WEBVTT 00:00:00.899 --> 00:00:01.928 Ladies and gentlemen, 00:00:02.508 --> 00:00:04.188 welcome to the main event. 00:00:04.928 --> 00:00:08.007 He is the cofounder of WordPress and the founder of Automattic. 00:00:08.522 --> 00:00:09.862 [ Gourgeous latin sound ] 00:00:10.217 --> 00:00:12.257 [ Audience Laugh ] 00:00:12.537 --> 00:00:14.827 He loves jazz the office might have 00:00:14.827 --> 00:00:17.827 aged him a little bit. 00:00:17.827 --> 00:00:20.423 But he remains extraordinary passionate about open source 00:00:20.423 --> 00:00:23.423 to share with us the state of the word, 00:00:23.423 --> 00:00:25.593 Please welcome Matt Mullenweg. 00:00:25.895 --> 00:00:28.895 (Applause) 00:00:31.847 --> 00:00:33.517 With him on the stage, 00:00:33.767 --> 00:00:36.817 I would like to invite Philadelphia councilman David Oh. 00:00:37.117 --> 00:00:40.937 He is a strong advocate for the technology and creative economy sectors, 00:00:41.392 --> 00:00:44.347 he's got a killer smile and he loves to shake hands. 00:00:44.777 --> 00:00:46.547 Please welcome, councilman Oh. 00:00:58.517 --> 00:00:59.517 [Matt] I think we have the three people with jackets now. 00:01:00.935 --> 00:01:03.305 [David] Yes. Only three of us, right? 00:01:03.305 --> 00:01:06.305 [Matt] I think we have to close to this for them to hear us. 00:01:06.435 --> 00:01:08.135 [Matt] The three people with jackets are up here. 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:12.019 They're all the ones we found in the whole place. Go ahead. 00:01:12.290 --> 00:01:12.930 [David] Wonderful. 00:01:14.296 --> 00:01:17.636 My name is David Oh a councilman at large here in Philladelphia, 00:01:17.636 --> 00:01:19.258 So I represent the whole city. 00:01:19.318 --> 00:01:22.208 but more importantly I chair our city's committee 00:01:22.208 --> 00:01:25.978 on global opportunities in the creative and innovative economy. 00:01:25.978 --> 00:01:29.958 So if you don't want to have those in your hometown, make sure you talk to your city council. 00:01:30.198 --> 00:01:33.198 I'm so pleased to present today, 00:01:33.248 --> 00:01:39.258 a resolution recognizing December 5th as WordPress Day here in Philadelphia. 00:01:39.628 --> 00:01:41.378 [Cheers and applause] 00:01:41.638 --> 00:01:42.638 Good reaction! 00:01:43.678 --> 00:01:44.478 Alright, 00:01:47.418 --> 00:01:49.368 So if you'll give me a minute, 00:01:49.728 --> 00:01:53.758 I'm gonna present this officially to Matt Mullenburg, 00:01:53.928 --> 00:01:55.678 I'm sorry, Mullenweg, 00:01:55.858 --> 00:01:59.288 and give me one minute, There we go. 00:02:00.568 --> 00:02:01.778 There we go. 00:02:03.706 --> 00:02:05.876 It's tough seeing up here, so bear with me. 00:02:07.425 --> 00:02:11.055 It is resolution so was passed in our city council, 00:02:11.755 --> 00:02:15.755 And it recognizes and commemorates December 5, 2015, 00:02:16.127 --> 00:02:17.977 as WordPress Day in Philadelphia. 00:02:18.179 --> 00:02:24.119 Whereas WordPress is an opensource software program used to build websites. 00:02:24.391 --> 00:02:28.391 And whereas WordPress is simple enough for creating personal blogs 00:02:28.391 --> 00:02:32.468 yet powerful enough for building large multi-faceted corporate sites. 00:02:32.738 --> 00:02:36.738 It is estimated that 25% of the websites on the internet 00:02:37.025 --> 00:02:38.575 are powered by WordPress. 00:02:38.699 --> 00:02:42.669 And whereas Philladelphia will host the inaugural host WordCamp US 00:02:42.794 --> 00:02:49.324 the premier WordPress conference of the year on December 4-6 2015 00:02:49.470 --> 00:02:53.450 and whereas WordCamp US is the largest gathering of people 00:02:53.576 --> 00:02:56.326 who develop, use, and support WordPress. 00:02:56.409 --> 00:03:00.346 This conference will welcome more than 2,000 people 00:03:00.346 --> 00:03:02.966 from all across the nation and the world 00:03:03.056 --> 00:03:07.126 for these days of learning, community, and contribution to WordPress. 00:03:07.182 --> 00:03:11.102 And whereas WordCamp US will draw a diverse mix of people, 00:03:11.182 --> 00:03:15.462 designers, developers, content creators, and strategists, 00:03:15.538 --> 00:03:20.098 marketers, writers, SEO practitioners, educators, 00:03:20.194 --> 00:03:24.194 project managers, business owners, and non profit owners. 00:03:24.370 --> 00:03:28.370 All attendees will enable a rich mix of skills and experience 00:03:28.540 --> 00:03:30.220 and whereas throughout the conference 00:03:30.312 --> 00:03:34.883 sponsors from top, local, national and international businesses will be available 00:03:34.883 --> 00:03:36.823 to help attendees learn about and access their WordPress focus business solutions. 00:03:40.610 --> 00:03:44.610 And whereas the local WordPress team worked diligently 00:03:44.761 --> 00:03:48.111 to ensure Philadelphia was chosen to host WordCamp US 00:03:48.150 --> 00:03:50.310 The team consists of Alx Block, 00:03:50.412 --> 00:03:53.302 Liam Dempsey, Tracy Levesque, 00:03:53.409 --> 00:03:54.969 Jodie Riccelli, Drew Jaynes, 00:03:55.077 --> 00:03:57.327 Ingrid Miller, Cami Kaos, 00:03:57.381 --> 00:04:00.111 Brad Williams, Doug Stewart, 00:04:00.197 --> 00:04:04.757 Reed Gustow, and Kevin Cristiano. 00:04:04.964 --> 00:04:13.644 And whereas as a cultural hub with an active and innovative tech creative community, 00:04:13.929 --> 00:04:18.349 Philadelphia is honored to welcome WordPress and WordCamp US to our city. 00:04:18.535 --> 00:04:22.535 Now therefore be it resolved by the city council of the city Philadelphia 00:04:22.707 --> 00:04:28.347 that it hereby recognizes and commemorates December 5, 2015, 00:04:28.504 --> 00:04:30.654 as WordPress Day in Philadelphia, 00:04:30.787 --> 00:04:36.737 further resolve that a copy of this resolution be presented to Matt Mullenweg, 00:04:36.884 --> 00:04:42.004 co-founder of WordPress and one of the top 10 most influential people online 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:46.900 by changing the face of the Internet by business insider 00:04:47.010 --> 00:04:50.050 evidencing the sincere adminiration 00:04:50.215 --> 00:04:52.805 and respect of this legislative body. 00:04:53.287 --> 00:04:55.117 [Matt] Thank you! 00:04:56.166 --> 00:05:00.586 [ Cheers and applause ] 00:05:12.686 --> 00:05:14.680 Whereas, that was pretty dandy. 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:16.210 [Laugh] 00:05:16.870 --> 00:05:17.920 Look at that. 00:05:21.371 --> 00:05:22.761 Gee golly, we're getting fancy here, 00:05:23.753 --> 00:05:25.453 Let me give this to someone. 00:05:25.606 --> 00:05:26.626 [Laugh] 00:05:27.882 --> 00:05:29.052 Don't fold it. 00:05:29.539 --> 00:05:30.609 [ Laughter ] 00:05:32.274 --> 00:05:33.944 Well, howdy, everybody. 00:05:34.192 --> 00:05:35.912 I knew I got dressed up for a reason. 00:05:36.107 --> 00:05:39.577 That was very fancy and we're very excited here 00:05:39.690 --> 00:05:43.320 to present the 10th ever State of the Word. 00:05:43.444 --> 00:05:44.784 So welcome. 00:05:45.019 --> 00:05:47.399 [Applause] 00:05:50.593 --> 00:05:53.443 My name is Matt Mullenberg. And... 00:05:53.566 --> 00:05:54.776 [Laugh] 00:05:56.612 --> 00:05:58.112 You can tweet me @photomatt 00:05:58.227 --> 00:06:04.697 and our hashtag today you probably all know is #WCUS. 00:06:05.223 --> 00:06:08.903 I love that WordCamp this year falls after Thanksgiving. 00:06:09.258 --> 00:06:12.298 Because I think it's a wonderful place to start, 00:06:12.461 --> 00:06:15.721 sort of this touch cornerstone this year 00:06:15.907 --> 00:06:18.537 from a place of gratitude and thanks. 00:06:19.726 --> 00:06:23.466 The first thanks I want to give are of course the sponsors that made it possible. 00:06:23.606 --> 00:06:26.356 Jetpack, Suruci, WooCommerce, bluehost, 00:06:26.473 --> 00:06:30.023 collectively between them, donated 275,000 dollars 00:06:30.178 --> 00:06:31.558 to make this happen. 00:06:31.683 --> 00:06:33.163 [ Applause ] 00:06:39.703 --> 00:06:40.703 Of course all the other great folks. 00:06:40.703 --> 00:06:42.473 I hope you've been checking out some of 00:06:42.473 --> 00:06:44.253 the booths and sponsors. 00:06:44.405 --> 00:06:49.685 Actually you know, most conferences, the sponsor area is dead, and here it's been hopping. 00:06:49.854 --> 00:06:52.954 I don't know that's because coffee is over there, or... 00:06:53.107 --> 00:06:53.857 [Laugh] 00:06:54.149 --> 00:06:57.079 Also I want all of these folks to stand up. 00:06:57.138 --> 00:07:00.588 You just heard their names but everyone who's involved in volunteering 00:07:00.660 --> 00:07:01.830 or putting together this event. 00:07:01.890 --> 00:07:03.450 Can you please stand up really quick? 00:07:04.159 --> 00:07:06.199 Let's give around of applause for those folks. 00:07:06.343 --> 00:07:07.223 [ Applause ] 00:07:07.339 --> 00:07:08.319 Look around. 00:07:17.275 --> 00:07:19.635 You know, some people did not want it to be in Philadelphia. 00:07:19.742 --> 00:07:22.452 Can you believe that? But they promised jazz, 00:07:22.525 --> 00:07:23.745 and promised barbecue, 00:07:23.818 --> 00:07:25.758 they promised no snow. 00:07:25.875 --> 00:07:27.255 [Laugh] 00:07:27.358 --> 00:07:28.918 All of these things have been true. 00:07:28.918 --> 00:07:30.866 Actually the weather has been amazing, hasn't it? 00:07:31.286 --> 00:07:33.086 The rain stopped before we got here. 00:07:33.086 --> 00:07:34.086 It was like the brightness of all of your smiles. 00:07:34.086 --> 00:07:35.794 cheered it up and drove away the clouds. 00:07:35.794 --> 00:07:39.794 It's been a really beautiful couple of days. 00:07:39.858 --> 00:07:41.658 You said it would be chilly and not snowy. 00:07:43.127 --> 00:07:46.127 And that was actually exactly what it's been. 00:07:47.907 --> 00:07:49.494 Plus those beanies. Who's got one of those hats? 00:07:49.494 --> 00:07:51.081 Those are the coolest hats. It's definitely 00:07:51.081 --> 00:07:52.668 some of the cooler WordPress swag I've gotten. 00:07:52.668 --> 00:07:56.858 Also in terms of coming from a place of gratitude and thanks, 00:07:56.987 --> 00:08:01.037 I want to take a moment to recognize two members of the WordPress community 00:08:01.147 --> 00:08:02.739 both of whom who have either been on stage 00:08:02.739 --> 00:08:05.739 or highlighted on stage, who passed this year. 00:08:05.739 --> 00:08:09.739 And that is Alex King who was a lead developer of WordPress 00:08:09.854 --> 00:08:12.914 and Kim Parsell who was a key community member. 00:08:12.976 --> 00:08:15.600 I would like you all to join me for a moment 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:20.340 to take a moment of silence to reflect on their contributions, 00:08:20.430 --> 00:08:22.780 their part of the community, what they brought to the world. 00:08:22.780 --> 00:08:24.486 Also anyone else you have in your thoughts 00:08:24.486 --> 00:08:26.346 So just a moment. 00:08:26.409 --> 00:08:30.409 [ Silence ] 00:08:44.272 --> 00:08:45.605 Thank you. 00:08:45.605 --> 00:08:46.939 That would mean a lot to them. 00:08:48.323 --> 00:08:51.603 In terms of looking back, like I said, the past few WordCamps. 00:08:51.652 --> 00:08:53.462 This is our 10th one. 00:08:53.498 --> 00:08:55.058 Actually I don't know if you all know this, 00:08:55.122 --> 00:08:58.452 but this is the largest WordCamp ever in the world. 00:08:58.579 --> 00:09:01.129 [ Applause ] 00:09:05.740 --> 00:09:10.438 You are part of history here and I think it will be the largest until we break it next year, right? 00:09:10.938 --> 00:09:13.898 How much was final ticket? about 1700 sold? 00:09:15.018 --> 00:09:16.458 1801? 00:09:16.458 --> 00:09:19.458 Did you buy like 10 at the end just to get an 01? 00:09:19.728 --> 00:09:20.548 [ Laugh ] 00:09:21.040 --> 00:09:23.000 And the last I saw, how many livestreams? 00:09:23.160 --> 00:09:25.310 There were at least 700 there. Pulling out the phone.. 00:09:25.700 --> 00:09:27.620 Hundreds and hundreds 00:09:27.670 --> 00:09:29.905 of people watching on livestream. 00:09:29.905 --> 00:09:31.978 WordCamp started very modestly. 00:09:32.424 --> 00:09:34.584 This was the very first one at the Swedish American music hall. 00:09:34.654 --> 00:09:36.864 It did have barbecue and jazz. 00:09:36.929 --> 00:09:42.489 It was put together with a month's notice and ended up 500 registrations. 00:09:42.619 --> 00:09:46.149 So it was very kind of last minute that it came together. 00:09:46.229 --> 00:09:50.349 I thought I would juxtapasoze, juxtapasoze? juxtapoze? 00:09:51.097 --> 00:09:52.198 each of the WordCamps 00:09:52.198 --> 00:09:55.198 with the version of WordPress at the time. 00:09:55.198 --> 00:09:57.768 When we did the first WordCamp, this is what WordPress looked like. 00:09:57.768 --> 00:09:59.195 If you all remember that, 00:09:59.195 --> 00:10:02.289 Navigation at the top. That was WordPress 2.0 00:10:02.379 --> 00:10:03.834 The next one also there, 00:10:03.954 --> 00:10:06.159 WordPress 2.1 looked exactly the same. 00:10:06.241 --> 00:10:10.111 2008 we moved for the first time to Mission Bay. 00:10:10.163 --> 00:10:14.683 Where WordCamp San Francisco has been for the past 6 years now. 00:10:14.683 --> 00:10:16.633 So we really started to fill it out 00:10:16.633 --> 00:10:19.543 And WordPress,? Who remembers this redesign? 00:10:26.139 --> 00:10:29.879 It's amazing how far WordPress has come. 2.9 00:10:30.774 --> 00:10:34.667 This was - if you look closely, you might see yourself - 00:10:20.471 --> 00:10:25.701 That was before the Crazy Horse, which came next, 2.7. 00:10:34.667 --> 00:10:38.677 this was the sixth, seventh, WordCamp. We did the big redesign. 00:10:38.747 --> 00:10:42.337 I think in 2012 we did some sort of jam there. 00:10:42.450 --> 00:10:43.910 Not sure what's going on 00:10:44.044 --> 00:10:47.124 We also brought the guide into the core WordPress, 00:10:47.225 --> 00:10:52.005 3.6 we brought in the mobile redesign, and finally with last year the mp6. 00:10:52.100 --> 00:10:55.578 Each WordCamp had something special about it 00:10:55.718 --> 00:10:56.628 that ah... 00:10:57.638 --> 00:11:00.598 that it cured that year or was introduced to the world 00:11:00.681 --> 00:11:03.601 from the first time we started talking about WordPress as an app platform 00:11:03.724 --> 00:11:05.044 or WordPress APIs 00:11:05.108 --> 00:11:09.108 or even the first time we started to show people using WordPress as a CMS, not just as a blog. 00:11:09.397 --> 00:11:13.297 All these stories and more have been collected and 00:11:13.596 --> 00:11:15.706 What I want to make as the first announcement today. 00:11:15.754 --> 00:11:18.314 We actually have a ton of stuff to announce today. 