There comes a time in most teenagers’ lives when they need to be sat down and have a wise non-parent wrap an arm around them and have a talk.
It’s a time to talk about goals, sacrifices, worldviews, and what got them to where they are.
It’s also a time to talk about troubles they are facing now and ones they’ll face down the road.
It’s a time to give them tools, resources, and a template to follow when the inevitable happens.
This is that talk for our 15-year-old friend, WordPress. (It’s a talk for you and for me.)
Gleaning from a life well lived and using it as a template, we’ll take a look at the challenges ahead of us as a WordPress community.
From the bumps in the road surrounding Gutenberg to the need for more diversity and inclusion to the general growing pains of a community figuring out what we want to be when we grow up, we need someone to wrap an arm around us and tell us where to go.
So if you find yourself wondering where you fit in the WordPress community, this talk is for you.
If you find yourself wondering where we need to go as a community, this talk is for you.
If you find yourself deep in the woods of despair over where WordPress is, or where you are within it, this talk will be a rallying cry, a memorial, and a starting point in the conversation on the next 15 years of WordPress.