In this brief workshop with Courtney Patubo Kranzke and Cami Kaos from the WordPress Community team you’ll learn a little bit about the history of WordPress software, understand better how building open source software differs from building traditional “closed source” software, and learn what teams the WordPress project is divided into. With this, we hope you’ll glean a better understanding of how the WordPress project functions and where you might like to get involved.
Links:
- History of WordPress: https://wordpress.org/support/article/history/
- Learn WordPress: https://learn.wordpress.org/
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
- Get Involved: https://make.wordpress.org/
Learning outcomes
- Learn how WordPress got started and what it powers today.
- Get an understanding of how open source software creation works, and why it works.
- Introduction to the 18 WordPress contributor teams and the function they have in the program.
- Find out where to go for more information on contributing to WordPress.
Comprehension questions
- What license is WordPress released under?
- Why does “open source” work, even though it should be chaotic?
- What four categories can WordPress contributor teams be divided into?