00:11:19.671 --> 00:11:21.981 You might have heard we were working on a book on WordPress, 00:11:23.082 --> 00:11:27.042 I'm proud to announce that this Friday, so, December 11th, 00:11:27.073 --> 00:11:32.683 the book "Milestones: The Story of WordPress" will be released officially. So. 00:11:33.012 --> 00:11:39.172 [ Applause ] 00:11:39.962 --> 00:11:42.312 It's a work of a lot of people together. 00:11:42.464 --> 00:11:44.684 Also Siobhan did an incredible number of interviews, 00:11:44.726 --> 00:11:49.346 over 53 hours of interviews with people in the WordPress community including Alex King. 00:11:49.376 --> 00:11:50.816 that are all online. 00:11:50.880 --> 00:11:53.750 So you can go directly to some of the interviews and read the transcriptions 00:11:53.823 --> 00:11:56.323 and we've got the summary of this book. 00:11:56.418 --> 00:11:59.558 Now we're approaching this book a lot like we do WordPress. 00:11:59.628 --> 00:12:01.568 Much like you saw WordPress change over the years. 00:12:01.673 --> 00:12:03.383 This is the first iteration. 00:12:03.477 --> 00:12:07.067 It ends little bit abruptly right around mp6. 00:12:07.105 --> 00:12:10.755 So, think of this as version .5 of the book. 00:12:10.850 --> 00:12:14.850 and we hope to release many versions in the future as we continue to write it together. 00:12:15.517 --> 00:12:17.997 I said this was the largest WordCamp, but, 00:12:18.094 --> 00:12:20.814 and since this the 10th anniversary of WordCamp, 00:12:20.874 --> 00:12:23.194 I wanted to highlight a few of different stats around it. 00:12:23.219 --> 00:12:26.059 This year in 2015, it will be 89 camps, 00:12:26.078 --> 00:12:30.838 with 21,000 attendees across 34 countries. 00:12:31.648 --> 00:12:32.668 Yeah. 00:12:32.668 --> 00:12:36.908 [ Applause ] 00:12:37.783 --> 00:12:40.063 You know these don't happen just by themselves. 00:12:40.106 --> 00:12:44.606 There are actually 601 unique organizers across all of those 89 Camps, 00:12:44.696 --> 00:12:47.706 of which 60% were doing it for the very first time. 00:12:48.463 --> 00:12:51.393 I don't know if that means once you do it once you never want to do it again? or... 00:12:51.504 --> 00:12:52.904 [ Laughter ] 00:12:53.111 --> 00:12:55.801 I'm not sure exactly what that stat means. 00:12:55.908 --> 00:12:58.908 But I think it's awesome that we're getting a lot, maybe even next year 00:12:58.922 --> 00:13:01.582 will be the first year we break 100 WordCamps in a year, about 2 week. 00:13:01.645 --> 00:13:03.935 There are also, we ran some stats and found 00:13:04.012 --> 00:13:12.322 1,600 unique speakers across all those Camps, and 2,100 sessions. 00:13:13.327 --> 00:13:17.247 So these stats were kind of amazing, but actually what blew me away were that Meetups beat it. 00:13:17.740 --> 00:13:22.690 So Meetups. In the past year we've had 40,000 people attend 2,000 Meetups. 00:13:22.849 --> 00:13:27.659 Almost double the number that have attended the WordCamps in the world in the past year. 00:13:27.659 --> 00:13:30.069 So Meetups have really been blowing up. 00:13:30.128 --> 00:13:33.288 And if there's not one yet in wherever you traveled from. 00:13:33.288 --> 00:13:36.918 Give it some thought. Actually, who traveled the furthest here today? 00:13:36.944 --> 00:13:39.934 Can't say New York, that was like an hour train ride. 00:13:39.934 --> 00:13:41.024 [ Laughter ] 00:13:41.133 --> 00:13:42.583 Anyone come super far? 00:13:42.733 --> 00:13:44.513 Back there, what do you think? 00:13:44.513 --> 00:13:45.183 [Audience member] Bangkok. 00:13:45.183 --> 00:13:46.133 [Matt Mullemweg] Bangkok 00:13:46.133 --> 00:13:47.163 That's pretty far. 00:13:47.163 --> 00:13:47.933 [Laughter] 00:13:47.933 --> 00:13:49.463 Anyone further than Thailand? 00:13:50.119 --> 00:13:50.889 [Audience] Romania. 00:13:50.889 --> 00:13:51.799 [Matt Mullemweg] Romania! 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:54.008 I don't know if that's further. 00:13:54.008 --> 00:13:56.078 [Audience] Costa Rica 00:13:56.078 --> 00:13:57.769 [Matt Mullemweg] What's that? 00:13:57.769 --> 00:13:58.929 [Audience] Costa Rica 00:13:58.929 --> 00:14:01.419 [Matt Mullemweg] Costa Rica. That's like... 00:14:01.419 --> 00:14:04.209 that's way too nice. [laughter] 00:14:04.209 --> 00:14:06.055 What you're doing here? 00:14:06.055 --> 00:14:07.655 I think you went the wrong direction. 00:14:07.655 --> 00:14:09.575 We should have all gone to you. 00:14:13.337 --> 00:14:14.443 [Laughter] 00:14:10.607 --> 00:14:13.142 You can put in a proposal for 2017. 00:14:15.671 --> 00:14:19.775 I've always said that technology is at its very best when it brings people together. 00:14:19.846 --> 00:14:21.766 And I think the WordCamp program and now 00:14:21.766 --> 00:14:24.144 Meetups happening on a more monthly cadence 00:14:24.144 --> 00:14:28.697 have really started to show and introduce people to the amazing community around WordPress. 00:14:28.697 --> 00:14:31.997 Because when you break it down, yes, the total numbers are very large, 00:14:31.997 --> 00:14:37.248 but really what makes WordPress run is a surprisingly few number of people, 00:14:37.248 --> 00:14:38.885 some of whom we're going to highlight today. 00:14:38.885 --> 00:14:42.368 A lot of the improvements over the past year we want to celebrate 00:14:42.368 --> 00:14:43.730 Actually are a combination. 00:14:43.730 --> 00:14:50.400 Both of the core of WordPress and WordPress.org our favorite community website that brings us all together 00:14:50.400 --> 00:14:52.896 and has lots of improvements over the last year. 00:14:52.896 --> 00:14:55.846 One thing, an update from last year that we talked about, 00:14:55.846 --> 00:14:57.277 and we actually did. 00:14:57.277 --> 00:15:00.176 As opposed to the update we talked about didn't do, which I'll skip over. 00:15:02.016 --> 00:15:06.136 Is we moved to more activity based metrics in all of our directories 00:15:06.136 --> 00:15:09.031 for example the theme directory and the plugin directory now. 00:15:09.031 --> 00:15:11.111 instead of telling you how many download something has, 00:15:11.111 --> 00:15:13.761 Which is a little bit of a *** it doesn't actually mean something, 00:15:13.761 --> 00:15:15.291 It shows you how many active installs. 00:15:15.291 --> 00:15:18.121 So these are actually active systems of WordPress 00:15:18.121 --> 00:15:20.981 coming through our update system so we can show that now. 00:15:20.981 --> 00:15:24.511 So this one has over 1 million. We adopted slack. 00:15:24.518 --> 00:15:29.918 This was sort of a surprise from last year and it's been kind of amazing. 00:15:29.930 --> 00:15:34.060 There has been over 2 million messages sent on our slack last year. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And in fact I believe, there's no official thing, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but I think we're one of the largest Slack instances in the entire world, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in terms of number of members. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I know this adoption of Slack has been to the detriment of many people's productivity 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but we have been able to use it quite a bit, it's been meetings 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 WordCamp US had some organization there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's been really cool to see people brought together by sort of a richer too than the IRC in the past. . 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who has had a little bit of *** 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because they've missed some sessions in 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the past two days? Right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's the worst thing about WordCamps is when there's two things you want to see going on at once. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They will all be on WordCamp.tv, I mean WordPress.tv. sorry. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Though I think if you type in WordCamp.tv we also have that, I hope. If not someone register it really quick. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Someone who's not a spammer. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We ended up open sourcing, all the code behind WordPress tv. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is a step along what we hope to do with all of the WordPress.org sites. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Putting it up on public repositories and we're initiating a redesign. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Not only will the community be able to particpate in 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but actually change some of the code. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If you find a browser bug, you can patch the CSS 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and put it right up there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And one of the most important things is that we 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 localized the plugin and theme directories. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Those of you in the back, who might not 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 be able to see, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is the Spanish Rosetta site. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, es.WordPress.org 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In this case buddypress and jet pack it's jet pack 4 WordPress.com 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm not even going to try to read the rest. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is really important because as we've talked about before, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 last year was the year that non-English downloads 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of WordPress passed up the English downloads for the first time. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which I said was an important milestone 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in our history because as you probably know 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 billions of more people speak not English than English in the world 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and if we're going to democratize publishing all around the world 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it's very important for us to reach them. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But without the plugin and theme experience in there, you think about your WordPress experience. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You probably run at least hello dolly, right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 At least one plugin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And in fact many people have anywhere from 5 to 15 plugins. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, but in another language if you're start only spoke Spanish, for example, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you would load up and you would see a bunch of plugins and themes in English. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which is not a great experience. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And in fact, a little mini announcement. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is that all themes and plugins now support language packs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We've loaded in every single theme and if you're a plugin developer 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on the next commit it will get loaded 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 into translate.wordpress.org to be available to be translated for the entire world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You all are switching out, that's kind of cool. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is a marathon, not a sprint. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Also a very exciting announcement is that the plugin directory crossed 1 billion downloads. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And in the past year we added 9,000 new plugins 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to the repository, which is actually a pretty significant amount of growth. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As I've said we're moving away from downloads, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but this does show just the activity that's going on 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and how vibrant the plugin ecosystem is for WordPress, and one of the key things. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Final big milestone, you all probably heard that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we've passed 25% of websites. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is not a chance to rest on our laurels 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but, I think a demonstration that the web, and the world 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 wants an open source, an open, free solution 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 for the web and as WordPress evolves more and more, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 from being just an application to being almost 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 more like an operating system for the web 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think it's been a very exciting year. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Driven in fact by some pretty cool releases. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So you all know WordPress 4.1 named for Dinah Washington, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in honor of Dinah Washington 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 included the 2015 theme, cool note about 2015, it's actually 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the most popular WordPress theme of all time with 1.6 million active sites. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So good job on 2015. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It dwarfs all the other 20s even. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We have distraction free writing and of course language selection 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 going on our mission and goal of trying to internationalize WordPress, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to make it available in more countries. