Learning From the Other 78%
John Eckman
Many of us in the WordPress community focus exclusively on the platform. But what can we learn from those who, for a variety of reasons, aren’t (or aren’t yet) using WordPress? What can those outside our community teach us about how to make WordPress better?
Taking WordPress to Corporate America
Rachel Baker
After building WordPress sites for many small and medium sized businesses, I thought it would be “fun” to pitch WordPress as a solution for some corporate web projects. I have since built over a dozen websites using WordPress for Corporate America. I learned that the benefits of WordPress seen by corporate clients are different than smaller business clients. Here I will share what it is about WordPress that Corporate America with the goal of growing the permeation of WordPress in the enterprise CMS market.
Public Universities and Open Source Software
Jeremy Felt
Open source software is a natural fit for public institutions. Because of their open nature, universities must be leaders in fostering an open and accessible web.
The primary reason I moved to Washington State University just over a year ago was the promise that everything we created would be open source or contributed back to the community in some way. The experience I’ve had has shaped me in many ways. I have more of an appreciation of higher education than I did before and I’m now more inspired that open source projects like WordPress can have an impact on how higher education operates.
So much good work is done at universities and while that work is often done with open source software, it can also be a forgotten tool. Promoting the usefulness of open source software and the responsibility of universities to contribute back to open source projects can only help the community as a whole.