January 31, 2011 7:00 PM - 100 attended
Town Hall with WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg
Fathom Creative (map)
Bad news, there won't be a meetup in February for WordPress DC. Great news, that's because we're having a special guest on January 31 -- Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress.
Matt started blogging nearly a decade ago, during a summer spent in D.C. In 2003, he founded WordPress, which today powers more than 30 million websites. He moved from his native Houston to San Fransicso in 2004 to work at CNET Networks. He left in 2005 to found Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, as well as Gravatar, Akismet.com, VaultPress, and many other services.
He has been named one of PC World's Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com's 30 under 30, and Business Week's 25 Most Influential People on the Web. His website is ma.tt (quite possibly one of the best domain hacks out there) and he's on Twitter at @photomatt.
I'd like to extend a special thanks to our awesome new lineup of meetup sponsors:
- Fathom Creative is, as always, providing us awesome meetup space
- Ben Welch-Bolen of Site5 Hosting
- Thad Allender of Graph Paper Press
- John F. Croston III of Accessibility DC
Be prepared for pizza, drinks, and plenty of chairs at this meetup. Hope to see you there!
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Whitmoyer
What he said — good times! I just uploaded some pics to Flickr http://bit.ly/ehQk9x
Posted February 1, 2011 at 10:57 PM -
Anthony D Paul
The photographer we had there posted a bunch of great photos of the event on his FB profile: http://www.facebook.com/alexanderfans
Check them out!Posted February 5, 2011 at 12:24 AM
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Zane MatthewFirst five star I've given so far...also meant to ask Matt where did he get those shoe/boots they're pretty dope.
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DeeNiceFabulous Meetup - your best to date! Matt Mullenweg was an excellent speaker. Wish we could have started on time though :)
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Timothy Russell+1 guestGreat Meetup! Matt was very interesting and the Q&A sessions was excellent.
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Gary BaconHad a great time. Awesome group, awesome questions, and awesome WordPress :) :]Checked-in
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anIt was great to meet Matt, and really enjoyed all of the questions and responses! I hope we can do something like this again soon.
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The event was awesome. Thanks for a great crowd and the sponsors that provided more chairs, pizza and beverages! It was great to meet you Matt, and to get some background on the philosophy that makes WordPress a successful product.