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 4.2 is named in honor of Bud Powell which included 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 brand-new Press This, themes in customizer. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And my personal favorite, can we give it up for emoji? [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Of course the emoji was just a cover for supporting multi byte languages 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that the majority of the world speaks and writes in, so we brought that in there as well. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But the emoji are pretty fun. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And oh, finally 4.2 named for Billie Holiday. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Menus in customizer, site icons and formatting shortcuts. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Each of these releases were led by a different person, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 our new rotating leads and I believe they're all here, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 if John, Konstantin and Drew can all stand up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Give you a round of applause for your hard work. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Leading a release is not easy, as any of these folks who have done it can attest. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You definitely get a few gray hairs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Didn't see you yet Konstantin, probably soon. [ Laughter ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As you know, one of the key differentiators of WordPress's philosophy, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 especially in contrast to some of our open source 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 copatriots like Drupal or Joomla is we keep a fast version release cycle. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We've done three a year now for several years 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We've found this is a pretty good cadence 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with the way that updates and everything currently work 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 for getting improvements out to you all as fast as possible, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 keeping a steady sort of train of releases, so there's 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 not too much pressure for anything to get in one particular release. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If we miss one, there's another one right around the corner. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Giving lots different of people an opportunity to lead and sort of make their mark, or sort of philosophy of what a WordPress release can be. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And just keep things moving. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You know? I know that a version updates are a complaint. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In fact version fragmentation is one of the big struggles we've had to deal with in the WordPress world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Much like in this matter right now, a little bit more like Android and iOS in terms there's lots of different versions of WordPress out there in the world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I wanted to tell you a story about how one host has tried to address this. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This comes from Bluehost. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Bluehost hosts over 2 million WordPresses across many thousands of servers. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And around August of this year actually, just a few months ago, they noticed something bad. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We see that red there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 80%, or 1.6 million of their WordPresss were not on the latest version. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Sad Christmas. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's an emoji for that.[ Laugh ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 WordPress is very easy to install, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but a lot of people so, you know, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 once they get it going, they might not think to come back and see the dashboard a lot of notices. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 only you all update for majority host for minor versions. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So Bluehost is doing is they wrote a scanner that went through all 2 million plus the sites, including some that some customers had forgotten about. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They might be a different directory, staging directory or backup, and did backup. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And they did a scan looking for white screens and there are problems they immediately roll it back. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Once the system was in place, they got to essentially 99% plus of their sites on their latest version. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They were able to do 2.6 million core, plugin and theme updates within a few days of the release. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Pretty amazing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now, a lot of people I talked to this about are like okay, but then what happened. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 .006% of the updated sites contacted support. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So testing how much is work we put into the up grades and in fact ongoing support of WordPress sites was down 18%. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A lot of that coming from fewer sites getting hacked. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So this is actually pretty amazing and I think a great example for every single host, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 no matter what your size, to get everybody on the very latest. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They're currently working on PHP and it turns out that's a lot harder. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The usage as of today the usage of PHP 7 has passed PHP 4.3. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yeah, so PHP 7 has more users of version 4.3. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which is pretty cool. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yay. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Many host actually turn on a major relace our survey 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, this is a graph of growth a major version of WordPress 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and what you notice is those dots actually are closer together. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're not going to quite hit it by the time 4.4 comes out, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but we're at 48 point something or 49% of all WordPresses in the entire world are on the latest major release 4.3. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This the work of the update system host and many of you, as well, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 making sure that your all your sites and of course the sites of the people you care about and not the sites of your enemies are upgraded. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and latest and greatest version. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As you might know, version 4.4 of WordPress is right around the corner. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In fact, it is shipping Tuesday. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now we have to hit a day. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [ Laugh ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 To talk about version 4.4, I would like to invite a special guest on the stage, and that is Mr. Scott Taylor. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So a round of applause for Scott. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Leading 4.4 was a pretty exciting experience. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We put a lot of work into really transitioning WordPress into the modern era. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We still have a lot of work to go but 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think we've made a lot of head way. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In WordPress 4.4 we had over 2,000 commits. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's not just me, that's a great team of committers and bug gardeners. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What was really cool we had over 400 contributors. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we spent a lot of time going back through track and finding tickets that were maybe fixed four years ago but got neglected for some reason, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we tried to find as much as possible 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and put that stuff in and recognize contributors who have been around and perhaps feeling disenfranchised because we haven't seen their stuff in a while. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 WordPress 4.4 has a lot of little fixes in it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We did some cool things with comments around performance and kind of modernizing that API. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 revealed new objects like WP_Comment, WP_Term, WP_Network, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 as giving a lot more stuff coming up in a future release around multi site. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and really heard experience. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Things like used to be that  attached to a post, that works for unattached attachments now. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That ticket number was below 2,000. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We went way back to try to find things to work on. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 An exciting thing for a lot of people is the phase 1 of the scaffolding of the REST API. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is a longtime coming. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's going to be a future release that's going to contain a lot of end points, but for people who want to modernize the data, this is going to be a cool thing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're using it on the New York Times, this is our live coverage platform and that was a strategically picked picture. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The REST API is great. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's an alternative to what many consider an obsolete technology. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I would say the previous company had to expose data to iOS and android developers. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But JSON is a more friendly thing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We can now start creating arbitrary endpoints and it gives WordPress this sugar. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The theme which is 2016. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I like it because it has a approach responsive design. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So as you can see on different screens, it actually looks really great. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We got responsive images, which is actually  [ Applause ] thank you. A great team of people who worked on responsive images and validating a featured plugin approach and it was a really solid group of people that made this happen and it's a great step forward for the web. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When WordPress adopts modern technologies the Internet adopts modern technologies. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It allows you to specify a set of images instead of just one and lets the browser figure out which image to load. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is good if you have something that has rich photography and you may have huge use for desk top but on a phone it would be smaller. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's going to be great for bandwidth in some sense. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't know if you remember when we tried to do retina. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This allows us to move forward and provide retina images. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think pretty soon we're going to come up with a solution in a plugin that allows sites to be fully retina out of the box. Another piece was  I asked what people wanted to see, this was not high on my list but it was extremely high on the community's list. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's very cool that we were able to shepherd in. Another feature which we call I guess  what you do on the front end you see a YouTube embed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If I have WordPress 4.4 and somebody pastes my URL, you get a nice preview of that post on the other blog. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's also in bed code that makes it if you don't have a WordPress install, you can copy the HTML embed and paste it somewhere else and get the same rich preview. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Tuesday is our goal. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's been a great experience. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I won't be too sad when it's done. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's been intense. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But it was fun and now I know what it's like. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So thank you. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Are you all excited about 4.4? We have chosen new victims, I mean leads for the next three releases that I would like to announce. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Version 4.5 is going to be led by Mike Schroder. