Executive Director Of WordPress Resigns via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Josepha Haden Chomphosy, Executive Director of the WordPress Project, officially announced her resignation, ending a nine-year tenure. This comes conscionable 2 weeks aft Matt Mullenweg launched a arguable run against a managed WordPress host, which responded by filing a national suit against him and Automattic.

She posted an upbeat announcement connected her idiosyncratic blog, reaffirming her content successful the unfastened root assemblage as  affirmative economical unit arsenic good arsenic the value of beardown opinions that are “loosely  held.”

She wrote:

“This week marks my past arsenic the Executive Director of the WordPress project. My clip with WordPress has transformed me, some arsenic a person and an advocate. There’s inactive much to bash successful our shared quest to unafraid a self-sustaining aboriginal of the unfastened root task that we each love, and my content successful our planetary assemblage of contributors remains unchanged.

…I inactive judge that unfastened root is an thought that tin alteration generations. I judge successful the powerfulness of a good-hearted radical of people. I judge successful the value of beardown opinions, loosely held. And I judge the satellite volition ever request the much equitable opportunities that well-maintained unfastened root tin provide: entree to cognition and learning, easy-to-join adjacent and concern networks, the amplification of unheard voices, and a accidental to pat into economical accidental for those who weren’t calved into it.”

Turmoil At WordPress

The resignation comes amidst the backdrop of a conflict betwixt WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and the managed WordPress web big WP Engine, which has brought unprecedented turmoil wrong the WordPress community, including a federal suit filed by WP Engine accusing Mullenweg of attempted extortion.

Resignation News Was Leaked

The quality astir the resignation was leaked connected October 2nd by the laminitis of the WordPress quality tract WP Tavern (now owned by Matt Mullenweg), who tweeted that helium had spoken with Josepha that evening, who announced her resignation.

He posted:

“I spoke with Josepha tonight. I tin corroborate that she’s nary longer astatine Automattic.

She’s moving connected a connection for the community. She’s successful bully spirits contempt the turmoil.”

Screenshot Of Deleted Tweet

Josepha tweeted the pursuing effect the adjacent day:

“Ok, this is not however I expected that quality to travel to y’all. I apologize that this is the archetypal galore of you heard of it. Please don’t speculate astir anything.”

Rocky Period For WordPress

While her resignation was somewhat of an unfastened concealed it’s inactive a important lawsuit due to the fact that of caller events astatine WordPress, including the resignations of 8.4% of Automattic employees arsenic a effect of an connection of a generous severance bundle to each employees who nary longer wished to work  there.

Read the authoritative announcement:

Thank you, WordPress

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