It’s that time of the year, again, where I can celebrate a milestone here on WordPress.com.
I do think I’m here since the beginning and a lot has changed and a lot has been the same. The ease of blogging, the reliability, the possibilities to upgrade and gain more and more functionalities.
I must say THANKS to all the Automattic people for this ride for all those years, and the others to come…
A couple of days ago WordPress.com greeted me with this anniversary badge.
I must say this is beginning to ‘scare’ me because of all the things happened to me (and to the world) in all those years.
The focus of this blog has changed many times, and probably I could give it more love… but the luxury of a personal blog, with no economics involved, is the freedom to do whatever we want, when we want.
So Thank You all for having read me, or leaved a like or a comment. That’s why I still find energy and will to stay here.
I’ve gone through the list of CMSs and looked up whether they’re open source or not. On the whole, in the beginning of 2018, open source CMSs combined had a 41.6% market share. Now they command 43.4% and if the trends continue the way they’re looking, it’ll be 45.7% this time next year.
Now, those open source totals obscure an important fact:
- without WordPress, open source CMSs would have lost a full percentage point over the course of this year, from 9.4% to 8.4%.
- if the trends continue, the group of open source CMSs – excluding WordPress – will decrease next year as well, to 7.6%.
So, while WordPress is shining and growing, the open source CMS ecosystem outside of WordPress isn’t getting stronger. We’ve seen the first moves for Gutenberg to be adopted by Drupal, maybe it’s time for more collaboration to prevent further decline?
Joost de Valk
Joost on his analysis has pointed out lots of data to study. Every aspect is important but – to my heart – this is the situation that needs more analysis from every developer out there. Clearly there’s something in the WordPress community that’s winning, and avoiding learning the good things this project has put on the table in its 15 years of existence is leading to… nothing.
So it would be better to cooperate each other and try to compensate the bad things each project has and elevate the strongest points…
… as WordPress was not the development tool I had hoped it would be, mainly because it prioritizes end-users over developers (and for a valid reason). And just when I considered switching, I experienced the one thing that has continued to keep me in this space: the WordPress Community.
Alain Schlesser
It’s a community full of passioned and inspiring people, and when you come into contact with it for the first time, it can be very intoxicating – I was hooked right away!
But with time, I noticed more and more that this highly inspiring and addicting environment did have a negative long-term effect on some community members.
Thousands of volunteers make WordPress, while a $10 billion industry powering one-third of the web profits. What drives so many to give so much of their time and energy? OPEN explores the open-source community making WordPress. This is a story about community giving freely of their time, expertise and energy to software driving the online economy.
OPEN was filmed at WordCamps, local events around the world organized by volunteers to further the mission of democratizing publishing. With over 150 WordCamps and 600 meetups worldwide, this grassroots community brings together more than just programmers and bloggers. WordCamps can attract hundreds of local WordPress users, each with their own story of how and why they use WordPress.
In a couple of months in Bari will take the second edition of ‘our’ WordCamp. The other day, as organizers, we begun spreading our Call for Speakers … and today I’m here to convince you to come and participate!
Any kind of talk is welcome. As you may have seen on WordPress.tv or participating to a WordPress meetup in your city the overall mood is friendly and informal. But if you’re new to our kind of events there’s no problem, here’s a list to inspire your proposal:
Really, we have two main formats for the talks::
Choose freely the one you like!
Once the Call comes to its deadline, we gather and anonymize all the talks proposed – hey, did I tell you can submit more than one talk ? – and the organizers will have a list of titles and abstracts to vote. The talks with most preferences are officially invited to our Speakers’ roaster … Organizers will not know who will talk about ‘topic A’ until the voting are over, so to avoind any kind of favoritism.
Of course we will also try the widest range of proposals, so we will not have 10 talks about plugin development since we’re gonna try to have a thing for anyone coming.
So be creative and entertainign while proposing your talk. Sympathy is a good arrow to your bow.
We are anxious to read it
It’s with immense pleasure that we can finally announce to the world the forthcoming of the second edition of the WordCamp Bari.
We’ve launched the new website, with a refreshed graphic made by Antonio Trifirò and our “social media & marketing” team has begun the promotion on the various channels. Very shortly we’ll launch also the Call for Speakers and the Call for Sponsors. Are you coming to say hello next May 17 and 18 ???
Contributing to the WordPress Project is a rewarding way to give back to the Community.
This Slide Deck (PDF) was created so that any Meetup can easily present ways to participate in Make WordPress.
Thanks to the Make WordPress team for sharing those slides! I’m gonna translate it in Italian ASAP.
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