Category Archives: Community

Software Freedom Day + Hackathon

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Jane Wells

Saturday, September 17 is Software Freedom Day. To that end, a few announcements about this weekend’s hackathon and WordCamp Portland. 3.3 Hackathon WordPress 3.3 is about to hit feature freeze. This means it’s the last chance to squeeze in features that haven’t quite been finished, and enhancements and fixes that no one has had time [...] Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two WordCamps

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Jane Wells

This coming weekend, two WordCamps will be going on simultaneously — yep, it’s WordCamp season again! This weekend will be the first of many this autumn with multiple WordCamps. Tomorrow (not quite the weekend but close enough) is WordCamp Cape Town, and then this weekend, first-time WordCamp Albuquerque coincides with 4-time returning champ WordCamp Portland, [...] Continue reading →

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Vote for WordPress Sessions at SXSW

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Jane Wells

Each year, members of the web community from around the world submit session proposals to the South by Southwest Interactive conference, an event that played a role in the birth of WordPress. We head to Austin every year, do a BBQ or throw a party, but despite the fact that almost 15% of the web [...] Continue reading →

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State of the Word

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Matt Mullenweg

This has been an exciting year for WordPress. We’ve grown to power 14.7% of the top million websites in the world, up from 8.5%, and the latest data show 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running WordPress. We also conducted our first ever user and developer survey, which got [...] Continue reading →

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WordCamp SF Livestream!

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Jane Wells

The annual WordPress conference, WordCamp San Francisco, starts in fewer than 8 hours. The sold out event — three full days of programming for bloggers, developers, theme designers, and professional WordPress users — will be shared with more than 1,000 ticket holders from near and far. If you are one of the many people who [...] Continue reading →

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Best WordCamp Speakers?

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Jane Wells

As we complete speaker selection for the annual WordPress conference (a.k.a. WordCamp San Francisco), it’s clear that even though there were more than 200 speaker applications, many great WordCamp speakers did not apply. No fear! We will seek them out to make sure that WordCamp SF has a fantastic lineup, including people who didn’t apply [...] Continue reading →

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