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 4.6 by Dominik Schilling, and 4.7 we'll just skip. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But I'm looking forward to leading a release again. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It will be my first since 3.8. [ Applause ] over the past year we've had 802 contributors, which is pretty amazing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And as you might know in the past year, a few of the folks I wanted to highlight were some of the commiters that joined. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thus far you know Konstantin, and they are now saying seven more people. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Michael, Rachel, Joe, Mike, Mel and Eric. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Stand up because I think you're all here. [ Applause ] We now all have commits. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Please don't break the Internet. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Or at least my site because I update the chunk every morning. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One other final development thing I think is cool I wanted to highlight, we've had a lot of growth in the attention to accessibility in the WordPress development process in particular. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And in the past year we've had almost double what we did before then. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I want to thank Andrea and Vion for working on this. [ Applause ] Some of you, by the way, follow my blog. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I did a call a couple of weeks ago asking what were the coolest things that you've seen with a REST API and got really incredible comments including this one. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I can not believe the gold mine that the WPAPI represents. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There is no better, simpler way to create a mobile stack, period. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He actually put an exclamation point. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's the code equivalent of Graphene. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who knows what Graphene is? It's going to safe the world, this single carbon thing, makes everything stronger. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't know if the REST API is Graphene, but maybe for 25% of the Internet. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I want to share with you 4 stories that were kind of cool. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The first comes actually from Microsoft, for is not known for its embrace of open source, but in the past several years has done some amazing support of open source. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They have this product called Microsoft dynamics AX. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You're probably wondering what that is. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's an EOP solution that can increase your speed of doing business, work smarter with connected operations and drive business performance. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You're probably wondering what Microsoft dynamics AX is. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is directly from their website, by the way. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I spent like half an hour on there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I have no idea. [ Laughter ] EOP has never made sense  I don't know. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But what is kind of cool is how they're using WordPress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And this was driven by WebDevStudio. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So what's going on here, Microsoft XP, there's like wookie sites. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In 29 languages so people all over the world creating hundreds and hundreds of pages that go into what I can tell looks like a wookietype system. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it goes to the REST API and talks to the dynamics and is able to display it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which I thought was interesting. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And some day I'll figure out how to use it. Another one that I understood a little better came from the nomad base. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When I signed up, I saw tons of people. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So basically nomad base is a tool for digital nomads or people who travel a lot. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And what it does it can pull in different social networks. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And show where people are all over the world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And show where people are going. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So you can see like in this particular city, Costa Rica, okay. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I have some friends down there or hopefully tell if someone is in the same city which I thought was pretty cool. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So this is all react. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's combined with Google maps. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Is it react? Map box and react. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Got it. Showing you basically entire JavaScript talking to WordPress on the back end. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When you register and store everything it's all going into the WordPress database. The final one is StoryCorps. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You might have heard of this from NPR. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They're pretty amazing, right? This is a good crowd. So StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit whose project is to honor and celebrate the lives of everyday Americans by linking to their stories. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And they have their NPR show, but they actually have a TED prize grant so they work with 10up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This thing called StoryCorps.me. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's an application, actually. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can download it and interview someone StoryCorps style. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You've got to get your NPR voice going. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And record it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And what it actually does is build the website from the iOS app use the REST API with something not even on the web. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's this app that you see right there. This is actually really cool. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So it opens up this idea of StoryCorps to anyone who wants to contribute. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And around Thanksgiving this year, StoryCorps was featured on the home page and linked from the home page of Google saying grandparents have the best stories. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So for those who are wondering if they can scale, only high enough to be linked from the home page of Google. [ Applause ] So if you're bigger than Google, submit a patch. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Smaller than Google, you're okay. Actually, it was fun because every year when I put together State of the Word, which, by the way is the work of many people coming together, I just get up here and talk, looking at the old ones and things we talked about in prior years. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I have a throwback to old slides that you might recognize. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm talking about sort of the three stages of WordPress where the first couple of years of WordPress were really focused on being a blogging system and often WordPress is embedded in the i frame in part of the larger website. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Then WordPress evolved with things like pages, custom post types to be more of a full CMS. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So now all of a sudden everything is plugging into WordPress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And finally what we started seeing in 2012 and has really hit its full stride this year as I hope some of these I showed demonstrate is WordPress as an application platform. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 People using WordPress sometimes to build entire other things on top of. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We actually did a whole different better view of it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Showing the different Lego blocks of how things plug in. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They're just as big and deep and complex as WordPress itself. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But they're built on WordPress taking advantage of all the things that WordPress provides. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Everything we do well. And more and more things are being built on top of this every single day, whether that's StoryCorps, Nomadbase, Microsoft dynamics. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But thus far, there hasn't been something that did WordPress itself, so there was no WordPress built on an API. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So they say the best way to predict the future is to create it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So after talking about it for a few years, we decided Automattic released a project called Calypso. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who's checked out Calypso so far? For the folks who haven't, Calypso is basically the idea that what would it look like if we designed the WordPress interface completely from scratch. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What would it do and what would it look like. The first thing we decided it would be in 100% JavaScript. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Instead of having PHP creating HTML, delivering pages talking to a database, we decided to go a complete JavaScript solution talking only to APIs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It would be fully responsive. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You would see every single size the calypso database is functional and fluid and at the smallest size it becomes an actual template, almost like a road map for what we wanted native iOS and android apps to look like down to the pixels and design. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We thought it would be social. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Likes, stats, so they'll be all on one interface and they will work with both dot coms and dot org sites. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is showing you never need to update a plugin again. So there are a few interesting things in this process. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 First, and one that for any of you in the session, we have dozens of developers who became world class in JavaScript, and I wasn't sure that could happen. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because for me it's one of the things that slow downed certain parts was a lack of participation of JavaScript developers. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Where you've probably noticed that many of the major features of WordPress over the past few years, going all the way back to media, the majority of code in these has been JavaScript, not PHP. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's been a while that JavaScript has been the language moving WordPress forward. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This was just kind of deciding to go the other directions saying what would it take. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So this ended up being last week, last Monday, we released this both as desktop downloads so you can run this... because it only talks to the APIs, you can run it on the client side. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Created a Mac app for download, Windows and Linux coming soon, released it, it's at 50,000 downloads already, so a lot of people using it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It was the work of over 140 people committing over 26,000 commits. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In about a year and a half. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So a ton of ton of work. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I understand why no one did this before. [Laugh] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It turns out, catching up to 14 years of wp-admin progress was really really hard. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Actually, it might have been a similar number of commits, just over a shorter time frame. But also learned a ton in terms of being able to change some of the interfaces, taking a completely new approach to architecture, how a client for WordPress could work, and just like I said learning JavaScript. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now, it's a version 1.0. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Like WordPress 1.0, it's very, very early days. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Did anyone use WordPress 1 here in the room? We have a couple. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I feel like such an old man saying this, I look like an old man too, but... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 WordPress 1.0 had no plugins. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 No themes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It was just kind of the basics. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And that's where something like Calypso is today. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it's also important to note, contrary to some of the press that was talked about, is that PHP is not going away.[Laugh][Applause] But I believe quite strongly that JavaScript and API-driven interfaces are the future. