Opensource - Wordpress :The Making

"the law in this case refers to the copyright law governing the land recognized by the software documentation" ---@alimieyitayo

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1. OPENSOURCE October 2017 Prepared by: Alimi Eyitayo WORDPRESS:THE MAKING
2. A B O U T . M E Lead @GDGCovenantUniversity Lead @TEDxCovenantUniversity Lead@ Google WTMCovernantUniversity Lead@ ForloopWomen Lead@ ALCOgun Andela Learning Ambassador @alimieyitayo TEDxSpeaker First African to Publish an African VR research paper wikipedia tech-woman lead for Nigeria Developer community builder Tennis player Designer Dressmaker
3. A WALK THROUGH Software licensing What is opensource? What is free sofware Why is wordpress opensource? What does GPL cover? How do i contribute? Why is it imporant to the 'consumers '& 'producers'
4. SOFTWARE LICENSING
5. A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software Under the law "the law in this case refers to the copyright law governing the land recognized by the software documentation" ---@alimieyitayo
6. Software licenses in context of copyright according to Mark Webbink.From left to right, fewer rights for a licensee/user of a software and more rights retained by the owner
7. OPENSOURCE
8. software whose source code is available for anyone to view, modify, and enhance. Provision:the ability to read and modify the code behind the software.
9. Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. ''open source softwares might not actually be opened as there are laws behind them '' - @alimieyitayo
10. FREE SOFTWARE
11. THE FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION Software that gives you the user the freedom to share, study and modify it. We call this free software because the user is free,” .
12. —RICHARD STALLMAN" “Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer.”
13. Share Modify Study Run
14. OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY OF ITS CODE. FREE SOFTWARE FOCUSES ON THE CAPABILITIES FOR USING AND SHARING THE SOFTWARE.
15. WHY CHOOSE OPENSOURCE?
16. "Little or no cost" No contractual license Loads of support Customizable Auditability Interoperability Security Quality
17. WORDPRESS AS OPENSOURCE
18. “Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an open source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your recipe site to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license fee and a number of other important freedoms.” - wordpress official
19. WORDPRESS: THE MAKING!
20. Documentation Community Translation Plugins Marketing Accessibility Theme review Design Support Hosting WPTV Employee User WP LOVE!
21. THANK YOU! October 2017 Prepared by: Alimi Eyitayo GO AND MAKE SOME WP!!! now