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Link to the start of the meeting on Marketing Slack to help with async contributions.
1. Welcome and introduction
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and 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.
- The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
- Meeting Agenda
- Meeting facilitated by Team Reps: @lmurillom @EidolonNight
- Meeting notes: @yashwardhanrana
- Editor/Review: @lmurillom
- For those new to the team, the New Contributor Orientation section of the Handbook can be a good place to start.
2. Getting to know the team and help to take part
- Meeting attendees: participants can be viewed in this Slack Thread
- Social question of the week: “Share what smell you find the most soothing or relaxing, and why?” View participants’ responses via this Slack thread.
3. Notes and volunteer opportunities
Thank you to @ugyensupport for drafting April 27, 2022 notes.
Notetakers for coming weeks – you can join our group of contributors taking part in producing notes by volunteering when you see a call for note-takers during our meetings or by adding your name to the weekly GitHub card.
- 4 May 2022 – @yashwardhanrana
- 11 May 2022 – @bjmcsherry
We are always looking for contributors to open the virtual coffee shop for the bi-weekly coffee break. Check out the GitHub card and add your name to the list!
4. Marketing project and task updates
4a. Github Links
Updates via @nalininonstopnewsuk
You can find our central GitHub repository and task board at this link: Marketing Tasks GitHub board. If a post is published relating to a task, please add the published link and indicate if the task can be closed.
If you would like specific assistance on using GitHub, please reply in this thread. We have contributors who have been providing small group and one-to-one support on this.
4b. Forthcoming WordPress Releases and FSE
Updates via @webcommsat
The project is working towards the next release, 6.0. For awareness, some updates from core and docs:
- The latest round of the FSE Call of Testing is under way, please amplify!
- Social posts are available on the WordPress.org accounts, please share these.
- This week we have had both Beta 4 and the first Release Candidate (RC). Please help test the RC. There are instructions in the post.
- @marybaum and @webcommsat are collecting information on what additional information will be useful to help non-developers take part in this testing. Please share it in the thread.
- The Field Guide for 6.0 is now available and more dev notes will be added to this. If you are excited about a particular feature, and are interested in helping with end-user documentation or Learn WordPress resources, please add your details to the thread.
4c. Newsletters, Campaigns and events updates
Updates via @lmurillom
- People of WordPress April 2022 is out! The featured WordPresser is @meher, who as you may know is a part of the Marketing Team and a previous Team Rep. Please read, and share!
- Opportunities for photo editors and updaters are available for the next three editions of People of WordPress – please contact @webcommsat and @MegPhillips91 who are working on a photo guide. Existing photos for these editions will be added to GitHub shortly to help photo editors get started.
- #GrowYourWP campaign – There are no major updates this week, but we have a call-to-action for our awesome Make WordPress Marketing team contributors: please share your own stories! Thanks to @jpantani.
- The next Month in WordPress should be published on Thursday 5 May, 2022. Thanks to @rmartinezduque for sharing a link to the draft.
4d. Social media status
Updates via @eidolonnight
- We continue to ask that new contributors help with WordPress.org Social Media Amplification. Given the newness of our social efforts on WordPress.org, liking, commenting, sharing, or otherwise engaging with content is the best way to help.
- This week, @sippis has asked for help spreading the word about WordCamp Europe (2-4 June 2022). Please take a moment to share this update on WordCamp Central: Link to Tweet
Updates by @bjmcsherry
Our audience across all networks grew by 369 followers (net – i.e. minus unfollows) last week. That brings our total audience to 2,038,089 followers.
We had good engagement overall with many of our campaigns including the ‘WordPress 6.0 Beta 3′ and ‘WordPress 6.0 Accessibility’ news posts, and ‘WP 5.9 Pinterest embeds’ posts in some of our best examples throughout the week. Overall, the numbers for the week look like this:
- Impressions: 1,322,188
- Engagements: 5,283
- Link clicks: 1,571
- Messages received: 34
4e. Contributor Events updates WordCamp Europe
Update from @jpantani
- There is some individual and collaborative work that needs to be done in advance of WCEU.
- @jpantani has shared some ideas for tasks that could be worked on during Contributor Day, such as participating in Grow Your Story, answering WordPress perception questions and cataloging anecdotal experiences from within the community, updating the handbook, sourcing photos to shortlist for future campaign work to build a marketing library.
- There is an open call (GitHub card) for brainstorming ideas that can be used to help generate contributor interest in marketing for WordPress. Please leave your idea on the GitHub card or reply in the thread.
- Please, reply in the thread or on the GitHub card above if you plan to attend WCEU Contributor Day!
5. Diary Dates – upcoming events and meetings
Our next Coffee break will be on 5 May 2022 at 18:30/ 6.30pm UTC, facilitated by @megphillips91. This bi-weekly social coffee break is held by the Make Marketing team for all WordPress Marketing contributors, and occasional guests. Stop by and meet some of the friendly faces marketing WordPress.
Follow this Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations, and social activities. We also list important dates in this Forthcoming Diary Dates post.
Next Marketing Meeting: Wednesday 11 May 2022, 15:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in the #marketing channel on Slack. Add items or async updates to the GitHub card for next week.