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Category: Announcements

  • Successful Open Source Workshops in Ghana, India, Colombia and St. Lucia in 2018

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    In 2018, we set a goal of supporting the organizing of four “Introduction to Open Source” workshops in parts of the world with less participation in open source: Latin and South America, Africa, Oceania, and Asia*. This was accomplished with events in Kumasi, Ghana Udaipur, India Barranquilla, Colombia Castries , St Lucia Kumasi, Ghana The…

  • 2018 Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Recipient: Nidhi Jain

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    This year’s Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship recipient is Nidhi Jain, a developer who enjoys helping her clients learn how to use WordPress. Over the past four years, she has contributed to the WordPress Core, Polyglots, Support, Community, Themes, Plugins and Meta teams. Jain recently served as the lead organizer of WordCamp Udaipur 2018, and continues…

  • Open Source Training Events Announced

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    As part of our continuing efforts to educate the public about WordPress and related open source software (OSS), we’re excited to announce that four local WordPress communities will organize Introduction to Open Source workshops next month! The following communities have scheduled an Introduction to Open Source workshop, for the following dates: Kumasi, Ghana, for 15th…

  • Call for Organizers: Introduction to Open Source Workshops for 2018

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    Last year, in an effort to educate the public about WordPress and related open source software (OSS), the WordPress Foundation helped fund two “Introduction to Open Source” workshops in Mombasa and Kanpur. The goal of this workshop is to highlight the potential of open source software in regions where there is less participation in OSS…

  • 2017 Kim Parsell Scholarship Recipient: Bianca Welds

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    This year’s Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship recipient has been selected by members of the WordPress global community team. Over the past two years, Bianca Welds has worked with the local community to bring education around technology and help others achieve entrepreneurial success in the online space. Currently residing in Kingston, Jamaica, Welds is a new…

  • Call for Organizers: Introduction to Open Source

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    To further the WordPress Foundation’s charter to educate the public about WordPress and related open source software (OSS), we want to sponsor a new series of workshops/training events introducing people to open source. Specifically, we want to shine more light on the potential of open source software in countries where there is less participation in…

  • Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship

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    We’ve added information on the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship, which provides funding annually for a woman who contributes to WordPress to attend WordCamp US, to our site. We’ll also announce the 2017 awardee here, when this year’s selection process is complete. The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship supports the mission of the WordPress Foundation to democratize…

  • Financial Reports Available

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    Financial reports from 2013, 2014, and 2015 are now posted and available. Later this year we’ll close the books on 2016 and share those as well. Part of our mission is to ensure free access to the software projects we support, which we do in many ways including educational events, financial support of non-profits, and…

  • Looking forward to a great 2017

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    Happy New Year! We are excited for a great 2017. This year the WordPress Foundation will continue to pursue our educational mission in a number of ways. First, we plan to contribute financially to other non-profit organizations; we’ll be making major (to us) grants to Hack the Hood, Internet Archive, and Black Girls Code. Second,…

  • Introducing WordPress Community Support, A Public Benefit Subsidiary

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    Since January, we’ve been working on switching all operations related to official WordCamp and Meetup organizing to the new subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, which is a public benefit corporation called WordPress Community Support, PBC (WPCS). One of the main advantages to the change from the WordPress Foundation (a non-profit) to the WPCS (a public…