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The internet was built to be open. Somewhere along the way, that changed. Code for the People is a documentary short featuring the builders, thinkers, and advocates of the open web who refuse to accept the new normal. Featuring many familiar faces from our community, including Matt Mullenweg, Anne McCarthy, Ian Stewart, Beau Lebens, Eric Binnion, Paul Maiorana, Mary Hubbard, and more. Streams free July 9. Watch the trailer below. https://lnkd.in/gUCQjkgd

Look out! Code for the People is coming to New York City. On July 1, we're hosting a one-night-only preview screening of this incredible documentary short at Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo, in partnership with Variety. We'd love for you to be among the first to see it! The screening is followed by a panel moderated by Variety's Todd Spangler, featuring director Bao Nguyen and our own Matt Mullenweg. Snag your spot: codeforthepeople.com

It’s time to turn the tassels! 🎓 Earlier this week, the first cohort of AI Leaders graduates under the University of Illinois Chicago Tech Solutions Open Source Fund. Around 40 students from Illinois and Louisiana built real WordPress projects, applied generative AI to real work, and earned a credential employers can verify. They were paid to complete the program because this is workforce development, not unpaid training. Several have already lined up jobs. AI Leaders is part of Automattic's $500M, five-year commitment to open source education. Open source is how the web got built. We think it's how the next generation of AI-literate workers should get built too–in the open, accessible to anyone. The web is what we make it, and you're the people making it next. Congratulations to the first cohort!  👉Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eKSE_GTN 

The trailer for Code for the People is here. This isn't the internet we were promised. A handful of platforms now decide what you see, what you say, and what you own online. And with AI reshaping everything, who controls that infrastructure has never mattered more. So here we are. Code for the People is a documentary short that we were proud to help produce. It features the builders of WordPress and voices of the open web who refuse to accept this as the new normal. With Matt Mullenweg, Anne McCarthy, Ian Stewart, Beau Lebens, Eric Binnion, Paul Maiorana, Mary Hubbard, and more. July 9, 2026. Free to stream. Watch the trailer below. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gvuNqsvu https://lnkd.in/gPmpTukQ

It's time to take back the internet. Together. A handful of platforms now decide what you see, what you say, and what you own online. It doesn't have to be this way. Code for the People is a documentary short about the builders, developers, and creators of WordPress and the open web who refuse to accept this new normal. This is a film we're proud to have helped make, featuring many familiar faces from our community, including Matt Mullenweg, Anne McCarthy, Ian Stewart, Beau Lebens, Eric Binnion, Paul Maiorana, Mary Hubbard, and more. Follow along: 🔹 Instagram: https://lnkd.in/gPt7fXp5 🔹 Bluesky: https://lnkd.in/eUeKwXhb  🔹 X: x.com/codefortheppl 🔹 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eqKnCWd5 And so much more to come on the official website: codeforthepeople.com Code for the People premieres digitally on July 9, 2026. We hope you watch it. #CodeForThePeople #OpenSource #OpenWeb

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We’re still not over WordCamp Europe 2026. Day three was packed with building, learning, and connecting. The final session brought together WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard, our Head of Architecture Matías Ventura, and Product Manager Rich Tabor for a fireside chat on where WordPress is heading next. Fresh off the WordPress 7.0 release, the conversation explored what it means to build with AI without losing the human element. Hubbard put it plainly: “Open source is why WordPress has thrived, and those same values should be shaping AI, and emphasized the community needs to be far louder about that.” A huge thank you to the 2,000-plus attendees from 81 countries who made WCEU 2026 one for the books. See you in Málaga in 2027!

Day two of WordCamp Europe in Kraków, Poland, is in the books. You really showed up and showed out. 🇵🇱 The opening keynote was a smash hit. Two engineers from CERN, the birthplace of the World Wide Web, explained how they're migrating more than 1,000 websites to a customized WordPress service. The title was perfectly fitting: “Two Worlds Collide.” The sessions were sensational. Our Developer Advocate, Ryan Welcher, led the brand-new 2.5-hour extended workshop covering the WordPress Interactivity API. Code Wrangler Dennis Snell led a workshop on the HTML API. The first post-7.0 WordCamp has lived up to the hype so far. And of course, our booth was bustling throughout, with demos of our latest products and the teams behind them, including WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and Pressable. And we’re far from finished. See you for day three tomorrow! 👉Browse the full #WCEU26 schedule: https://lnkd.in/e87DtAQs  👉Try planning with our WordCamp Agent: https://lnkd.in/evYYCU3y

Kraków, Poland. Contributor Day. WordCamp Europe 2026. 💙 Every WordCamp starts this way, and it never gets old. Hundreds of WordPress community members are coming together to build, design, code, document, translate, and keep pushing the open web forward. Leaders from WordPress.com, Jetpack, and WooCommerce are working alongside developers, designers, and first-time contributors — all at the same table. No hierarchy. Just people who care deeply about making the world’s largest CMS better for everyone. Swipe through for some of our favorite Contributor Day moments, and check out the full schedule here: https://lnkd.in/e87DtAQs More to come as #WordCampEurope continues. 💙 #WCEurope

Talk about a powerhouse panel. Mary Hubbard, Executive Director of WordPress, just took the SXSW London stage by storm with “Open Models, Open Future: Who Controls the World’s Most Powerful Technology?” Her panel featured speaker Joseph Spisak, VP of Product and Head of Open Source at Reflection, and moderator Niall Firth, Executive Editor, Newsroom at MIT Technology Review. Plus, it also featured a packed house; just look at these snaps! 🌎Did you catch Mary’s panel? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. 🌎And stay tuned because we’ll share ways to watch soon.