ByBrian Krogsgard
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Acquia, the services company from the founder of Drupal, has raised $55 million in a series G round. I imagine Drupal 8 is going to help them make a lot of money with their consulting work.
Will open source contributors who weaponize code destroy trust in open source — and destroy open source as collateral damage?
Drupal recently introduced a Creative Commons image library containing over 10,0000 images (mostly from various DrupalCons) free for anyone to use. I’d love to see something more formal for WordPress along these lines — an organized library of photos from WordCamps and WordPress events. I would certainly contribute mine. There are a lot of collections…
This week Alex Denning (Ellipsis) draws on Iain Poulson‘s historical, high-level plugin data at WP Trends to offer some thoughtful, somewhat contrary, but practical and grounded perspectives on the value of Active Install Data. At the WP Watercooler and elsewhere, a realization seems to be setting in that the data is not open source and not the property of the WordPress community. Like last week’s episode of Post Status Draft with Katie Keith of Barn2 Plugins, Till Krüss (Object Cache Pro, Relay) offers a lot of lessons this week about less travelled paths to success in the plugin business even as a very small company or company of one. Performance, testing, and support are key, interrelated parts of Till’s success and probably the most important ones to borrow in your own life and work if they resonate.
Jeffrey McGuire — of Acquia, the Drupal version of Automattic — has a great post and accompanying podcast on, “idealism and what successful open source looks like.” It does a great job expressing common ideals. My favorite bit: I want you to be successful at free/libre open source software. That means building safe and secure…
Josh Koenig is a co-founder of Pantheon, the Drupal hosting platform turned Drupal and WordPress hosting platform. I interviewed Josh when they launched their WordPress product in March, and also wrote about their Series B financing round of $21.5 million. In a recent post on the Pantheon blog, Josh — a ten year veteran of the…
David and Dan talk with Robert Jacobi, Director of WordPress at Cloudways, about the Joomla project and what WordPress can learn from it.
