Northern Voice Day 2: Keynote with Matt Mullenweg

I’m not going to say a lot as I wait for this keynote to start, but it’s incredibly cool to have Matt Mullenweg here to start the day off at Northern Voice 2008. So much of what I do is WordPress, so it’s pretty freaking neat that the guy who founded the project is speaking today.

Photo credit: Duane Storey on Flickr

Interesting notes during the keynote:

• WP 2.5 to have one click upgrades to plugins. WP 2.6 to hopefully have one click upgrade to core software.
• Ha! This Matt just mentioned the Matt I mentioned in my last post. They are in a battle for the highest Google ranking for their first name.
• “Kill the Megabrands”
• “When you have the taste of freedom, it’s tough to go back.” Basically, no matter what the open source project is, everyone has the ability to contribute to it, knowing how to code or not.
• Why shouldn’t the government have more open source information? Otherwise, they are just stealing from us and keeping information to themselves.
• You can listen to his keynote here.