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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: @nalininonstopnewsuk @lmurillom @EidolonNight
- Meeting notes: Draft @ugyensupport; Editor/ Review @nalininonstopnewsuk
- 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: “What was the first art or creative hobby you had as a child, and do you still do that art form or creative hobby today?” View participants’ responses via this Slack thread.
3. Notes and volunteer opportunities
- Thank you to @ugyensupport for drafting April 20, 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 adding your name to the weekly GitHub card.
- 27 April 2022 – @ugyensupport
- 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. Project 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. Thanks.
- Thank you to the contributors who are working on fixes / feedback on GitHub beta features we use and liaising with other teams on this.
- 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.
- You can get involved with the next meeting planning on this GitHub card for the meeting on May 4 2022. This is now one combined location for preparation, links for the weekly meeting and items for that week.
4b) Documentation sprint
Updates via @lmurillom
- Props to @EidolonNight @SantanaInniss @rmartinezduque and @webcommsat worked on several Marketing Handbook items last Friday, including a new guide for Coffee Breaks. If you would like to contribute to the May 2022 session, additional details are in this GitHub issue.
4c) Forthcoming WordPress Releases and FSE
Updates via @nalininonstopnewsuk @webcommsat and @dansoschin
WordPress 6.0 is the next major release and is expected on May 24, 2022
- WordPress 6.0 Beta 3 was released and the next release will be RC1 on May 3, 2022. Lots of people coming to test including from marketing. For further details on upcoming WordPress 6.0 releases please visit WordPress 6.0 Development Cycle.
- @dansoschin: The About Page which is part of the release package, will be more-or-less finalized in copy form and design form at the end of this week. Here is the working draft note – WordPress 6.0 About Page. The purpose of this file, as currently established, is to provide a brief update of what’s in the release and provide links to resources where you can find more information.
- Status of Webfonts API for WordPress 6.0 Inclusion planned in the 6.0 release.
- Test WordPress 6.0: @webcommsat is collecting information to share with documentation, training, and core on what extra information / steps would be useful for non-devs to take part in this kind of testing. Please share any feedback you have on the existing testing information and what info/ screenshots would be helpful with her (Slack: abhanonstopnewsuk) and @marybaum
- @webcommsat: There is a lot of cross-team work going on for 6.0, including relating to documentation. If you are interested in writing end user documentation and Learn WP materials, please get in touch. There is joint working going on in this area and you are welcome to get involved.
4d) Newsletters, Campaigns and events updates
Updates via @lmurillom
- #GrowYourWP campaign – the GitHub card has an update from April 18 and a discussion on translating the campaign in the longer term. Thanks to @jpantani
- Month in WordPress newsletter – @rmartinezduque will share an update later in the week. The next edition of Month in WordPress aims to be published next Thursday May 5, 2022. If anyone has any Make Team updates they would like to see featured regarding Month in WordPress, please feel free to add them to this GitHub card or share them in the Make Marketing Slack channel and ping @rmartinezduque for awareness by Tuesday May 3 2022. The draft will be added to the GitHub card and shared on this channel prior to publication.
- The Polyglots Newsletter for April 2022 is out! Please read, share and sign up for their updates.
4e) WPDiversity items for awareness
Updates via @nalininonstopnewsuk
- WP Diversity APAC meetings to start from May 12, 2022. @jillbinder and @devinmaeztri asked to help spread the word about this exciting new development. Meetups and WordCamps looking for speakers can share in the diversity-speaker-support channel on the Making WordPress Slack the kind of topics being requested and dates, if available. The channel is to support a diverse roster of speakers at official WordPress events (meetups and WordCamps)
- @santanainniss is starting as the contact person for social posts on WP Diversity
4f) Social media status
Updates via @eidolonnight and @bjmcsherry
- We continue to ask that new contributors help with: WordPress.org Social Media Amplification.
- The following is our latest list of campaigns, their hashtags, and the latest primary points of contact if you have questions.
- WordPress Features/Release (#WordPress) – @dansoschin and @lstein working with the Release squad
- Ad hoc updates from WordPress.org/news – @bjmcsherry
- Learn WordPress (#LearnWP) – @DanSoschin along with the Training Team
- WP Diversity (#WPDiversity) – @SantanaInniss along with @jillbinder and the WP Diversity working group
- Openverse (#Openverse) – @rmartinezduque along with the Openverse team
- Photo Directory (#WPPhotos) – @rmartinezduque
- Grow Your Story (#GrowYourStoryWP) – @jpantani along with Design
- WP Briefing podcast (#WPBriefing) – @SantanaInniss
- Thanks to @bjmcsherry for updating Stats – Performance: Our audience across all networks grew by 750 followers last week. That brings our total audience to 2,037,922 followers.
Excellent engagement overall with many of our campaigns including the ‘WordPress 6.0 Beta 2 news announcement, and ‘WP Briefing’ posts in some of our best examples throughout the week.- Impressions: 1,483,914
- Engagements: 5,327
- Link clicks: 1,489
- Messages received: 35
5) Diary dates
Updates via @lmurillom
- Coffee break on Thursday May 4, 2022 at 18:30/ 6.30pm UTC will be facilitated by @MegPhillips91. This bi-weekly social hour 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.
- @nalininonstopnewsuk: Contributor events
- If you know of any other WordCamp contributor events which you may be interested in having a marketing table or you are attending, please share – you can add them in the comments on this post.
- If you are intending to go to WordCamp Europe’s Contributor Day on June 2, 2022, please let @jpantani know in this Slack thread.
6) Open Floor
Updates via @eidolonnight
- @rmartinezduque wanted to share a few updates regarding the promotion of the new Pinterest and Wolfram embeds in 5.9.
- The HelpHub article on the new Pinterest embed block is now published.
- Today and in the coming weeks we will be sharing a few posts about the Pinterest embeds in WordPress’ social platforms. Liking and sharing them will be a great way to help spread the word!
- The HelpHub article on the Wolfram embed is on track but has not been published yet.
Next Marketing Meeting: Wednesday 4 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.