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 Slack.

  • 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 Beta 3

Agenda for regular business at the Marketing Meeting

  1. Brief updates from WordCamp Europe
  2. Contributing resource highlights (more on this next week)
  3. Diversity training promotion
  4. Meetup 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

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