After WordPress  🔗 **Source:** [After WordPress](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/after-wordpress-morten-rand-hendriksen-mkvgc/?trackingId=kgmqtrLI2o0YCFGpwEAOrw%3D%3D) > [!note]+ Document Notes > review our chat history here. I want you to help me turn this into a tweet thread, separating each post into a 140 character message that begins with an emoji and uses a correct hashtag, as well as the full link to the post. Use the paraphrases and newsletter summaries to guide the messages. 📄 **Full text:** ![[Full Document Contents/Articles/After WordPress|After WordPress, Morten Rand-Hendriksen]] ## Highlights - • What happens to WordPress impacts the web. • What happens to WordPress impacts people. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jfwszrpwj9bx0d5m28nmt6yf)) - "Look for the helpers" is a good lesson as long as we remember in most cases we ourselves are the helpers. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jfwszzj0krjqs0yzawfqhskg)) - As I see it, there are two paths forward for the WordPress community: 1. Mullenweg releases his iron grip on the project, brings in proper governance, creates a more equitable ecosystem economy, and steps into a role of visionary leader instead of micromanager. 2. The community organizes, takes every lesson learned over the past 20+ years, combines with a vision for what the world will need going into the next 10 years, and builds a new platform to stand on. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jfwt08p73xwkdr46q344wfdk)) - There's enough knowledge, skill, time, and funding within the existing community to build something new. The only things missing are the will to make it happen, and the coordination to get the work going. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jfwt0cyqmb27facrmzgqrv8d)) - • Some companies in the WordPress ecosystem pay full-time employees to "volunteer" their time to open source project. Meanwhile, the majority of contributors volunteer their work in addition to their jobs and other responsibilities. In a project where "decisions are made by those who show up" this creates a power inequity where those privileged by their employers to be paid for their contributions have exponentially more power than those who do not. • Some companies in the WordPress ecosystem pay their employees to organize, travel to, volunteer at, and speak at WordCamps. Meanwhile, the majority of organizers, attendees, volunteers, and speakers are paying all their expenses out of pocket. This gives those privileged by their employers an outsized influence over the events and of what people get to hear. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jfwt0rxy81pq8w04cck86086)) - This is systemic inequity, and the result is centralization and amplification of power. There is no good reason for this to be how it is: ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jfwt0vh6ytzqg21yxq9rcbkp)) - There could be an independent organization that collects donations from companies and uses those monies to fund developers who do not have the privilege of working for companies willing to pay for their contributions. [The WPCC was created in part to address this need](https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ethewpcommunitycollective%2Ecom%2F&urlhash=1LBa&trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jfwt0z1z6r44gwpn9e6wc06y)) - 2 representatives from the Web Platform (external experts from associated groups, ie the W3C, PHP Foundation, OpenJS, etc) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jfwt1byx848c054y7n2jd8bm))