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Notes: Global Marketing Meeting – 4 August 2021

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1. Welcome, introduction, new contributors

  1. These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues please do join the discussion threads after the meeting and send your updates. 
    1. The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
    2. Meeting Agenda: https://wp.me/p72A3H-1Zi 
    3. Meeting led by: @lmurillom @webcommsat @meher
    4. Meeting notes: @lmurillom
    5. Follow up actions: projects and actions group 
  2. Attendees Slack Thread

Get involved – starter tasks for new and returning contributors, and those who have pledged to support the team and need assistance to get started.

2. Meeting Notes

A big thanks to everyone coordinating and editing drafts from past meeting notes which will be up shortly in the P2. As a few people are on personal holidays and others are unwell due to Covid, we are a little behind on Notes and will post updates in the coming weeks.

A reminder to check the draft notes is circulated at the meeting every week. Please review and check your WordPress.org ID is listed on collaborations that you have actively contributed too. We rely on this to update the final notes and to put into our charts to show where we need extra contributors, and how we are having an input and impact onto the work assigned/requested from other teams. 

Rota for drafting notes:

Actions

You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings, please contact @lmurillom and @meher. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed. We are excited to continue to expand our contributors who are helping draft the notes!

3. Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

WordPress Translation Day 2021 updates 

Update from: @evarlese, @nao

Diverse Speaker Training Team Promotions

Update from: @lmurillom

  • The Allyship event is ready for us to create social media posts! This is a new workshop with a different goal than the workshops we have helped promote before. 
  • It will be on 19 August 2021 at 5pm-7pm UTC and free to attend.
  • This workshop is for: WordPress Meetup and WordCamp event organizers, all WordPress contributors who want to learn about creating welcoming and diverse event spaces and every person in WordPress who wants to champion this kind of environment.

Actions:

Online WordPress Meetup and other Social Promotions

Update from: @lmurillom

  • Thank you to those who amplified our social promos this week, for Learn WordPress, Month in WordPress and Online WordPress meetups. Stay tuned for upcoming #WPDiversity posts!
  • We still need more volunteers.

Actions:

Newsletters

Update from: @webcommsat and @meher 

  • Month in WordPress for July 2021 is published! Quite a few marketing items were included, including our feedback requests.  
  • The Meetup newsletter is planned to go out on 13 August 2021, and we need to provide our input by 11 August 2021. To see previous Meetup newsletters, please see the Communities P2. 
  • On the daily diary post, you will see reminders for submission deadlines for the Meetup Newsletter and Month in WordPress.

Actions:

Follow up questions on the tool discussion from last week

  • In our last meeting, @courane01 shared information on the Revisions Extended plugin, and included a video on how to use it.
  • If you have any questions or suggestions, please comment in this thread. 

GitHub and Project Management

Update from: @webcommsat

WordPress 5.8 and FSE updates 

Update from: @meher @cbringmann @webcommsat

  • No further updates since the 5.8 release – it seems to have gotten good reviews thus far, which is wonderful to see.
  • Follow-ups on collaborations – background to resources including social media amplification pack, informal media monitoring, and what’s your favorite feature compilation. Follow-up thread. 
  • Meetup presentation: @oglekler and @femy will collaborate on the Meetups presentation.  
  • We’re doing research on building engagement around WordPress releases. Please help the team by filling out this quick, two-question survey on how you search for release information. If you have any favorite features from WordPress 5.8 let us know by completing this short form.
  • We are migrating the social media pack for WP 5.8 to Github as we can’t edit the current release post. 

4. Forthcoming 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 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.

Upcoming Diary Dates are in this dedicated post. 

A reminder about our Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations and social activities.