WordPress Foundation Launches Website

[Len]

The WordPress Foundation has officially launched its website. http://wordpressfoundation.org/

They also have a Twitter account. @wpfoundation

[Brad]

It's using the new Twenty Ten theme and it's white with square corners! Looks to be heavily influenced at least in looks by the Kirby theme developed by Ian Stewart

[Len]

Comparing the style sheets of the two it is VERY heavily influenced by Kirby. Ian should be proud. Kirby is an awesome theme.

[Ryan]

I don't get it. I thought the WordPress foundation was just going to be the body which ran WordPress.org.

[andreasnrb]

The projects page is a little missleading. Which projects does the foundation control?

[Ryan]

Now I really don't get it. The site says that Matt Mullenweg is the director, but it doesn't have any information about how it works or what it does.

Wasn't the point of a foundation to sort out a system whereby we could all play a part in the organisation of it? Or did I miss something here? Or is that information still to come? (in which case it seems pointless to have launched the site.

So many questions ...

I'm a little baffled really.

[Ryan]

It's using the new Twenty Ten theme and it's white with square corners!

I suspect this is just a rough draft of what they have in mind. The CSS is quite borked.

[andreasnrb]

I asked a bunch of questions.

Happy to see this taking off and I got a bunch of questions. (The answers to the questions will probably come in due course but I’m impatient =)
1) Any plans to make all the people involved at decision level with the foundation and their role public?
1a) Will documentation of decisions, meetings be made public and easily accessible?
2) You write that you will support projects and ensure that stuff lives on.
2a) Who decides what gets support and what does that mean exactly?
2b) Which projects are suppose to be “owned”, if any, by the foundation?
2c) What will the foundation control, if anything, in terms of projects? Projectroles, websites, servers etc.
2d) Will the foundation put up any rules for openness of the organization and decisions in the projects it decides to support?
That was all for now. More questions are sure to arise as more news are published.

[Ryan]

Good questions.

This seems like kinda an odd launch, since it doesn't really answer any questions ... or maybe I'm just misunderstanding because it's late, I'm cranky and have an unerring urge to launch my computer out the window (coding not going so well for me right now :p ).

[davecoveney]

Let's give it some time, these things take ages to get going properly.

My biggest hope is that it is reasonably open, that companies can apply to become members, and that funding mechanism for core development are put in place. This could help put in place a team of paid developers who can respond to real needs faced by WP implementers.

I'd like to see something like the Apache foundation at work where both commercial and community interests are well served.