WordPress Foundation

Supporting the WordPress community since 2010.

Category: Announcements

  • WordPress Foundation: An End-of-Year Snapshot

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    Howdy! The WordPress Foundation filed taxes for 2012 recently, and we’d like to talk about how we pursued the Foundation’s charter to educate the public about WordPress and supported opportunities for people to get involved in web publishing and open source projects across the globe. In 2012, the WordPress Foundation provided support and guidance for a…

  • WordCamps and Such

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    Howdy! This blog has been quiet but the Foundation has been busy and I want to catch you up on what’s been going on. WordCamps: world-wide Since spring 2012, WordCamps have been held everywhere from Seoul to Seattle, Bucharest to Boston, and Vegas to Vancouver. (Vancouver also hosted BuddyCamp, the first event to be focused…

  • Our First Project: WordCamp Videos

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    It’s been pretty quiet around here, but it’s been busy behind the scenes as we worked through budgets, tax requirements, legalese and reviewing the ways in which the Foundation could be of most use in helping to promote WordPress and provide education to the WordPress community. Our first program is centered around making it possible…

  • WordPress Trademark in the House

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    We are pleased to announce that Automattic has made a remarkable and generous donation by transferring ownership of the WordPress trademark to the WordPress Foundation. We’re honored to accept this donation, and to preserve and protect the trademark in the years ahead as a keystone part of the Foundation’s mission to ensure that WordPress is…

  • Our First Donation

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    Exciting news: the first official donation to the WordPress Foundation has arrived! WordCamp NYC found themselves with a budget surplus after the November 2009 event, and decided that the best way to put the money back into the community would be a donation to the new Foundation. Their donation of $28,069.25 kicks things off with…

  • Getting off the ground

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    Hello, world. The moment we’ve all been waiting for: the WordPress Foundation is now public. As they say, slow cookin’ makes good eatin’. We finally have all our ducks in a row, proper tax status, and the beginnings of a non-profit mission to work toward. So, welcome! Please have a look around the site to…