Here is an interview with Josepha Haden Chomphosy about her role as the Executive Directory of the WordPress Foundation. It is not ground breaking and it doesn’t provide any details the future, but it is interesting in that it provides some insight to how she sees the project.

Here is a Tavern article with a pretty full summary of the outreach meeting about the problems with the Site Editor. Fairly nuanced. The bottom line seems to be that they hope people will come to the meetings and provide feedback and not just post on social media.

Some small plugin businesses share their experience and thoughts on getting started.

Anne McCarthy again – About a week ago she posted an article on her personal blog titled Overlapping Problems, which surfaced a number of rough spots with the content editor and site editor experiences.

Yesterday she hosted a Hallway Hangout which was attended by a broad spectrum of contributors, users, agency owners, etc. One thing that is interesting about this is that the Hallway Hangout functioned in an open-ended fashion to allow people to share their frustrations and suggestions.

The Make post has a summary of topics discussed and the full discussion is available with a YouTube video at the top of the post.

Beginning in May 2020, Automattic sponsored Anne McCarthy to run the FSE Outreach program. The idea was to encourage WordPress users to try new features and also to be a conduit to get non-core user feedback to the core team. The program has been a success, both in terms of providing better communication, but also as a tool for bettering community relations.

Now Anne is moving on to other tasks and the outreach program, which was originally seen as temporary, is being given a more permanent status as part of the testing team. Birgit Pauli-Haack will be the new lead.

This is an interesting interview with Syed Balkhi, founder of Awesome Motive. The interview is on an investment show for entrepreneurs, so it is not all about WordPress, but they do talk about WordPress and the open source model, so some might find it interesting.

Here is a short reflection by Joost on the difference between creating a WordPress plugin back in 2006 and creating one today.

Here is a discussion with Tom Willmot and Joost de Valk on funding and support for open source projects.

Here is an interesting take on WordPress today. He actually doesn’t talk about the survey results, but more on his perception of how WordPress has evolved, what it is today, and the ecosystem. So ignore the title.