WordCamp NYC: Matt Mullenweg on the State of Wordpress (video)

Written by Allen Stern - October 5, 2008

Today in NYC WordCamp was held at the Sun Microsystems HQ. A big thanks to Jonathan Dingman for organizing everything... having been to many "camps", this one was better organized than most. Wordpress co-founder Matt Mullenweg provided the keynote address and I was able to capture all of it on video. I've split the videos into three parts: current state of Wordpress, a walkthrough of the upcoming 2.7 release and the future of Wordpress. Below is the first part and the others will be posted over the next 24 hours.

As for the state of Wordpress, on the self-hosted ".org" version, there are currently over 6 million active blogs. Matt discusses the top 10 Wordpress plugins, notes that the average blog has 5 plugins, the most installed is over 1,000. His goal is to make sure Wordpress is always small, fast and light.

Update: The official videos and photos from WordCamp NY have now been posted.

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Submitted by Maggie on October 5, 2008 - 7:41pm.

Great video Allen - made me feel like I was sitting in the first row!

Submitted by Grace Lee on October 6, 2008 - 10:58am.

Hi Allen:

It was great to meet you at WordCamp NY!

I've set up a Flickr photo pool, if you want to send any pics or videos to the pool:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/910303@N23/

Submitted by Grace Lee on October 6, 2008 - 11:41am.

Jonathan - set up this Flickr pool for Wordcamp:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/wordcampny/

Submitted by R. Richard Hobbs on October 9, 2008 - 5:03pm.

Added a photo!

Submitted by Kit Latham on October 6, 2008 - 2:52pm.

Thanks Jonathan for putting this info up and thanks fer the great video Allen.

I had a great time and came away from Wordcamp with a clearer vision of the philosophy behind Matt and Wordpress. Margaret Roach invited me and I was so glad I had the opportunity to meet y'all !

The event was really nicely done, and the people who were there were amazing and brilliant, the attendees as well as the presenters. The office of Sun Microsystems was polished and less than 2 blocks from Grand Central.

Thanks again for all your hard work and generosity !

Kit Latham aka Tarky7

Submitted by webaboutmoney on October 7, 2008 - 9:40am.

I see Matt at Wordcamp China. hehe

Submitted by Andrew on October 29, 2008 - 10:30pm.

allen, whats up with the way these west coast peps dress. Jacket over collar zip shirt. Is that geek fashion or just no sense of style? Both? He'll look bad in years to come and ask himself the same.

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