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Not just of WordPress but of the web. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I believe this as much as I know barbecue is delicious. [Laugh] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which is pretty darn strong. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This approach, when you decouple the data from the interface, when you take... we ended up chooing React, but many of the libraries are great, this sort of decoupled approach, it allows you to iterate a lot faster, crate interfaces that are essentially instant. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One very cool thing about Calypso is, out of the box, even on an uncached page it loads about 300 milliseconds faster than the wp-admin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But when the cache is in effect, like when you're on a desktop, is actually is 14 times faster. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So many pages can render in 15 or 16 milliseconds. So this is like a 10x improvements on what's come before. And the interview before Nacin's talk. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What reverence that we have in the WordPress community for backwards compatibility. But one of the things is I think... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As people start to look at what's been done with Calypso on this approach is... and this is why we open sourced every single line of it, that perhaps there could be a future, especially as we started to get more API in WordPress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Where there might be something on the other side that's working breaking backwards compatibility for. Also as we bring APIs in WordPress, I truely believe APIs are the key to the open web. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What I mean by this is if you look around... In some ways, we are the ??? of the open web. More and more, even one company is open in API, they put restrictions around it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 For example Uber. If you have an app, you can click an button to call an Uber car. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which is kind of awesome. I love Uber, it's super handy. But in the terms of service for using this, they say you cannot show the buttons for any competitors there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So you can't have a call Lyft button next to the call Uber button. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's great for Uber, but what about the rest of us. We just want to ride, we want to get to some place. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Companies enforcing this sort of terms of service, even around when they have an API, are making the web a less open and integrated place. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who is driven crazy when they click on an address on an iPhone and then opens Apple maps. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Right? [Laugh] Maps are the worst. The Google maps is amazing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why is that not the default? Look at what happened with Twitter, which many of us inclusing myself love. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Their APIs got more and more closed off and people that were built on them either had their businesses put out of it. The clients are token-limited. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Or essentially hit a wall where they found that what they were previously promised as a developer building on what seemed to be a open API was actually not. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And many ways this reminds me of the very early days of WordPress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There was an amazing post. By a fellow named Mark Pilgrim. What it was is... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Again, this is WordPress history. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But at the time when WordPress started, it was very, very, very small. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In fact, when WordPress launched, the biggest criticism was that the world already had too many blogging systems. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It turned out they were wrong, but it looked that way. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And on the self-hosted space there's one called Movable Type that had like 95% market share. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 All the cool kids used it. It was really good. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It is actually what I had my first blog on. Movable Type had the code when you downloaded it, it was Pearl and you got the source code but it was not actually open source. They put a restriction around it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When they released their 3.0 version, they decided to change their license, so they switched their license to being something you could run lots of sites on  they changed some of the terms. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There was a famous blog on the site whose site is gone. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Mark Pilgrim wrote something called freedom zero. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He said a lot of things. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One of which is the utility of online free software approaches zero in the long term, which I do believe. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He also said that it wasn't about people up in arms about the price. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In fact for him to upgrade to this version 3.0 he would have had to pay $535. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Freedom zero, of course, those of you familiar with the GPL is the freedom of user software for any purpose. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 No restrictions on it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He actually said it's not about price, it's about freedom, and he took his $535 and donated it to WordPress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And said never again will I be fooled by something that seems kind of open, but actually isn't. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That seems like I can see the code and hack on it and it's open enough, but in reality it doesn't belong to me. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't have the freedoms given by the open source license. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The four freedoms that each of us have using WordPress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This set off a firestorm. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And a renaissance of the open web as people started  every company had these streaming open APIs and they all worked together. When WordPress adopts modern technologies, 25% of the web adopts modern technologies. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think we can use this opening up, and this development especially switching to an APIdriven development to actually open up the web. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When you think about the open source looks like when the code being available isn't the most important thing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When we're interacting with things on our watches, the devices are mobile and everything. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The API has become just as important as the code itself being open. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So this is something I would like everyone to consider and work on, because I think we have a very excited year ahead of us. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Perhaps training to make the weapon a more open place. There are a few things exciting coming this year that I wanted to highlight. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A lot of it happened the day before yesterday. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How did that guy get there? [ Applause ] Projects from EFF supported by many people including Facebook, Automattic, et cetera. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Is making it easy and free for everybody to have a certificate. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You probably have thought about this before if you have an e commerce store, but another advantage of mass adoption of SSL is it makes mass surveillance of the web a lot harder to do. [ Applause ] I think that over the next year, now that LetsEncrypt is 100% free, we can start to drive the web to be much more secure than it has in the past. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Another present we got this week is PHP 7 came out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So much the success of WordPress is due to the technologies that we're built on, including PHP. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Like I said, PHP is not going away. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 PHP 7 is the most significant update to PHP since WordPress started. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There has been some version  a lot of it because they haven't provided compelling enough reasons to want to up great grade. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This changes all of that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 PHP 7 will be twice as fast for its predecessors. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So for free, a lot of the web is essentially going to double in speed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which is awesome. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Especially as we do more and more API costs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So check this out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 WordPress works great with it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Until fact, WordPress was one of the things that PHP developers targeted. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They do some heroic and amazing engineering to get this out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's co compatible and twice as fast. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One more round of applause for PHP. [ Applause ] Something important work on getting them all available in every language. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We showed the Spanish plugin directory. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You'll see the top two are translated but the bottom four are not. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we only had the top two in the screen shot. There's been fewer than 100 plugins and themes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If you don't count Australian English, Canadian English, as translations. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's fewer than 100 themes and plugins that have been translated in more than a couple of languages. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So as we invest in the price and recruit more people to be at translate including many of you here in this audience are bilingual and there are many people watching us around the world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The translation of WordPress is going to open it up to audiences all over the world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We've seen this in small pockets where there's been a bilingual population like we've had in Japan or Brazil. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We can get ahead in many places. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now that WordPress is fully responsible, better native client advantages. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think there's incredible opportunity to actually  if any of you speak another language or know anyone who does, bring them over. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We need as many people as possible. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Improving the tools there was well. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I heard there's about 24 million translations so far, but don't get scared by that number. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But basically it was a lot of strings that we need to get to. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I think that we can get to a point by this time next year, where at least for the top 100 plugins and themes, they're fully translated. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think again imagine using WordPress with no plugins. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's the experience that people in other countries get. I talked about this before, but I really do believe that the future of interfaces in the web is JavaScript interfaces with PHP APIs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is going to be a better way to involve the existing plugins. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Scaffolding, plugins can register their own end points. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Think about it, especially the more advanced ones that have pretty complexed and advanced interfaces, you can essentially start to build calypso or a single paged apathy about taking all the screen refreshers and reloads and all the PHP files and turning that into something. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is I think also going to set us up pretty well if we do end up going in a full JavaScript client API direction in the future, which could be pretty exciting, for plugins to be able to come in along for the ride. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who's a plugin developer here? Whoa. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Give this some thought. Customization. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is going to be extremely important. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If you look at funnels, if you look at what people fall off, customization is the single biggest opportunity for improving WordPress anywhere. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I believe as we start to become Google level in JavaScript, learning these things is scary and hard and it kind of sucks being a beginner again, but once you get over that hump, it becomes amazing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Going from one to two things is very, very hard, but it gets easier the more you learn. