WordPress Executive Director Resigns – WP Tavern
Josepha Haden Chomphosy has stepped down from Automattic, the place she served because the Government Director of the WordPress mission. She was additionally main Automattic’s open-source division, championing the efforts of builders, designers, neighborhood builders, and WordPress advocates. She has now up to date her title within the WordPress Slack to “Neighborhood Steward.”
Like Josepha, 159 employees left Automattic after accepting the Alignment Supply.
Rumors of her resignation first surfaced on X, to which she responded: “Okay, this isn’t how I anticipated that information to return to y’all. I apologize that that is the primary a lot of you heard of it. Please don’t speculate about something.”
In a farewell put up titled Thank you, WordPress, she expressed continued optimism for the way forward for the open-source mission: “There’s nonetheless extra to do in our shared quest to safe a self-sustaining way forward for the open supply mission that all of us love, and my perception in our international neighborhood of contributors stays unchanged. I’ve spent 9 years working shoulder to shoulder with you, and I didn’t wish to go away with out saying goodbye.”
I nonetheless imagine that open supply is an thought that may remodel generations. I imagine within the energy of a good-hearted group of individuals. I imagine within the significance of sturdy opinions, loosely held. And I imagine the world will at all times want the extra equitable alternatives that well-maintained open supply can present: entry to data and studying, easy-to-join peer and enterprise networks, the amplification of unheard voices, and an opportunity to faucet into financial alternative for individuals who weren’t born into it.
She continued: “Whereas my subsequent steps aren’t but clear, I hope to by no means be too removed from this neighborhood that taught me a lot.”
Josepha has been uncharacteristically silent because the onset of the Automattic-WP Engine controversy other than a quick touch upon Slack. Since becoming a member of WordPress in 2019, she was at all times actively concerned in neighborhood discussions or controversies.
Neighborhood Response
Josepha at all times had a particular place in the neighborhood’s coronary heart and it was mirrored within the messages that poured in following her announcement.
Thanks, Josepha, for all you’ve accomplished for WordPress. We want you the perfect in your future endeavors!
