WordPress: An Open Source Success Story
Presented by Mike Little
An overview of the history, success and possible future of WordPress, together with lessons learned and how they might be applied to other open source projects and in business.
Mike Little
Mike Little is the co-founder of WordPress. After he responded to a post on Matt Mullenweg’s blog about forking their blogging tool in 2003, he paved the way for WordPress success today. 13 years on and it powers more than 26% of the web.
Mike now runs Zed1.com, his WordPress consultancy, training, and web development company. Hes an author and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including DJGPP, CVS, MYSQL, and the original b2. He has run a WordPress meetup in Manchester for the last 7 years.
Many years ago, Mike consulted with UK Government on Open Source and strategy as part of the Domains Reference Group defining the cross-Government Enterprise Architecture (xGEA) (the successor to e-GIF ).