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It expands your mind the way you think about programming. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I hope that WordPress can actually reverse the trend of these APIs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think we have a chance to do this. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As WordPress starts to power more apps. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Things like StoryCorps. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 StoryCorps gets an open API just kind of for free being out there and more and more can and we can do it with more platforms out there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The API can be open with great terms of service, terms of use, and software. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So it's totals all the way down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Open source all the way down. I'm going to give you one homework assignment in closing, which I've never done before. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And you might be able to predict it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it's to learn JavaScript, deeply. [ Applause ] I am going to commit to this myself. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You will see at least one patch from me in JavaScript by the time 4.7 comes out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If I can do it, I'm a dumb CEO. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If I can learn JavaScript, every single one of you can, and I encourage everyone to learn it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because it is the future of the web. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Think how delicious barbecue is. There's amazing resources online too. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Check out things like code academy, there's coursera courses, meetups going on, lots of sessions going on. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Take every opportunity to really beef up your JavaScript chops because it's what's going to allow WordPress to fly for the next 13 years. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One of the things that's been amazing about WordPress is most software isn't this big or popular at 13 years old. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Typically there's a wave that happens, but because we've been able to adapt and survive the wave, this is the biggest WordCamp ever in history. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it's going to be extremely important that those from the user point of view and from the developer point of view that we really become as good in JavaScript as well as any other project out there in the world. Have you all liked this WordCamp so far? [ Applause] Do you want to do it again? [ Applause ] My final announcement for today is we will be coming back to this very hall December 2nd through 4th. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we're announcing the days. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Get on Expedia now. [ Applause ] Philadelphia has been amazing and I think it's really special that this 10th anniversary of WordCamp, this time we're making probably one of the biggest changes in history from a technological point of view, happens in the birthplace of this nation as well. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And in a city with the liberty bell and cheese steaks. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Kudos to the Philadelphia organizing team because you've really made all of us welcome. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I'm looking forward to coming back next year. That's all I've got. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you very much. [ Applause ] Now, we have a little bit of time for some questions and answers. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we've got three mics. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is kind of fun. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The town hall part. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A town hall in Philadelphia, wow. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 By the way, everyone download the soundtrack if you can the music of Alexander Hamilton. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's incredible. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's essentially the story of Alexander Hamilton one of the founding fathers done like a hiphopper. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Everything rhymes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's like John Adams battling Hamilton and George Washington. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's pretty cool. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Come up with some questions and just say your name and you can ask about anything. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We've got a lot going on this year. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Can you talk a little bit about the future of your big announcements this year? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I think that ecommerce are going to be key parts of growing WordPress's market share as we go from 25% to 50% to 75%. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because a lot of websites, both need this, they want to be able to sell things online. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And solutions out there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I mean when Steve Jobs talked about iTunes for Windows it was  the WordPress solutions are so much better. The road map is coming up where I'm going to be going down to Cape Town to talk about what's coming. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I focus with Automattic so far is trying to get as many resources as possible. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If I were to estimate something, the stuff I just talked about could be a pretty interesting direction. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So if you can imagine the interface which is API driven, that would be a really cool direction not just for you but for every large  maybe there's a point in the future, it's so easy once you have these things. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I can imagine a point where, you know, I'm filling up your CD changer. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They can be whatever there is. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And each of these could have purposebuilt interfaces. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is the beauty of being API driven. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Is we don't have to squeeze everything in the exact same interface. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If you do real estate management or something like that, there might be something that doesn't look like the WordPress white page which is the best way to create that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And we jump through a lot of hoops for that now. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One cool thing, check out the calypso, it's completely open source. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's hundreds of open components there that are interface sort of chunks and modules that are completely reusable. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We can actually start to reuse those as actual code and share it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I'm pretty excited about going in that direction, what that could mean for WordPress as a whole. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You said to learn JavaScript. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which framework, if any? [ Laughter ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So calypso is using the apps. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Learn JavaScript. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If you learn JavaScript, you'll be able to use it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Don't worry too much about the framework. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Maybe start with the stuff that calypso did. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Have some fun with it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Allow you to think about the JavaScript as a language. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So check it out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So short answer. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 My name is Douglas bell. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm from 2006, a long way since then. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm now from BC. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I now wanted to ask you mentioned calypso and Peter with the interface I'll be honest I still am used to and love the MP 6 WP admin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Is there any anticipation of calypso replacing the admin in the near future or is that going to be two separate strategies? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The beautiful thing is they're separate right now and they can codevelop and coevolve. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's 40 plugins, a good chunk of which modify the admin and we've done a lot of improvements through MP 6 to improve WP admin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The cool thing about calypso it gives us a place. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I fully expect it to be calypso  but we're able to do in 20 months what previously took kind of 13 years. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Would be to do two or three terms on some of these core interfaces. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because it's faster and easier to develop this way. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And you don't need to worry about anything else. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So this gives us  it's an incredible blessing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We should take advantage of this, to reexamine some of the core assumptions. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If we became more usercentric. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What does it mean if perhaps in the future maybe the WordPress you download two things, like the clients app or your desk top or the service side app that gets installed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Those talk to each other. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's actually kind of interesting. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Perhaps we can look at differently what it means two WordPresses at once. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Perhaps have an activity stream. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's pretty cool. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Do you foresee JavaScript replacing PHP as the template hierarchy of choice? Because right now I guess with JavaScript it wouldn't support child themes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 JavaScript totally different from java. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Don't buy a java book. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You'll go the wrong direction. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The way it kind of works is awesome. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's no reason you should run away from that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think PHP is always going to be WordPress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In fact it's kind of one of the best out there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now, people have started to do JavaScript themes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This could be interesting. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One of the things I think is going to happen with the API is we'll see lots and lots of different technologies for a business reason or for integration reason or something like that, like the New York Times, they might not know what python or something else that's been talking to WordPress on the back end. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's actually something we're worried about because right now that 25% number that we see pick up every month is from people using WordPress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So something people should think about is perhaps maybe standardize some sort of header. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So even if your application doesn't run HTTP at all they can send an header that say hey, like a mullet. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Business in the front, party in the back. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But there's some WordPress back there that's doing cool stuff and we can start to track that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 WordPress is an amazing thing and some of the larger sites including WordPress.com, run WordPress on the front too. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But I think that  one of the things we're doing, one of the philosophies of WordPress is always to work with where people want to do. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And we're hearing people saying they want to use different technologies for some of this frontend stuff for whatever reason and we want to support that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's the key to the open API. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 PHP for themes  people on the side doing more progressive stuff. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's Martin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 With 4.4 we are for the first time really wielding the power of WordPress by paving the paths of responsive images and that's a really big deal. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 At this conference we are seeing something that's pretty much muted to the WordPress community which is CART captioning, a sign language interpreter in front. