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Notes: Global Marketing Team meeting, 25 August 2021

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1. Welcome, introduction

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 
  3. Meeting led by:  @lmurillom and @vimes1984
  4. Meeting notes: @ugyensupport and @meher
  5. Proofread: @meher, @webcommsat
  6. Meeting Preparation: @webcommsat 
  7. Follow up actions: projects and actions group 

2. Contributors New and Returning

The links below are to the Marketing Slack.

  1. Attendees Slack Thread
  2. New people and returners to the channel

3. Notes

3a) Meeting Notes

A big thanks to everyone for 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.

Thank you to @yvettesonneveld who is working on drafting last week’s notes.

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 where you have actively contributed. 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:

3b) Notes group recruitment

  • If you would like to contribute by preparing notes for future meetings, please contact @lmurillom and/or @meher. 
  • Initial draft deadline: 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!

3c) GitHub 

  • We are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there. 
  • @vimes1984 and @webcommsat will be doing a demo showing what we have been building with your feedback, and the issues it is hoped to help solve. This live demo will be in September 2021.

4. Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

4a) Community – WPDiversity

  • Thank you to those who amplified the #WPDiversity Allyship event and Online Meetups on social.  
  • There is another Diversity Workshop this Friday, from 5.00PM – 6.30PM UTC which we’re currently promoting.

#OnlineWPMeetup

  • There is a Mega Meetup tomorrow, which will cover topics like Developing for the Block Editor and Full Site Editing. It’s included in this week’s roundup! 
  • Actions: thanks to Afshana Diya, Michelle Frechette, and Ugyen for volunteering to help with drafting social. Please liaise with Larissa.  [[[ADD WP.ORG IDs]]]

Actions

Please engage with and share:

4b) Core and FSE

Marketing Materials to support core and FSE

4c) Polyglots

  • The “WordPress Translation Day 2021” event is between September 1-30. 
  • We are looking for local teams, Meetup groups, or any translation contributors to host mini-events during the month of September 2021. Read this post for more details.

4d) Test Team

  • Call for volunteers: The Test Team is reviewing the testing instructions scattered across the Make blogs (and Trac, GitHub etc) to make sure that the instructions are correct, up-to-date, etc  
  • Anyone can start at any time to add links into the audit spreadsheet (referenced in the post). Team reps will be updated every few weeks about the progress
  • Read this post for more details.

4e) Training Team 

Update via: @azhiyadev

  1. Feedback requested on Learner Achievements on Profiles. This would show course completions on your .org profile in a new tab. Request for marketing to raise awareness of feedback wanted on this post.
  2. There will host at least one subtitling working session for content on LearnWP in the last half of September in conjunction with WPTranslatorDay. Date soon to be announced.
  3. We anticipate having an Introduction to WordPress course ready to promote near the end of September 2021 @arasae

5. Any other Marketing Team business

6. Forthcoming Diary Dates

Upcoming Diary Dates are in this dedicated post. 

NOTE: 

  • As mentioned in this slack thread, the Coffee Break from September 2021 will be twice a month. A lot of people are finding the current time too late or early for them. A Google Form has been created to help find a time to work for most people. Please fill in your preference timeslot in this form. Link to the form can be found in this slack thread. Form will be open 1 September 2021. There is also an informal coffee break drop-in after the main weekly meeting.

Thanks to @ EidolonNight for volunteering to co-facilitate some of these coffee breaks.

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