Ofer Cohen presentation on the annual WordCamp 2013 at Jerusalem, about Open Source and why is so important to the web development

1. What if Wordpress was not
open source?
Ofer Cohen
Open Source Matters
Wordcamp Jerusalem 2013

2. @o
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Who am I? 66
● In Open Source since 2005
● Open Source Matters Board Member
● Daily: Entrepreneur and R&D

3. Who's in the Open Source hood?

4. Competition?
● Who is bigger?
● Who is stronger?
● Who is better?

5. More Competition?

6. Competition? Cooperation!

7. Competition? Cooperation!

8. Wordpress

9. Wordpress
● Born in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg as fork of
b2/cafelog
● Start as blog platform and develop to CMS

10. Wordpress
● Running about 16% of www ~ 90 Millions
● Automattic manage wordpress.com
○ wordpress.com have over 4 billion page views per
month
● WordPress Foundation own copyright and
logo
en.wordpress.com/stats/

11. So what if... ?

12. Let's start, what if... ?
● LAMP was not open source
○ Platform of proprietary world
○ $$$$ before starting use wordpress
● On the other side, more use of LAMP
○ Make it more compatible & versatile
○ All open source CMS grow

13. What if Wordpress wasn't open source?
● Less websites
● Website is a set of related web pages containing
content such as text, images, video, audio, etc
(wikipedia)

14. What if wordpress wasn't open source?
● Less web development

15. What if Wordpress wasn't open source?
● Less social (for some people :)

16. What if Wordpress wasn't open source?
● Less dreams

17. What if Wordpress wasn't open source?
● No access for everyone
○ Linus: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
● Accessibility in low priority (not a money
maker)

18. What if Wordpress wasn't open source?
● On the other hand, open source:
○ Access to everyone (W3C websites)

19. What if Wordpress wasn't open source?
● On the other hand, open source:
○ Access by everyone - download and change
○ And much more

20. Where is the fun part?

21. Open Source!
What happens behind the scenes?
● Who manage the code?
● Who contribute features?
● Who fix bugs?
● Who document?
● Who translate?
● Who publish release notes?
● Who build modules?

22. Open Source!
What happens behind the scenes?
YOU!

23. You have new friends & achievements

24. Community - Help Each Other
codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress

25. Thank you
Ofer Cohen
Open Source Matters
@oc666
embad.com