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mattl

@mattlee on WordPress.org, @mattl on Slack

Bio

Public figure/idiot. He/him. Fediverse co-creator. New American/middle aged British. Deaf, web standards/accessibility specialist

Interests

indieweb, open source, free software, web standards, accessibility

WordPress Origin Story

In 2004, I was already working for the British government doing some open source stuff, while also volunteering full time at the Free Software Foundation. I read Mark Pilgrim’s blog posts about Movable Type and Bytemark Hosting and decided to spin up a Bytemark server and install WordPress myself.

A few years later, I lucked my way into working full time on free software stuff, and I made a short film with Stephen Fry to promote the upcoming 25th anniversary of the GNU Project. Matt agreed to help mirror it.

Twenty years later I’m still doing free software/open source stuff. Still using WordPress.

Contributions

mattl contributes 5 hours per week to the following teams: Accessibility, Hosting, and Openverse.

  • Member Since: April 10th, 2008
  • Location: New England/Cyberspace
  • Website: mat.tl
  • GitHub: mattl
  • Find me on:

  • Wrote a comment on the post Reminder: Forked Premium Plugins Are Not Permitted, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
    Taking someone’s pay-for code and re-releasing it as free-of-charge is considered to be piracy This…

  • Created ticket #44120 on Core Trac:
    Dashboard shows events that are not local to user

  • Created ticket #34118 on Core Trac:
    Allow permalinks to spell out when certain symbols are used