Blogging is a daily part of my life. I started my first blog over 10 years ago. It ran on Blogger.com and I still have a couple of blogs on Google’s platform. But when I first heard about WordPress years ago, the tinkerer in me was drawn immediately to the open-source publishing tool and with my first WordPress blog, I was hooked. (SHAMELESS PLUG: yes, you CAN hire me to build a WordPress site)
WordPress is the web’s open source publishing platform; it is commonly known as a blogging platform and is used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. With a thriving community of support, WordPress publishers have access to the source code and a bevy of themes and plugins at the WordPress.org website.
Today, Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, announced the launch of The WordPress Foundation.
The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software…
We hope to gather broad community support to make sure we can continue to serve the public good through freely accessible software.
I’ll be switching themes to the “nascent” and minimal Buddymatic – the 2010 theme built on the Thematic framework as a show of solidarity. And as soon as the support banners, t-shirts and promotional products are created, I’ll let my WordPress Foundation phreak flag fly!
Press on, Matt!
UPDATE: As of February 2010, this site now runs on Ian Stewart’s Thematic framework.
Pingback: Valerie Booth
Pingback: With This WordPress Framework I Thee Web | Digital Strategy