Please add any comments on the related Marketing Tasks GitHub issue or in the #marketing channel on the Make WordPress Slack.
- This meeting was organized on GitHub card #172: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/172
- Leading the meeting: @robinwpdeveloper
- Taking notes: @sereedmedia
- Slack link to meeting start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1676386862744259
Team News
- The new marketing team description was approved by project leadership and has been updated across the project
- The new description: The Marketing team promotes WordPress to current and future users and contributors. We create and amplify campaigns to support the growth of the WordPress project.
- We continue to test a new notes format for the next two months based on the input received: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/discussions/148
- How can we help onboard our new contributors, especially in light of WordCamp Asia’s upcoming Contributor Day? https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/169
- Ongoing discussion on the goals for the 2023 Marketing team. Join the discussion on GitHub card #165: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/discussions/165
Contributor events update
WordCamp Asia Contributor Day is February 17, 2023. Please add your name to the card if you intend to be at/ involved in WC ASia Contributor Day, whether in person or remote. Please add ideas for contribution tasks whether or not you can attend! GitHub ticket #108: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/108
- Team Reps @santanainniss and @sereedmedia are working on onboarding docs and generating good first issues for Contributor Day
Discussion:
- Only 16 weeks til WC Europe!
WordPress Publications
- WP Briefing: https://wordpress.org/news/2023/02/episode-49-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-community-summit/
- WordPress Project Updates: https://make.wordpress.org/project/2023/02/06/proposal-creating-a-wordpress-contributor-mentorship-program/
WordPress.org social media updates
- New milestone: 2.1 million followers on all social channels combined
- Engagement rate jumped from 1.4% to 2.3% overall.
- WP 6.1 Features campaign and Openverse (new home) campaign were the Top 3
Marketing project and task updates
- Update Development Roadmap for 6.2, other progress #177: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/177
- @rmartinezduque and @laurlittle collaborated with Chloé Bringmann (WordPress.org Chief of Staff) to update the content on this page and include the WordPress 6.2 date as suggested.
- WPPhotos campaign and the different ways to contribute: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/178
- A ticket has been opened discussing moving this and related social media pages to the Handbook Moving: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/180
- Five for the Future Email Template for Contributors: https://github.com/WordPress/Marcomms-Rolling-tasks/issues/18
- This is a very old ticket, does it make sense to keep it around?
- Captions for video ‘How to contribute to core’: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/34
- This project needs to be moved to/ will be handled by the Training Team after the major WordCamps contributor days.
- 6.1 Release Social Content Idea: “Behind the Scenes” for Twenty Twenty-Three: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/128
- This ticket has been closed out and a new 6.2 ticket has been created here: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/184
Open Floor
- Github Discussion #165 about the Marketing Team’s 2023 Goals needs some input please!
- 6.2 Beta 2 is scheduled for Feb 14, 2023
- 6.2 About page is being drafted
- The docs team wants to discuss the Glossary issue
- Live collaboration sessions are no longer being held on Wednesdays and can be removed from the team’s Google calendar
Next Steps
Our next meeting is 21 February, 2023 at 15:00 UTC.
- GitHub card for the next meeting: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/173