Wellington
It's in keeping with the spirit of Wordpress that its
Terms of Service
are simple, freely available to be repurposed by others, and,the tiniest bit quirky.
Wordpress co-founder, and part owner of itstech-tools parent Automattic , Matt Mullenweg,pointed out there's a 'here's a treat' buried in the ToS.
Speakingrecently in Wellington, he reckons that so few people actually read these legal bits, putting in ahyperlink is a nice surprise for those who bother. Go have a look yourself.
The scarily young Matt seems pretty savvy and modestall at once. His photo and bio is buried, alphabetically on the Automattic page (though he did pointout the pun on his own name in the parent brand).
Part of the savvinesscomes from a 1970's computer science graduate dad who encouraged his then six year son to play withthe home computer's code in the late 1980s – with the proviso he fixed what he broke!
So, along withMike Little he built the open source, free, Wordpress. They quickly realising they couldn't do italone, and encouraged others to come into development team.
As well,they set up Auttomatic.
He describes Jetpack as the site's tool with the most promise. This allows plugins that areavailable on Wordpress.com to be available on self-hosted Wordpress installs, powered by thecloud.
More than 130 Wellingtonians attended the Shed 6 presentation,including a colleague Harry.
Harry can't code, but he too was impressedwith the open nature of what Matt's helping create in the net, and dispersing it around theworld.
With only 22% of the internet sites, there's 78% to go saysMatt.
His lofty goal is to democratise publishing.