The meeting will start at 14:00 UTC in the marketing channel on the Make WordPress Slack.
We include more detail and links in our agenda posts to help those who want to contribute further to the meeting in their own timezone. It also helps provide more time in meetings for collaboration work and an easier point of reference for the links. After the meeting, a link to the Slack meeting is added to this agenda to support asynchronous contribution in the 48 hours after the weekly live session.
- 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 – 22 September 2021, 15 September 2021, 8 September 2021
b) Admin recruitment – Would you like to help with the weekly agenda links? Let us know in the Marketing Slack. It is a great way to get to know what’s happening in the project. We continue to recruit notetakers. Come and chat about how you can join the rotas.
c) GitHub – thanks to everyone who came to the introduction to GitHub repositories and updates from the testing and pilots, the background to how we arrived at using GitHub, and our tools for our new contributors. Further sessions will be announced for October and November. The form continues to be available for expressions of interest for future sessions and to help identify attendees’ familiarity with GitHub. - Updates relating to other Make Teams
- Core-related items (including releases, FSE, Gutenberg)
- Ideas slot: 5.8 and minor releases: social media amplification pack further promotion opportunities and updating
- Request from the Testing team: support extenders make their test suites compatible with the modernization of the WordPress Core PHP Test Suites. What the changes mean and step-by-step instructions are available at: Changes to the WordPress Core PHP Test Suite (27 September). Volunteer opportunity: to help facilitate ideas on this, please do volunteer. We will add this to GitHub and link to this for the meeting]
- For awareness:
- Roadmap for 5.8 minor releases; Announcement of 5.8.1 release (9 September)
- 5.9 planning round-up (3 September)
- Implementing a webfonts API in WordPress core (29 September)
- Creating the widget group block (22 September)
- What’s next in Gutenberg? (Mid-September 2021)
- Discussion from the Accessibility Team on improving the contrast accessibility warning in the Block Editor – GitHub issue
- Community Team
- Month in WordPress – publication 4 October 2021, deadline 2 October
- Deadline for Meetup newsletter – next deadline for marketing, 11 October 2021
- For information:
- Updated guidelines for in-person WordCamps
- Recordings and text from the ‘Creating a Welcoming and Diverse Space’ part 1 and part 2
- Design Team: internal user information: proposed changes to the P2 Make Team blogs (16 September)
- Documentation Team: new workflow for reporting issues, using a new GitHub Repository
- Polyglot-related marketing: WordPress Translation Day running from 1 to 30 September 2021
- WPTD social for local events – Twitter updates,
- WP Translation Day Facebook , WPTranslationDay on Instagram
- Global events promotions
- Call for photos
- Training Team, cross-working with Marketing and LearnWordPress.org
- The Training Team and contributors from other teams will come together on 29 September 2021, 10:00 UTC to translate content on LearnWP [UPDATE: this has now taken place]
- Results of Learn WordPress Needs Assessment – the Marketing Team meeting next week, 6 October 2021, will include a collaboration on this
- Should Learn WordPress contributors be GPL compliant? – discussion on LearnWP
- Preparing Slack for WordPress Updates – information post. Marketing and Training will be exploring this further and the potential use of tools in a session provisionally planned for October/ November
- A follow-up meeting is also in the planning for a Marketing Team meeting in October/ November on information flow to Marketing relating to workshops and Learn WordPress materials
- Core-related items (including releases, FSE, Gutenberg)
- Collaboration/ Discussion
- Any other Marketing Team business
- Contributing ladder
- Onboarding videos
- Showcase
- People of WordPress
- Social Media Promotions (#WPDiversity, #WPTranslationDay, #OnlineWPMeetup)
- Diary Dates
- Coffee breaks resumes this week on 30 September 2021, at the new time of 18:30 UTC
- 6 October 2021 – Marketing and Training Team collaboration on wording following the Learn WordPress Needs Assessment
Additional links and preparation for the agenda (Make WordPress Slack – Marketing).
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
If your Make Team is working or planning something that could be shared with Marketing or have a follow-up, please let us know in the Make WordPress Slack channel on a Monday. We will be shortly sharing a new form to help teams log forthcoming interview requests.
To take part in the follow-ups and agenda planning, please share your interest in the Make WordPress Marketing Slack. You can also follow agenda planning in this developing Rolling Tasks board on the Marketing Team’s GitHub.
Props to @webcommsat for follow-ups and the agenda preparation, to @mloncar, @lmurillo, @courane01, @hellofromtonya, @harishanker for submitting materials and discussions, and to @meher and @nalininonstopnewsuk for proofreading.