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can't see from the back, but there's actually someone signing right there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And WordPress core is becoming exceptionally accessible. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Last year I brought up this issue of themes and accessibility. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 At the time we had 18 themes in the library that were accessible. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Today we have 79 out of some thousands. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Woohoo. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which is great, but there's a couple thousand left to go. Now, can we make decisions about responsive images which is great and we have the power to change the web, once we have responsive images, everyone has to do it too. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Can't we do the same with accessibility as well? [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yes. [ Laughter ] I don't know if that was a question, but yes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Let me make it into a question. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Can you tell everybody in this room, and our community, to when they learn JavaScript, add on that little extra accessibility part so we'll all start building everything accessible and tell the world that the web should be accessible and that's the WordPress way. [Cheers and applause] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I agree and I would say that that applause. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But I basically  I'm worried about getting to a point where we think of accessibility like a checkbox. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Even though there are great guidelines and things like that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think that accessibility is a process. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it's going to be driven sometimes not by every person, but by groups. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And most importantly by the people who need the technology communicating and us observing that and things like that. So I do think that we have presentations on accessibility at every single WordCamp, I think we're a little behind on the theme, because the accessibilities are much harder  but I'm really excited about what this group has been able to do and the growing momentum. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't think that necessarily saying I want to be accessible moves things as much as the continuing education that we're doing through every single WordCamp through the guidelines, to the group. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So it's very hard in the state of the word saying how we have doubled accessibility in the past year. We also need to think about accessibility. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The 6.99 people who can't use WordPress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I also think about accessibility in terms of languages, in terms of touch devices. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 These are things that as we get there, that we right and expand to a much larger audience. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I encourage everyone to keep that in mind but learn JavaScript as well. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hi Matt, my name is Travis Taylor. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As a plugin author, is there anything that we need to do to prepare for the translation? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Commit. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One thing that's been pretty effective for some different plugins, reach out to the community and people using it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Probably if we think about it, because most plugins are primarily English, if you have users in other countries, they probably are bilingual. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So if you can reach out with them and work with them to get them to submit translations or become moderators, it can increase it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So use your platform the interface of the plugin, the blog, everything. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The plugin page, to try to bring as many people in the translation page as possible. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hey, Matt. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 My name is Alex. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I have a question. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's not technical, but it's kind of messing with me. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So a couple of years ago you came out and you did a talk in WordCamp San Diego, your hair was a little unruly, all over the place. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Like dude, when are you going to cut your hair and you gave us a good story about the story of your hair was and how you met the president and all that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So your hair is looking a little bit lighter and I want to know what's going on with that and if you're stressed out, you can tell us about it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But what's going on? [ Laughter ] That's all I got. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 My mom asks the same question. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 She doesn't know what's going on either. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The job really ages you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's like being president. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One of the beautiful things is that a lot of the companies being built around WordPress, you can look like whatever you want. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can be whatever you want. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think it's beautiful that the inclusion and the feel of the WordPress community is now starting to be translated into dozens and dozens of the companies built on top of it and that I think is one of the things that are part of the idea behind WordPress and Automattic is to show companies can be built in a different way. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That there wasn't a company profiting at the expense of open source or that open source becomes unresponsive to the users as many projects kind of collapsing under their own weight. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And now if you look at any of those sponsors, all the companies in the WordPress ecosystem are evenly distributed, they're inclusive, a lot of them have crazy here. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think it's awesome. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 People at these companies, thank you very much for bringing the WordPress magic into that because I think we can change business just like we've changed the web. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Nice shirt, by the way. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I got it from an awesome booth downstairs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I work in California, and I have a very unique and prolific relationship with plugins and developers. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I do a lot of the plug interviews on dot org. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One of the things I've been hearing recently is that the constant stream of WordPress major releases has started to put a drain on resources. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And this is from people who are individuals who don't have the depth of resources that WordPress does when it comes to testing, data versions of their plugins or even just supporting people when they do a major upgrade. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And while I am an advocate for the rapid release cycles of WordPress, I do start to wonder if updating four times a year, which is what we will be doing this year, is perhaps a little bit too fast to allow our developers to keep up with a changing ecosystem to learn JavaScript, to learn the REST API, are we perhaps moving just a little too fast and maybe we should tone it down by one? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 She's part of a team that reviews those 9,000 plugins that we added this year. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I quite enjoy it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm glad you do. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's funny, because every time society starts moving faster, everyone thinks it's the end of society. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Like when trains were first there, people were like human bodies were not meant to go this fast. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which is a reasonable think to think about. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In all past years bodies moved up to the speed of a horse and now we're taking it faster than that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So what happens. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think this is our train. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Three releases a year seems fast and is that too fast as we do these major updates, being more pro active by improving the plugins so that users can share the burden of some of the testing and perhaps some of the updating. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Making plugins less  I don't think any plugin should be a oneperson shop. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's best when there's many people involved. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If you look at everything that's super wrong with us, it's a team. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Part of the reason we do the core plugins process is to provide best practices how plugins can work together and people can work together. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So yeah, I think we can improve those tools, but I think we're probably going to get faster, not slower. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The four releases this year just worked out that way schedule wise. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Three is still our target in a given calendar year. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And we'll probably maintain that for how it is going forward with the current update technologies. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But you know, we're not that far. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A lot of hosts already enabled the flag that has WordPress major updates. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And we're getting to the point where we have half the sites on the web. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think the other direction. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Not all plugins are able to do, the things the REST API being on half of the websites in the world, maybe we can get that higher. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That enables them to build so much more interesting that perhaps lower their support burden by the things we're putting in the WordPress core. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Things that make the entire ecosystem better. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It will probably get faster and not slower and I'm sorry to everyone who feels like it's too fast. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But it's worked so far. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm a core contributor from Japan. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's further than the other places. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I have a question what's the easiest way to become a lead developer? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Easiest way to become a lead developer. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Don't be mad at me for saying this, but annoy the existing lead developer so much with your patches and contributions that they're just like Ryan was just like shut up already. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So get active. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're opening up development quite a bit. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're adding up to 13 committees this year, which is more than WordPress had, it's like the first five years in total. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We added in just this year. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I think we're moving to a point where commit becomes as much an expression of trust. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So as you build up the trust working alongside track tickets and things like that with the existing developers, then that becomes something that levels up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I hope to see more and more folks doing that in the future. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because what I think is a possibility for WordPress development to actually have more leads within it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So people who really dive deep, Ella and Oz with WYSIWYG, really get deep in a particular section, just continue to improve it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And that can have some really great sort of returns. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Also sometimes people are at Automattic are like how do I move up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Another good thing is to do the thing that no one else wants to do. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So by doing the thing that no one wants to do, people are very happy to delegate to you and you can kind of show awesomeness with that thing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So find the thing that really no other developer wants to do. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I'm looking forward to seeing you on the stream in a couple of years. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 My name is Matt from San Diego. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A lot of Matts here today. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If you're a Matt, raise your hand. