AJ Zane (@azanebrain):
is not a business
is multidisciplinary
♥s WP
I wanted to kick off the night saying that it's kinda weird that I'm up here not representing a business in our business sponsorship series. But I have a really weird history of how I got into WP, and it still isn't a tool I use everyday, and it probably won't be, but it is the best CMS out there, and you guys help make the best web community out there, so I try to give back with some pizza, some beer, and good times.
WordPress Survey
69% of responses were international
Non-English downloads suprassed English
91% of sites took less than 200 hours to build
dot Org
+6k plugins
+684 themes
Core reached 1 million commits
Code Business
Pull requests accepted on GitHub
Dropping IRC for Slack (chat.wordpress.org)
Utilize relationships with hosts to upgrade PHP to 5.5
Five for the future:
5% of business time to WordPress
(Automattic has 14 people working full time on the WP community)
~ Matt Mullenweg
23% of all websites are powered by WP
Up from 18% last year
These slides:
azanebrain.github.io/
presentations/awp-014-11