Where 100% and fully are not quite the definitions I’m used to.
Yes, Movable Type Open Source should be celebrated! It is awesome that it already includes everything that was released as Movable Type 4.0 and more. As I understand it there should soon be a stable release. But I am confused by the conversations I read and concerned by the phrases used to describe this “version”.
Yesterday, I did an install of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on the Dell Dimension E520. The install went well; I haven’t experienced any hardware problems (yet), but I’m near tears for all the (minor) experience issues.
September 24, 2007 we released WordPress 2.3, and a little over a month later, this past Friday, we released WordPress 2.3.1.
Yesterday , we, WordPress won Best Open Source Social Networking CMS.
Who are we?
Todd Cochrane who wrote the book on podcasting, Podcasting: Do It Yourself Guide, wrote a harsh post about Movable Type 4 not living up to its announced podcasting support claims. The article begins:
From today forward I will no longer recommend Movable Type as a viable new media blogging / podcasting platform. I will recommend WordPress to any and all that ask my advice.
Todd elaborates in the comments on the experience in WordPress that has contributed to his conversion:
Wordpress does have native support when you are publishing a post you will see add media at the bottom of the page.
If you add your media there and hit publish the media will be included as a enclosure in your RSS feed.
While you will not have all the fancy itunes tags you can manually edit your rss template and add that data to be included.
To make it easy the podpress plugin makes it easy for you to add the itunes data to the feed.
Another thing to consider is that at least you can publish a podcast with WordPress today. You cannot say the same with MovableType Version 4 it is simply not possible to publish a podcast with the current version of the blogging software.
Welcome to the team Todd!
The final month of WordPress 2.3 development is upon us! Download the first beta of 2.3!
Ten students are being paid $4500 USD each to working on WordPress this summer!
2007-03-15 Update: Our application was accepted.
I was working on the details of WordPress as a Google Summer of Code – Organization Applicant, and happened to click on the link to the application form. Only five spots left the form warns!
I wonder how many organizations have applied? The application period is Monday, March 5, 2007 to Monday, March 12, 2007, I wonder why it tells you how many spots are left?
I submitted our application. It is an awesome commitment from Andy Skelton, Brian Layman, Matt Mullenweg, Michael Adams, Peter Westwood, and Robert Deaton who have already volunteered to be mentors.
I have been working on our ideas page. Please volunteer as a mentor: it is good for you, a student, and for WordPress.
Chris Messina in response to his own post (with a little help from Richard MacManus):
In the German system, any user will still be allowed to make edits to any article. Those edits won’t show up in the live version of the site, though, until a registered user with a certain level of time and experience approves the changes.
As I recently wrote the obvious, “licensing is legal, and legal things are complex”. I should have wrote, licensing is the suck!
When ever I start thinking about licensing and it being the suck, I think to Lawrence Lessig‘s keynote presentation at the annual Open Source Convention (OSCON) made on July 24, 2002. My favorite parts are:
- Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
- The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
- Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
- Ours is less and less a free society.
O’Reilly Network — Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002
I highly recommend reading, hearing, or viewing the whole talk about a lot more than licensing that Lessig has given more than 100 times. It speaks to why licensing is the suck and presents some of the largest issues facing civilization today.