Agenda and links: Global marketing meeting 1 September 2021

Update: Link to the start of the meeting 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/. Links to posts highlighted during the meeting are below.

Thanks to @webcommsat, @lmurillom and @meher for preparation on the agenda.

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, 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.
4. Updates relating to other Make Teams: 
   • Community (including WPDiversity) – update via @lmurillom
   • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE)
     • social media amplification pack for WordPress Release 5.8
     • informal media monitoring
     • what’s your favorite feature 
     • how do you search for WordPress Release Information
     • Today is WordPress 5.8.1 RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. day
   • Polyglot-related marketing – update from @webcommsat and @nalininonstopnewsuk
     • WordPress Translation Day runs from 1 to 30 September 2021
     • Local mini-events for #WPTranslationDay are being added to this page
     • Global events for WordPress Translation Day
   • Training team
     • Learner Achievement Badges
     • Brand Guidelines Proposal – relate to LearnWP only
     • Translation Days
     • Windows Testers needed for Dev Testing Environment
     • Proposed Sprint for September.
5. Collaboration: we will work on social media for creating a social media pack for WP Translation Day 2021.
6. Any other Marketing Team business
   1. Onboarding videos
   2. AOB
7. Diary dates – please note there is no coffee break this week as the team reviews dates for the next six months