WordPress: Bringing Ideas to Life

A presentation about the Philosophy behind the philosophies of WordPress.

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   @SiobhanPMcKeown
   

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2. P
   CAPITAL
   DANGIT
   

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3. How do
   influence
   our
   DEAS
   DEALS
   ?
   

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4. FREEDOM
   

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5. FREEDOM FROM...
   NEGATIVE FREEDOM
   

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6. FREEDOM TO...
   POSITIVE FREEDOM
   

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7. POSITIVE
   &
   NEGATIVE
   FREEDOM
   

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8. Use
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   4FREEDOMS
   

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9. Use
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   FREEDOMS
   USE
   4
   

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10. Use
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    FREEDOMS
    4 USE
    MODIFY
    

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11. Use
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    FREEDOMS
    4 USE
    MODIFY
    REDISTRIBUTE
    

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12. Use
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    FREEDOMS
    4 USE
    MODIFY
    REDISTRIBUTE
    DISTRIBUTE
    MODIFICATIONS
    

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13. Our Bill of Rights
    OUR BILL OF RIGHTS
    

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14. Recap
    FREEDOM
    

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15. 1SPUFDUJOHVTFS
    GSFFEPNT
    

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16. 1SPUFDUJOHVTFS
    GSFFEPNT
    

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17. the liberty of some must depend
    on the restraint of others.
    -- Isaiah Berlin
    

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18. the liberty of users must depend
    on the restraint of developers.
    

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19. OWER
    

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20. A Relational Concept
    

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21. certain persons exercise power over
    others
    -- Michel Foucault
    

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22. USER FREEDOM
    DEVELOPER FREEDOM
    

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24. so that users don’t have to
    developers solve problems
    

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25. DESIGN FOR THE MAJORITY
    

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26. THE VOCAL MINORITY
    

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27. POWER
    

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28. SIMPLICITY
    

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29. what can be done with fewer would in
    vain be done with more.
    -- John Duns Scotus
    

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30. Occam’s Razor
    

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31. for sale, baby shoes, never worn.
    -- Ernest Hemingway?
    

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32. simplicity is about subtracting the
    obvious and adding the meaningful.
    -- John Maeda
    

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33. DECISIONS, NOT OPTIONS
    

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34. Preferences have a cost
    

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35. Every time you provide an option,
    you're asking the user to make a
    decision.
    -- Joel Sponsky
    

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36. STRIVING FOR SIMPLICITY
    

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37. SIMPLICITY
    

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38. FREEDOM
    

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39. Power
    FREEDOM
    POWER
    

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40. Power
    FREEDOM
    POWER
    SIMPLICITY
    

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41. “Philosophers have only interpreted
    the world… the point is to change it.”
    Karl Marx
    philosophers have only interpreted the
    world… the point is to change it.
    -- Karl Marx
    

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42. THANKS!
    @SiobhanPMcKeown
    Siobhanmckeown.com
    

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