Notes: Global Marketing Team meeting, 8 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 #267
  • Leading the meeting: @robinwpdeveloper
  • Taking notes: @ngreennc
  • Link to meeting start in Slack 
• Attendance:
  • 15 contributors
  • Link to attendance thread in Slack

Team News

• No team updates
• The next coffee break will be on Thursday, 10 August, 2023 at 18:30 UTC. 

WordPress Publications

• News: Concerns over the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
• Project: WordPress 6.3 Release Candidate 3 
• WordPress Developer Blog: Beyond block styles, part 3: building custom design tools 
• Design Team: Design Share: Jul 3-Jul 28

WordPress.org social media updates

• Social Media stats
  • No stats provided

GitHub Issues

New Issues

• Refine Contributor Orientation Tool for the Make WP Contribute page launch in 6.3 #264
  • This is continuing past the 6.3 launch, but things are locked for now, maybe a week, to give us all some breathing room.

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
  • The Month in WordPress: July 2023 Edition #266
    • Could use some help to meet Aug 11 publication date
  • Prepare and post Marketing Team update for Updates channel #228
    • Still in progress
  • Familiarize yourself with the WordPress Brand Writing Style Guide #241
    • Not a contributing issue, so it needs to go into the Handbook, with a link from the GitHub issue for each WordCamp.
  • Pages on MakeWP that show the % of WP #255
    •  Please clarify purpose of this task

• Cross-team collaboration
  • WPPhotos Social Content Contribution Guide #239
    • nice first issue opportunity. Rather than including this in the meeting every week, should we maybe just include a bulk CTA for good first issues?
    • Non-actionable issue need to be removed from the GitHub and put in the Handbook.

• WordPress Project marketing
  • Get involved or Contribute tab for the About page — structure and the content #217
    • Is this complete?
    • Will be complete with the launch of 6.3
  • Showcase Guidelines and Content Moderation #221
    • The recent Design Share has a Showcase redesign preview: https://make.wordpress.org/design/2023/07/31/design-share-jul-3-jul-28/

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
• #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks campaign #220
• People of WordPress – Stefano Cassone #233
• People of WordPress: Allison D #234
• Share and help collect #WPPhotos stories #238

Recently Closed

• None

Open Floor

• None

Next Steps

• Our next meeting is 15 August, 2023 at 15:00 UTC.
• GitHub card for the next meeting: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/269

Note: This post is backdated to the correct Notes posting date of August 14, 2023. Was published on September 29, 2023.

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