Are you in love with bbPress? Do you use it for your own sites or even your clients? If bbPress is an important part of what you do with WordPress and online publishing then it’s time for you to give a little back and provide some feedback so that version 2.3 can be released in good time for a proposed February drop date. If you think you found a bug, please report it on the bbPress Core Trac. If you find a security vulnerability, please be discrete and let us know privately using one of the methods posted on the WordPress contact […]

Of course there’s a lot of pressure right now on making sure that the GPL issues around Envato and WordPress are enforced, or at least that the things being said are aligned with actual action and one such confusing example is Obox and their apparent distribution of their Gigawatt Theme. As mentioned by @ChrisWallace, what exactly is the ruling here? Yo @wordpressdotcom you got some GPL problems! http://t.co/5bjTaC1N: http://t.co/2Fa06Vf1 ThemeForest: http://t.co/idIjmKCl — designer (@chriswallace) January 24, 2013 The proof of the issue, as they say, is in the pudding:

I happen to head to the Apple Store at least once a week – not that I spend something every single time I’m there but pretty darn close. But I was on a two-part mission, the first being to get some necessary pieces of software and hardware for my mother who is the last person in my family of 7 to convert to Apple-powered products. My father, who was the most difficult to convert, was really the last stronghold that I had to crack – my mother was a simple phone call and she said “Yes” – so now I’ve got […]

VIP Services have shared that Time Magazine’s very famous Person of the Year site has been re-imagined with WordPress and spent some time chatting with Cathy Sharick who is the managing editor who managed to pull off this development in 2 weeks! The reason they chose WordPress?

Probably the number one question right now considering the increased interest in the GPL is what license Habari is. That’s easy, as it’s the Apache License. It’s worth noting that the Free Software Foundation considers the Apache License, Version 2.0 to be a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GPL as well. But what does this really mean? It means that the ASL makes no (zip, zilch, nada) restrictions for works that are released: Derivative Works shall not include works that remain separable from, or merely link (or bind by name) to the interfaces of, the Work and Derivative Works thereof. Historically it’s been argued that links to […]

They have the space and the computers – they just need some warm bodies to help fill in the (much needed) gaps! Are you a web and/or graphic designer and are you local to Melbourne, Australia? WPMU is hiring! Here are the requirements:

You do. Or, all of us do because WordPress is not owned outright by anyone specifically. Design is Philosophy shares their perspective on this interesting tension between ownership, copyright, and development:

Or as Matt Mullenweg shares specifically at the World Economic Forum, the online world is the 5th estate: I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate. It’s fascinating to think this way especially with all the power and opportunity we all have to create value and influence others but […]