Seoul 2015 Meetup - Open Source, WordPress, and the Community

by Aaron Snowberger

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Open Source, WordPress, & Community

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What is it? How big is it? Why should you care? What can you do with it?

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What is it?

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Content Management System CMS

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What is Open Source?

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What is it?

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What is it?

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What is CMS?

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Content Management System What is it?

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What is GPL2?

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https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-general-public-license-v2

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Use commercially Modify or build upon Distribute Place under warranty Freedoms

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Track dates/ changes in source files Keep all mods under the same GPL2 Disclose the source code But you must

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A Brief History of WordPress

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Mike Little Matt Mullenweg What is it?

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2003 2005 .COM 2005

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What is it? www.yourname.net Software “Bought” property Unlimited options yourname.wordpress.com Service “Rental” property Limited freedoms

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How big is it?

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6 0 0 0 0 , 0 0 , 0 How big is it?

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23% of top 10,000,000 How big is it?

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http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all/y

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1 $ How big is it? BILLION

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https://wordpress.com/notable-users/

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Seoul City Homepage

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Bloter.net

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Samsung

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Yonhap News TV

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GS Caltex

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KB Rockstar

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Hyundai Corporation

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webactually.co.kr

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Why should you care?

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Why should you care? 1:

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2: it’s powerful Why should you care?

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Themes ~3,000 Free 4,000+ $$

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Plugins 35,000+

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3: it’s scalable Why should you care?

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0 0 0 0 0 , 0 0 , 0 5 one code base .COM Why should you care?

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Why should you care?

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4: it’s growing Why should you care?

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http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/

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http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/

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5: it’s comparatively easy Why should you care?

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http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/

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http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/

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Can you? Then you can -> Why should you care?

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6: great for platform building Why should you care?

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http://chrismarlow.me/2013/07/the-dark-side-of-building-a-platform/

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7: Korea is a growing market Why should you care?

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8: the Community Why should you care?

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What can you do with it?

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What is it? Participate in the Community Create websites

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Teaching websites

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Schools, Hagwons, Universities

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Professional organizations

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Platform building

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Church websites + podcasting

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Portfolio websites

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Blogs

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