first task for someone to join.

5) Google Sheets help / tips doc, screenshots and screen recording

What is needed:

A guide for us and for the Contributor Events onboarding guide on GitHub (which is shared with WordCamps and other teams).

Who might like to do this task:

New contributors or those who have pledged to get started.

What you need:

  • Working knowledge of Google Sheets, how to add / delete columns, wrap text, freeze rows, add basic filters. If you have experience of adding automations and formulas, this would be an added bonus, but not essential to contribute to this task
  • Can be done async to fit your own time zone
  • Help is available. If you would like to do part of this task, eg the documentation and screenshots, but like some help with the screen recording, let us know. Facilitator for taking this task forward will be @meher.
  • We can put you into contact with those updating our various Google Sheets to help produce.

More details: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1606754449307500

Deadline for completion: updated to 1 September 2021

6) Need volunteer with hosting onboarding sessions for new contributors

What is needed?

The WordPress Marketing team regularly conducts live and recorded sessions to help relatively new contributors get onboard with the team’s tasks. Now that we have figured out a workflow that seems to work, we would love to extend our team with one more person.

  • For this role, we expect to set aside between 1 (average) and 3 (for the weeks with a training) hours a week.
  • We are looking for someone who would like to help with some assistance at first.
  • Reaching out to new contributors, sending reminders and slide decks, and helping with promoting the sessions.

Who might like to do this task?

  • To make scheduling meetings easy, we do have a preference for someone living in a timezone near UTC +1 and UTC +5. Right now, we are meeting weekly at 7:00 AM or 9:00 AM UTC. 

More details: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1622645546365300?thread_ts=1622645245.360400&cid=C0GKJ7TFA

How you can get involved

These are just some of the tasks available for those new to the channel, returning contributors and those who have pledged time to the team.

If you would like any help, the team reps are: @yvettesonneveld , @webcommsat, @oglekler, @harryjackson1221, @maedahbatool, @meher. In addition, members of our projects and actions groups can help.

We meet on Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC in the marketing channel (times changes in October and March to accommodate for daylight saving times).

To enquire about the next induction sessions to help new contributors, join our weekly meetings on Slack.

#marketing-team

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 8:40 am on July 28, 2021  

Agenda: Global Marketing Team Meeting, 28 July 2021


Update: link to meeting 28 July 2021

The weekly meeting will take place in the Marketing channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., at 14:00 UTC.

  1. Welcome
  2. (i) Attendance. (ii) New people and returners to the channel
    Get involved information
    Setting up Make WordPress Slack and WordPress.org accounts
    Examples of starter tasks
  3. Follow-ups, notetaker recruitment, actions
  4. Updates on WordPress Release 5.8 and FSE (if available)
    • follow-ups on collaborations – background to resources including social media amplification pack, informal media monitoring, and what’s your favorite feature compilation
    • 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. presentation
  5. WordPress Translation Day 2021 update – @evarlese. More details and application form for organizers (deadline 1 August 2021). Original post on 2021 plans.
  6. Diverse Speaker Training Team workshop promotions (awareness update only). Please reshare posts once available with your networks once available on WordCamp Twitter, LinkedIn and posts on the WordCamp Facebook page
  7. Updates on other tasks
    • People of WordPress deadlines
  8. Short demonstration of the post revision tool and ideas for how it could be potentially used for marketing team, followed by discussion – @courane01
  9. Diary dates
  10. Any other Marketing Team business

Deadline for Month in WordPress is 2 Aug 2021

Deadline for Meetup Newsletter is 11 Aug 2021

#marketing-team

#WPDiversity

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 8:33 pm on June 15, 2021
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Agenda: Global Marketing Meeting – 16 June 2021

Update: link to meeting 16 June 2021

This week’s Marketing Meeting will focus on the forthcoming 5.8 release, in addition to a shortened more regular agenda.

16 June 2021: Collaboration on the About page to coincide with the Marketing Team meeting starting at 14:00 UTC. The features list will be shared at the meeting together with the list of dev notes for reference.

Ticket with the draft designs

All the following sessions will take place in the Marketing channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

  • 14:00 UTC – 15:00 UTC: Collaboration. We will use tools: Google docs and Slack
  • 15:00 UTC – 15:30 UTC: A shortened normal Marketing Team meeting will take place (more details below)
  • 15:30 UTC – 16:30 UTC: Collaboration including drop-in for release leads (release leads please feel free to contribute to this asynchronously before the meetings above or continue straight from the earlier session)
  • 19:00 UTC – 20:00 UTC: Additional collaboration including drop-in for release leads

About page – next steps for the text

Josepha has proposed the following cycle for the work on the text for the About page for the 5.8 release.

  • 16 June: multi-collaboration sessions
  • 17-18 June: fact-checking
  • 21 June: review
  • 22 June: add to BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 3

Agenda for regular business at the Marketing Meeting

  1. Brief updates from 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
  2. Contributing resource highlights (more on this next week)
  3. Diversity training promotion
  4. 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. promotions
  5. Learn WordPress audit tool proposal and potential benefits for Marketing (we will spend more time on this at next week’s meeting)
  6. Diary dates

#5-8, #marketing-team, #wprelease

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 3:06 pm on June 2, 2021
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Suggestions for external channels on FSE info

Help us share the news about Full Site Editing (FSE). We have been compiling a list of potential external channels where the project can share updates and information on FSE.

@chanthaboune is seeking additional suggestions for the following audiences: podcasters/ bloggers/ newsletters/ trainers etc, who either:

1) provide content specifically for theme and 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 creators, or

2) have a community of theme and plugin creators that they already foster

Please add your suggestions in the comments below by 9pm UTC on Friday 4 June 2021.

Thanks in advance!

#fse

Meher Bala 9:56 pm on May 25, 2021
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Notes: Global Marketing meeting 19th May 2021

If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on the #marketing channel 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/. 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

  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: @webcommsat
    3. Meeting notes: @ugyensupport, @meher, @webcommsat, @cbringmann
    4. Follow up actions: projects and actions group 
  2. Attendees Slack Thread
  3. Welcoming new contributors – New Attendees Welcome Thread

@meher covered 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) and inclusion support today. If anyone has an accessibility issue or needs some help with using one of the contributor tools, please let us know.

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

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