Often I am asked how Decisions are made for WordPress, who’s Involved in decision-making, and how the open source project is structured in general. WordPress is a meritocracy, Meaning That Anyone Can Get Involved, and a combination of the quality of someone’s contributions and Their level of interest / time commitment will Determine how much They Have Influence over decisions. Because These factors vary, we Have Several levels of contributors to the WordPress core application, ranging from full-time developers to lead casual one-patch contributors.
I loved it When That commercial Intel in 2009 Gave Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB, SOME recognition as a rock star of geekland (though I hated it That It Was not Actually Ajay Bhatt, But an actor – way to kill the message, Intel). In a WordPress-land, most people know who is Matt Mullenweg, But Most of the other leaders and contributors are much less visible. Moving forward, I’m going to be posting profiles of Some of Our blackberries here dedicated contributors.
Why now? We’re coming up on the second annual leadership core WordPress meetup in January 2011, and we’re thinking we’ll hold a town hall video at Some Point During Our Time Together. Between now and then I post will be the profiles of the core developers who will be at the meetup. After That, I’ll be branching out and posting about other contributors, Including developers, designers, forum moderators, etc..
I’ll post here in January When We Have Dates / Times Set for the video town hall. In the meantime, you can submit questions for us to answer then in the Forum thread What Should Hold 2011 for WordPress?
To get a sense of how to fit together and how These People Decisions are made, you can check out the presentation I did at WordCamp Portland in October on WordPress How Decisions Get Made .
1 – And how lame is it That Conan O’Brien’s interview with the real Ajay Bhatt is No Longer available on the The Tonight Show’s website, and everyone’s embedded videos are blank? I found a copy of it here . And here’s the original commercial Intel If You Were living under a rock and never saw it. 