Matt Mullenweg

Gutenberg is WordPress's modern block-based editor that replaced the traditional text editor, launched as a major platform redesign.

If we had voted for whether we should do Gutenberg or not, everyone would've voted against it. It was really a few core people that said, 'This is the future and it's going to take 10 years to do and it's going to suck for the first three or four years.'

Open source was actually the most important idea of our generation. If the founding fathers were around today, I think they would be open source advocates.

As more and more of our lives are influenced and actually controlled by the software we use, if we don't have fundamental freedoms attached to that software, we're not truly free.

You don't have freedom unless you're building on open source. Even if I grew devil horns and became evil, WordPress would still belong just as much to you as it would to me.

It's not just the software, it's also like: how are the meetups? How are people getting together? What events are you running? Are there forums? How do people contribute?

When the open source models say like, 'build me a website,' it actually installs WordPress, and then builds on top of that, and then customizes on top of that. Then you get for free that core engine that's always being audited and updated.

Don't just build a product, build a movement. To the extent that we've been successful, I think it's that we give people something to believe in, a philosophy, a worldview.

One of the big challenges that we have as a very open platform is we have this open plugin and theme architecture... However, many of these plugins and themes don't have the same sort of robust security and review process that core has.

I can't wait for more automated scanning there, and I think that could vastly upgrade the security of open source.