As the WordPress Turns

with Ron Barnes and Evan Leibovitch

What’s the line between using open source and exploiting it?

WordPress is one of the world’s best-known open source applications, powers more than 40% of the world’s websites. But a recent drama between co-creator Matthew Mullenweg and CMS hosting outfit WP Engine has led to forced forks, strange code changes, acrimony and, of course, lawyers.

We’ll be trying to make sense of this story, giving the history, and looking for clues that might prevent this from happening to other major open source projects.

Date / Time:

November 12th, 2024 19:30 EST

Location:

In Person: TMU George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street (just north of Dundas), Room 201 (See note below)

Online using Nextcloud: https://hub.gtalug.org/call/7m45sf9i

NOTE:

The doors to the building are normally locked. There will be someone from GTALUG at the doors on the southeast corner of Church and Gould to let people in. If you come late or don’t see anyone at the door please SMS at 647 657 6575 for THIS NIGHT ONLY. Do not call.