We need a page to share textual resources

[webaxones]

I think it would be interesting to add a 'Readings' section to the site, listing the titles with links to the articles and their authors, featuring texts written by contributors that led to this project as well as other interesting content. This would allow us to share the ideation process so people can understand that this is a well-founded project that has been in development for some time. The following two blog posts by @toderash would be an excellent example of the kind of content worth sharing:
https://yawp.foo/articles/2024/unmasking-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/
https://yawp.foo/articles/2024/why-unmasking-the-tragedy-of-the-commons-matters/
'Readings' could work, but since English isn't my native language, there might be a better option.

[thisanastasiya]

A couple open letters from Plugin Devs:

• https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/leaving-wordpress-org/
• https://wpfusion.com/business/regarding-our-cease-and-desist-letter-to-automattic/

Open Letter From OGs

• https://josepha.blog/2024/10/04/thank-you-wordpress/
• https://chriswiegman.com/2024/10/so-long-wordpress/
• https://thefragens.com/wordpress-on-hiatus/
• https://medium.com/@kelliepeterson/nice-guy-matt-mullenweg-ceo-of-wordpress-com-cries-foul-and-threatens-me-with-legal-action-f116ac57d862
• https://medium.com/@kelliepeterson/what-is-the-wordpress-v-wp-engine-drama-really-about-3a82a54e7553

And one more core team leaving, who was in charge of WP native Fields:

• https://github.com/sc0ttkclark/wordpress-fields-api

More contributors leaving:

• https://gist.github.com/costdev/4c25a1e49cdd630bc6450dc98e27f4cf#file-withdrawing-contribution-md

A list of plugins under impact - https://mattisnotwp.com/affected-wordpress-plugins/
(This is a good neutral link - and people can choose to read more drama on the site, but this list doesn't mean AP directly encourages more conversation about the specific drama)

Neutral summary of the WP Engine + Automattic lawsuit:

• https://thewpminute.com/automattic-vs-wp-engine-heres-what-we-know/
  Another succinct timeline
• https://duerrenberger.dev/blog/2024/10/08/timeline-of-the-wordpress-drama/

.com vs .org Discourse - Basically food for thought on future governance & decisions : https://wptavern.com/developers-raise-concerns-about-wordpress-com-plugin-listings-outranking-wordpress-org-on-google

Commentary on the situation via open source lens:

• https://world.hey.com/dhh/automattic-is-doing-open-source-dirty-b95cf128

Some origin story stuff:

• https://b2evolution.net/about/b2evolution-vs-wordpress
• https://ma.tt/2024/05/wp21/

More to come as I go through the slack archives and general conversations.

[thisanastasiya]

Governance General Interest

• Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7ws2DF-zk

Affecting Small Businesses

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2y7eyp3zpo
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1g3rwwm/you_asked_how_were_suffering_as_a_result_of/

Point by point analysis of the Techcrunch x Matt interview

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1gg33ak/i_watched_matts_tech_crunch_interview_so_you_dont/

[thisanastasiya]

An interesting collection of news - WP+open source & AI+the affect of drugs on CEOs...
https://www.newcomer.co/p/open-source-battle-holds-lessonsdo