AHAHAHAHAHA! IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW EVERYONE HATES GEORGE BUSH AND DOESN’T LOOK BACK WITH ANY FONDNESS UPON HIS TERMS OF OFFICE!

The way the GPL has turned into an ideology with some people/entities should serve as a harsh warning to a lot of people. It is about community? Sure as long as the community behaves the way a few people want.

I’m a fan of the Software and love WordPress the product but I’ve about had it with this kind of crap. (sorry but this really gets under my skin).

Longer term, they are shooting themselves in the foot and asking for a backlash if they keep doing this kind of thing.

If someone is violating the WordPress license by distributing WordPress-derivative works under a restrictive license rather than the inherited GPL v2, that’s not in spirit and would not get official approval, which the WordCamp stamp implies. That’s the gist.

If people want to tie themselves in knots looking back at every past speaker, sponsor and organizer, wondering who would make the cut, rather than looking forward to how we can make sure the WordCamp label is awesome and inclusive and can bring people together, well, that’s their choice.

I posted what I did where I did to give a heads up to WC organizers who are in the process of putting together their events that there are some new guidelines coming down the pike that currently are being developed, not to start a flame war among the more vocal WordPress users out there who like to fan the flames, and who are not organizing WordCamps themselves. When/if it gets to the point of there being an official policy with some kind of enforcement, rather than a gentle suggestion to do the right thing if you’re using the official name, it will be posted on wordcamp.org, wordpress.org, and anyplace else I can think of, with specific examples and reasons for the decision. In the meantime, you’re getting upset over something that ought to just be common sense. Not every WordPress-related gathering needs to be a WordCamp, after all. Just ask Mike Schinkel.

As always, I encourage people who want to voice opinions to not limit themselves to their own blogs and Twitter accounts, but to engage in the official discussions, where their feedback can be far more useful. I’ll blog about the policies on the official WordCamp.org site when things are fleshed out enough to actually deserve attention and discussion. For now, you’re jumping all over something that doesn’t warrant it, and inferring meanings that were not there.

Yes, there were plenty of learning opportunities, but always away from the presentation floor. I left after hearing Scott Rosenburg’s “History of Blogging”, a subject best held on to for a sub-101 type class.

The tone is fine. The metaphor is apt.

Anyway, WP.org have lost their appeal long ago.