Poet Robert Frost famously described a fork in a yellow wood in his poem “The Road Not Taken.” He concluded “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” What makes the difference with software choices?
The truth is that the fork in your development road is proprietary or free and open source software. So, does it matter if the CMS is WordPress, Joomla! or Drupal?
In the end, what matters is that you, as a developer and website engineer, provided the right solution to meet the business goals of your client.
Mike Demopoulos has a passion for the intersection of these three well-known Open Source Communities. He currently serves on the Joomla! leadership team, is well known in the WordPress community, and is an evangelist for BoldGrid. Having the perspective of a CMS-agnostic tool has given Mike insights to make all of our communities better.
In his talk, Mike will give ideas on how to bridge and support each community through initiatives such as CMS Garden (an initiative to promote all major open source CMS projects).
Self-awareness and introspection, much like the poet Frost, helped Mike see how the combined future of an open source web is not just inevitable, but the road less traveled by all of us in Open Source. The road less traveled is the one that makes all of the difference.