This is the follow-up interview realized by my friend Christian Aubry with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. In this second segment – a third is coming – Matt Mullenweg talked about how he started WordPress and how the open source community swelled the popularity of WordPress. It is a case where the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts.
Over and over at WordCamp Montreal last weekend, people talked about the fact that WordPress, WordPress MU and BuddyPress are platforms, an infrastructure of which you can build upon. The added values emerged from what you can do with it. WordPress is used to achieve different objectives, to suit an infinite number of markets and is applied in many creative ways. You benefit from not reinventing the wheel. Instead, you concentrate on how you can serve your community. In fact, this is the main reason why I migrated At Home to WordPress.
Matt also talked about the importance of helping each others. If you think about the unconference movement and about blogging, it is mostly people sharing their expertise for the good of others. At the end of the day, it makes a better world where we feel empowered. Be prepared to be inspired.
You see in the background, a group of partcipants at WordCamp Montreal. A third part of this interview is coming soon. If you are looking for a guy to hire for your video reportage, put Christian Aubry on your short list. He has many years of experience.
July 13th, 2009 at 09:44
Thank you for building upon me, Kim, just as I built upon Matt and Wordcamp Montreal. As you wisely put it “the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts”
Your visitors might like to view also the first clip (The Wordcamp phenomenon – http://sn.im/wcvid1) and, even better, the third one that I love the most: Open source as a philosophy – http://sn.im/wcvid3 … Part 4 is about the city of Montreal and its great Jazz festival. I reserve it for tomorrow — the “Fête des Français” 
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July 13th, 2009 at 13:35
I added some thoughts to the video where Matt Mullenweg Talked about His Open Source Story to Christian Aubry http://bit.ly/ed7Ay
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July 13th, 2009 at 13:36
I added some thoughts to the video where Matt Mullenweg Talked about His Open Source Story to @amicalmant http://bit.ly/ed7Ay
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July 13th, 2009 at 13:52
@KimVallee added some thoughts to the video “Matt Mullenweg – An Open Source Story http://bit.ly/ed7Ay #wcmtl >> Let’s build upon
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July 14th, 2009 at 14:27
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