Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2016
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2016 State of the Word, which highlights the accomplishments of the past year, and sets the direction for the year ahead for WordPress.
Pantheon removed from WCUS sponsorship: what you should know
Brian Krogsgard
Pantheon was removed from WordCamp US sponsorship the night before the event started. It was the result of a series of disagreements and discussions that led to a fairly drastic result. The price to sponsor WCUS was $100,000 for Pantheon. Additionally,…
Regional WordCamps, WCUS 2017, and design kits
Brian Krogsgard
There's a good bit of WordCamp news worth covering right now. WordCamp US in Nashville First off, WordCamp US 2017 and 2018 will be held in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville is less than a three hour drive from me, because I…
Matt Mullenweg’s stand for the GPL against Wix
Brian Krogsgard
You've probably heard about as much as you want to hear regarding Wix and the GPL issues surrounding their mobile app release by now. However, I want to help sift through the noise. First, some links: Matt Mullenweg's open letter…
Quill is a free, open source…
Brian Krogsgard
Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor that has just reached version 1.0, though it's been public for two years. I was doing research recently and Quill was a top contender in the realm of open source editors. What attracts…
Sponsoring open source
Brian Krogsgard
Dries Buytaert wrote a post analyzing the contributions to Drupal, and who sponsored them. Despite the large number of individual contributors, a relatively small number do the majority of the work. Approximately 51% of the contributors involved got just one…
The open web’s challenge
Brian Krogsgard
I missed this article when it was first published, but Zack Rosen has a great post on the open web over at TechCrunch. Zack is the CEO of Pantheon, a web host specializing in Drupal and WordPress sites. He says, “the open web is…
I’ve been staring at Postleaf a…
Brian Krogsgard
I've been staring at Postleaf a good bit recently, since Sonya Mann sent me the link. It's a new and open source PHP and MySQL blogging platform that uses handlebar templates, and it's quite pretty.
I found Eric Holscher thoughts on…
Brian Krogsgard
I found Eric Holscher thoughts on funding open source with marketing money to be insightful. Eric is involved in Read The Docs, a community supported site that hosts documentation for projects, and he relates how he is building an advertising…
WebPageTest is an open source performance…
Brian Krogsgard
WebPageTest is an open source performance testing tool, maintained primarily by Google. Developers can use to extract vital information you can use to optimize the performance of a site. A well-written article on CSS-Tricks from Eduardo BouÇas shows how you can…
Automattic announced that all Simple note clients…
Brian Krogsgard
Automattic announced that all Simple note clients (iOS, Android, and macOS Apps) are now open source under the GPLv2 license. As you might recall, Simplenote was acquired by Automattic in 2013. I'm a big fan of Simplenote and use it every…
Automattic has hired a renowned designer in newly created role
Brian Krogsgard
John Maeda is a well-known designer, who most recently hails from the extremely reputable VC firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Wired has a pretty good summation on his background and qualifications. At Automattic, he's filling a role they advertised…
The Prototype Fund is a project…
Brian Krogsgard
The Prototype Fund is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Individuals and small teams can apply for funding for projects related to open source tools and applications in…
Using Kickstarter to fund open source
Daniel Bachhuber
Successfully crowdfunding open source development is difficult, but not impossible. Here are some of the lessons I took away from my Kickstarter project, "A more RESTful WP-CLI."
Boone Gorges has some great thoughts…
Brian Krogsgard
Boone Gorges has some great thoughts about direct and indirect funding for free software development. If you read one thing today, I think I'd make this it. Boone offsets his time spent contributing to open source by charging higher rates,…
Daniel Bachhuber’s blog post on open Source,…
Brian Krogsgard
Daniel Bachhuber's blog post on open Source, and why "you're doing it wrong" continues to espouse his views on contributing to open source and what it means for your profitability as a developer. "If you think open source is building your business on…
