The Linux foundation has quietly dropped…
The Linux foundation has quietly dropped community board representatives. This is a disturbing development for the open source project.
The Linux foundation has quietly dropped community board representatives. This is a disturbing development for the open source project.
Weekend listening: The A16Z podcast talked about open source business models in a short episode the other day. Automattic isn’t mentioned, but the conversation around investing in community influencers, winning over developers, and building out a sales team is pretty good — especially from the point of view of one of the most well known…
Many of us work with open source, but maybe we’ve forgotten that initial joy of how it affects our lives. If so then reading this post from Piotr Gankiewicz on open source being a “life changer” might help you remember.
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…
The long-awaited 2.5.0 release of WP-CLI is happening Wednesday, May 19th, 2021. Several obstacles converged to slow its progress in 2020.
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.
Most WordPress websites probably use phpMyAdmin (via hosting providers), so it’s nice to see that they successfully completed a security audit as part of Mozilla’s Secure Open Source Fund. This fund is new to me, and looks like a great initiative.