I just left the stage in Basel after giving my talk at WordCamp Europe. I am really happy with how it turned out, and I hope others found it insightful. There are some points that have stuck with me that I plan to dive into a bit deeper here on my blog in the coming weeks.

Further Reading

In my session, I covered how the WordPress philosophies and other Open Source decision making frameworks apply to evaluating suggested changes as a Core Committer. If you found yourself wanting to learn more, the philosophies of the WordPress project are largely adapted from some essays by Havoc Pennington.

These concepts are also detailed in Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project by Karl Fogel. My talk submissions are sometimes a way to promote exploring a subject that I am interested in more deeply. While I use the concepts in this talk at depth every time I work on WordPress, this was definitely one of those cases (I’ve had the paperback version of Fogel’s book on my desk for longer than I’d like to admit).

WordPress Lead Developer Andrew Nacin also expanded on the topic a bit in his The qualities of a great WordPress contributor post on his blog.

Watch the Replay

If you missed my talk live, you can watch the replay of the live stream. I’ve included it below and set the video to start when I took the stage.

Slide Deck

And here’s my slide deck if you wish to follow along.