So Matt starts by clicking a group photograph, and hey Mattm I really love that camera 
State of the word
This is the first time Matt has been to India.
To contact Matt, find him here:
m2mullenweg.com
Twitter: photomatt
In the beginning Matt had a movable type, blog, which was hmmm…well….lemme see…gosh, were blogs like this?
And now Matt talks about how things slowing down, with all the HTML, taking up, Matt says, I am a typography geek. I submitted a patch on sourceforge and I was zapped and I felt great! And my entire involvement with open source, is the feeling, that so many people are using your code!
On Jan 24, Matt wrote a blog post, on the blogging software dillema! and Hence was founded WordPress. Mike who is the Co-founder WordPress, whom Matt never met for over a couple of years, and well, the rest they say is history!
And so was born WordPress!
The last year for us was really amazing, people from all over the world started getting involved. We had two major re-designs. The average WP blog has 4.96 plug-ins involved. Couple of weeks back we crossed 4000 plug-ins.
I think the concept of personalization is the most beautiful thing that software provides!
WordPress 2.7.1 has had almost half a million downloads since the past 11 days. This is about 2.5 times any previous update. Matt is amazing, he says the direction that we are taking WordPress to, is like Firefox, as a great Open Source project.
Nothing that we have done with WordPress is original, many people said there are many
Hindi Blogs, is what Matt is talking about now. I was surprised when WordPress had languages as wide as hindi, tamil, telugu, marathi and many more…Its really amazing, and I had no idea of this!
Once I added all these languages, there are 11,651 blogs which are written in multiple languages
There are 4.2 million unique visitors in the past 30 days!
WordPress Themes, Matt now emphasizes on User Generated versions. Well, and Matt now shows the first version of WordPress, which was pretty primitive, and then we had a major re-design with version 2.5!! Well, we added the color Blue!! 
We then released the version 2.7 in december, the most successful release for WP so far!! Better navigation, and some of the nest features!!
We focused on the number of clicks and we worked on this amazing technology, using “laser eye mapping”. We are able to time every single action of the user on WP. Hence making every single action faster!! (I say amazing work Matt, I really didn’t know of this)
WordPress 2.8
Deadly – Ugly – icons!! WordPress users are Smarter and Sexier than the general audience ….am already feeling good
WodPress 2.8 is still open to suggestions and we are inviting suggestions. We are working on more widgets, making WordPress more and more Faster!!
One of our greatest DIFFERENTIATORS!!
Our dashboard, well, Prologue, would pretty much take it away!! – Food for thought, !! Matt is amazing !
Have you heard abotu BuddyPress
Well, its your own Social Network on a blog!! Its neat and its cool, that’s my first reaction to it. Its perfectly scalable. And to know more about BuddyPress, you can go to this test site: http://www.testbp.org/
What’s coming in 2009?
Well, taking a step back occasionally, sometimes we should do that. Where are we going, what would WP be in 5 years!
Software should be:
- Humble
- User Driven – WP ideas forum, what’s important to you
- Agile
- Plugins and themes
- Global
- Every country
- Every language
- Every culture
- Accessibility
And that is what we are trying to fit into the WordPress platform!
Matt is an amazing guy, and I am amazed with all the innovations which are up for grabs. Gosh and there are fake WordPress logos…well, Matt jokes about the various versions of logos present and well, tells the difference, which came out when he was in Indonesia.
Freedom
Freedom, is what Matt is talking about now! there were 100 people working on the WP 2.7 version, and well, why do they do it? Matt pushes the envelope for innovation further and really creates with the entire audience the biggest answer that they were looking for!!
And the answer was to the question, which is asked to Matt most often, and that is: “How do we contribute to WordPress”??
Matt, was pretty open in saying that people should share their knowledge on their blogs, spread more and more openly and really take things to the next level!!
Thanks Matt, I thouroughly enjoyed your session:)
