Diary dates and forward planning as at w/c 3 August 2020.
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 5 August 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress Slack #marketing channel.
If you are reading this agenda on another website and not the make.wordpress.org, please note that we may not be aware of any responses or offers to contribute you make on other sites.
If you are reading this from other Make Teams or are not yet active in the Marketing Team, we have included ways you can get involved in the agenda below.
Agenda
- Welcome, attendance, notes (including a review of draft summaries and actions in the Google document).
We encourage asynchronous contributions in Slack for the 48 hours after a meeting (until 14:00 UTC on Fridays) to help with different timezones. - Quick peek in our daily lives
- A special welcome to new attendees
Task, working groups and team celebration
4. Celebration time – let’s celebrate our WordPress Marketing accomplishment!
This will be combined with highlights from last week’s collaborations to allow us more time for collaboration work.
Summaries of tasks from the last week
5. Onboarding videos
These videos are being added to the WordPress Contributor Day Handbook on GitHub.
Get involved: If you can have a strong presenting voice and can help with doing voiceovers and liaise with your local GTE on translated captions for these screen recording videos, please contact @webcommsat, @OGlekler or @marks99.
Examples of the step-by-step video guides to help new contributors set up accounts on WordPress.org and Make WordPress Slack.
6. Meetup survey promotions and updates
Get involved: If you are a Meetup organizer, please fill in our survey to help us help you in your marketing. Can you promote this to organizers in your network or locale?
7. Diverse speaker training working group promotions for August 2020.
Get involved: Can you help amplify the social media promotions? Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
8. WordPress 5.5 Q&As (collaboration meeting 15:15, 5 August 2020)
Get involved: can you assist in this work? Contact @webcommsat and @oglekler
9. Staying Connected events and activities – latest diary dates
Collaborations
10. Collaboration time
- Marketing team feedback on the Help Hub recategorization – will be led by @mikerbg. We intend to use Google Meet with live captioning, Slack and Google Docs. Trello card.
- Video conferencing call for those supporting the Q&A tasks (from
15:15 UTC)
Will be tasks lead @webcommsatsat – we will use Google Meet with live captioning if needed, Slack, Make WordPress.org core and trac, GitHub and Google Docs
More on our Questions and Answers work to help promote WordPress Releases
Any other business/ awareness of other related Make WordPress tasks
10. AOB
You can also suggest to one of the team reps the day before the meeting if you have an idea for inclusion at a future meeting.
Planning for the week
11. Sub meetings in the forthcoming week.
The meeting will be formally closed at the end of the collaborations session.
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. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Thursday 6 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @webcommsat or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool.
Friday 7 August 2020
– 10am/ 10.00 UTC – Q&As for developers/ Meetups for WordPress 5.5
– 6.15pm/ 18:15 UTC- Second follow-up meeting to accommodate timezones
If you are involved in these tasks, please confirm which meeting you will be attending by Thursday 09.00 UTC to help us plan. Thanks.
Monday 10 August 2020 – Planning meetings (times tbc)
Wednesday 12 August 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting.
This will be followed by 15:15 UTC meeting on video continuing collaborations relating to the Q&As and Meetup resources.
Thursday 13 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video.
Monday 10 August 2020, (Time tbc) – Q&As and related WordPress 5.5 release.
Thursday 13 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video.
Staying Connected – advance event dates
Poetry competition now open
- Entries now open
- Closing date 31 August 2020, 17:00 UTC
- Minimum two verses (stanzas), maximum four
- Can be song lyrics, poem or guzzle
- Can be in another language accompanied by an English translation
- Can work on an entry individually or with one other person
- Fun event
Wednesday 26 August 2020, 15:30 UTC – fun social quiz for the team, organized by @majaloncar
Thursday 17 September 2020, 17:00 UTC – Around the World quiz organized by @meher and promoting different cultures and countries in the WordPress community. Followed by a short virtual coffee break.
Useful resourcesThanks
- WordPress.org Quarter 2, 2020 Update including the Marketing Team
- Marketing Team update – 14 July 2020
- Marketing Team update – 2 June 2020
- Resources to help you get started contributing – we are expanding on these, could you help with this?
- Marketing Team Handbook