Notes: Global Marketing Team meeting, 22 August 2023

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 #269
  • Leading the meeting: @robinwpdeveloper
  • Taking notes: @sereedmedia
  • Link to meeting start in Slack 
• Attendance:
  • 17 contributors
  • Link to attendance thread in Slack

Team News

• We published an update to the Team Updates channel after 3 years.
• The next Coffee and Collaboration Session will be on Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 18:30 UTC.

WordPress Publications

• News: WP20 – A Heartfelt Thanks
• Meta: Introducing WordPress.org/blocks
• Dev Blog: The anatomy of a letterform
• Accessibility: Matrix Test Results

WordPress.org social media updates

• No updates provided this week

New Issues

• Improve register process for wordpress.org profile #273
• Contribute remotely to Core on the WCUS CD day #274
• [AMPLIFY]: Openverse x SMK collaboration #275

Open Issues

This is not a list of all issues from the Marketing Team GitHub in Slack. This is a compilation of items that had discussion in Slack during the week.

• Marketing Team management
  • No discussion on these issues this week.

• Cross-team collaboration
  • Grow Your Story: Phase II #222
    • Unclear what the status/future of this project will be.

• Project marketing
  • Grow Your Story: Phase II #222
    • Unclear what the status/future of this project will be.
  • Refine Contributor Orientation Tool for the Make WP Contribute page launch in 6.3 #264
    • Still need to incorporate updates and suggestions from the team reps. 

Closing Soon

• Help create a plan for short form video on Tik Tok #114  AND Develop shortform video content and related copy with Learn Team #187
• Add ideas to the WP Campaigns Social Content Brainstorm doc #191
• New Meeting Notes Format testing #194
• Get involved or Contribute tab for the About page — structure and the content #217
• #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks campaign #220
• Share and help collect #WPPhotos stories #238

Recently Closed

• [AMPLIFY]: Kim Parsell Scholarship 2023 Recipient #250
• [AMPLIFY]: Announcing the first Learn WordPress Course Cohort #268

Open Floor

• From @rmartinezduque
  • I recently shared the WCEU Contributor Day retrospective that @Sam and I put together on this GitHub issue, along with a summary of some key points.
  • I will soon open a new GH issue for the August edition of The Month in WP. Any help in collecting links and writing summaries for them will be welcome.

Next Steps

• Our next meeting is 29 August, 2023 at 15:00 UTC.
• GitHub card for the next meeting: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/276

Note: This post is backdated to the correct Notes posting date of August 28, 2023. Was published on October 10, 2023.

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