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Not bad. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's hard to be a Matt in your shadow, honestly. [ Laughter ] I'm really excited about the new default 2016, it's really gorgeous. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I got to contribute a little bit to it, mostly because it was on git. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I would love to hear your insight on when WordPress development will all be on git. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think that  I'll go old school for a moment. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There was a time where we switched from CBS  and there were people who were unhappy with that and we had to redo a lot of the tools and everything like that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think that over the coming months if something happened with the contributor base, we're figuring out to integrate git and GitHub more into our flows. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I would love for a point in the future, and I think we talked about this last year, that things could actually be part of the flow. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And to issue track. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So now but thing core plugins and things like 2016 is a cool way to do sort of a mini version of that and I love that it brings in new contributors like yourself. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Especially if they're named Matt. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But we do have stuff to figure out and we don't want to prematurely announce everything. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Keep an eye on the blogs for any official but know that it is something. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Calypso is also 100% on GitHub. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The future plugins are happening there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If that's more your style or your speed, there's ways to contribute. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And hopefully more core in the future. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 My name is Scott, I'm from Phoenix. A lot of us filled out a survey, and I believe we're going to be told  I wanted to check in on that and see the results of that survey. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Oh, the big survey? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The big survey. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The one that was in the header? Oh. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Well, usually I go over a lot of those results. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It was just too many numbers. [ Laughter ] Some highlights, maybe there will be a blog post on it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's kind of the trends that we've been talking about the past two years. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 More and more people are using WordPress as a blog, app development is growing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Think we had over 9,200 people who took the survey who said they make their living fulltime from WordPress which I think is like a 30% growth from last year. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So there was cool trends but it was all kind of the same things that happened in previous years so I didn't have too much of it because I try to switch it up for you all. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Blue tide, purple tide. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thanks for asking. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I come from Japan. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Absolutely. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now I can use that that would be WordCamp.org getting there first using the API? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm not sure I entirely understand. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We have especially now it's going to core, we've done things to boost the plugin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can have themes that rely on the REST API and we'll be deploying this stuff to WordPress.com, WordPress.org and WordCamp. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The only other thing that's coming that we can talk about because it's almost done, we're going to have WordPress.org being a provider. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So announcement. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So that will make some of our different apps connect to that easier. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Does that answer the question? Check out for Olaf coming to a WordPress.org near you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm Jason from Vermont. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As WordPress goes beyond 25% and with the REST API, the amount of interest in things that we could do with WordPress grows as well. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Interestingly WordPress is going to be touching many more parts of the global economy in a real way. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's a big potential ecosystem there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Given that developing and maintaining captivating plugins is becoming very expensive. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And do you see any modifications to the dot org repo in regards to businesses making the ecosystem more available? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Not so much. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And what is your position on where free plugins can be. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think it can be a bad experience, where everything you can click on are kind of gotchas. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They have a free light version but eventually they're just driving you to a paid version. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You need to be conscious about. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That perhaps doing something to promote paid plugins could perhaps help some of the plugins in the short term but I think it would be at the longterm detriment at the WordPress ecosystem to have those. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can see sort of a parallel universe example in the Juno world where they went pretty hardcore to pay everything. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And the sort of dynamics ended up being corrosive. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 People stopped working together as much, users felt like they were being nickelled and dimed for every single functionality. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Core development became a lot lighter because all of a sudden people contributing development wanted to put their thing they charged for. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think the WordPress.org community and WordPress as a system is still going to be oriented towards a collaborative nature. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Like Wikipedia. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because that's how we realize our mission. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And businesses figure out how to make money around that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But it's not something that we want to super in a marketplace or something like on WordPress.org. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. [ Applause ] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The last couple. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're returning out of time. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hello. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A core component of WordPress, and last year you mentioned 5 for the future and give back 5% of things back to WordPress and here's what you've seen in response to that this past year and what you would like to see. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's a good question. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've seen almost every organization start to ramp up their contributions. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've seen more people employed fulltime from agencies, web hosts, contribute back to WordPress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So that's been good. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't know if have we reached 5% yet? Even Automattic is not at 5% yet. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So it's a process and for more examples I would like to get back on you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Keep an eye on the blog because this is something I want to highlight a lot more. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And if you're in the audience or if you are watching online and you are doing something cool giving back to the group please reach out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because this is something I would like to have WordPress.org, also the page that allows people a letter of commitment and sign something that says this is what we're giving back and then we can highlight them. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because I think that that ultimately creates a longterm sustainable model for the WordPress community. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And this will be the very last one. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So no pressure. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 No pressure at all. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Given the release of PHP 7 and how you made mention of a willingness to sacrifice a bit of backwards compatibility if what's being gained is big enough, WordPress presently, the minimum requirement for PHP is 5.2 but it does recommend 5.5. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When can we expect a minimum requirement to be bumped up a bit, given the age of like, say, PHP 5.2 or similar versions? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The thing that we learned is that if we change our minimum requirement, the assumption is if we change it, it will drive more people to switch. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But what would actually happen is we would leave a lot of people behind. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If you look at it, a lot of folks what's really driving this is the web host, not necessarily people choosing to use these older versions of PHP. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As far as we know, all the major web hosts currently have programs under way, all the ones that are big in WordPress, to start to upgrade their PHPs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's probably not to 5.7 yet. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're seeing significant swings and usage. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As we track that, maybe it's just the 5% or 3% on 5.2. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's still millions of websites. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And one key, you'll see that whenever we can we try to do as much as possible to protect every website. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is why I will sometimes back date security back to 3.7. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because if we update to protect the sites. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We do. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And that's kind of our sense. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So when I think about backwards compatibility, it's not leaving behind millions of users because they have no control over a server, it's providing a new way, providing a new interface, a way of developing, that a next generation of applications to be built. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And to be honest, there's not a ton in there that is a significantly users experience. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Whereas the switch to JavaScript actually enables us to build interfaces which is sometimes 10 times as fast as what they're replacing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So much more fluid. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I think that is how we have to think about it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And regardless of what decisions we make, and anything we do will be in the next couple of years, we have this incredible reverence for the user not wanting to break trust and thinking about the importance that backwards compatibility has allowed us to become the most  25% of the web, actually 58% of all CMS's in terms of market share. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As we bring these people on, we want to get to a place where we can tell them the latest and greatest and we can work with the host to find it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So the things we're going to be doing is try to identify  because we get these update things. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we're going to be looking at who are  what's the wall of shame for PHP and I'm reaching out privately and publicly in the future. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we encourage these web posts to get the clients. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because it's really in their hands to get as many of them on the latest versions as possible. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It won't be us dropping it to try to change things. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It won't be us dropping it because things have changed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And that's where we can use our position of power is to work with the web hosts and things to show them what's great around the corner. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think PHP will help this because it does have really cool performance improvements. And we are out of time. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I wanted to thank both you and everyone else for making this the coolest WordCamp I've ever been to. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thank you. [ Applause ]