[HN Gopher] Mary Hubbard New Executive Director of Wordpress.org
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Mary Hubbard New Executive Director of Wordpress.org
Author : program
Score : 25 points
Date : 2024-10-08 19:38 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| photomatt wrote:
| I'm very excited to have Mary on board. :)
| mattbeck wrote:
| Can you clarify if this is a 1:1 backfill for Josepha's role or
| if her scope will be different?
| photomatt wrote:
| The scope will be significantly broader as Mary brings a lot
| of talents to the ecosystem.
| mattl wrote:
| Can you clarify if "Executive Director of WordPress.org" is the
| same job as "Executive Director of the WordPress Foundation"?
|
| I know you personally own wordpress.org and not the foundation
| (as many people suspected) so this is unclear.
| bzmrgonz wrote:
| There is a wordpressfoundation<dot>org, so I doubt it. In my
| opinion <dot>org is software repo/wp-inc HQ.. and <dot>com is
| commercial and hosting enterprise. But of course, let's hear
| from the horse's mouth himself!! :-P
| photomatt wrote:
| Totally different. The Foundation has no employees, only
| volunteers and three board members. (I'm one of them.)
| mattl wrote:
| I'd love to see something on the foundation website which
| explains this.
|
| Thanks for your reply.
| quintoni wrote:
| Can you clarify when you're going to cease your public tantrums
| and your erratic idiotic behavior that is causing problems for
| Wordpress users worldwide?
| legitster wrote:
| At this point, I am not even sure what Wordpress.org is anymore
| other than a marketing department for Automattic. It's hard to
| know if this is a real position with real people reporting to it
| or if the entire org is a paper department.
| that_guy_iain wrote:
| I suspect we'll only find out when WP Engine makes them explain
| it all out in court.
|
| WP Engine, the hero we didn't even know we needed. /s
| DonnieBurger wrote:
| Apparently Automattic states she's back working for them:
| https://x.com/automattic/status/1843750645037445200
|
| So then what is WordPress.org in this context?
| pluginvulns wrote:
| WordPress.org seems to be used to refer to Matt Mullenweg [1],
| as he apparently personally owns it, though one of Automattic's
| lawyers said last week that it is a non-profit that is separate
| from the WordPress Foundation [2].
|
| The previous Executive Director of WordPress was also an
| Automattic employee. When they were announced in the role their
| employment with Automattic also wasn't disclosed [3].
|
| [1] https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2024/10/02/who-or-
| what... [2]
| https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2024/10/03/automattic-...
| [3] https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2019/01/16/expanding-
| word...
| photomatt wrote:
| All the information in the links you shared is totally wrong.
| Our lawyers have never said that WordPress.org is a non-
| profit or owned by the Foundation. It's owned and run by me
| personally, and I have a trademark license from the WordPress
| Foundation to use the WordPress name and brand on the site.
| pluginvulns wrote:
| Here is the original source for the claim, which is on
| Automattic's website:
| https://automattic.com/2024/10/02/wordpress-trademarks-a-
| leg...
|
| The author is identified as Neil Peretz, who it says is an
| associate general counsel at Automattic. He says:
|
| "The Foundation also licensed the name WordPress to the
| non-profit WordPress.org, which runs a website that
| facilitates access to WordPress-related software."
|
| A graphic included in the post similarly claims that "Right
| to use name as part of non-profit activities" went to
| WordPress. With the arrow coming from the WordPress
| Foundation.
|
| We contacted Automattic's press email for clarification on
| that claim on Thursday. We have yet to hear back and the
| post hasn't been updated.
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