Keynote from WordCamp Minneapolis - on the opportunity presented by a global open source project and comunity

1. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
B U I L D I N G S O F T WA R E & B U I L D I N G
C O M M U N I T Y: T H E P OW E R O F
WO R D P R E S S
WO R D C A M P M I N N E A P O L I S 2 0 1 5

2. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
A B O U T M E

3. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
A B O U T M E
• 1988: Richfield High School

4. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
A B O U T M E
• 1988: Richfield High School
• 1998: PhD in American
Literature and Culture

5. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
A B O U T M E
• 1988: Richfield High School
• 1998: PhD in American
Literature and Culture

6. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
A B O U T M E
• 1988: Richfield High School
• 1998: PhD in American
Literature and Culture

7. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
A B O U T M E
• 1988: Richfield High School
• 1998: PhD in American
Literature and Culture
• 1999-Present: Design and Build
of Digital Experiences for
Clients, at Agencies:
Developer, User Experience
Designer, Project Manager,
Strategist, Director

8. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
A B O U T M E
• 1988: Richfield High School
• 1998: PhD in American
Literature and Culture
• 1999-Present: Design and Build
of Digital Experiences for
Clients, at Agencies:
Developer, User Experience
Designer, Project Manager,
Strategist, Director
• Currently CEO at 10up

9. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
A B O U T M E
• 1988: Richfield High School
• 1998: PhD in American
Literature and Culture
• 1999-Present: Design and Build
of Digital Experiences for
Clients, at Agencies:
Developer, User Experience
Designer, Project Manager,
Strategist, Director
• Currently CEO at 10up

10. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
A B O U T M E
• 1988: Richfield High School
• 1998: PhD in American
Literature and Culture
• 1999-Present: Design and Build
of Digital Experiences for
Clients, at Agencies:
Developer, User Experience
Designer, Project Manager,
Strategist, Director
• Currently CEO at 10up
• (Why yes, we are hiring)

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– A R C H I M E D E S
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on
which to place it, and I shall move the world.”

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T H E L E V E R - S O F T WA R E

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– J O H N N Y A P P L E S E E D
“Type a quote here.”
http://trends.builtwith.com/cms

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– J O H N N Y A P P L E S E E D
“Type a quote here.”
http://trends.builtwith.com/cms

15. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
F R E E AS I N W H AT ?
Free / Open Source
Software is:
A. Free as in Beer
B. Free as in Speech (or
Free as in Freedom)
C. Free as in Puppies
D. All of the above

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W H AT ’ S W R O N G W I T H F R E E
P U P P I E S ?
The “free as in puppies”
meme is meant to point
out that open source
software still requires
“care and feeding” – as
though that’s not true of
all CMS options

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T H E F O U R F R E E D O M S
• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
(freedom 0).
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it
does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the
source code is a precondition for this.
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
(freedom 2).
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to
others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole
community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the
source code is a precondition for this.

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T H E F U LC R U M -
C O M M U N I T Y

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– J E R E M I A H O W YA N G
“Communities are bodies of people loosely
joined together by a common interest that
exchange information using web tools.”

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“There’s really only one rule for
community as far as I’m concerned . . . in
order to call some gathering of people a
‘community’, it is a requirement that if
you’re a member of the community, and
one day you stop showing up, people will
come looking for you . . .”
– A D A M F I E L D S

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– J O H N N Y A P P L E S E E D
“Type a quote here.”

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T H E O P P O RT U N I T Y F O R
WO R D P R E S S I S T H AT I T I S B OT H
A C O M M U N I T Y A N D A C O D E B AS E

36. http://teleogistic.net/2014/08/free-software-free-labor-and-the-freelancer-
wordcamp-nyc-2014-keynote/

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M A K E
WO R D P R E S S
Whether you’re a budding
developer, a pixel-perfect
designer, or just like helping
out, we’re always looking for
people to help make
WordPress even better.
If you want to get involved in
WordPress, this is the place to
be. We’ve got blogs for each
contributor group, general
news, and upcoming events.

39. John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcmpls
“Tux, the Linux
Penguin, is beginning
to nibble away at the
grim view of
humanity that
breathed life into
Thomas Hobbes’s
Leviathan.”
– Y O C H A I B E N K L E R

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– S I R T I M B E R N E R S - L E E
“I have always imagined the information
space as something to which everyone
has immediate and intuitive access, and
not just to browse but to create.”

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